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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. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Ground Plan
Printing Press
Prose
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
2. Someone who writes plays
Off-Off-Broadway
Playwright
Mystery Plays
Theatron
3. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Theatre of Cruelty
Educational Theatre
Pageants
Variables of Costume Design
4. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Comedy
Director
Practical
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
5. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Dialogue
Light Plot
Anton Chekhov
ostume Plot
6. Busiest person in the theatre
Rendering
Stage Manager
Plot
Affective Memory
7. Ideas within the play
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Thought
Callbacks
Thrust Space
8. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Morality Plays
Mystery Plays
Lazzi
Chorus
9. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Community Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Ensemble
Plato
10. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Copyright
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Antiquarianism
11. A fee for each performance
Hypokrites
Protagonist
Fourth Wall
Royalty
12. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Avant-Garde
Dramatic Genre
Lazzi
Meyerhold
13. Used alienation to encourage distance
Upstage
Thought
Bertolt Brecht
Proscenium Space
14. Organization of action
Hypokrites
Inciting Incident
Aesthetic Distance
Plot
15. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Discovery
Rendering
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Concept
16. The first director
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Off-Off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
17. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Miracle Plays
Components of Concept
Character
Fourth Wall
18. Works published before 1923
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Public Domain
Front of House
19. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Tragedy
Blocking
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Ensemble
20. 100-499 people
Fourth Wall
Off-Broadway
Rendering
Improv
21. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Light Plot
Dialogue
Conflict
Empathy
22. A fee for each performance
Royalty
Realism and Realistic Developments
Light Plot
Concept
23. Series of short stories
William Shakespeare
Causal Play Structure
Presentational Approach
Anton Chekhov
24. Imitation of character and action
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Konstantin Stanislavski
Mimesis
Casting Director
25. 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
Stage Manager
Rising Action
Emile Zola
Community Theatre
26. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Chorus
Prose
Actor
27. Focused on thought - controversial
Aristophanes
Comedy of Ideas
Comedy of Manners
Non-Profit Theatre
28. Italians
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Playwright
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Linear Plot
29. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Aesthetic Distance
Avant-Garde
Linear Plot
30. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Skene
Emile Zola
Chorus
Pageants
31. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Wings
Prose
Meander
32. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Wings
Ground Plan
Melodrama
33. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Producer
Cycles
Subplot
34. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Renaissance
Presentational Approach
Components of Concept
Broadway
35. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Aeschylus
Stage Manager
Conflict
Subplot
36. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Practical
Aristotle
Affective Memory
Black Box
37. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Antagonist
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Sophocles
Off-Broadway
38. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Meander
Royalty
Downstage
Falling Action
39. Proscenium arch/stage
Dramatic Genre
Sophocles
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Prose
40. The era we are currently in
Playwright
Orchestra
Representational Acting
Postmodernism
41. England's type of theatre
Language
Rising Action
Euripides
The Globe
42. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Thrust Space
William Shakespeare
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Hybrid Theatre
43. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Mystery Plays
Pageants
44. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Konstantin Stanislavski
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
45. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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46. 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)
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Designer
Educational Theatre
Antagonist
47. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Subtext
Auditions
Hybrid Theatre
Rendering
48. A group of actors - not just one star
Producer
Ensemble
Dramaturg
Tragicomedy
49. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Theatron
Broadway
Realism and Realistic Developments
Neoclassicism (def)
50. Italians
Blocking
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Plato
Pageants