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Theatre Appreciation
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1. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Hypokrites
Front of House
The Box Set
Protagonist
2. Main character
Playwright
Protagonist
Improv
Anton Chekhov
3. Busiest person in the theatre
Off-Broadway
Fourth Wall
Stage Manager
Empathy
4. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Miracle Plays
Antiquarianism
Lazzi
Royalty
5. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Exposition
Empathy
6. Top of stage
Upstage
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
The Box Set
Subplot
7. Humorous - objective view point
Mimesis
Comedy
Plot
Renaissance
8. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
University Wits
Melodrama
Non-Profit Theatre
9. 'Storm and stress'
Fourth Wall
Sturm & Drang Movement
Conflict
Melodrama (def)
10. Proscenium arch/stage
Character
Callbacks
Comedy of Ideas
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
11. Audience watches from 3 sides
Comedy of Manners
Realism and Realistic Developments
Euripides
Thrust Space
12. Verse
Theatre of Cruelty
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Melodrama
Comedy of Manners
13. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Actor
Hypokrites
Ground Plan
Comedy of Character
14. A fee for each performance
Language
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Royalty
Front of House
15. Rhyming
Verse
Thought
Postmodernism
Konstantin Stanislavski
16. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Affective Memory
Avant-Garde
Antiquarianism
Eugene Scribe
17. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Community Theatre
Morality Plays
Educational Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
18. Six elements - catharsis
Aeschylus
Subplot
Aristotle
Blocking
19. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Actor
Rehearsal Process
Falling Action
Verse
20. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Inciting Incident
Tragedy
Melodrama (def)
21. Appearance of truth
Meyerhold
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Presentational Approach
Verisimilitude
22. Verse
Royalty
Anton Chekhov
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Ground Plan
23. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Climax
Meander
Public Domain
Royalty
24. Based on the lives of the saints
Thespis
Playwright
Miracle Plays
Variables of Costume Design
25. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
William Shakespeare
Morality Plays
Dramaturg
Naturalism
26. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Orchestra
Renaissance
Presentational Approach
27. Events progress forward in time
Tragedy
Linear Plot
Verse
Front of House
28. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Rehearsal Process
Orchestra
Commedia Dell'Arte
Director
29. 500-1800 people
Miracle Plays
Comedy of Manners
Broadway
Causal Play Structure
30. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
ostume Plot
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Rehearsal Process
31. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Rising Action
Subtext
Community Theatre
32. Someone who writes plays
Auditions
Light Plot
Playwright
Vomitories
33. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Melodrama
Anton Chekhov
34. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Sophocles
Neoclassicism (def)
35. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Comedy
Plato
Non-Profit Theatre
Rehearsal Process
36. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Hypokrites
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Dramaturg
37. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Reversal
Catharsis
Downstage
Concept
38. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Playwright
Rehearsal Process
Sense Memory
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
39. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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40. Gas lights - etc.
Director
Situation Comedy
Falling Action
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
41. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rendering
Thought
Comedy of Ideas
Sophocles
42. Play reenacting biblical stories
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
William Shakespeare
Mystery Plays
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
43. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Variables of Costume Design
Downstage
Plot
Aristotle
44. 100-499 people
Catharsis
Off-Broadway
Amateur Theatre
Public Domain
45. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama
Improv
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Causal Play Structure
46. Person who embodies a character on stage
Copyright
Thought
Aeschylus
Actor
47. Medea - The Bacchae
Non-Profit Theatre
Public Domain
Euripides
Aristotle
48. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Meander
Avant-Garde
Slapstick
Aeschylus
49. Feel more in stage acting.
Chorus
Educational Theatre
Meyerhold
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
50. Gas lights - etc.
Falling Action
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Thrust Space
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