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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. Writer and first actor
Chorus
Broadway
Thespis
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
2. A group of actors - not just one star
Community Theatre
Ensemble
Vomitories
Upstage
3. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Hypokrites
Wings
Realism and Realistic Developments
Exposition
4. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Fourth Wall
Presentational Approach
Eugene Scribe
5. The first director
Naturalism
Subplot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Director
6. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Dramaturg
Dramatic Genre
Lazzi
Anton Chekhov
7. Humorous - objective view point
Ensemble
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Bertolt Brecht
Comedy
8. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
The Box Set
Representational Approach
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Aristophanes
9. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
William Shakespeare
Avant-Garde
Dramatic Genre
Public Domain
10. Writer and first actor
Protagonist
Thespis
Aristotle
Morality Plays
11. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Aristophanes
Off-Broadway
Reversal
Copyright
12. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Konstantin Stanislavski
ostume Plot
13. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Educational Theatre
Emile Zola
Comedy
Neoclassicism (def)
14. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Blocking
Subplot
Pageants
Miracle Plays
15. The first director
Community Theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Comedy of Character
Avant-Garde
16. Linear events progress forward in time
Antiquarianism
Causal Play Structure
Wings
Commedia Dell'Arte
17. Proscenium arch/stage
Morality Plays
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Causal Play Structure
Falling Action
18. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Black Box
Broadway
19. Italians
Morality Plays
Rising Action
Postmodernism
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
20. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Dramaturg
Ensemble
21. Was poetry for many years
Falling Action
Language
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Presentational Approach
22. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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23. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Commedia Dell'Arte
Blocking
Representational Approach
Dramaturg
24. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Sophocles
Non-Profit Theatre
Hybrid Theatre
Front of House
25. Gas lights - etc.
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Linear Plot
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Hypokrites
26. Appearance of truth
Wings
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Verisimilitude
Copyright
27. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Comedy of Ideas
Eugene Scribe
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Orchestra
28. Major character at odds with social expectations
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Comedy of Manners
Rehearsal Process
Comedy of Ideas
29. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Plot
Components of Concept
Neoclassicism (def)
Meyerhold
30. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Dialogue
Miracle Plays
31. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Miracle Plays
Linear Plot
Plato
Cycles
32. A fee for each performance
Plato
Comedy of Character
Royalty
Postmodernism
33. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Stage Manager
Off-Off-Broadway
Verse
Concept
34. Emotional release
Mystery Plays
Pageants
Upstage
Catharsis
35. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Realism and Realistic Developments
Dramaturg
Tragicomedy
Black Box
36. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Inciting Incident
Ensemble
Light Plot
37. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Comedy
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Amateur Theatre
Fourth Wall
38. A type of performance in which dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time and written down - but are made of on the spot by the actors
Sophocles
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Dramaturg
Improv
39. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Non-Profit Theatre
Plato
Theatron
Thespis
40. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Regional Theatre
41. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Neoclassicism (def)
Rendering
Components of Concept
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
42. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Presentational Approach
Subtext
Broadway
43. Not many props or detailed scenery
Producer
Renaissance
Commedia Dell'Arte
Verisimilitude
44. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Empathy
Public Domain
Black Box
45. Rhyming
Non-Profit Theatre
Situation Comedy
Auditions
Verse
46. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Sophocles
Community Theatre
Vomitories
Euripides
47. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Melodrama (def)
Sense Memory
Ground Plan
48. 100-499 people
Stage Manager
Off-Broadway
Emile Zola
Pageants
49. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
William Shakespeare
Character
Representational Acting
Commercial Theatre
50. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Morality Plays
Light Plot
Chorus
Avant-Garde