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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. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Off-Off-Broadway
Black Box
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
2. 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
Improv
Naturalism
Auditions
Konstantin Stanislavski
3. Series of short stories
Empathy
Konstantin Stanislavski
Anton Chekhov
Callbacks
4. A fee for each performance
Aristophanes
Sophocles
Public Domain
Royalty
5. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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6. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Light Plot
Cycles
Producer
Neoclassicism (def)
7. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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8. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Pageants
Protagonist
Protagonist
9. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
Practical
Community Theatre
Discovery
10. Planned actor movement
Broadway
Hybrid Theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Blocking
11. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Hypokrites
Auditions
Affective Memory
Naturalism
12. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Light Plot
William Shakespeare
The Globe
Broadway
13. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Actor
Emile Zola
Plato
14. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Dialogue
Tragicomedy
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
15. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Situation Comedy
Falling Action
Empathy
Emile Zola
16. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Regional Theatre
Proscenium Space
Plot
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
17. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Playwright
Catharsis
Representational Acting
Subtext
18. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Plato
Concept
Tragedy
Pageants
19. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Antiquarianism
Subtext
Theatron
20. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Comedy of Ideas
Affective Memory
Practical
21. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Black Box
Variables of Costume Design
Actor
22. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Vomitories
Callbacks
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
23. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Concept
Callbacks
Hypokrites
Actor
24. Causes trouble for the main character
Thought
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Antagonist
Dialogue
25. Not many props or detailed scenery
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Pageants
Renaissance
26. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Reversal
Rendering
Plot
27. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Rising Action
Morality Plays
Character
28. Verse
Empathy
Commedia Dell'Arte
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Variables of Costume Design
29. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Callbacks
Pageants
30. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Aristotle
Producer
Educational Theatre
Hybrid Theatre
31. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Cycles
Plot
Melodrama
32. Grammatically based
Prose
Actor
Mimesis
Downstage
33. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Konstantin Stanislavski
Rising Action
Rehearsal Process
Amateur Theatre
34. Based on the lives of the saints
Aesthetic Distance
Miracle Plays
Thespis
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
35. A group of actors - not just one star
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Euripides
Ensemble
Educational Theatre
36. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Improv
Sophocles
Subplot
Inciting Incident
37. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Emile Zola
Ground Plan
Subplot
38. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Printing Press
Thespis
Commercial Theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
39. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Euripides
Realism and Realistic Developments
Character
Prose
40. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Melodrama
Variables of Costume Design
Ground Plan
The Box Set
41. Not many props or detailed scenery
Public Domain
Variables of Costume Design
Renaissance
Dialogue
42. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Empathy
Emile Zola
Situation Comedy
Off-Off-Broadway
43. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Tragicomedy
The Globe
Realism and Realistic Developments
Konstantin Stanislavski
44. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Actor
ostume Plot
William Shakespeare
45. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Climax
Lazzi
46. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Comedy
Pageants
Hypokrites
47. Works published before 1923
Tragedy
Comedy of Character
Sophocles
Public Domain
48. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Representational Acting
Rendering
Callbacks
Causal Play Structure
49. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Konstantin Stanislavski
Discovery
Comedy of Ideas
Black Box
50. Causes trouble for the main character
Playwright
Morality Plays
Antagonist
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?