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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. 500-1800 people
Practical
Broadway
Mimesis
Theatre of Cruelty
2. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
The Box Set
Subtext
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
3. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Naturalism
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Orchestra
Aristophanes
4. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Subplot
Callbacks
Proscenium Space
5. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
Henrik Ibsen
Off-Off-Broadway
Royalty
6. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Ensemble
Rehearsal Process
Off-Broadway
7. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Konstantin Stanislavski
Dialogue
Concept
8. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Language
Tragedy
Rendering
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
9. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Hypokrites
Copyright
Discovery
Bertolt Brecht
10. Grammatically based
Meyerhold
Prose
Plot
Rendering
11. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Euripides
Henrik Ibsen
Light Plot
12. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Meander
Hybrid Theatre
The Box Set
Off-Broadway
13. England's type of theatre
Components of Concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
The Globe
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
14. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Theatre of Cruelty
Components of Concept
Ensemble
Comedy
15. Busiest person in the theatre
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
ostume Plot
Meyerhold
Stage Manager
16. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Casting Director
Sturm & Drang Movement
Amateur Theatre
Comedy of Character
17. Ideas within the play
Subtext
Sturm & Drang Movement
Neoclassicism (def)
Thought
18. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Slapstick
Comedy of Ideas
Protagonist
Casting Director
19. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Concept
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Commedia Dell'Arte
Realism and Realistic Developments
20. Focused on thought - controversial
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Variables of Costume Design
Comedy of Ideas
21. A group of actors - not just one star
Ensemble
Black Box
Aesthetic Distance
Melodrama (def)
22. Imitation of character and action
Skene
Commedia Dell'Arte
Theatre of Cruelty
Mimesis
23. Planned actor movement
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Blocking
Thespis
Thrust Space
24. Part of What is included in the text
Neoclassicism (def)
Dialogue
Linear Plot
ostume Plot
25. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Variables of Costume Design
Aeschylus
Public Domain
Antagonist
26. Organization of action
Anton Chekhov
Plot
Designer
Avant-Garde
27. Six elements - catharsis
Sophocles
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Aristotle
Climax
28. Grammatically based
Prose
Printing Press
Naturalism
Subtext
29. Audience watches from 3 sides
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Postmodernism
Antagonist
Thrust Space
30. Medea - The Bacchae
Antagonist
Subplot
Causal Play Structure
Euripides
31. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Realism and Realistic Developments
The Box Set
Climax
Melodrama (def)
32. 100-499 people
Thought
Off-Broadway
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Inciting Incident
33. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Emile Zola
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Tragedy
University Wits
34. Rhyming
Verse
Antiquarianism
Public Domain
Morality Plays
35. The era we are currently in
Producer
Hypokrites
Proscenium Space
Postmodernism
36. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
Public Domain
Renaissance
Plot
37. Events that set off a major conflict
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Meyerhold
Inciting Incident
38. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Presentational Approach
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Melodrama (def)
39. Used alienation to encourage distance
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Blocking
Aristotle
Bertolt Brecht
40. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Broadway
Plato
Educational Theatre
Blocking
41. Top of stage
Commercial Theatre
Hybrid Theatre
Upstage
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
42. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Morality Plays
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Subplot
Affective Memory
43. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Protagonist
Morality Plays
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Skene
44. Six elements - catharsis
Meyerhold
Blocking
Aristotle
Sturm & Drang Movement
45. The standard tool for casting a production
The Globe
Auditions
Comedy of Manners
Cycles
46. Feel more in stage acting.
Dramaturg
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Subtext
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
47. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Meander
Black Box
Aeschylus
Printing Press
48. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Black Box
Konstantin Stanislavski
Lazzi
Meander
49. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Avant-Garde
Fourth Wall
Components of Concept
Prose
50. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Ensemble
Chorus
Rendering