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Theatre Appreciation
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1. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Fourth Wall
Dramatic Genre
University Wits
Comedy of Manners
2. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama
Ground Plan
Postmodernism
Morality Plays
3. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Stage Manager
Fourth Wall
Sophocles
Aristophanes
4. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Vomitories
Stage Manager
Naturalism
5. Amateur theatre in which shows are created by residents of a particular area who come together without being part of a professional or academic institution
Skene
Eugene Scribe
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Community Theatre
6. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Subplot
Stage Manager
Components of Concept
7. Grammatically based
Prose
Thought
Aristotle
Director
8. 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
Royalty
Henrik Ibsen
Melodrama
9. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Cycles
Henrik Ibsen
Improv
10. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Aristophanes
Downstage
Meander
Melodrama (def)
11. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Mimesis
Practical
Upstage
12. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Black Box
Chorus
Causal Play Structure
13. Was poetry for many years
Language
Lazzi
Upstage
Printing Press
14. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Falling Action
Stage Manager
Discovery
15. Major character at odds with social expectations
Antiquarianism
Comedy of Manners
Protagonist
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
16. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Public Domain
Tragicomedy
Konstantin Stanislavski
Sense Memory
17. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Euripides
Improv
Callbacks
Aesthetic Distance
18. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Meander
Neoclassicism (def)
Stage Manager
Character
19. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Thespis
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Meyerhold
Verisimilitude
20. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Protagonist
Blocking
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
21. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Sophocles
Konstantin Stanislavski
Subplot
Fourth Wall
22. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Verisimilitude
Front of House
Director
Theatre of Cruelty
23. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Callbacks
Dialogue
Playwright
24. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Dialogue
Stage Manager
Casting Director
25. Controls the environment in the theatre
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Comedy
Playwright
Designer
26. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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27. High point of action
Miracle Plays
Climax
Vomitories
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
28. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Avant-Garde
Protagonist
Downstage
29. Greek - actor
Causal Play Structure
Downstage
Hypokrites
Light Plot
30. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Subplot
Non-Profit Theatre
Chorus
Subtext
31. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Climax
Copyright
Wings
Fourth Wall
32. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Dramaturg
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Ground Plan
33. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aesthetic Distance
Verse
Lazzi
Eugene Scribe
34. England's type of theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Antagonist
The Globe
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
35. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Sophocles
Neoclassicism (def)
Comedy
Anton Chekhov
36. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
University Wits
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Representational Approach
Discovery
37. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Callbacks
Cycles
Discovery
Front of House
38. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Eugene Scribe
Euripides
Director
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
39. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Causal Play Structure
Playwright
Subplot
40. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Representational Acting
Antiquarianism
Comedy of Ideas
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
41. Grammatically based
Verse
Downstage
Prose
Proscenium Space
42. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Representational Approach
Empathy
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Verisimilitude
43. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Falling Action
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Konstantin Stanislavski
Commercial Theatre
44. Busiest person in the theatre
Dramatic Genre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Representational Acting
Stage Manager
45. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Discovery
Morality Plays
Anton Chekhov
46. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Sophocles
Rehearsal Process
Printing Press
47. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Components of Concept
Linear Plot
Public Domain
48. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Public Domain
Protagonist
49. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Thespis
Ground Plan
Realism and Realistic Developments
Community Theatre
50. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Producer
Sturm & Drang Movement
Hybrid Theatre
Subplot
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