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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. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Actor
The Globe
Light Plot
2. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Realism and Realistic Developments
Antiquarianism
Printing Press
Light Plot
3. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Melodrama (def)
Theatron
Hybrid Theatre
Hypokrites
4. Visible light source on stage
Skene
The Globe
Printing Press
Practical
5. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
Educational Theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski
Falling Action
6. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Front of House
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Casting Director
7. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Rehearsal Process
Casting Director
Aesthetic Distance
Avant-Garde
8. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Off-Off-Broadway
Light Plot
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
9. Top of stage
William Shakespeare
Black Box
Upstage
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
10. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Orchestra
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Components of Concept
11. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Improv
Royalty
Hypokrites
William Shakespeare
12. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Empathy
Aristophanes
Miracle Plays
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
13. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Components of Concept
Language
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
14. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Verse
Rendering
Cycles
Antagonist
15. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Miracle Plays
Causal Play Structure
Hybrid Theatre
16. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Skene
Eugene Scribe
Language
17. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Tragicomedy
Components of Concept
Aesthetic Distance
18. A fee for each performance
Presentational Approach
Components of Concept
Royalty
Situation Comedy
19. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
William Shakespeare
Eugene Scribe
Presentational Approach
Inciting Incident
20. A fee for each performance
Royalty
Improv
Ground Plan
Practical
21. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama
Postmodernism
Playwright
Tragedy
22. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Mystery Plays
Broadway
Inciting Incident
Emile Zola
23. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Practical
Neoclassicism (def)
Causal Play Structure
Situation Comedy
24. Busiest person in the theatre
Situation Comedy
Henrik Ibsen
Stage Manager
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
25. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy of Ideas
Black Box
Antagonist
Melodrama
26. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Community Theatre
Rehearsal Process
William Shakespeare
27. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Light Plot
Sense Memory
Copyright
28. Rhyming
Verse
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Realism and Realistic Developments
Prose
29. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Naturalism
Hybrid Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
30. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Emile Zola
Realism and Realistic Developments
Variables of Costume Design
Rising Action
31. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Aristotle
Neoclassicism (def)
Skene
Sense Memory
32. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Reversal
University Wits
Affective Memory
Tragedy
33. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
ostume Plot
Wings
Konstantin Stanislavski
Theatron
34. Was poetry for many years
Thought
Language
Auditions
Neoclassicism (def)
35. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Thought
Cycles
Downstage
Meander
36. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
The Globe
Commercial Theatre
Ground Plan
Avant-Garde
37. 100-499 people
Amateur Theatre
Lazzi
Community Theatre
Off-Broadway
38. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plato
Catharsis
Educational Theatre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
39. High point of action
Climax
Downstage
Orchestra
Ground Plan
40. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
Causal Play Structure
The Globe
Practical
41. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Regional Theatre
Designer
Casting Director
Subplot
42. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Plato
Realism and Realistic Developments
Vomitories
Dramaturg
43. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Aristotle
Verse
Light Plot
Reversal
44. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Theatre of Cruelty
Royalty
Falling Action
Tragicomedy
45. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Aesthetic Distance
Sense Memory
Off-Off-Broadway
Fourth Wall
46. Person who embodies a character on stage
Rendering
Actor
Commedia Dell'Arte
Variables of Costume Design
47. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Euripides
Falling Action
48. Emotional release
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Reversal
Catharsis
Postmodernism
49. Information needed to understand the play
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Verse
Exposition
Downstage
50. Humorous - objective view point
Theatron
Exposition
Comedy
Orchestra