Theater

Front 1

SADA

Back 1

story action dialogue audience

Front 2

Audience membership

Back 2

artist mediums
audience response
audience involvement
audience imagination
what an audience brings to a theatre

Front 3

What audience members bring to the theatre

Back 3

1. knowledge, education and memories of the individual audience member
2. the awareness of the individual of social, political and philosophical aspects of the world around them
3. background information about the play and the play wright
4. any preconceived ideas about what to expect from the theatrical performance in general

Front 4

Critic

Back 4

observes, analyzes and evaluates

Front 5

A critic asks:

Back 5

1. what was this production trying to accomplish
2. did it accomplish this
3. was it worth doing in the first place
4. what could have made the production attain its goal more successfully

Front 6

Upstage

Back 6

back of stage

Front 7

Downstage

Back 7

front of stage

Front 8

Stage left/right

Back 8

perspective of actors- opposite for audience

Front 9

Dead center

Back 9

middle of stage

Front 10

Cross

Back 10

move, walk

Front 11

Theater History

Back 11

Greek Theatre
Renaissance
-england
-italy
-france
20th century

Front 12

Greek theatre

Back 12

-talking in unison, ensemble theatre with chorus
-greek started tragedies-cause by gods
- romans started comedies
-family theatre-violence off stage
-roman theatre about things happening to everyday ppl

Front 13

Thespis (greek theatre)

Back 13

created dialogue (back and forth)

Front 14

Solon (greek theatre)

Back 14

created character

Front 15

Orkestra (greek)

Back 15

acting space, where acting took place

Front 16

Skene (greek)

Back 16

scenery, shed for materials

Front 17

Theatron ( greek)

Back 17

place you go to hear a story

Front 18

Hypokrites (greeks)

Back 18

tell stories for living, actor

Front 19

Elizabethan theatre (renaissance)
-rebirth

Back 19

england
violence happened on stage
1564-1616
women didnt perform
horseshoe seating, roof
shakespeare
-hamaet hamlet shakespeares son

Front 20

Commedia Dell'arte (renaissance)

Back 20

italy
late 1500s
birth of: involvement theatre, improv
actors toured, no permanent home

Front 21

Stock characters (com media)

Back 21

represented a specific quality of a personality

Front 22

Slapstick (commedia)

Back 22

used for comedy, physical comedy, pain

Front 23

Royal Theatre and Moliere or Jean Paptiste Poqueline (renaissance)

Back 23

france
1622-1673
phony and foofy-poked fun at aristocrats
birth of satire
presented to aristocrats

Front 24

20th century drama

Back 24

drama over tragedy
dramas that happened to person next door brought upon themselves

Front 25

Musicals

Back 25

1904
story, song, dance, script
musicals-american tradition

Front 26

The origins of Western Theatre can be dated back to an era before the birth of Christ, in other words, a tradition lasting for more than two thousand years. (at least) (TRUE FALSE)

Back 26

TRUE

Front 27

Which of the following is true about London playhouses in the Elizabethan theatre

Back 27

public and private theaters

Front 28

According to Greek tradition, the part of the stage which is closest to the audiences

Back 28

downstage

Front 29

The Renaissance theatres basically covered

Back 29

the 1500s into the 16 1700s

Front 30

Myths were (and still are) stories that explains human and natural phenomena

Back 30

true

Front 31

Many people say that the 20th century saw the birth of satirical comedy

Back 31

true

Front 32

Shakespeare’s play can be divided into three categories, comedies, tragedies, and history plays

Back 32

true

Front 33

Moliere was

Back 33

a well born aristocrat who strove to poke subtle fun of those in power

Front 34

In the time of Shakespeare, theaters were opened outside of city limits because the city fathers were afraid that these theatres were immortal places

Back 34

false

Front 35

Plautus was a Roman Comedic Writer whose domestic and romantic (and sometimes sexual) comedies were the foundation for much later comedic writers.

Back 35

true

Front 36

Shakespeare did make the use of a raised acting space to stage his plays and he often used parts of existing building in his productions

Back 36

true

Front 37

A critic who reviews plays by adding suggestions as to the improvement of the production has written

Back 37

A prescriptive

Front 38

Many of the Commedia Dell’ Arte centered around the problems of young lovers and how the other stock characters responded to them

Back 38

FALSE

Front 39

We can trace the evolution of governments subsides of the arts (particularly the theatre) to the reign of Queen Elizabeth the First

Back 39

TRUE

Front 40

In the story of King Oedipus, we meet Oedipus who had to fulfill the premonitions of an oracle. He was fated to rule a kingdom and die in a war with Troy.

Back 40

FALSE