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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. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Eugene Scribe
Dramaturg
Emile Zola
Realism and Realistic Developments
2. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
University Wits
Casting Director
Verisimilitude
Practical
3. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Falling Action
Thespis
Plato
4. Writer and first actor
Orchestra
Linear Plot
Concept
Thespis
5. 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
Sophocles
The Globe
Tragicomedy
Community Theatre
6. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Black Box
Reversal
Commercial Theatre
7. Not many props or detailed scenery
Wings
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Renaissance
Thrust Space
8. Information needed to understand the play
Variables of Costume Design
Exposition
Sense Memory
Realism and Realistic Developments
9. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Causal Play Structure
Broadway
Dramatic Genre
Commercial Theatre
10. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Skene
Situation Comedy
Callbacks
11. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
ostume Plot
Actor
Theatre of Cruelty
Producer
12. 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
Components of Concept
Improv
Hybrid Theatre
Light Plot
13. Appearance of truth
Exposition
Slapstick
Vomitories
Verisimilitude
14. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Conflict
Off-Off-Broadway
Skene
Sense Memory
15. Imitation of character and action
ostume Plot
Mimesis
Copyright
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
16. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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17. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Discovery
Plot
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
18. Causes trouble for the main character
Exposition
Antagonist
Verisimilitude
Pageants
19. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Postmodernism
Dramatic Genre
Representational Approach
20. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Black Box
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Plato
Actor
21. Information needed to understand the play
Avant-Garde
Comedy of Manners
Exposition
Rehearsal Process
22. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Auditions
Aristophanes
Climax
Sophocles
23. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Playwright
Causal Play Structure
Anton Chekhov
24. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
The Globe
Antiquarianism
Wings
25. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Postmodernism
Mystery Plays
Amateur Theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
26. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Thrust Space
Community Theatre
Pageants
Components of Concept
27. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Causal Play Structure
Fourth Wall
Playwright
Cycles
28. Appearance of truth
Situation Comedy
Character
Affective Memory
Verisimilitude
29. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Director
Non-Profit Theatre
Aristotle
Neoclassicism (def)
30. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Prose
Regional Theatre
Skene
Climax
31. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Aesthetic Distance
Regional Theatre
Wings
32. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Affective Memory
Aristotle
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Light Plot
33. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Black Box
Cycles
Ground Plan
Reversal
34. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Downstage
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Proscenium Space
35. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Blocking
Concept
University Wits
36. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Neoclassicism (def)
Morality Plays
Casting Director
37. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Eugene Scribe
Aesthetic Distance
Concept
Public Domain
38. The era we are currently in
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Light Plot
Postmodernism
39. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Reversal
Royalty
Aristophanes
40. Top of stage
Euripides
Neoclassicism (def)
Upstage
Commercial Theatre
41. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Pageants
Off-Off-Broadway
Konstantin Stanislavski
Neoclassicism (def)
42. Works published before 1923
Playwright
Public Domain
Ensemble
Theatre of Cruelty
43. A group of actors - not just one star
Playwright
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Empathy
Ensemble
44. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Callbacks
Producer
Skene
Cycles
45. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Auditions
Concept
Comedy of Character
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
46. Major character at odds with social expectations
Front of House
Sophocles
Hypokrites
Comedy of Manners
47. 100-499 people
Causal Play Structure
Off-Broadway
Off-Off-Broadway
Comedy of Manners
48. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Melodrama (def)
Actor
Producer
49. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Tragedy
Chorus
Producer
Representational Acting
50. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Aeschylus
Protagonist
Producer
Orchestra