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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. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Off-Broadway
Realism and Realistic Developments
Comedy of Manners
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
2. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Representational Acting
Copyright
Hybrid Theatre
Skene
3. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Mimesis
Plato
Sophocles
Practical
4. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Auditions
Blocking
Melodrama (def)
Euripides
5. Series of short stories
Practical
University Wits
Rendering
Anton Chekhov
6. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Regional Theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski
7. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Reversal
Dramaturg
8. 100-499 people
Affective Memory
Improv
Tragedy
Off-Broadway
9. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Auditions
William Shakespeare
Eugene Scribe
10. Focused on thought - controversial
Chorus
Comedy of Ideas
Comedy of Character
Designer
11. England's type of theatre
Comedy
Mystery Plays
The Globe
Playwright
12. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Stage Manager
Protagonist
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Light Plot
13. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Aristotle
Naturalism
Postmodernism
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
14. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Euripides
Thrust Space
Plot
15. Medea - The Bacchae
Callbacks
Linear Plot
Euripides
Prose
16. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Off-Off-Broadway
Improv
The Globe
Plato
17. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Variables of Costume Design
Comedy of Character
Broadway
Melodrama
18. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Black Box
Inciting Incident
University Wits
19. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Miracle Plays
Dramaturg
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
20. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Meyerhold
Orchestra
Commercial Theatre
Pageants
21. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Hypokrites
Vomitories
22. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Off-Broadway
The Globe
Reversal
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
23. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
Reversal
Aristophanes
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
24. Was poetry for many years
Language
Hypokrites
Thrust Space
Downstage
25. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Ground Plan
Broadway
Theatron
William Shakespeare
26. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Emile Zola
Cycles
Community Theatre
Improv
27. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Conflict
Subplot
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
28. Writer and first actor
Thespis
Black Box
Lazzi
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
29. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Mystery Plays
Representational Acting
Climax
Variables of Costume Design
30. Someone who writes plays
Presentational Approach
Slapstick
Dramaturg
Playwright
31. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Presentational Approach
Stage Manager
32. 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
Educational Theatre
Community Theatre
Verisimilitude
Skene
33. A fee for each performance
Dialogue
Representational Approach
Causal Play Structure
Royalty
34. The first director
Eugene Scribe
Dramatic Genre
Rising Action
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
35. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Broadway
Lazzi
The Globe
Ground Plan
36. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Antagonist
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Sturm & Drang Movement
Aristophanes
37. The standard tool for casting a production
Melodrama
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
ostume Plot
Auditions
38. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Auditions
Upstage
Anton Chekhov
39. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
Morality Plays
Regional Theatre
Tragedy
40. Busiest person in the theatre
Educational Theatre
Stage Manager
Hybrid Theatre
Naturalism
41. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Plot
Skene
Orchestra
ostume Plot
42. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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43. Emotional release
Climax
Thespis
Catharsis
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
44. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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45. Greek - actor
Downstage
Hypokrites
Stage Manager
Casting Director
46. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Aesthetic Distance
Rehearsal Process
Renaissance
47. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Linear Plot
Melodrama (def)
Subtext
Causal Play Structure
48. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Light Plot
Mystery Plays
49. Person who embodies a character on stage
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Sturm & Drang Movement
Konstantin Stanislavski
Actor
50. Organization of action
Euripides
Mimesis
Plot
Commercial Theatre