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Theatre Appreciation
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1. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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2. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Ground Plan
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Cycles
Printing Press
3. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Dialogue
Aesthetic Distance
Pageants
4. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Causal Play Structure
Practical
Melodrama
5. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Antiquarianism
Commercial Theatre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
6. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Euripides
Concept
Printing Press
Slapstick
7. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Sense Memory
Climax
Rendering
8. The era we are currently in
Melodrama
Postmodernism
Amateur Theatre
Aristophanes
9. 100-499 people
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Off-Broadway
Neoclassicism (def)
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
10. Top of stage
Bertolt Brecht
Tragedy
Upstage
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
11. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Proscenium Space
Aristophanes
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Designer
12. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Thought
Euripides
Postmodernism
13. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Tragicomedy
Thespis
Euripides
14. Visible light source on stage
Community Theatre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Affective Memory
Practical
15. Play reenacting biblical stories
Miracle Plays
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Ensemble
Mystery Plays
16. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Orchestra
Light Plot
17. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Naturalism
Meander
Subtext
Comedy
18. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Front of House
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
19. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Comedy of Character
Concept
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Meander
20. Was poetry for many years
The Box Set
Language
Henrik Ibsen
Neoclassicism (def)
21. 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
Orchestra
Conflict
Improv
Director
22. The era we are currently in
Comedy of Ideas
Hybrid Theatre
Postmodernism
Off-Off-Broadway
23. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Actor
Plot
Components of Concept
24. Main character
Protagonist
Slapstick
Downstage
Downstage
25. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Situation Comedy
Rehearsal Process
Components of Concept
Lazzi
26. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Community Theatre
Ground Plan
Melodrama (def)
Character
27. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Subplot
Reversal
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
28. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Catharsis
Mimesis
Naturalism
29. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Falling Action
Tragicomedy
Thought
30. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
Sturm & Drang Movement
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Designer
31. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
William Shakespeare
Reversal
Miracle Plays
Thought
32. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Playwright
Dramaturg
Meyerhold
Avant-Garde
33. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Rehearsal Process
Antiquarianism
Concept
Verse
34. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Skene
Dramaturg
Morality Plays
35. Proscenium space
Anton Chekhov
The Box Set
Off-Off-Broadway
Variables of Costume Design
36. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Callbacks
Causal Play Structure
Regional Theatre
37. Emotional release
Commercial Theatre
Euripides
Catharsis
Black Box
38. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Discovery
Melodrama
Proscenium Space
Public Domain
39. Appearance of truth
Commedia Dell'Arte
The Box Set
Orchestra
Verisimilitude
40. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Plot
Inciting Incident
Empathy
Emile Zola
41. A fee for each performance
Royalty
Discovery
Proscenium Space
Sturm & Drang Movement
42. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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43. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Black Box
Catharsis
Inciting Incident
Antiquarianism
44. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Auditions
Presentational Approach
Rehearsal Process
45. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Downstage
Practical
Reversal
Tragedy
46. Six elements - catharsis
Wings
Aristotle
Sophocles
Aeschylus
47. Used alienation to encourage distance
Representational Approach
Emile Zola
Bertolt Brecht
Comedy
48. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Orchestra
Linear Plot
Affective Memory
ostume Plot
49. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Representational Acting
Affective Memory
Aesthetic Distance
Commercial Theatre
50. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Hybrid Theatre
Educational Theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski
Sophocles
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