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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. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Thespis
Emile Zola
Henrik Ibsen
Anton Chekhov
2. Causes trouble for the main character
Mimesis
Subtext
William Shakespeare
Antagonist
3. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Dramaturg
Black Box
Cycles
Aristophanes
4. A fee for each performance
Royalty
Theatre of Cruelty
Causal Play Structure
Broadway
5. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Catharsis
Exposition
Avant-Garde
Royalty
6. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Representational Approach
Commedia Dell'Arte
Sturm & Drang Movement
7. Medea - The Bacchae
Auditions
Cycles
Community Theatre
Euripides
8. Greek - actor
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Subtext
Hypokrites
Bertolt Brecht
9. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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10. Organization of action
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Improv
Public Domain
Plot
11. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Thespis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Skene
12. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Theatre of Cruelty
Empathy
Comedy of Character
Copyright
13. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Comedy of Character
University Wits
Fourth Wall
14. The era we are currently in
Climax
Henrik Ibsen
Broadway
Postmodernism
15. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Blocking
Dramatic Genre
Catharsis
16. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Antiquarianism
Melodrama
Meander
17. Proscenium arch/stage
Bertolt Brecht
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Melodrama (def)
Discovery
18. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Orchestra
Subplot
Orchestra
Producer
19. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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20. Series of short stories
Casting Director
Anton Chekhov
Presentational Approach
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
21. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Konstantin Stanislavski
Konstantin Stanislavski
Catharsis
Realism and Realistic Developments
22. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Comedy
Copyright
Plato
ostume Plot
23. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
Comedy of Ideas
Eugene Scribe
Reversal
24. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Discovery
Thought
Subtext
Comedy of Character
25. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Tragedy
Dramaturg
Upstage
Reversal
26. Busiest person in the theatre
Exposition
Community Theatre
Practical
Stage Manager
27. 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
Community Theatre
ostume Plot
Producer
Printing Press
28. Organization of action
Affective Memory
Representational Acting
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Plot
29. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Thespis
Catharsis
Prose
30. Linear events progress forward in time
Comedy of Manners
The Box Set
Causal Play Structure
Morality Plays
31. Grammatically based
Plato
Pageants
Prose
Conflict
32. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Mystery Plays
Representational Approach
Melodrama (def)
Dialogue
33. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Designer
Reversal
Printing Press
Miracle Plays
34. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Henrik Ibsen
Light Plot
Emile Zola
35. Proscenium space
Designer
Reversal
The Box Set
Aristotle
36. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Amateur Theatre
Light Plot
Avant-Garde
Proscenium Space
37. Emotional release
Catharsis
Slapstick
Linear Plot
Miracle Plays
38. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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39. A group of actors - not just one star
Upstage
Neoclassicism (def)
Language
Ensemble
40. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Prose
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Dialogue
41. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aristophanes
Aeschylus
Bertolt Brecht
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
42. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Proscenium Space
Empathy
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
43. 'Father of Realism'
Concept
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Henrik Ibsen
Dramatic Genre
44. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
University Wits
Educational Theatre
Naturalism
Situation Comedy
45. Ideas within the play
Meander
Concept
Thought
Exposition
46. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Aristophanes
Mimesis
Ground Plan
47. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Reversal
Subplot
Commercial Theatre
48. Was poetry for many years
University Wits
Protagonist
Affective Memory
Language
49. Used alienation to encourage distance
Melodrama
Causal Play Structure
Bertolt Brecht
Antagonist
50. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Tragedy
Hypokrites
Situation Comedy