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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. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Upstage
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Producer
Climax
2. 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
Sense Memory
Miracle Plays
Meyerhold
Improv
3. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Designer
Eugene Scribe
Pageants
Rising Action
4. Someone who writes plays
Comedy of Character
Playwright
Character
Practical
5. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Comedy of Ideas
Black Box
Plato
6. Organization of action
Plot
Melodrama
Comedy of Ideas
Avant-Garde
7. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Affective Memory
Non-Profit Theatre
Rehearsal Process
Ground Plan
8. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
Cycles
Anton Chekhov
Regional Theatre
9. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Printing Press
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Theatron
Prose
10. Focused on thought - controversial
Concept
Causal Play Structure
Comedy of Ideas
Subplot
11. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Hypokrites
Components of Concept
Printing Press
Ensemble
12. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Meander
Commercial Theatre
Concept
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
13. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Concept
Naturalism
Sophocles
Slapstick
14. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Renaissance
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Off-Broadway
15. Rhyming
Skene
Verse
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Fourth Wall
16. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Antagonist
Slapstick
Falling Action
17. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Printing Press
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Practical
18. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Melodrama (def)
Sense Memory
Auditions
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
19. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Comedy
The Globe
Discovery
Auditions
20. Busiest person in the theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski
Ground Plan
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Stage Manager
21. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Commercial Theatre
Ground Plan
Emile Zola
Ensemble
22. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Prose
Hybrid Theatre
The Globe
Aeschylus
23. Based on the lives of the saints
Eugene Scribe
Director
Theatre of Cruelty
Miracle Plays
24. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Black Box
Representational Approach
Rising Action
Comedy of Character
25. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Aesthetic Distance
Inciting Incident
Broadway
26. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
The Globe
Melodrama
Catharsis
Naturalism
27. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Melodrama
Public Domain
Concept
28. Top of stage
Upstage
Producer
Tragedy
Royalty
29. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thrust Space
Bertolt Brecht
Representational Approach
Morality Plays
30. Writer and first actor
Variables of Costume Design
Vomitories
Thespis
Rendering
31. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Lazzi
Wings
Realism and Realistic Developments
Amateur Theatre
32. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Comedy
Dramatic Genre
Konstantin Stanislavski
Empathy
33. Was poetry for many years
Wings
Black Box
Cycles
Language
34. Planned actor movement
Mystery Plays
Blocking
Plot
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
35. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Aesthetic Distance
Variables of Costume Design
Neoclassicism (def)
Situation Comedy
36. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Vomitories
ostume Plot
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Melodrama
37. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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38. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Protagonist
Realism and Realistic Developments
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Director
39. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Theatron
Director
Components of Concept
40. 'Father of Realism'
Antiquarianism
Cycles
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Henrik Ibsen
41. 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
Anton Chekhov
Improv
Thespis
Director
42. Grammatically based
Melodrama (def)
Comedy of Manners
Prose
Antagonist
43. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Renaissance
Wings
Printing Press
44. Linear events progress forward in time
Designer
Causal Play Structure
Euripides
Designer
45. Part of What is included in the text
Stage Manager
Dialogue
Exposition
Theatron
46. Main character
Protagonist
Lazzi
Climax
Plot
47. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Antagonist
Regional Theatre
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Royalty
48. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Hypokrites
Practical
49. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Stage Manager
Aeschylus
Prose
Bertolt Brecht
50. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Improv
Broadway
Stage Manager