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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. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Comedy of Manners
Presentational Approach
University Wits
Skene
2. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Stage Manager
Emile Zola
3. Series of short stories
Neoclassicism (def)
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Printing Press
Anton Chekhov
4. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Royalty
Causal Play Structure
Meyerhold
Casting Director
5. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
Vomitories
Theatre of Cruelty
Regional Theatre
6. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Konstantin Stanislavski
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Off-Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
7. A group of actors - not just one star
Mystery Plays
Downstage
Thought
Ensemble
8. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Blocking
Amateur Theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
9. Feel more in stage acting.
Rising Action
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Black Box
Broadway
10. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Mystery Plays
Hybrid Theatre
Public Domain
Linear Plot
11. Based on the lives of the saints
Rendering
Henrik Ibsen
Comedy of Ideas
Miracle Plays
12. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Designer
Community Theatre
The Box Set
Aristophanes
13. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Dramaturg
Producer
Conflict
Character
14. 'Father of Realism'
Actor
Henrik Ibsen
Morality Plays
Falling Action
15. Information needed to understand the play
Printing Press
Aesthetic Distance
Exposition
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
16. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Pageants
Non-Profit Theatre
Tragedy
17. Appearance of truth
Upstage
Comedy
Tragicomedy
Verisimilitude
18. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Public Domain
Renaissance
Plato
19. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Stage Manager
Front of House
Regional Theatre
20. Part of What is included in the text
Community Theatre
Falling Action
Reversal
Dialogue
21. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
University Wits
Upstage
Falling Action
Postmodernism
22. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Proscenium Space
The Box Set
Theatre of Cruelty
Ground Plan
23. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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24. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Avant-Garde
Theatron
Components of Concept
25. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Improv
Variables of Costume Design
Aristotle
Ground Plan
26. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Variables of Costume Design
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Reversal
Meander
27. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Dialogue
Lazzi
Stage Manager
Tragedy
28. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Light Plot
Meander
The Globe
29. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Sturm & Drang Movement
Conflict
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Actor
30. 100-499 people
Hybrid Theatre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Bertolt Brecht
Off-Broadway
31. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Eugene Scribe
Theatre of Cruelty
Language
Comedy of Character
32. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Melodrama
Inciting Incident
Skene
Vomitories
33. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Dramatic Genre
Verisimilitude
Aeschylus
34. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Eugene Scribe
Director
Sturm & Drang Movement
Thrust Space
35. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Avant-Garde
Amateur Theatre
Subplot
36. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Emile Zola
Emile Zola
Fourth Wall
Commercial Theatre
37. 'Storm and stress'
Renaissance
Sturm & Drang Movement
Language
Character
38. The standard tool for casting a production
Mystery Plays
Language
Casting Director
Auditions
39. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Mimesis
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Dialogue
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
40. Causes trouble for the main character
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Aesthetic Distance
Off-Broadway
Antagonist
41. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Affective Memory
Henrik Ibsen
Eugene Scribe
Catharsis
42. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Antagonist
Falling Action
Mystery Plays
ostume Plot
43. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Dramatic Genre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Rendering
44. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
William Shakespeare
Pageants
Off-Broadway
Emile Zola
45. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Language
Lazzi
Subplot
46. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Thrust Space
Representational Approach
Konstantin Stanislavski
Proscenium Space
47. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Playwright
Producer
Off-Broadway
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
48. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Slapstick
Thought
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
49. Organization of action
Postmodernism
Thrust Space
Plot
Conflict
50. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Black Box
Printing Press
Affective Memory