FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT THEATRE MIDTERM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT THEATRE MIDTERM

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Question 1: Romanticism

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The predominant theatrical artistic movement from the late eighteenth century onwards, was Romanticism. This style of theatre focused on the individual actor's imagination, emotion and appreciation of nature.

Question 2: Upstage

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Upstage (comparative more upstage, superlative most upstage) Toward or at the rear of a theatrical stage. The actor turned and walked upstage. Away from the audience or camera.

Question 3: Roman

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Roman Theater included various forms of entertainment that the Roman citizens found entertaining. It included performances of dance, music, and reenactments of various stories

Question 4: Departures from Realism

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Why did we depart from Realism? Although Realism impacted contemporary theatre (as well as film and television) substantially, it is usually seen as having major limitations. It excludes many useful theatrical devices such as music, dance, symbolism, poet

Question 5: Aesthetic Distance

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The gap between a viewer's conscious reality and the fictional reality presented in a work of art.

Question 6: Mediated Theatre

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any theatrical performance originally created for live performance (live actors in visual proximity to a live audience, although this distinction is hardly absolute) and subsequently recorded onto any visually reproducible medium, including film videotape

Question 7: Repertory Theatres

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Repertory theatre, system of play production in which a resident acting company keeps a repertory of plays that are always ready for performance, often presenting a different one each night of the week, supplemented by the preparation and rehearsal of new

Question 8: Satyr

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Satyr play, genre of ancient Greek drama that preserves the structure and characters of tragedy while adopting a happy atmosphere and a rural background.

Question 9: Theatre of the Absurd

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Theater in which standard or naturalistic conventions of plot, characterization, and thematic structure are ignored or distorted in order to convey the irrational or fictive nature of reality and the essential isolation of humanity in a meaningless world.

Question 10: French Neoclassicism

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Neoclassical theatre observed a strict adherence to the unity of time, place, and action and also placed importance on decorum and verisimilitude (true to life) in playwriting. During the 16th and 17th centuries civil wars and unrest interrupted the devel

Question 11: Wings

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The space offstage to the right or left of the acting area in a theatre.

Question 12: Neoclassicism

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Neoclassicism (also spelled Neo-classicism) was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.

Question 13: First Women Playwrights

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come back.

Question 14: Arena

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A theater stage surrounded or nearly surrounded by the audience.

Question 15: Aesthetic Distance

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Aesthetic distance refers to the gap between a viewer's conscious reality and the fictional reality presented in a work of art.

Question 16: Melodrama

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Melodrama, in Western theatre, sentimental drama with an improbable plot that concerns the vicissitudes suffered by the virtuous at the hands of the villainous but ends happily with virtue triumphant.

Question 17: Surrealism

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Surrealist cinema is a modernist approach to film theory, criticism, and production with origins in Paris in the 1920s. The movement used shocking, irrational, or absurd imagery and Freudian dream symbolism to challenge the traditional function of art to

Question 18: Non-realism

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In drama, nonrealism is abstract, disconnected, and does not conform to everyday life. ex. events that occur only in imagination, arbitrary use of time and place, or talking animals.

Question 19: Spain

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The typical Spanish theater of the time was known as a corral,

Question 20: Stage Right

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On the right side of a stage from the point of view of a performer facing the audience.

Question 21: Script

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A script, which is an adjustment of the story for the purposes of stage performance, contains information about how the actor is to carry himself on stage, speak, dress, etc. Each of these fillers can be an interpretation.

Question 22: Ballad Opera

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Ballad opera, characteristic English type of comic opera, originating in the 18th century and featuring farcical or extravaganza plots. The music was mainly confined to songs interspersed in spoken dialogue.

Question 23: The role of the Church

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The Catholic Church, offered a service. This service provided the dramatization of Biblical stories which were held on church premises. It was not until the 13th century that religious performances were beginning to be held outside of the church.

Question 24: Domestic Tragedy

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Domestic tragedy, drama in which the tragic protagonists are ordinary middle-class or lower-class individuals, in contrast to classical and Neoclassical tragedy, in which the protagonists are of kingly or aristocratic rank and their downfall is an affair