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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. Organization of action
Melodrama
Playwright
Plot
Improv
2. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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3. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Naturalism
Theatre of Cruelty
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Upstage
4. Performs Actions of the Play
Aristophanes
Character
Melodrama
Comedy of Character
5. Series of short stories
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Subplot
Anton Chekhov
Protagonist
6. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Verse
Euripides
Sense Memory
Ground Plan
7. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Causal Play Structure
Casting Director
Public Domain
Practical
8. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Emile Zola
Plato
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Theatron
9. Greek - actor
Renaissance
Orchestra
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Hypokrites
10. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Amateur Theatre
Melodrama
Improv
Off-Off-Broadway
11. Grammatically based
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Prose
Mystery Plays
Regional Theatre
12. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Auditions
Educational Theatre
Pageants
13. A group of actors - not just one star
Ensemble
Commercial Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Wings
14. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Improv
Verse
University Wits
Commedia Dell'Arte
15. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Sturm & Drang Movement
Fourth Wall
Dramatic Genre
Aristotle
16. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Verisimilitude
Callbacks
Representational Acting
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
17. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Non-Profit Theatre
Stage Manager
Educational Theatre
Comedy of Manners
18. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Slapstick
Educational Theatre
Naturalism
Aeschylus
19. Ideas within the play
Antagonist
Dramatic Genre
Tragedy
Thought
20. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Comedy of Manners
Proscenium Space
Hybrid Theatre
21. Emotional release
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Catharsis
Components of Concept
Prose
22. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Sophocles
Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
23. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Producer
Downstage
Auditions
Exposition
24. The era we are currently in
Discovery
Antagonist
Theatre of Cruelty
Postmodernism
25. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Auditions
Comedy of Manners
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Sense Memory
26. Proscenium arch/stage
Verse
Linear Plot
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Stage Manager
27. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Plot
Falling Action
Rehearsal Process
Theatre of Cruelty
28. Rhyming
Comedy of Character
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Verse
Non-Profit Theatre
29. Events that set off a major conflict
Mystery Plays
Off-Off-Broadway
Inciting Incident
Community Theatre
30. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Concept
Falling Action
Ensemble
Ground Plan
31. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Ensemble
Aeschylus
Discovery
Presentational Approach
32. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Theatron
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Konstantin Stanislavski
Melodrama
33. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Falling Action
Situation Comedy
Vomitories
Front of House
34. Main character
Protagonist
Catharsis
William Shakespeare
Stage Manager
35. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Prose
Antiquarianism
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Commercial Theatre
36. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Hypokrites
Causal Play Structure
Callbacks
Improv
37. Person who embodies a character on stage
ostume Plot
Reversal
Actor
Downstage
38. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Antiquarianism
Meyerhold
Director
Meander
39. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Stage Manager
Comedy of Manners
Producer
Postmodernism
40. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Euripides
Dramaturg
Amateur Theatre
Non-Profit Theatre
41. Rhyming
Comedy of Ideas
Verse
Upstage
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
42. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Plot
Plato
Thespis
Variables of Costume Design
43. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Improv
Community Theatre
Dramaturg
Conflict
44. The first director
Avant-Garde
The Globe
Antagonist
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
45. 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
Tragedy
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Improv
Euripides
46. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Ground Plan
Reversal
47. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Konstantin Stanislavski
Theatre of Cruelty
Melodrama (def)
Off-Off-Broadway
48. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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49. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Proscenium Space
Playwright
Rehearsal Process
50. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Actor
Amateur Theatre
Regional Theatre