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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. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Melodrama
Regional Theatre
Inciting Incident
Cycles
2. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Catharsis
University Wits
Skene
3. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Casting Director
Meyerhold
Aristophanes
Prose
4. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Regional Theatre
Melodrama (def)
Ensemble
Pageants
5. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Lazzi
Climax
Aristophanes
Representational Approach
6. Ideas within the play
Protagonist
Thought
Inciting Incident
Blocking
7. The standard tool for casting a production
Auditions
Thrust Space
Konstantin Stanislavski
Improv
8. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Blocking
Wings
Emile Zola
Neoclassicism (def)
9. Rejection of neoclassicism -
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Antiquarianism
Protagonist
10. Verse
Non-Profit Theatre
Playwright
Neoclassicism (def)
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
11. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Dramaturg
Aristophanes
Emile Zola
Subplot
12. Audience watches from 3 sides
Protagonist
Thrust Space
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
The Box Set
13. Rhyming
Anton Chekhov
Postmodernism
Verse
Slapstick
14. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Subplot
Plato
Lazzi
15. Verse
Pageants
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Sturm & Drang Movement
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
16. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
The Globe
Representational Approach
Regional Theatre
17. Based on the lives of the saints
Situation Comedy
Miracle Plays
Concept
Emile Zola
18. Imitation of character and action
Prose
Regional Theatre
Mimesis
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
19. Controls the environment in the theatre
Character
Situation Comedy
Konstantin Stanislavski
Designer
20. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Discovery
Orchestra
Emile Zola
Casting Director
21. 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
Reversal
Sophocles
Improv
Off-Broadway
22. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Mimesis
University Wits
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Meyerhold
23. Major character at odds with social expectations
Cycles
Comedy of Character
Upstage
Comedy of Manners
24. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Ground Plan
Reversal
Ensemble
Callbacks
25. Not many props or detailed scenery
Neoclassicism (def)
Dialogue
Melodrama
Renaissance
26. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Reversal
Theatre of Cruelty
ostume Plot
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
27. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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28. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Hypokrites
Front of House
Aristophanes
Dramaturg
29. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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30. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Theatre of Cruelty
Presentational Approach
Falling Action
Slapstick
31. Works published before 1923
Playwright
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Anton Chekhov
Public Domain
32. 'Father of Realism'
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Royalty
Henrik Ibsen
Theatre of Cruelty
33. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Regional Theatre
Rehearsal Process
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Mystery Plays
34. Part of What is included in the text
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Broadway
Dialogue
35. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Exposition
Falling Action
Theatron
36. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
The Globe
Affective Memory
Producer
37. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Miracle Plays
Fourth Wall
Blocking
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
38. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Mystery Plays
Commercial Theatre
Printing Press
William Shakespeare
39. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Empathy
Representational Acting
Pageants
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
40. A>B>C>D
Variables of Costume Design
Public Domain
The Box Set
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
41. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
The Box Set
William Shakespeare
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Character
42. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Empathy
Rendering
Broadway
43. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Educational Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Aristotle
44. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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45. 100-499 people
Components of Concept
Subtext
Off-Broadway
Printing Press
46. Series of short stories
Representational Approach
Dramatic Genre
Anton Chekhov
Actor
47. Grammatically based
Comedy of Ideas
Verse
Prose
William Shakespeare
48. Organization of action
Sturm & Drang Movement
Stage Manager
Plot
Producer
49. England's type of theatre
Wings
The Globe
Broadway
Upstage
50. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Downstage
Reversal
Concept
Causal Play Structure