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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. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Dramatic Genre
Educational Theatre
Plato
2. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Empathy
Mimesis
Aesthetic Distance
Representational Approach
3. Imitation of character and action
Community Theatre
Designer
Morality Plays
Mimesis
4. Imitation of character and action
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Director
Mimesis
Climax
5. Main character
Miracle Plays
Educational Theatre
Cycles
Protagonist
6. Six elements - catharsis
Blocking
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Aristotle
Sense Memory
7. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Dialogue
Anton Chekhov
Miracle Plays
8. Emotional release
Sophocles
Eugene Scribe
Catharsis
Director
9. Focused on thought - controversial
Director
Anton Chekhov
Tragicomedy
Comedy of Ideas
10. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Lazzi
Situation Comedy
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Upstage
11. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Theatre of Cruelty
William Shakespeare
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Off-Broadway
12. Performs Actions of the Play
Bertolt Brecht
Public Domain
Theatron
Character
13. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Dialogue
Plato
Rendering
Mystery Plays
14. The standard tool for casting a production
Auditions
Playwright
Melodrama
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
15. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Representational Approach
Miracle Plays
Aristophanes
16. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Black Box
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Exposition
Affective Memory
17. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Lazzi
Off-Off-Broadway
Educational Theatre
Downstage
18. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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19. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Bertolt Brecht
ostume Plot
Melodrama
20. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Auditions
Theatron
Climax
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
21. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Inciting Incident
Henrik Ibsen
Dialogue
22. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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23. A group of actors - not just one star
Concept
Ensemble
Dialogue
Melodrama (def)
24. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Wings
Hypokrites
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Reversal
25. Italians
Director
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
26. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Verisimilitude
Upstage
Off-Broadway
Amateur Theatre
27. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Inciting Incident
Educational Theatre
Regional Theatre
The Box Set
28. Not many props or detailed scenery
Representational Acting
Renaissance
The Globe
Exposition
29. Events progress forward in time
Front of House
Thought
Linear Plot
Aeschylus
30. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Casting Director
Renaissance
Bertolt Brecht
31. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Rising Action
Meyerhold
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Royalty
32. Ideas within the play
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Off-Broadway
Thought
33. 'Storm and stress'
Postmodernism
Morality Plays
Pageants
Sturm & Drang Movement
34. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Vomitories
The Globe
Comedy of Character
Henrik Ibsen
35. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Variables of Costume Design
Verse
Reversal
Affective Memory
36. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
Tragicomedy
Mimesis
Discovery
37. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Wings
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Prose
38. Grammatically based
Prose
Representational Approach
Plato
Comedy
39. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Chorus
Discovery
Linear Plot
Empathy
40. A fee for each performance
Subplot
Affective Memory
Playwright
Royalty
41. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Downstage
Off-Off-Broadway
Character
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
42. Rhyming
Ground Plan
Verse
Thespis
Dialogue
43. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Non-Profit Theatre
Dramaturg
Aeschylus
Black Box
44. Humorous - objective view point
Actor
Comedy
Regional Theatre
Vomitories
45. The era we are currently in
Conflict
William Shakespeare
Dialogue
Postmodernism
46. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
The Box Set
Copyright
Aristophanes
Konstantin Stanislavski
47. Part of What is included in the text
Pageants
Hypokrites
Dialogue
Callbacks
48. A>B>C>D
Actor
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Tragedy
Light Plot
49. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Public Domain
Verisimilitude
Plato
50. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Falling Action
Presentational Approach
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Situation Comedy