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This term has to do with the audience's ability to remove themselves from a work of art just far enough so that they can contemplate it - or even judge it. |
Aesthetic Distance |
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The performance artist Ron Athey shocked the audience the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis with his performance piece based on African tribal traditions and the disease ___________. |
AIDS |
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In 1919, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "The most significant protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic." This famous maxim has often been cited to underscore the fact that free speech is not a variable defense when such speech is used to perpetrate a fraud. What is this limitation of our freedom of speech often called? |
Breach of the Peace |
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Which of the following is not one of Goethe's three steps of play analysis? *What is the artist trying to say? *Did you enjoy it? * How well has the artist done it? *Is it worth doing? |
Did you enjoy it |
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In theatre lingo, what term means to give away lots of free tickets? |
Paper the house |
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This type of theatre makes no attempt to offer a realistic illusion on stage, and the actors openly acknowledge the audience and sometimes even invite members to participate. |
Presentational |
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The First Amendment protects our right to express ourselves. Which of the following is not an exception to freedom on speech? |
Spiritual Injury |
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The imaginary wall between the actors and audience is called... |
The 4th wall |
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Human beings have a tendency to act and react differently when they are in a group than when they are alone. This is known as... |
The group dynamic |
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In 1737, a law was passed in England that placed the censoring of plays under the authority of The Lord Chamberlain. What was the name of this law? |
Licensing Act |
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When we go to the theatre we know what is happening on stage is not real and so we put aside our concerns about reality and agree to accept the play's quasi-reality. What is this called? |
Willing suspension of disbelief |
