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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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1. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Director
Subplot
Realism and Realistic Developments
2. Performs Actions of the Play
Comedy of Manners
Character
Mystery Plays
Playwright
3. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Sturm & Drang Movement
Catharsis
The Box Set
4. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Comedy of Manners
Sense Memory
Variables of Costume Design
Hypokrites
5. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Postmodernism
Stage Manager
Components of Concept
Falling Action
6. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Situation Comedy
Eugene Scribe
Actor
Conflict
7. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Practical
Educational Theatre
Lazzi
Cycles
8. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Fourth Wall
Avant-Garde
Aristophanes
Conflict
9. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Prose
Sophocles
Character
10. 'Father of Realism'
Upstage
Theatron
Comedy
Henrik Ibsen
11. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
The Globe
Chorus
Verse
Downstage
12. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Off-Off-Broadway
Anton Chekhov
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Emile Zola
13. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Catharsis
Protagonist
Off-Broadway
Representational Acting
14. Emotional release
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Discovery
Catharsis
Commercial Theatre
15. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Amateur Theatre
Aesthetic Distance
16. Gas lights - etc.
Thespis
Comedy of Manners
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Representational Approach
17. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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18. Organization of action
Comedy of Character
Variables of Costume Design
Plot
Proscenium Space
19. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Avant-Garde
Theatron
Presentational Approach
Ensemble
20. Proscenium arch/stage
Miracle Plays
Inciting Incident
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Black Box
21. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Actor
Konstantin Stanislavski
Comedy of Ideas
Renaissance
22. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Morality Plays
Bertolt Brecht
Meyerhold
Blocking
23. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Concept
Aeschylus
Thespis
Discovery
24. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Ensemble
Rehearsal Process
Front of House
25. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Theatre of Cruelty
Off-Off-Broadway
26. Top of stage
Upstage
Meyerhold
Aristotle
Practical
27. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Thespis
Skene
Verse
Plato
28. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
University Wits
Neoclassicism (def)
Auditions
Black Box
29. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Verse
Exposition
Ensemble
Dramaturg
30. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Off-Off-Broadway
Lazzi
Henrik Ibsen
31. A type of performance in which dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time and written down - but are made of on the spot by the actors
Comedy of Ideas
Theatre of Cruelty
Antiquarianism
Improv
32. Causes trouble for the main character
Skene
Antagonist
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Auditions
33. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Lazzi
Producer
Front of House
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
34. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Melodrama
Reversal
Aesthetic Distance
Conflict
35. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Thrust Space
Euripides
Comedy of Character
Presentational Approach
36. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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37. The standard tool for casting a production
Actor
Aesthetic Distance
Auditions
Black Box
38. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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39. Top of stage
Upstage
Front of House
Aeschylus
Climax
40. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Mimesis
Light Plot
Black Box
41. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Upstage
Rising Action
Chorus
Fourth Wall
42. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Practical
Non-Profit Theatre
Rehearsal Process
University Wits
43. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
Concept
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Community Theatre
44. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Subplot
Theatre of Cruelty
Empathy
Playwright
45. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Verisimilitude
Casting Director
The Box Set
46. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Anton Chekhov
Thrust Space
Producer
Aristophanes
47. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Rendering
Plato
Tragicomedy
Aristotle
48. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Subplot
Verse
Lazzi
Bertolt Brecht
49. Not many props or detailed scenery
Character
Renaissance
Affective Memory
Wings
50. Imitation of character and action
Off-Off-Broadway
Catharsis
Rising Action
Mimesis
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