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THEATRE TEST 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| representative characters | characters like us; psychologically motivated |
| Haemon | was to be engaged to antigone; killed himself when creon sentenced her to death |
| denouement | place where the plot occurs; resolution or outcome of occurences; solution; conclusion (AFTER CLIMAX) |
| tragedy | |
| thrust stage | audience seated in front; 3/4 stage; hides machinery in wings or fly loft; associated w/ imaginary 4th wall; allows greater intimacy; exits audience through voms; EX=MORGAN HALL |
| stanislavski | his "system" focuses on teaching actors to "experience" the "part" during performance; circle of attention; emotional recall; magic if; psycho-physical action; given circumstances |
| Mrs. Hale | finds bird in box |
| Mrs. Peters | finds birdcage; sheriffs wife |
| Thespis | from dawn of theatre; stepped out of chorus and became 1st actor |
| improvisation | # |
| Blocking | patterns actors make onstage |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | # |
| stock characters | stereotype; EX= dumb blonde, smart nerd, dumb jock |
| Creon | king |
| superobjective | # |
| The Oresteia | by aeschylus; the only extant trilogy; 1st extant play to require a building as a background |
| "magic if" | inner truth - imagination; stanislavski |
| climatic structure | plot that begins late in the story (towards end or climax); covers a short span of time; contains few solid, extended scenes, occurs in restricted locale, # of characters is limited; plot is linear and moves in single line w/ few subplots; cause & effect |
| Ismene | Antigone's sister |
| point of attack | where play starts |
| raisonneur | voices point of view of the work |
| domestic comedy | families; EX= sitcoms |
| chorus | narrator of antigone |
| Euriopides | (480-406 BCE); wrote medea, the trojan woman, the bacchal; emphasized human psychology; human behavior propels the story; most modern of playwrights |
| comedy of manners | rich lives |
| melodrama | suspense; EX= avatar, star wars |
| "tragic irretrievability" | no way of escaping tragedy |
| 3 origins of theatre | 1. ritual =contiunous 2. story telling 3. pleasure |
| inciting incident | # |
| Mrs. X | # |
| Ms. Y | # |
| arena stage | theatre in the round; audience seated on all 4 sides of stage; few scenic elements; voms primary or sole means onto the stage; directions use clock vs. up, down, left, right |
| alley stage | # |
| minnie wright | # |
| suspension of natural laws and logic | type of comedy |
| Guard | finds antigone |
| proscenium arch stage | EX= MORGAN HALL; picture frame photo borders; hides machinery in wings or fly loft; associated with 4th wall (imaginary) |
| cattle call | open auditions, screenings, internships |
| Aeschylus | 5th century BCE; (523-456) started it all; gave 2nd actorl |
| special talents/skills | make you unique; singing, dancing, combat, acrobatics, dialects, juggling, sticking fist in mouth, swimming |
| sense memory | # |
| Dr. Burch's 5 elements of theatre +1 | 1. performers 2. spectator/audience 3. design 4. space 5. text +1 = liveness |
| Law of empathy | when audience knows more than the characters on stage they will greater empathy for them; |
| "living in imaginary circumstances" | # |
| theatron | "the seeing place" (auditorium/audience) |
| unity of opposites | opposing force must be able to seriously threaten protagonist's potential for success in obtaining superobjective, and create genuine suspense regarding possible failure |
| protagonist | character whos journey we follow |
| plot | how the story gets told; EX= the sequential series of events/incidents |
| tableau | PICTURE= actors frozen in a pose |
| football=theatre | has stage, audience, action |
| given circumstances | # |
| episodic structure | plot starts early and moves through series of episodes, covers a longer period of time; has many short, fragmented scenes, many locations; lots of characters; frequently marked by several threads of action; event may result from several causes or none |
| Meryl Streep | # |
| prescriptive criticism | prescribe what should've been done and how |
| Farce | physical, busy, fast |
| extraordinary characters | # |
| satire | goes after political, religious, society, etc. |
| climax | # |
| emotional recall | memory (aka sensory recall); Stanislavski |
| burlesque | parody, spoof; EX= Scary movie 1-4 |
| exposition | explaining, to present |
| descriptive criticism | describe what was done and whether it succeeded on its terms |
| aristotle's 6 elements of tragedy | 1. plot 2. character 3. thought 4. diction 5. song 6. spectacle |
| liveness | presence of performer and spectator in a shared space and in real time; dimensionality (ACTUAL BODIES OCCUPYING DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN THE SPACE, INCLUDING DEPTH OF FIELD STAGING) |
| heroic drama | tragedies with happy endings |
| found space | may be any space not originally intended as theatre space; promoted by Artaud Grotowski; free of misconceptions about theatre; street performers, professional companies, experimental theatre |
| genre | # |
| headshots |
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