Can you name the Intro to Theatre terms/plays?

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industrial age movement saying that humans had become machine like...
union of professional stage actors and stage managers...
fictional work that blends aspects of comedy and tragedy, serious play with happy ending...
outdoor or indoor, stage 4-6 ft off ground, trap floors, 'tiring house, pit/yard, etc...
small scale theatre in NYC off B'way
play that followed a set of 3 tragedies at the City Dionysia...
attempt to portray real life...
Performances that emerged in 16th century in Italy and throughout Europe...Actors improvised the dialogue...
The principal Athenian festival at which plays are performed...
theatrical performances in NYC (high-scale)
area for people to stand for 1 penny in elizabethan theatre...
improvised comic stage based on character type and situation...
comedic drama that emphasizes situation over character type...
topics/events regarded as taboo, treated as humorous while retaining seriousness...
people that stand in the pit/yard...
form of drama, clear distinction between good/evil, hero over villian...
Theatrical and dramatic practices that are mutually understood throughout Ancient Greek Theatre (Shakespeare's Soliloquies)...
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extreme realism...
place behind stage for actors to change
League of resident theatres
work that mocks an original work...
term that describes post WWII/ no cause-to-effect relationships
play that follows format of exposition and preparation and builds into a climax...
Pity/Terror
counters realism/naturalism, argued truth, expressed indirectly as symbols...
set of rules that dominated drama/theatre from the renaissance to 18th century (i.e. never mix tragedy and comedy)...
describes contemporary artistic tendencies...
'Missing the Mark'
incorporates a mode of acting that utilizes gestus (attitude, physical gesture)
play that satires the manners of a social class...
A reversal of circumstances, or a turning point...
a moment in a play when a character makes a critical discovery...
Non-profit theatres throughout the US...
rejected structures of neoclassicism (infinite variety)...
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