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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. Someone who writes plays
Exposition
Public Domain
Rehearsal Process
Playwright
2. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Regional Theatre
Language
Proscenium Space
3. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Regional Theatre
Reversal
Rehearsal Process
Commercial Theatre
4. Writer and first actor
Bertolt Brecht
Thespis
Non-Profit Theatre
Skene
5. Not many props or detailed scenery
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Renaissance
Commedia Dell'Arte
Commercial Theatre
6. Appearance of truth
Light Plot
Affective Memory
Theatron
Verisimilitude
7. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Playwright
Dialogue
8. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Amateur Theatre
Lazzi
Theatron
Eugene Scribe
9. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Mystery Plays
Ensemble
Casting Director
10. High point of action
Comedy of Manners
Climax
Henrik Ibsen
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
11. Audience watches from 3 sides
Plato
Cycles
Downstage
Thrust Space
12. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Aeschylus
Rehearsal Process
Neoclassicism (def)
Melodrama
13. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Euripides
Hybrid Theatre
Variables of Costume Design
Anton Chekhov
14. High point of action
Henrik Ibsen
Vomitories
Hybrid Theatre
Climax
15. Rhyming
Verse
Postmodernism
Falling Action
Plato
16. Appearance of truth
Pageants
Verisimilitude
Comedy of Ideas
Proscenium Space
17. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Situation Comedy
Subplot
Euripides
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
18. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Situation Comedy
Orchestra
Subplot
Chorus
19. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Postmodernism
Aristotle
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Rising Action
20. Planned actor movement
Light Plot
Plato
Blocking
Dialogue
21. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
The Box Set
Avant-Garde
The Box Set
Variables of Costume Design
22. Verse
Prose
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Hypokrites
Character
23. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Theatre of Cruelty
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Chorus
Public Domain
24. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Realism and Realistic Developments
Public Domain
Cycles
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
25. Series of short stories
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Amateur Theatre
Dialogue
Anton Chekhov
26. 'Storm and stress'
Blocking
Sturm & Drang Movement
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Components of Concept
27. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Thrust Space
Aristophanes
Konstantin Stanislavski
Actor
28. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Rising Action
Off-Off-Broadway
29. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Meander
Comedy
Proscenium Space
Situation Comedy
30. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Commercial Theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Empathy
Dramaturg
31. Part of What is included in the text
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Rendering
Dialogue
Slapstick
32. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Director
Theatre of Cruelty
Postmodernism
33. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Naturalism
Public Domain
The Box Set
34. Was poetry for many years
Language
Tragedy
Blocking
Climax
35. The era we are currently in
Downstage
Postmodernism
Educational Theatre
Antiquarianism
36. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
The Box Set
Miracle Plays
Tragicomedy
Postmodernism
37. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Blocking
Realism and Realistic Developments
Blocking
Affective Memory
38. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Dramatic Genre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Rendering
39. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Ground Plan
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Off-Broadway
40. 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
Postmodernism
Improv
Antagonist
Realism and Realistic Developments
41. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Renaissance
Protagonist
Naturalism
Tragedy
42. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Printing Press
Playwright
Verisimilitude
43. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Light Plot
Meander
Theatre of Cruelty
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
44. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Proscenium Space
Realism and Realistic Developments
Conflict
Blocking
45. Grammatically based
Upstage
Catharsis
Prose
Dialogue
46. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Catharsis
Naturalism
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
47. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Plot
Situation Comedy
Aeschylus
Playwright
48. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Plato
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Slapstick
Theatron
49. 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
Off-Off-Broadway
Comedy of Character
Improv
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
50. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
ostume Plot
Printing Press
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Protagonist