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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. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Protagonist
Non-Profit Theatre
Plato
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
2. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
University Wits
Bertolt Brecht
Avant-Garde
Light Plot
3. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Auditions
Skene
Thought
Situation Comedy
4. 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
Components of Concept
Auditions
Community Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
5. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Copyright
Tragedy
Falling Action
Orchestra
6. Time (play had to take place within a 24 hour period) - place (the whole play must take place in a single location) - and action (single plot)
Conflict
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Wings
Variables of Costume Design
7. Play reenacting biblical stories
The Box Set
Thespis
Proscenium Space
Mystery Plays
8. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Konstantin Stanislavski
Realism and Realistic Developments
Thespis
9. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Vomitories
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Practical
10. 'Storm and stress'
Situation Comedy
Chorus
Fourth Wall
Sturm & Drang Movement
11. Not many props or detailed scenery
Melodrama (def)
Plot
Subplot
Renaissance
12. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Royalty
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Ground Plan
Emile Zola
13. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Falling Action
Comedy
Dramatic Genre
Comedy of Manners
14. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
Hypokrites
Renaissance
Educational Theatre
15. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Pageants
Light Plot
16. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Dramaturg
Emile Zola
Konstantin Stanislavski
Thought
17. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
Dramatic Genre
Blocking
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
18. Appearance of truth
Naturalism
Avant-Garde
Verisimilitude
Ensemble
19. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Emile Zola
Orchestra
Lazzi
Antagonist
20. Rhyming
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Playwright
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Verse
21. Used alienation to encourage distance
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Sophocles
Cycles
Bertolt Brecht
22. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Director
Konstantin Stanislavski
23. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Naturalism
University Wits
Educational Theatre
Off-Broadway
24. Grammatically based
Henrik Ibsen
Prose
Plato
Verisimilitude
25. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Hypokrites
Light Plot
Components of Concept
Falling Action
26. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Comedy of Manners
Dramaturg
Mystery Plays
Rising Action
27. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Euripides
Representational Approach
Situation Comedy
Melodrama
28. 500-1800 people
Mystery Plays
Broadway
Black Box
Callbacks
29. Main character
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Sturm & Drang Movement
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Protagonist
30. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Blocking
Playwright
Dramatic Genre
31. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Mystery Plays
Eugene Scribe
Front of House
Empathy
32. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Chorus
Empathy
Meyerhold
Pageants
33. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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34. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Light Plot
Inciting Incident
Theatre of Cruelty
Skene
35. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Naturalism
Ground Plan
Catharsis
36. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Discovery
Linear Plot
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
37. Rejection of neoclassicism -
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Educational Theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Casting Director
38. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
ostume Plot
Thrust Space
Henrik Ibsen
39. Causes trouble for the main character
Callbacks
Antagonist
The Globe
Aristophanes
40. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Aristotle
Inciting Incident
Upstage
Eugene Scribe
41. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Melodrama (def)
Aeschylus
University Wits
Actor
42. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Theatron
Exposition
Sophocles
Avant-Garde
43. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Slapstick
Aristophanes
Bertolt Brecht
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
44. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Henrik Ibsen
Hypokrites
Mystery Plays
45. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Bertolt Brecht
Meander
Ensemble
Wings
46. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Representational Approach
Black Box
Subplot
47. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Mimesis
Theatron
Public Domain
Printing Press
48. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Thespis
Exposition
Representational Approach
49. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Designer
Linear Plot
Linear Plot
50. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Inciting Incident
ostume Plot
Plato
Components of Concept