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CSCC Theatre 1100 Exam 1 Study Guide Nonmediated or live action theatre - Answer️️ -theatre that is not observed through an electronic medium Regional theatres - Answer️️ -permanent, professional, nonprofit theatres offering first class productions to their audiences Community theatre ...

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CSCC Theatre 1100 Exam 1 Study Guide

Nonmediated or live action theatre - Answer✔️✔️-theatre that is not
observed through an electronic medium

Regional theatres - Answer✔️✔️-permanent, professional, nonprofit theatres
offering first class productions to their audiences

Community theatre - Answer✔️✔️-semi professional and experienced
amateur groups that appeal to their specific audiences

Site specific theatre - Answer✔️✔️-theatre presented in a nontraditional
setting so that the chosen environment helps illuminate the text

Performance art - Answer✔️✔️-most often refers to a solo performance
created by the performer but also can be a work that mixes visual arts,
dance, film, and/or music

Visual arts - Answer✔️✔️-these include painting, sculpture, architecture,
and photography

Performing arts - Answer✔️✔️-these include theatre, dance, opera, and
music, where there are live performers and audience members

Spatial arts - Answer✔️✔️-art forms that exist in space and are created to last
over time

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Temporal art - Answer✔️✔️-art forms that exist for only a specific period of
time

Elements of theatre - Answer✔️✔️-audience, performers, script, director,
theatre space, design elements

Script - Answer✔️✔️-the blueprint for a production, the material staged by
the various theatre artists

The willing suspension of disbelief - Answer✔️✔️-the audience's desire to
believe in the reality of what is happening onstage

Aesthetic distance - Answer✔️✔️-the separation of audience member from
the performance or artwork to experience its aesthetic qualities

Critic - Answer✔️✔️-someone who observes a production and then analyzes
and comments on it

Reviewer - Answer✔️✔️-a type of critic who reports on a production and
gives brief opinion about whether or not it is worth seeing

Dramaturg - Answer✔️✔️-the individual works on literary and historical
issues with members of the artistic team mounting a theatre production

Plot - Answer✔️✔️-a selection and arrangement of scenes from a story for
presentation on stage

Story - Answer✔️✔️-a full account of an event or series of events, usually in
chronological order

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Action - Answer✔️✔️-according to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, a
sequence of events linked by cause and effect, with a beginning, middle,
and end; said by Aristotle to be the best way to unify a play; more
generally, the central, unifying conflict and movement through a drama

Conflict - Answer✔️✔️-tension between two or more characters that leads to
crisis or climax; a fundamental struggle or imbalance-- involving
ideologies, actions, personalities, etc.-- underlying a play

Strongly opposed forces - Answer✔️✔️-the people conflict in a play that are
fiercely determined to achieve their goals

Balance of forces - Answer✔️✔️-the people or forces in conflict must be more
or less evenly matched

Obstacles - Answer✔️✔️-that which delays or prevents by achieving of a
goal by a character; an obstacle creates complication and conflict

Complication - Answer✔️✔️-introduction, in a play, of a new force that
creates a new balance of power and entails a delay in reaching the climax

Crisis - Answer✔️✔️-point within a play when the action reaches an
important confrontation or takes a critical turn; in the tradition of the well
made play, a drama includes a series of crises that lead to the final crisis,
known as the climax

Climax - Answer✔️✔️-often defined as the high point in the action or the
final and most significant crisis in the action

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