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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. Main character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Hypokrites
Royalty
Protagonist
2. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
3. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Exposition
Aesthetic Distance
Morality Plays
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
4. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
William Shakespeare
Sense Memory
Exposition
Meyerhold
5. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Discovery
Tragicomedy
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Cycles
6. Gas lights - etc.
Callbacks
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Callbacks
Producer
7. A group of actors - not just one star
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Public Domain
Ensemble
Aristotle
8. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Auditions
Regional Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Climax
9. Information needed to understand the play
Renaissance
Exposition
Henrik Ibsen
Representational Acting
10. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Pageants
Concept
Designer
Thought
11. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Inciting Incident
Conflict
Chorus
12. Performs Actions of the Play
Practical
Realism and Realistic Developments
Character
Aristophanes
13. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Vomitories
Callbacks
Linear Plot
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
14. Rhyming
Exposition
Verse
Ground Plan
Aristophanes
15. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Thought
Rendering
Orchestra
Comedy of Character
16. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Mystery Plays
Subtext
Meyerhold
Black Box
17. A fee for each performance
Theatre of Cruelty
Royalty
Melodrama
Melodrama (def)
18. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Comedy of Character
Director
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Plato
19. A>B>C>D
Proscenium Space
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Hybrid Theatre
Aesthetic Distance
20. The era we are currently in
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Language
Lazzi
Postmodernism
21. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Dialogue
Comedy of Ideas
Inciting Incident
Neoclassicism (def)
22. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Skene
Skene
Falling Action
23. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Conflict
Morality Plays
Vomitories
24. 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
ostume Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Community Theatre
Aeschylus
25. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Theatre of Cruelty
Comedy of Character
Comedy of Ideas
Morality Plays
26. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Theatron
Rendering
Rehearsal Process
27. Linear events progress forward in time
Hypokrites
Causal Play Structure
Neoclassicism (def)
Tragicomedy
28. 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
Improv
Neoclassicism (def)
Morality Plays
Comedy
29. Information needed to understand the play
Improv
Comedy of Ideas
Exposition
Sense Memory
30. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Situation Comedy
Morality Plays
Thespis
Verisimilitude
31. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Aeschylus
Royalty
Printing Press
Character
32. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Cycles
Public Domain
Non-Profit Theatre
Off-Broadway
33. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Hypokrites
Upstage
Callbacks
Plato
34. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Globe
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Subplot
Antiquarianism
35. Grammatically based
Situation Comedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Prose
Eugene Scribe
36. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Climax
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Representational Acting
Commercial Theatre
37. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Affective Memory
Verisimilitude
38. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Regional Theatre
Aristotle
Bertolt Brecht
39. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
40. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Discovery
Slapstick
Light Plot
Conflict
41. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
William Shakespeare
The Box Set
Comedy of Character
Black Box
42. Gas lights - etc.
Aesthetic Distance
Playwright
Climax
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
43. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Proscenium Space
Plato
Conflict
Tragicomedy
44. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Realism and Realistic Developments
Non-Profit Theatre
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Representational Approach
45. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Morality Plays
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Aeschylus
46. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
47. Play reenacting biblical stories
Antiquarianism
University Wits
Vomitories
Mystery Plays
48. Causes trouble for the main character
William Shakespeare
Rendering
William Shakespeare
Antagonist
49. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Situation Comedy
Ensemble
Falling Action
Printing Press
50. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Chorus
Blocking
Postmodernism