Theatre Appreciation- Midterm

Front 1

Theater is a recreation of ___

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Human Experience

Front 2

Three Elements of Theatre

Back 2

-an empty Space
-a Person in action
-an Audience

Hint 2

SPA

Front 3

Types of Stages

Back 3

-Proscenium Arch
-Thrust Stage
-Arena "in the round" Stage
-Found Stage
-Environmental Stage
-Black Box

Front 4

Elements of Drama (Aristotle)

Back 4

-Plot
-Character
-Theme
-Language
-Music
-Spectacle

Front 5

Levels of Characterization (within a play)

Back 5

-Biological traits
-Ethical traits
-Physical traits
-Psychological traits
-Social traits

Hint 5

BEPPS

Front 6

Elements of Plot

Back 6

-Inciting Incident
-Rising Action
-Climax
-Falling Action

Front 7

Inciting Incident

Back 7

Event that sets off the major conflict of the play

Front 8

Climax

Back 8

Emotional high point of the play's action

Front 9

Falling Action

Back 9

Events from the plays climax to the end of the play

Front 10

Point of Attack

Back 10

The point in the story at which the playwrite chooses to start dramatizing the action

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Exposition

Back 11

Information needed to understand the play

Front 12

Catharsis

Back 12

An emotional release

Front 13

Linear Plot

Back 13

Events in a play progress forward sequentially

Front 14

Convention

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Agreement between the production personnel and the audience; often big part of experience that we do not think about

Front 15

Representational

Back 15

Crafter to look and function just as it would in the "real world"

Hint 15

Real

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Presentational

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Not meant to be the same as the "everyday" stylized abstracted or suggestive

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Melodrama

Back 17

A serious drama that emphasizes effects and will sacrifice reality and logic to achieve them

Front 18

Heroic Drama

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A serious drama which will have noble figures but also has a happy ending

Front 19

Domestic Drama

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A serious drama that often deals with society, struggles within a family, dashed hopes, and renewed determination

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Types of Critics

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-Descriptive

-Prescriptive

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Characteristics of Tragedy

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-Unhappy end

-Important in society

-Extraordinary abilities

-Outside Forces/Antagonist

-Related events

-Audience's sympathy

-Meets doom

Front 22

Types of Tragedy

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*Traditional

-important people as characters

*Modern

-common people as characters

Front 23

Types of Comedy

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•Situational Comedy
•Farce
•Comedy of Character
•Comedy of Idea
•Comedy of Manors
•Tragicomedy

Front 24

Situational Comedy

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-"Sit Coms" situation is humorous
-often times futility or avoidance of "trouble"

Front 25

Farce

Back 25

-Broad comedy/physical
-Slapstick

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Comedy of Character

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-Absurd/Comical
-Character

Front 27

Comedy of Idea

Back 27

•Wit surrounding
-Religion, sex, politics, etc

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Comedy of Manors

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-Comedy of behaviors

Front 29

Tragicomedy

Back 29

•Mix of comedy and tragedy
-often with tragic events yet with "positive" ending

"life is tragedy when seen in close up, but a comedy in long shot"

Front 30

Schadenfreude

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Pleasure from other's misfortune

Front 31

Director

Back 31

Crafter of the artistic vision of the live production of a play

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Directors Job

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-Communicates concept throughout production
-Artistic decisions that support concept
-DIRECT AUDIENCES EYE LIKE CAMERA LENS
-Convey mood to fit concept

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Aesthetic Distance

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Psychological seperation, or sense of detachment. Allowing audience to analyze their feelings about the play.

Front 34

Empathy

Back 34

Emotional identification. Ability to put oneself in another's shoes

Front 35

Taste

Back 35

-Personal preference inextricably tied to our previous experiences with all aspects of art, entertainment, and culture

Front 36

Music

Back 36

Powerful tool for encouraging emotional identification; it can increase suspense, excitement, sadness, and happiness

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Golden Era of American Music

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40s-50s

Front 38

Rise of British Lyricists and Composers

Back 38

70s-80s

Front 39

Where leading actor usually stood

Back 39

Center Stage

Front 40

Read Through

Back 40

Actors and director meet to discuss and analyze the play

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Staging Rehearsals

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Director sets the blocking and choreography of the play

Front 42

Developmental Rehearsals

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Director works with the cast on developing characterization and refining movement.

Front 43

Run Throughs

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Give actors a sense of the plays dramatic rhythm and allow artists to see emerging movement patterns on stage.

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Technical and Dress Rehearsal

Back 44

Director makes final adjustments to lights, sound, set changes, and costumes are finally added to the process.

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Ensemble

Back 45

Actors function together as a unit rather than as individual performers.

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Dramaturg

Back 46

Literary and historical advisor who consults with the director on research about the play, author, or historical period

Front 47

Stage Manager

Back 47

Coordinates a show during rehearsal making sure everything stays on track. After a show opens, in charge of keeping the artistic choices intact.

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Duke Sexe-Meiningen

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-Rich with lots of time

-Proscenium/ fourth wall developed

-Obsession with need to observe and sit out and watch

-Toured 1874-1893

Front 49

Greek Chorus

Back 49

*20-50 singers supporting and providing commentary for the play

-single, choral, or split choral voices

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Vaudeville

Back 50

Small "skits" to set up unrelated songs.

Ex-Bing Crosby and Judy Garland

Hint 50

Connected with Operetta

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Operetta

Back 51

Everything is sung yet the matter is lighter often farcical

Ex- Gilbert and Sullivan " Pirates of Penzance"

Hint 51

Connected with Vaudeville

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Other Musical Perf.

Back 52

-Book Musicals

Ex-West Side Story, Cats, Oklahoma

-Contemporary Musicals

Ex- Matilda, Avenue Q

Front 53

Concept

Back 53

Central idea, image, or theme that unites every artistic choice

Hint 53

"Romeo and Juliet in our production is about _____"

Front 54

Dionysus

Back 54

Greek god of wine , fertility, and ecstatic celebration

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Thespis

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*First Actor

-playwright/choral leader

-where we get "Thespian

*Aeschylus

-second actor

-created dialogue together

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Deus Ex Machina

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-"god from the machine"

-actual machine used to raise god later in the action

-literary term for device that just fixes problems at the end of the show

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Orchestra

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Large circular performance space in the classical greek theatre ("dancing place")

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Theatron

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Area for audience to sit and watch a play in classical greek theatre ("seeing place")

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Skene

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Building space upstage of the performance area (root word for "scenery")

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Parados

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Area for entrances and exits in a classical greek theatre

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In the 20th century, fragments of comic writer Menander's lost plays. were discovered in_____________

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Wrappings around eygptian mummies

Front 62

Performances called_________plays were based on biblical stories and ranged from creation to the last judgement.

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Mystery

Hint 62

Outlawed by christian leaders and reborn in the church

Front 63

Popular classical form of japanese theatre is __________which began in the early 1600s

Back 63

Kabuki

Hint 63

Features a revolving stage and special effects.

Front 64

During the renaissance, italians created new techniques for draing and painting in _____________on theatre scenery

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Perspective

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Most famous public theatre in elizabethan england was the globe theatre, created by shakespeare's company,___________________

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The Lord Chamberlains Men

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Renaissance Theatre

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*Renaissance not finite place or time

*Art changed:

-has value

-for all

-is status

Hint 66

"Re-birth"

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William Shakespeare

Back 67

-16th century

-Wrote mostly for Queen Elizabeth I

-Also writes for James I

-Known as Jacobean artist

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Shakespeare's language

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*Iambic Pentameter

-consists of one stressed and unstressed syllable. gives it unique sound

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Neoclassism

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Return to what made Greeks so great (15th-18th century)

*Morality

-Christian Standards

*Universality

-Rich

*Reality

-Verisimilitude

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Verisimilitude

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The appearance and /or degree of truth.

-Is your lie closer to the "truth" than my lie

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Unities of Verisimilitude(Reality)

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*Action

-All the events in the play must be about 1 story

*Time

-24 hours only

*Place

-Only 1 location

Hint 71

ATP

Front 72

When the english monarchy was restored in 1660, the theates reopened and for the first time, introduced___________to the english speaking stage

Back 72

Actresses

Front 73

____________and his company built the first permanent structures in America intended from the beginning as theaters: the Southward in Philadelphia and the John Street Theatre in New York.

Back 73

David Douglass

Front 74

If current estimates of the output of Greek theatre writers are correct, we have no more than ______ of the Greek plays produced in the classical period between 534 and 404 BCE.

Back 74

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