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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. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Black Box
Auditions
2. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Hybrid Theatre
Subplot
Pageants
3. Information needed to understand the play
Inciting Incident
Actor
Exposition
Emile Zola
4. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Subplot
Postmodernism
Light Plot
Downstage
5. Ideas within the play
Dramatic Genre
Rehearsal Process
Thought
Sophocles
6. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Ensemble
Playwright
Rehearsal Process
Auditions
7. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Linear Plot
Affective Memory
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
8. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Hybrid Theatre
Character
Tragedy
9. Gas lights - etc.
Presentational Approach
Community Theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Naturalism
10. High point of action
Climax
Cycles
Orchestra
Anton Chekhov
11. A group of actors - not just one star
Theatre of Cruelty
Ensemble
University Wits
Tragicomedy
12. 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
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Community Theatre
Improv
Melodrama (def)
13. Proscenium arch/stage
Royalty
Climax
Dramaturg
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
14. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Chorus
Educational Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
15. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Rehearsal Process
Emile Zola
ostume Plot
Comedy of Character
16. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Tragedy
Non-Profit Theatre
Commercial Theatre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
17. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Pageants
Exposition
Climax
18. Causes trouble for the main character
Mimesis
Rendering
Antagonist
Bertolt Brecht
19. High point of action
Skene
Community Theatre
Climax
Character
20. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Reversal
Verse
Cycles
21. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Postmodernism
Inciting Incident
Melodrama
Representational Approach
22. Proscenium space
Actor
Concept
The Box Set
Hypokrites
23. Six elements - catharsis
Comedy of Character
Auditions
Aristotle
Callbacks
24. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Amateur Theatre
Cycles
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
25. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Rehearsal Process
Affective Memory
Antiquarianism
26. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Components of Concept
ostume Plot
Stage Manager
Theatron
27. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Aeschylus
Representational Approach
Thought
28. Events that set off a major conflict
Falling Action
Comedy of Ideas
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Inciting Incident
29. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Neoclassicism (def)
Fourth Wall
Rising Action
Euripides
30. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Verse
Hybrid Theatre
Exposition
Upstage
31. Organization of action
Theatron
Plot
Inciting Incident
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
32. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
William Shakespeare
Director
Amateur Theatre
33. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Aristophanes
Konstantin Stanislavski
Climax
Producer
34. 500-1800 people
Exposition
Affective Memory
Broadway
Vomitories
35. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Aeschylus
Melodrama (def)
Pageants
36. Main character
Rising Action
Callbacks
Meyerhold
Protagonist
37. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Sophocles
Comedy
Stage Manager
38. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Bertolt Brecht
Amateur Theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
39. Performs Actions of the Play
Components of Concept
Chorus
Character
Slapstick
40. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Subtext
Reversal
Naturalism
41. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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42. The era we are currently in
Climax
Postmodernism
Improv
Dialogue
43. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Anton Chekhov
Prose
Aesthetic Distance
44. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Bertolt Brecht
Skene
Bertolt Brecht
William Shakespeare
45. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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46. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Emile Zola
Stage Manager
Producer
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
47. A group of actors - not just one star
Ensemble
The Globe
Protagonist
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
48. The first director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Miracle Plays
Community Theatre
Casting Director
49. A fee for each performance
Broadway
Empathy
Off-Off-Broadway
Royalty
50. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Theatre of Cruelty
Playwright
Verisimilitude