Theatre Final

Front 1

Extraordinary characters are never portrayed at their worst

Back 1

FALSE

Front 2

Oedipus is an example of Traditional Tragedy

Back 2

TRUE

Front 3

Define Story

Back 3

the whole thing in chronological order

Front 4

Define Plot

Back 4

what is actually in the play; scene

Front 5

Define Crisis

Back 5

series of events resulting from conflicts, obstacles, and complications in the play.

Front 6

What is the final crisis in a play

Back 6

Climax

Front 7

What does Oedipus mean

Back 7

A tragic hero

Front 8

3 examples of Traditional Tragedy

Back 8

Tragic Circumstances
Tragic Irretrievability
Acceptance of Responsibility

Front 9

What play is considered a tragedy of the "Common Man"

Back 9

Death of a Salesman

Front 10

How did Oedipus to get to be King?

Back 10

He solved a riddle

Front 11

Stock characters exemplify one particular characteristic of the exclusion of virtually everything else

Back 11

TRUE

Front 12

List 1 Non Human Characteristic in Death of a Salesman

Back 12

Ben the Ghost

Front 13

What does genre mean

Back 13

type/category

Front 14

Why is Death of a Salesman a Bourgeois Drama

Back 14

It is domestic, about family issues

Front 15

What are some examples of melodrama

Back 15

High Noon, Star Wars, X Men, James Bond Films

Front 16

Do Representative and Quintessential mean the same thing

Back 16

TRUE

Front 17

Is the Antagonist the main's character's chief supporter

Back 17

FALSE

Front 18

Is Exposition about what happened before the play begins

Back 18

TRUE

Front 19

What play structure describes a "Well Made Play"

Back 19

Climatic

Front 20

A fountain pen, rubber hose, tape recorder, and a pair of stockings are all important in Death of a Salesman

Back 20

TRUE

Front 21

Example of Heroic Drama

Back 21

Cyrano De Bergerac

Front 22

Death of a Salesman is both climatic and episodic

Back 22

TRUE

Front 23

Define Melodrama

Back 23

Music drama or Song drama

Front 24

List 2 ways Oedipus punishes himself

Back 24

Banishes himself, blinds himself

Front 25

Shakespeare uses what kind of play structure

Back 25

Episodic

Front 26

Critics 3 questions

Back 26

1) What is being attempted
2) Have the intentions been achieved
3) Was the attempt worthwhile

Front 27

Aesthetic Distance

Back 27

Necessary separation between audience and actor

Front 28

Realism follows the predictable reality of everyday life

Back 28

TRUE

Front 29

Who was Konstantin Stanislavski

Back 29

A Russian actor/director

Front 30

What is the Magic If

Back 30

a technique by which an actor can achieve inner truth

Front 31

'What phrase did Samuel Taylor Coleridge coin?

Back 31

Willing Suspense of Disbelief

Front 32

2 examples of non realism

Back 32

Allegory
Expressionism

Front 33

2 plays in which actors break the "4th wall"

Back 33

Our Town
Rent

Front 34

What does the black card left by Dr. Rank stand for in "A Doll's House"

Back 34

death

Front 35

4 theatre spaces

Back 35

Proscenium,Arena,Thrust,Found

Front 36

Rent does not employ Non Realism

Back 36

FALSE

Front 37

Critic and Reviewer is the same thing

Back 37

FALSE

Front 38

Our Town employs no props because

Back 38

The playwright thought it was not important

Front 39

Which crime did Nora commit in Doll's House

Back 39

Forgery

Front 40

What props are important in Doll's House

Back 40

NONE

Front 41

Which Roman philosopher created Prescriptive Criticism

Back 41

Horace

Front 42

Which philosopher created Descriptive Criticism

Back 42

Aristotle

Front 43

Descriptive Criticism describes how the play ought to be done

Back 43

FALSE

Front 44

Our Town employs only realism

Back 44

FALSE

Front 45

A near surreal version of realism which is also called Slice-of-Life is

Back 45

Naturalism

Front 46

Auteur directors make no change in the play they are working on

Back 46

FALSE

Front 47

Which stage is not suitable for realistic plays? (picture frame)

Back 47

Proscenium

Front 48

2 elements of Style

Back 48

1) Is it appropriate for the play
2) It should be consistent with every aspect of the production

Front 49

Define Spine

Back 49

The action which motivates the play

Front 50

Theater of Cruelty

Back 50

deep violent and erotic impulses, radical changes

Front 51

Poor Theatre

Back 51

poor in scenery and and special effects, relies on performers for it's impact

Front 52

Happening

Back 52

unstructured event that occurred with minimum planning and organization

Front 53

Where did the title "A Raisin in the Sun" come from

Back 53

the poem Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes

Front 54

What are some symbols from A Raisin in the Sun

Back 54

plant, dress, mother, check

Front 55

Who wrote A Raisin in the Sun

Back 55

Lorraine Hansberry

Front 56

Who wrote Death of a Salesman

Back 56

Arthur Miller

Front 57

First all black company in NY works of Shakespeare

Back 57

African Grove Theater

Front 58

First black to play Othello

Back 58

James Hewlett

Front 59

1st Broadway musicals with all black casts

Back 59

A trip to coontown, and In Dahomey

Front 60

What is the number record for runnings of Othello

Back 60

296

Front 61

First black director of a Broadway play

Back 61

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

Front 62

Recitative

Back 62

a transition section between arias

Front 63

Musicals are Episodic

Back 63

TRUE except musical reviews

Front 64

Revue

Back 64

No single story. scenes and songs stand alone with no relation

Front 65

Book Musical

Back 65

a show that has a story or book, beginning, middle, and end

Front 66

"book" of a musical
person who writes "book"

Back 66

libretto
librettist

Front 67

Musical that began the Golden Age of the American Musical

Back 67

OKLAHOMA

Front 68

The Comic Premise

Back 68

an idea that turns the accepted notion of things upside down

Front 69

What temporarily suspends the natural laws of probability, cause and effect, even logic

Back 69

Suspension of Natural Laws

Front 70

What is the biggest pun in "The Importance of being Earnest"

Back 70

the title

Front 71

What is a pun

Back 71

humorous use of words

Front 72

Malaprop

Back 72

a word which sounds like the right word but actually means something different

illegible rather than ineligible

Front 73

Epigram

Back 73

verbal humor turning values upside

last thing asked: Are your parents living?

Front 74

Slapstick

Back 74

2 wooden slats makes slap sounds

Front 75

Farce

Back 75

rely on exaggeration, plot complications and broad physical humor

Front 76

Burlesque

Back 76

to make fun, but now is "Strippers"

Front 77

Low Comedy

Back 77

relies on ridiculous situations

Front 78

High Comedy

Back 78

wit and language

The Importance of Being Ernest

Front 79

Satire

Back 79

more intellectual form of burlesque

Front 80

Domestic Comedy

Back 80

family situations, I love Lucy, All in the Family

Front 81

Comedy of manners

Back 81

points out foibles of the upper class , witty phrases

Front 82

Comedy of Ideas

Back 82

using comic techniques to debate intellectual propositions to further his own moral and social point of view

Front 83

Tragicomedy

Back 83

Shakespeare, the OVERVIEW or prevailing attitude of the serious and the comic

Front 84

Characteristics of Melodrama

Back 84

Audience is drawn into action
Issues are clear cut
Characters are recognized as good or bad
Action is exaggerated
Strong emphasis on suspense