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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. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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2. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Front of House
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Amateur Theatre
Verisimilitude
3. Medea - The Bacchae
Morality Plays
Representational Approach
Euripides
Aristophanes
4. Series of short stories
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Anton Chekhov
5. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Broadway
Designer
6. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Sturm & Drang Movement
Reversal
Regional Theatre
7. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Vomitories
Renaissance
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
8. Part of What is included in the text
Verse
Dramatic Genre
Renaissance
Dialogue
9. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Plato
Off-Broadway
Eugene Scribe
10. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Subplot
Representational Approach
Cycles
11. 100-499 people
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Plot
Designer
Off-Broadway
12. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Practical
Rendering
13. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Falling Action
Orchestra
Blocking
Realism and Realistic Developments
14. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Downstage
Off-Broadway
Language
15. Organization of action
Plot
Antagonist
Bertolt Brecht
Language
16. 500-1800 people
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Theatre of Cruelty
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Broadway
17. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Meander
Falling Action
Light Plot
Renaissance
18. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Non-Profit Theatre
Climax
Dramaturg
19. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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20. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Melodrama (def)
Thespis
Lazzi
Components of Concept
21. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Verisimilitude
Subtext
Aeschylus
Aesthetic Distance
22. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Off-Broadway
Realism and Realistic Developments
William Shakespeare
23. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Meander
Callbacks
Presentational Approach
Language
24. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Emile Zola
Light Plot
25. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Avant-Garde
Linear Plot
Renaissance
26. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Orchestra
Emile Zola
Mystery Plays
Slapstick
27. Ideas within the play
Henrik Ibsen
Printing Press
Thought
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
28. Performs Actions of the Play
Amateur Theatre
Character
Mimesis
Lazzi
29. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Practical
William Shakespeare
Off-Off-Broadway
Discovery
30. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Meander
Proscenium Space
Sophocles
Non-Profit Theatre
31. Someone who writes plays
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Antagonist
Playwright
Verse
32. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Plot
Sense Memory
Avant-Garde
Chorus
33. Was poetry for many years
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Thrust Space
Language
Dialogue
34. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Community Theatre
Reversal
Vomitories
35. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Blocking
Commercial Theatre
Front of House
Theatre of Cruelty
36. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Representational Acting
Dialogue
Melodrama
Sophocles
37. Main character
University Wits
Protagonist
Playwright
Affective Memory
38. Major character at odds with social expectations
Aristotle
Comedy of Manners
Verisimilitude
Downstage
39. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Neoclassicism (def)
Amateur Theatre
Conflict
Dramaturg
40. 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
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Reversal
Community Theatre
Aesthetic Distance
41. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Neoclassicism (def)
Aesthetic Distance
Theatre of Cruelty
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
42. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Broadway
The Box Set
Dialogue
University Wits
43. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Melodrama
Verse
Chorus
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
44. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Aristophanes
Comedy of Character
Proscenium Space
Theatre of Cruelty
45. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Playwright
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Comedy of Manners
46. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Casting Director
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Mimesis
Sophocles
47. Emotional release
Naturalism
Rehearsal Process
Proscenium Space
Catharsis
48. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Reversal
Eugene Scribe
Meander
Director
49. England's type of theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
Konstantin Stanislavski
The Globe
Realism and Realistic Developments
50. Top of stage
Director
Upstage
Postmodernism
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude