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Theatre Final
Theatre final
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 2
05/04/2010

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Theatre as a art from does what
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Entertains the audience, challenges audience to confront, provides more focused version on reality that real like experience
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Theatre comes from the greek word, which means
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Theatron , seeing place
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Non- Traditional Casting
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casting actors of a different race that characters are written for (color blind casting)
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Roman writer horace defined the funtion of theatre as to
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Teach and please
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Broadway theatre
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Bertolt Brecht wrote plays about?
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Political themes
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Define and gice an example of Commercial Theatre
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amateur theatre which shows are created by volunteers who generally aren't part of an a pro community
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Define Catharsis
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term used by aristotle to describe the audience's emotional release by play's end
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Define Empathy
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When an audience member experiences a sense of participation and identifiaction with a character on stage
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Production
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The fully realized performance of a play with actors, sets, costumer, lighting, and props
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Person in charge of the artistic aspects of the production
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Director
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The person responsible for the safety and comfort of the audience members during their time at the theater
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House manager
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In a proscenium theatre, the spaces offstage left and right for actors, crew and scenery that are not visible are known as
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Wings
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A thrust stage that can be moved from place to place by a traveling troupe of player is known as
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Booth
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The traditional theater space in which the audience completely surrounds the performance ares is
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Theater in Rounds
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A theatre space that is small and features flexible seating fot eh audience is
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Black Box
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what does the term aesthetic distance literally mean
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The distance of art
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Your recognition of what actually happened on stage is
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Aesthetic Design
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When the audience accepts the authenticity of a character the character is said to have
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Empathy
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The theatrical term for actors working together as a team is a
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ensemble
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Historians believe that western theatre had it beginings in the religious rituals associated with the greek God
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Dionysus
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Brodway theatre refers to theatre loacted in the theatre distrcit that sats as many as 1800 patrons
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True
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The audience area of any theatrical space is called
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House
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The director is responsible for organizing and overseeing ticket sales
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false
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The central character of the play is also referred to as the antagonist
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False
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T/F the visual element of the play are considered Spectacle
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True
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T/F when one character for an extended time on stage that portion of the text is called monolouge
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True
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T/F Blank verse refers to plays written where every line in the play rhymes
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false
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T/F Genre relates to the time period in which a specific play was written
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false
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T/F Tradegy deals with serious subject mater and provokes the emotions of pity and fear
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True
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T/F A play where comedy an tragedy are equally mixed is considered a tragicomedy
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True
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T/F copyright laws recognize a play as a writers intellectual property
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true
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Elements of play as defined by aristotle
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Plot, character, thought, language, music, spectacle
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Aristotle defines plot as
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unity and structure
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When the events of a play progress forward and sequentially in the plot the play is
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linear plot
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What does the text of the play include
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Dialouge and stage direction
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information given by the playwright that is needed to understand the play is
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exposition
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The point in the story at which the playwright chooses to dramatize the action is the
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point of attack
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the event in a play that destroys the uneasy balance and sets off the major conflict of forces is the
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reversal
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Small units of action that build in emotional intensity make up the
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rising action
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the emotional highpoint
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climax
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Something found, learned or realized during the action of the play is called a
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discovery
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A play that stops at the climax and does not show the outcome of the conflict is considered a
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cliffhanger
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When are secondary lines of action that are entwined with the main plot is called
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Define royalties
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Payments to the playwright made by the producing organization each time a play is produced
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The first theatrical productions in ancient Greece were preformed in honor of the Greek God
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Dionysus
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In ancient Greek theatre the chorus entered and exited through the
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skene
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In ancient Greek theatre the audience was seated in the
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theatron
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The only surviving trilogy of Greek Plays, the Orestia, was written by
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Aesonylus
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Stadium like entrances for the audience are called
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vomitories
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During the middle ages a moving wagon that traveled through the streets carrying actors and scenery to various locations was called
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pageant
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Three unities of neoclassicism
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Time, place, action
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