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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. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Pageants
Blocking
Commercial Theatre
2. 'Father of Realism'
Antagonist
Downstage
Designer
Henrik Ibsen
3. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Theatre of Cruelty
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
4. Used alienation to encourage distance
Copyright
Bertolt Brecht
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
5. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Melodrama (def)
Printing Press
Emile Zola
Konstantin Stanislavski
6. Series of short stories
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Anton Chekhov
Commercial Theatre
Lazzi
7. Works published before 1923
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Representational Approach
Sense Memory
Public Domain
8. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Hybrid Theatre
Aeschylus
Vomitories
Emile Zola
9. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Exposition
Protagonist
Ensemble
10. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Emile Zola
Comedy of Manners
Hybrid Theatre
11. Linear events progress forward in time
Euripides
Postmodernism
Causal Play Structure
Rehearsal Process
12. The first director
Morality Plays
Catharsis
Aesthetic Distance
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
13. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Wings
Emile Zola
Ensemble
14. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Variables of Costume Design
Proscenium Space
Representational Approach
Meander
15. Rhyming
Language
Rendering
Verse
The Globe
16. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Avant-Garde
Slapstick
Aristotle
17. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Ensemble
Hybrid Theatre
The Box Set
Neoclassicism (def)
18. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Bertolt Brecht
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Melodrama
19. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Protagonist
Emile Zola
Language
Public Domain
20. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Protagonist
Aristophanes
Orchestra
Comedy of Character
21. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Copyright
Thespis
22. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Linear Plot
Broadway
Regional Theatre
Morality Plays
23. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Thrust Space
The Globe
Off-Off-Broadway
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
24. England's type of theatre
Comedy of Character
Sophocles
The Globe
Presentational Approach
25. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Mimesis
Comedy of Character
The Box Set
26. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Director
Fourth Wall
Commercial Theatre
Components of Concept
27. Six elements - catharsis
Skene
Theatre of Cruelty
Aristotle
Fourth Wall
28. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Actor
Causal Play Structure
Lazzi
Front of House
29. 'Storm and stress'
Director
Thrust Space
Sturm & Drang Movement
Ensemble
30. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Verisimilitude
Chorus
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Casting Director
31. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Rising Action
Conflict
Casting Director
Melodrama
32. Imitation of character and action
Discovery
Proscenium Space
Mimesis
Conflict
33. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Orchestra
Wings
Exposition
Eugene Scribe
34. Verse
Amateur Theatre
Theatron
Regional Theatre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
35. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Upstage
Producer
Hypokrites
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
36. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Callbacks
Light Plot
Linear Plot
Comedy of Character
37. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Proscenium Space
Sense Memory
Hybrid Theatre
Dialogue
38. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Playwright
Upstage
Callbacks
Hybrid Theatre
39. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Royalty
Emile Zola
Pageants
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
40. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Situation Comedy
Regional Theatre
Linear Plot
41. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Upstage
Morality Plays
Non-Profit Theatre
Black Box
42. Focused on thought - controversial
Causal Play Structure
Upstage
Bertolt Brecht
Comedy of Ideas
43. 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)
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Practical
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Plato
44. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Exposition
Improv
William Shakespeare
45. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Designer
Situation Comedy
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Catharsis
46. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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47. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Antiquarianism
Catharsis
Regional Theatre
Slapstick
48. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Exposition
Aristotle
Theatron
Thought
49. Events that set off a major conflict
Subtext
Meyerhold
Comedy of Ideas
Inciting Incident
50. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Thrust Space
Dramatic Genre
Comedy of Character