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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. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Thespis
Proscenium Space
Wings
2. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Empathy
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Rehearsal Process
Vomitories
3. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Black Box
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Thought
University Wits
4. 100-499 people
Skene
Renaissance
Off-Broadway
Morality Plays
5. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Variables of Costume Design
Dramatic Genre
Pageants
Climax
6. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
William Shakespeare
Morality Plays
Community Theatre
Auditions
7. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Konstantin Stanislavski
Language
Commercial Theatre
8. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Mystery Plays
Anton Chekhov
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Representational Approach
9. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Broadway
Conflict
Falling Action
The Globe
10. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
The Globe
Aristophanes
Pageants
Discovery
11. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Upstage
Skene
Director
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
12. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
Royalty
Comedy of Character
Mystery Plays
13. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Off-Broadway
Practical
Comedy of Character
14. Events that set off a major conflict
Off-Broadway
Antagonist
Orchestra
Inciting Incident
15. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
The Globe
Tragedy
Hypokrites
16. Top of stage
Broadway
Black Box
Upstage
Hypokrites
17. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Climax
Aesthetic Distance
Presentational Approach
Upstage
18. Person who embodies a character on stage
Light Plot
Ensemble
Actor
Stage Manager
19. Greek - actor
Dramatic Genre
Comedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Hypokrites
20. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Proscenium Space
Cycles
Pageants
Royalty
21. Planned actor movement
ostume Plot
Printing Press
Blocking
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
22. The era we are currently in
Naturalism
Renaissance
Postmodernism
Broadway
23. 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
Subplot
Community Theatre
Postmodernism
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
24. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
The Globe
Regional Theatre
Cycles
Director
25. Audience watches from 3 sides
Dramatic Genre
Meyerhold
Prose
Thrust Space
26. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Lazzi
Front of House
27. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Ensemble
Lazzi
Theatre of Cruelty
Commercial Theatre
28. A fee for each performance
Melodrama (def)
Royalty
Representational Acting
Producer
29. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Emile Zola
Aeschylus
Antagonist
30. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Thrust Space
Catharsis
Eugene Scribe
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
31. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Causal Play Structure
Antagonist
Theatre of Cruelty
Ensemble
32. Gas lights - etc.
Bertolt Brecht
Naturalism
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Meander
33. Causes trouble for the main character
Ground Plan
Antagonist
Inciting Incident
William Shakespeare
34. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Casting Director
Catharsis
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Downstage
35. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Concept
Designer
Euripides
36. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Discovery
Actor
Melodrama
Realism and Realistic Developments
37. Series of short stories
Broadway
Affective Memory
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Anton Chekhov
38. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Slapstick
Orchestra
Thespis
39. The standard tool for casting a production
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Exposition
Auditions
Copyright
40. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Variables of Costume Design
Educational Theatre
Eugene Scribe
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
41. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Comedy of Character
Euripides
Melodrama
Miracle Plays
42. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Aristophanes
Theatron
Stage Manager
Royalty
43. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Euripides
Royalty
Comedy of Ideas
Neoclassicism (def)
44. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Emile Zola
Empathy
Plato
Sophocles
45. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Theatron
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Actor
Prose
46. Italians
Reversal
Producer
Language
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
47. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Meander
Chorus
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
48. Used alienation to encourage distance
Falling Action
Character
Bertolt Brecht
Upstage
49. Organization of action
Variables of Costume Design
Representational Acting
Plot
Postmodernism
50. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Hybrid Theatre
Subtext
Callbacks