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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. Medea - The Bacchae
Off-Broadway
Tragedy
Dramatic Genre
Euripides
2. A group of actors - not just one star
Prose
Melodrama
Ensemble
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
3. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Variables of Costume Design
Aristotle
Hybrid Theatre
4. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Melodrama (def)
Realism and Realistic Developments
Ensemble
5. Ideas within the play
Thought
Producer
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Wings
6. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Melodrama (def)
Konstantin Stanislavski
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Ground Plan
7. Performs Actions of the Play
Subplot
Thrust Space
Character
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
8. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Character
The Globe
Tragedy
9. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Verisimilitude
Plot
Fourth Wall
Concept
10. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Representational Acting
Aesthetic Distance
Tragedy
11. Planned actor movement
Printing Press
Royalty
William Shakespeare
Blocking
12. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Situation Comedy
Wings
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Callbacks
13. Top of stage
Upstage
Hybrid Theatre
Miracle Plays
Auditions
14. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Verisimilitude
Plot
15. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Auditions
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Miracle Plays
Black Box
16. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Bertolt Brecht
Director
Vomitories
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
17. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Theatron
Sturm & Drang Movement
Eugene Scribe
18. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Thought
Components of Concept
Public Domain
Bertolt Brecht
19. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Amateur Theatre
Causal Play Structure
Euripides
20. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Black Box
Postmodernism
Proscenium Space
21. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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22. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Producer
Theatre of Cruelty
Fourth Wall
Subtext
23. Appearance of truth
Chorus
Verisimilitude
Theatre of Cruelty
Printing Press
24. Rhyming
Anton Chekhov
Bertolt Brecht
Verse
Pageants
25. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aeschylus
Tragicomedy
Aesthetic Distance
26. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Proscenium Space
Downstage
Vomitories
Ground Plan
27. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Fourth Wall
Comedy of Manners
Rising Action
Producer
28. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Ground Plan
Reversal
Anton Chekhov
29. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Mimesis
Concept
Presentational Approach
30. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Wings
Discovery
Designer
31. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Printing Press
Concept
Antiquarianism
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
32. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Rendering
Proscenium Space
Postmodernism
33. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Plot
Plato
Blocking
Subtext
34. A>B>C>D
Henrik Ibsen
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Thespis
Theatron
35. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Copyright
Chorus
Hybrid Theatre
Emile Zola
36. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Konstantin Stanislavski
Eugene Scribe
Plot
Subplot
37. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Comedy of Character
Protagonist
Educational Theatre
38. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Antagonist
Causal Play Structure
Melodrama (def)
39. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Prose
Community Theatre
Stage Manager
40. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aesthetic Distance
Linear Plot
Stage Manager
Pageants
41. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Stage Manager
Postmodernism
Konstantin Stanislavski
Tragicomedy
42. Used alienation to encourage distance
Tragicomedy
Bertolt Brecht
Proscenium Space
Causal Play Structure
43. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Amateur Theatre
Orchestra
Comedy of Ideas
Fourth Wall
44. Events that set off a major conflict
Mimesis
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Tragicomedy
Inciting Incident
45. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Mimesis
The Globe
Director
Pageants
46. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Language
Melodrama (def)
Comedy of Manners
47. Emotional release
Components of Concept
Catharsis
Fourth Wall
Inciting Incident
48. England's type of theatre
Fourth Wall
The Globe
Mimesis
Euripides
49. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Amateur Theatre
Sense Memory
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Representational Approach
50. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy of Ideas
Aesthetic Distance
Catharsis
Linear Plot