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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. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Chorus
Falling Action
Rising Action
2. Grammatically based
Community Theatre
Prose
Mystery Plays
Tragicomedy
3. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
The Globe
ostume Plot
William Shakespeare
4. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
Stage Manager
Ensemble
Antiquarianism
5. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Meander
Auditions
Language
6. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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7. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Tragicomedy
Comedy of Manners
William Shakespeare
Melodrama
8. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Theatre of Cruelty
Educational Theatre
Meander
Melodrama (def)
9. Ideas within the play
Character
Amateur Theatre
Thought
Cycles
10. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Aristophanes
Tragicomedy
Variables of Costume Design
11. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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12. The first director
Dramaturg
Representational Approach
Reversal
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
13. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Affective Memory
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Commercial Theatre
Copyright
14. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
Theatron
Public Domain
Meander
15. A>B>C>D
Inciting Incident
Sense Memory
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Verse
16. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Blocking
Theatre of Cruelty
Eugene Scribe
17. 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
Dramatic Genre
Thought
Melodrama
Improv
18. Someone who writes plays
Commedia Dell'Arte
Avant-Garde
Playwright
Realism and Realistic Developments
19. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
ostume Plot
Miracle Plays
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
20. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dramatic Genre
Conflict
Comedy of Manners
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
21. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
William Shakespeare
Rehearsal Process
Presentational Approach
Naturalism
22. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Mimesis
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Exposition
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
23. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thrust Space
Aeschylus
Melodrama (def)
Morality Plays
24. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
The Globe
Director
Melodrama
Variables of Costume Design
25. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Conflict
Comedy of Character
Miracle Plays
26. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Bertolt Brecht
Miracle Plays
Regional Theatre
27. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Components of Concept
Amateur Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Mimesis
28. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Vomitories
Theatron
Front of House
William Shakespeare
29. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Eugene Scribe
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Wings
Meyerhold
30. Planned actor movement
Comedy of Ideas
Non-Profit Theatre
Blocking
Eugene Scribe
31. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Wings
Public Domain
Aesthetic Distance
Royalty
32. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Plot
Sturm & Drang Movement
Off-Off-Broadway
33. Medea - The Bacchae
Hybrid Theatre
Euripides
Aesthetic Distance
Comedy of Manners
34. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Presentational Approach
Situation Comedy
Slapstick
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
35. Medea - The Bacchae
Presentational Approach
Euripides
Anton Chekhov
Lazzi
36. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Anton Chekhov
Slapstick
Mystery Plays
Blocking
37. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Subplot
Copyright
Tragicomedy
Pageants
38. Greek - actor
Meander
Causal Play Structure
Subtext
Hypokrites
39. Works published before 1923
Hybrid Theatre
Public Domain
Ground Plan
Thought
40. Six elements - catharsis
Antagonist
Plato
Blocking
Aristotle
41. Ideas within the play
Printing Press
Thought
Casting Director
Sense Memory
42. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Mystery Plays
Falling Action
Exposition
Hypokrites
43. 500-1800 people
Broadway
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Aeschylus
Verse
44. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Sophocles
Skene
Lazzi
Printing Press
45. Causes trouble for the main character
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Variables of Costume Design
Comedy of Character
Antagonist
46. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Meander
Sense Memory
Rising Action
Regional Theatre
47. 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
Rehearsal Process
Community Theatre
The Box Set
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
48. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Proscenium Space
Falling Action
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
ostume Plot
49. 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
Emile Zola
Neoclassicism (def)
Community Theatre
Practical
50. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rendering
Antiquarianism
Exposition
Front of House