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Theatre Appreciation
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1. The era we are currently in
Representational Acting
Dramaturg
Presentational Approach
Postmodernism
2. Rhyming
Linear Plot
Verse
Bertolt Brecht
Off-Off-Broadway
3. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
Light Plot
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Sophocles
4. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Pageants
Stage Manager
Copyright
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
5. The standard tool for casting a production
Dramaturg
Auditions
Prose
Meander
6. Feel more in stage acting.
Improv
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Lazzi
Catharsis
7. Planned actor movement
Lazzi
Director
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Blocking
8. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Subtext
Melodrama
Callbacks
Verisimilitude
9. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Cycles
Designer
Printing Press
Empathy
10. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Sophocles
University Wits
11. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Naturalism
Off-Off-Broadway
12. Focused on thought - controversial
Downstage
Comedy of Ideas
Educational Theatre
Aristophanes
13. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Protagonist
Fourth Wall
Printing Press
Front of House
14. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Dialogue
Comedy
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Melodrama (def)
15. Not many props or detailed scenery
Meander
Variables of Costume Design
Renaissance
Concept
16. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Blocking
Inciting Incident
17. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Empathy
Catharsis
Components of Concept
18. Part of What is included in the text
Character
Renaissance
Avant-Garde
Dialogue
19. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Antagonist
Front of House
Subtext
Melodrama
20. Appearance of truth
Aeschylus
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Verisimilitude
21. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Components of Concept
Dialogue
Rehearsal Process
22. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Postmodernism
Presentational Approach
Downstage
Comedy of Character
23. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Printing Press
Designer
Naturalism
Plato
24. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Antagonist
University Wits
Community Theatre
Rehearsal Process
25. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Aesthetic Distance
University Wits
Fourth Wall
Playwright
26. Person who embodies a character on stage
Practical
Actor
Melodrama
Upstage
27. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Situation Comedy
Rising Action
Miracle Plays
Ground Plan
28. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Downstage
Concept
Mystery Plays
Improv
29. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Anton Chekhov
Affective Memory
Cycles
Euripides
30. The first director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Prose
Tragicomedy
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
31. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Catharsis
Meander
Off-Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
32. Imitation of character and action
Neoclassicism (def)
Aeschylus
Cycles
Mimesis
33. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Light Plot
Climax
Representational Approach
34. Main character
Blocking
Concept
Protagonist
Empathy
35. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Catharsis
Rendering
Printing Press
Off-Broadway
36. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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37. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Cycles
Proscenium Space
Sense Memory
38. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Comedy of Ideas
Discovery
Downstage
Front of House
39. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Eugene Scribe
William Shakespeare
Inciting Incident
Off-Broadway
40. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Theatron
Euripides
Aeschylus
Anton Chekhov
41. Organization of action
Situation Comedy
Naturalism
Verisimilitude
Plot
42. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Morality Plays
Black Box
Affective Memory
Postmodernism
43. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Slapstick
Protagonist
Meander
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
44. Humorous - objective view point
Exposition
Representational Acting
Comedy
Anton Chekhov
45. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Playwright
William Shakespeare
Upstage
46. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
The Box Set
Conflict
Representational Approach
47. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Improv
Dialogue
Postmodernism
William Shakespeare
48. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
William Shakespeare
Commedia Dell'Arte
Broadway
49. Grammatically based
Off-Broadway
Euripides
Prose
Verse
50. Used alienation to encourage distance
Protagonist
Bertolt Brecht
Dialogue
Euripides
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