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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Works published before 1923
Representational Approach
Public Domain
Neoclassicism (def)
Mimesis
2. Works published before 1923
Copyright
Non-Profit Theatre
Public Domain
Comedy
3. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Subplot
Mystery Plays
Public Domain
4. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Character
University Wits
Tragedy
ostume Plot
5. The era we are currently in
Downstage
Designer
Hybrid Theatre
Postmodernism
6. Major character at odds with social expectations
Casting Director
Dramatic Genre
Empathy
Comedy of Manners
7. The era we are currently in
Thought
Postmodernism
Comedy of Manners
Black Box
8. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Casting Director
Plot
Empathy
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
9. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
University Wits
Anton Chekhov
Broadway
Vomitories
10. A>B>C>D
Miracle Plays
Designer
Pageants
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
11. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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12. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Tragicomedy
Aristophanes
Situation Comedy
13. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Sense Memory
Producer
Slapstick
14. 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
Dialogue
Antagonist
Improv
Meyerhold
15. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Commercial Theatre
Components of Concept
Orchestra
Character
16. Someone who writes plays
Neoclassicism (def)
Bertolt Brecht
Dramaturg
Playwright
17. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Dramatic Genre
Amateur Theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
18. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Director
Designer
Skene
19. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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20. Units of action that build emotional intensity
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Rising Action
21. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Vomitories
Fourth Wall
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Producer
22. Amateur theatre in which shows are created by residents of a particular area who come together without being part of a professional or academic institution
Aristophanes
Exposition
Community Theatre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
23. Was poetry for many years
Language
Hybrid Theatre
Renaissance
Chorus
24. Medea - The Bacchae
Aesthetic Distance
Miracle Plays
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Euripides
25. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Upstage
Variables of Costume Design
Situation Comedy
26. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Improv
Downstage
Neoclassicism (def)
Royalty
27. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama
Aristophanes
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Aristotle
28. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Front of House
Morality Plays
Downstage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
29. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Plot
Proscenium Space
Miracle Plays
Lazzi
30. The first director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Concept
Tragedy
Aristophanes
31. Series of short stories
University Wits
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Anton Chekhov
Verisimilitude
32. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Upstage
Postmodernism
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
33. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Royalty
Representational Acting
Comedy of Ideas
Auditions
34. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Theatron
Actor
Thought
35. Six elements - catharsis
Designer
Aristotle
Mystery Plays
Henrik Ibsen
36. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Meander
Hypokrites
University Wits
37. Information needed to understand the play
Melodrama
Exposition
Subplot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
38. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Protagonist
Sophocles
Light Plot
39. Organization of action
Hybrid Theatre
Copyright
Plot
Bertolt Brecht
40. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aristophanes
Proscenium Space
Regional Theatre
Aeschylus
41. Events progress forward in time
Euripides
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Melodrama (def)
Linear Plot
42. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Ground Plan
Rehearsal Process
Broadway
43. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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44. 100-499 people
Aeschylus
Orchestra
Off-Broadway
Prose
45. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Presentational Approach
Subplot
Rehearsal Process
Konstantin Stanislavski
46. 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
Antagonist
The Globe
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Improv
47. Audience watches from 3 sides
Miracle Plays
Printing Press
Comedy
Thrust Space
48. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Bertolt Brecht
Antiquarianism
Situation Comedy
Hybrid Theatre
49. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Fourth Wall
Comedy of Character
Off-Broadway
50. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dramatic Genre
Thespis
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Meander