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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. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Verse
Stage Manager
Empathy
2. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Thespis
Vomitories
Dramatic Genre
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
3. Was poetry for many years
Reversal
Hypokrites
Theatron
Language
4. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Comedy of Character
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Regional Theatre
5. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Empathy
Front of House
Verisimilitude
6. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Designer
Postmodernism
Tragedy
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
7. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Bertolt Brecht
University Wits
Lazzi
Fourth Wall
8. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Dramaturg
Naturalism
Theatron
Situation Comedy
9. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Dramaturg
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Pageants
Realism and Realistic Developments
10. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Tragedy
Cycles
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
11. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Dialogue
Neoclassicism (def)
Henrik Ibsen
Hypokrites
12. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Commedia Dell'Arte
Mystery Plays
Director
Aeschylus
13. Gas lights - etc.
Aesthetic Distance
Director
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Melodrama
14. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
University Wits
Dramatic Genre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
15. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Representational Approach
Emile Zola
16. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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17. Events progress forward in time
Situation Comedy
Linear Plot
Discovery
Anton Chekhov
18. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Thespis
Inciting Incident
Comedy of Character
19. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Verisimilitude
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Sophocles
20. The standard tool for casting a production
Variables of Costume Design
Auditions
Commedia Dell'Arte
Callbacks
21. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Climax
Falling Action
Non-Profit Theatre
Plato
22. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Downstage
Stage Manager
Meyerhold
Amateur Theatre
23. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Antiquarianism
Tragicomedy
Empathy
Slapstick
24. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Presentational Approach
Concept
Wings
Chorus
25. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Improv
Amateur Theatre
Reversal
Black Box
26. Writer and first actor
Concept
Thespis
Tragedy
Improv
27. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Front of House
Vomitories
Orchestra
28. Part of What is included in the text
Representational Acting
Dialogue
Community Theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
29. Top of stage
Comedy
Theatron
Rehearsal Process
Upstage
30. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Playwright
Representational Acting
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
31. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Ensemble
Concept
Affective Memory
32. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Orchestra
Tragedy
Konstantin Stanislavski
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
33. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Sense Memory
Thrust Space
Designer
Reversal
34. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Comedy of Manners
Subplot
Melodrama (def)
Tragedy
35. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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36. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama
Tragicomedy
Designer
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
37. Greek - actor
Sense Memory
Hypokrites
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Amateur Theatre
38. Controls the environment in the theatre
Melodrama (def)
Comedy of Ideas
Dialogue
Designer
39. Major character at odds with social expectations
Meyerhold
Euripides
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Comedy of Manners
40. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Orchestra
Dramatic Genre
Components of Concept
Fourth Wall
41. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Downstage
Blocking
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Theatre of Cruelty
42. A fee for each performance
Stage Manager
Royalty
Actor
Actor
43. A>B>C>D
Amateur Theatre
Language
Falling Action
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
44. Organization of action
Commedia Dell'Arte
Plot
Slapstick
Skene
45. Someone who writes plays
Protagonist
Playwright
Naturalism
Exposition
46. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Royalty
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Ground Plan
47. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Avant-Garde
Broadway
Meander
Comedy of Manners
48. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Inciting Incident
Falling Action
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Comedy of Character
49. Was poetry for many years
Thrust Space
Cycles
Dramatic Genre
Language
50. The first director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Emile Zola
Improv