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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. Italians
Copyright
Variables of Costume Design
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Designer
2. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
Bertolt Brecht
Tragicomedy
Neoclassicism (def)
3. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Community Theatre
Sense Memory
Commedia Dell'Arte
The Globe
4. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Comedy of Ideas
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Lazzi
Off-Off-Broadway
5. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Director
Copyright
Fourth Wall
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
6. Causes trouble for the main character
Improv
Antagonist
Light Plot
Thespis
7. Events that set off a major conflict
Empathy
Inciting Incident
Copyright
Copyright
8. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Comedy of Character
Theatre of Cruelty
Printing Press
Chorus
9. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Thespis
Situation Comedy
Non-Profit Theatre
Representational Acting
10. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Verse
Miracle Plays
Situation Comedy
Comedy of Manners
11. Verse
Vomitories
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Orchestra
Bertolt Brecht
12. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Miracle Plays
Linear Plot
Representational Approach
13. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Black Box
Theatron
Variables of Costume Design
14. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Chorus
Plato
Components of Concept
15. Was poetry for many years
Subtext
Rehearsal Process
Language
Postmodernism
16. 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
Meyerhold
Cycles
Ensemble
17. Grammatically based
Tragicomedy
Concept
Presentational Approach
Prose
18. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Realism and Realistic Developments
Printing Press
Callbacks
19. Planned actor movement
Broadway
Amateur Theatre
Blocking
Morality Plays
20. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Melodrama
Tragicomedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
21. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Commedia Dell'Arte
William Shakespeare
Wings
22. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Off-Broadway
Protagonist
Affective Memory
Discovery
23. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Situation Comedy
Renaissance
Printing Press
24. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Conflict
Renaissance
University Wits
25. A fee for each performance
Naturalism
Comedy of Character
Royalty
Inciting Incident
26. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Aeschylus
Eugene Scribe
Avant-Garde
27. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Components of Concept
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Theatron
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
28. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Eugene Scribe
Postmodernism
Sturm & Drang Movement
29. 100-499 people
Mystery Plays
The Globe
Off-Broadway
Meyerhold
30. England's type of theatre
The Globe
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Catharsis
Auditions
31. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Producer
Renaissance
Concept
Callbacks
32. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Renaissance
Non-Profit Theatre
Broadway
33. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Thespis
Downstage
Causal Play Structure
Hybrid Theatre
34. High point of action
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Climax
Morality Plays
Hybrid Theatre
35. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Rendering
Skene
Printing Press
36. Part of What is included in the text
Protagonist
Dialogue
Printing Press
Skene
37. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Naturalism
Representational Acting
Presentational Approach
38. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
Thought
Broadway
Downstage
39. Humorous - objective view point
Catharsis
Discovery
Slapstick
Comedy
40. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Sturm & Drang Movement
Anton Chekhov
Chorus
Meander
41. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Renaissance
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Reversal
42. 100-499 people
Actor
Hypokrites
Off-Broadway
Subtext
43. Was poetry for many years
Realism and Realistic Developments
Language
Comedy
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
44. Proscenium space
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Realism and Realistic Developments
The Box Set
Variables of Costume Design
45. Grammatically based
Prose
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
William Shakespeare
Downstage
46. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Protagonist
Henrik Ibsen
47. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Amateur Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Concept
48. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Playwright
Practical
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Light Plot
49. Audience watches from 3 sides
Cycles
Anton Chekhov
Thrust Space
Slapstick
50. A>B>C>D
Amateur Theatre
Slapstick
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Representational Approach