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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. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Stage Manager
Representational Approach
Comedy of Manners
2. Was poetry for many years
Language
Rendering
Designer
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
3. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Variables of Costume Design
Rehearsal Process
Neoclassicism (def)
4. Writer and first actor
Thespis
Exposition
Comedy
Euripides
5. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Catharsis
Language
6. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Reversal
Representational Acting
Cycles
Callbacks
7. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Cycles
Commercial Theatre
Sturm & Drang Movement
Tragedy
8. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Naturalism
Dialogue
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Theatron
9. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Theatre of Cruelty
Subtext
Language
Thought
10. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
The Globe
Emile Zola
Comedy of Character
Hypokrites
11. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Euripides
Comedy of Manners
Antiquarianism
Theatre of Cruelty
12. The era we are currently in
Rehearsal Process
Postmodernism
Neoclassicism (def)
Representational Approach
13. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Eugene Scribe
Producer
Reversal
William Shakespeare
14. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Actor
Ensemble
Concept
15. Six elements - catharsis
Pageants
Meyerhold
Aristotle
Dialogue
16. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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17. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Thought
Discovery
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Neoclassicism (def)
18. Main character
Protagonist
Causal Play Structure
Bertolt Brecht
Exposition
19. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Pageants
Subplot
Community Theatre
Black Box
20. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Anton Chekhov
Designer
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Rising Action
21. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Aristophanes
Character
Realism and Realistic Developments
Regional Theatre
22. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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23. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Tragedy
Causal Play Structure
Konstantin Stanislavski
24. Part of What is included in the text
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Dialogue
Sturm & Drang Movement
25. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thespis
Auditions
Protagonist
Thrust Space
26. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Mystery Plays
Aristophanes
Representational Acting
Aristotle
27. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
ostume Plot
Thrust Space
Comedy of Character
28. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Plato
Comedy
Rehearsal Process
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
29. The first director
Director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Regional Theatre
Thespis
30. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Verisimilitude
Henrik Ibsen
Black Box
31. Series of short stories
Theatron
Theatre of Cruelty
Orchestra
Anton Chekhov
32. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Broadway
Stage Manager
Printing Press
Amateur Theatre
33. Gas lights - etc.
The Box Set
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Antiquarianism
Non-Profit Theatre
34. 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
Thespis
Emile Zola
Community Theatre
Tragedy
35. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Commercial Theatre
Affective Memory
Off-Broadway
Skene
36. 100-499 people
Realism and Realistic Developments
Off-Broadway
Printing Press
Practical
37. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Konstantin Stanislavski
Copyright
Morality Plays
38. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Melodrama (def)
Avant-Garde
Sense Memory
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
39. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Printing Press
Educational Theatre
Public Domain
Downstage
40. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Fourth Wall
Rehearsal Process
Sense Memory
Downstage
41. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Orchestra
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Thrust Space
42. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Language
Verisimilitude
Representational Approach
Neoclassicism (def)
43. Was poetry for many years
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Downstage
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Language
44. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Discovery
Plato
Reversal
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
45. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Black Box
Lazzi
Subplot
46. 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
Situation Comedy
Off-Broadway
Improv
47. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Producer
Components of Concept
Casting Director
Euripides
48. Busiest person in the theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Stage Manager
Climax
Melodrama (def)
49. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Protagonist
Off-Broadway
Naturalism
Playwright
50. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
University Wits
Casting Director
Eugene Scribe
Verisimilitude