Drama 116 First Test

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What are four parallels between theatre and life? Theatre's doubleness.

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Humanity actors
Reality Simulation
Spontaneity Rehearsal
Society Audiences

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DITHYRAMB

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Choral song for Dionysus,

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Greek Chorus

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Performed in the dancing area.

They shared the audience’s reactions to events and characters, and sometime interacted with the actors.

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Four Greek Playwrites

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Aeschylus

Sophocles

Euripedes

Aristophanes

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Thespis

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Won first competition by becoming the first actor

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SATYR PLAY

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Greek, "The satyr play can be considered the reversal of Attic tragedy, a kind of “joking tragedy" . . . The satyrs are contrasted with the main characters—who are more or less serious—by their dancing, their love of wine, and their diverting banter, often expressed in low language." (Brittanica)

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Major components of the Greek Stage

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Koilon
Orchestra
Parodos
Skene

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Greek stage description - Skene

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The scene building
The term proskenion was sometimes used to refer to a raised stage added in later times in front of the skene where the actors performed.

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Greek stage description - Orchestra

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The dancing circle.

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Greek stage description - Parodos

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The actors, chorus and audience all entered the theater through passageways called paradoi
Also it is known as the entrance song by the chorus.
If someone was entering from the right parados, that meant that he was coming from the city or port. If he was coming from the left parados, he was coming from the field or abroad.

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Greek stage description - Koilon

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The main Theater or Auditorium. The “House.” Where the audience is seated.

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Why did the greeks use masks?

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So that each actor could play multiple roles, so that the actors could play female roles, maybe to amplify their voice, or to fulfill other symbolic purposes.

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Greek tragedy, three p's.

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purpose, passion, perception

purpose for Oedipus, let's find the truth, passion is the soul-searching process and the perception is a bad fate (death or exile).

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Tragic vision in Oedipus

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Oedipus is concerned with seeking meaning and justice in an ordered world.

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Machina and Ekeclema

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Ekeclema - thing to wheel out dead bodies for greeks

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Elizabethean Theatre purpose

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They did not specifically aim to provide a moral lesson. The plays were to entertain

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Types of Shakespearian plays

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Comedies, tragedies, histories.

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Characteristics of Shakespearian text

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Prose
Verse
Iambic pentameter

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Who does the director work with?

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Everyone. The director is the controlling artist responsible for unifying the production elements, which often includes the use of text, music, sound, and visuals

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Six major responsibilities of the director?

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Agreeing to direct an offered script or selecting or creating a script

Deciding on the text’s interpretation

Casting actors in various parts

Working with other theatre artists

Rehearsing the actors

Coordinating all elements into the final stage performance

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Who is part of the auditioning process?

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Casting directors and agents

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Tropes

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Embellishments done during liturgy. First drama in the church

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Hrotsvitha

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Nun who acted out Latin plays, for moral tales.

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Miracle Plays

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Subject of miracles performed by the saints. Mary saves some one at the last minute.

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Mystery Plays

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Performed originally by clergy, later by guilds, also known as craft plays. Dramatized the mystery of Christ's passion. Most famous is Second Shepherd's Pagent.

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Cycles

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Towns that produced many plays and ran through them, performing them again and again.

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Morality Plays

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Describes the lives of normal people facing temptations/sin. Teach moral lessons.

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Frons Scaena

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Flat front wall used in the Roman Theatre. I guess the background behind the stage?

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Vanishing point perspective

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Made drawn things appear more three dimensional. Things converge as they appear to go further off in the distance.

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Proscenium Arch

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A frame that surrounds the stage, controlling what the audience can see.

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Commedia dellarte

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Less reverent Renaissance comedy, slapstick, popular. Improvised to a degree.

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Zanni

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servant characters, began as clowns.

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Stock characters

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Characters that became familiar all over Europe. Archetypes.

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Burla

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General plot of any given performance.

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Lazzo

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Comic routines - running jokes, coming in at spontaneous times.

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Masque

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Special entertainment for royalty, like to celebrate a King's wedding, extravagant.

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What are the two elements of theatrical space?

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Stage and auditorium.

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What is acting?

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Acting is doing. Acting is portraying a character’s wants and needs through artistically truthful behavior that reflects a character’s psychological and emotional life.

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The actor's reality, goal, parts.

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Tell the character's circumstances in the play as effectively as possible. The actor must concentrate on the truth of the character’s behavior — his or her sensory responses, psychological motives and objectives — in the context of the play, not in the context of the performance or the audience.

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Acting is not. . .

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Showing
Narrating
Illustrating
Exhibiting

Acting is not dressing up and displaying emotions

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External acting technique

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The actor approaches a role through a deep and passionate study of human behavior in all its outward forms, with an eye toward reproducing them in a disciplined and sensitive way.

Something like "Mimicry", coming from the English David Garrick (Aristotle, too).

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Internal belief (acting technique)

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A creative process that is intuitive, subconscious and subjective

to select behavior pertinent to the character’s needs within the given circumstances.

to allow personal behavior to develop out of the playwright’s prescribed circumstances, knowing that their actions will involve a moment-to-moment subjective experience.

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English protestant rule/reformation and implications for theatre

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After Charles I, the protestant Puritans took over England. They were not down with drama. Then, the English restoration restored Charles II and Puritan rule was over. Drama was back in.

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Restoration Comedy

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The Puritans had banned theatre, so once it was reallowed, the English wrote "restoration comedies". Full of sex and bad stuff. Encouraged by the King

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Nell Gwynne

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One of the first English actresses

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Comedy of Manners

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Satirizes a social class and upperclass' manners. Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing is supposedly an example.

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Sentimental Comedy

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Reaction against the restoration comedy and comedy of manners. Reintroduces morality into the plays

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The method and Constantin Stanislavski

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The method acting system derived from Constantin Stanislavski's "system" approach to acting.

Method acting is a technique in which the actor aims to engender in himself, or the actress herself, the thoughts and emotions of his or her character in an effort to create a lifelike performance. It can be contrasted with more presentational forms of acting, in which the actor simulates and displays to the audience thoughts or emotions that he or she is not actually thinking or feeling. (Wikipedia).

Stanislavski proposed that actors understand how men and women actually behave physically and psychologically in given circumstances.

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The magic if

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Actors learned to experience what their character experienced as if it were actually happening to them.
If I were in Othello’s situation what would I do? Not If I were Othello, what would I do?

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Julia Taymore's danger of theatre

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It's live and immediate.

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Stage movements are told from the ____'s perspective (ex upstage)

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Actor's

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Tragic hero undergoes reversal, they get what they want but what they want is destructive (Greek word)

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PERIPETEIA

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The largest of Athens' celebration

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City of Dionysus (it's apparently in March)

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Three parts of the Oedipus trilogy

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Oedipus Rex
Oedipus in Collonus
Antigone

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The villain in the rising of the moon

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It's not clear whether anyone is the villain.

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Suspension of disbelief

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giving way to theatre's fiction

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Oedipus is an example of which tragic realization

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That despite suffering a world order exists and peopel can learn from suffering.

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The Reckoning, what was it performed on, what type of play was it, what period was it in?

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A pageant wagon, Morality Play, Midevil period.

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A streetcar named desire is an example of which tragic realization

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That human acts and sufferings in an indifferent or mechanical universe are futile.

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The type of reheresal in The Tempest movie

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technical

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The three Unions and who they represent

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SAG - Screen Actor's Guild
AEA - Represents Stage Actors and managers.
AFTRA - TV and radio actors

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What do you need for theater to happen

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actors audience stage

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What do you do to remove an object from stage?

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Strike the object

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A technical rehearsal without actors is called?

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Dry tech

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Catharsis

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Audience purging of emotion.

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Shapes of elizabethean theatre's

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Octagonal / Circular

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Like the two characters in Rising in the moon, characters that are only sketched

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Functionary characters

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Where does the chorus get its name?

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The goat's song

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In The Rising of the Moon `movement' plays an integral part in the plot. Which of the following set pieces are necessary for the element to be prominent in a production?

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A barrel

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________ is an erotic piece of comic relief that ended the days performance of tragedies during the Ancient Greek period.

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Satyr

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“Outlined in tape on the rehearsal hall floor so the actors can visualize the environment in rehearsals.”

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The ground plan

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Comedy populated by stereotypical virtuous protagonists and villainous antagonists that resolves the domestic trials of middle class people in a pat, happy ending. (Home Alone)

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Sentimental comedy

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The first building made specifically for plays in England

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The Theatre

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During the Dark Ages these plays dramatized the lives of saints

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Miracle Plays

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Four central characters in Othello

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Othello, Cassio, Iago, Desdemona

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Wife of Iago (Othello)

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Emilia

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Courtesan

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Bianca

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Who is going to attack Cyprus? And what happened to them>?

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The Turks. A storm destroyed their fleet.

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Who engages Cassio in a fight?

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Rodriego, who is convinced to do so by Iago.