Review Chapter 1
The word "theatre" comes from this Greek word which means seeing place...
What is theatron?
This is the name for a long standing theatre company or group of theatre practicioners.
What is troupe?
In this theatrical craft or job, technicians execute in proper sequence, and with carefully rehearsed timing, the light and sound cues, the shifting of scenery, the placement of properties, etc.
What is crewing?
The task of handling all necessary personnel, financing; promotion and legal efforts is the responsibility of this person.
What is the producer?
The responsibilities for admitting, seating, and providing for the general comfort of the audience falls to this person.
What is the house manager?
The person who controls and develops the artistic product and provides it with a unified vision.
What is the director?
This theatrical craft is usually executed away from the theatre building.
What is the playwriting?
This distinctive feature of theatre, separates it from other arts and started what we know as acting.
What is the impersonation?
He created the “paradox of the actor” that onstage the actor disappears or seems lifeless while the simulated character seems to live.
Who is Denis Diderot?
The English word for person comes from this Latin word for mask.
What is persona?
This mode of performance is less theatrical and more realistic.
What is representational?
This mode of performance acknowledges the audience— the performer jokes, and responds overtly to the audience.
What is presentational?
The mode of performance in which the audience watches interactions that are staged as if no audience were present at all.
What is representational?
an action focused around a particular conflict, which gives the action significance
What is a play?
The purging or cleansing of pity and terror, which the audience develops during the climax of a tragedy
What is catharsis?
Oedipus' adoptive parents
Who are Polybus and Merope?
wrote Oedipus the King
Who is Sophocles?
Wrote the Poetics and is considered the first dramaturg.
Who is Aristotle?
The final scene, action, or lines in a play devoted to bringing the play to a new level of harmony, understanding, or resolution after the climax
denouement
The historical length of most plays
What is two to three hours?
The number of acts in traditional full length plays
What is three?
The minimal requirement for a theatre “building
What is a place to act and a place to watch?
In play construction, the single action that initiates the major conflict of the play
What is the inciting incident?
Oedipus’ wife and mother
Who is Jocasta?
The blind prophet who tells Oedipus that he is the killer of Laius.
Who is Tiresias?
Jocasta’s brother; Oedipus accuses him of trying to take over the throne
Who is Creon?
This is where Oedipus learned that his destiny was to kill his father and marry his mother
What is the oracle of Delphi?
Oedipus used these to stab out his eyes
A public meeting in ancient Greek times where the playwright and actors would publicize the play
What is a proagon?
Like when a circus comes to town, ancient greek plays often started with this.
What is a procession or parade?
In Elizabethan times, this would be flown above the playhouse to advertise the play
What is a flag?
Aristotle’s 6 elements (plot, character, thought, diction, music, spectacle) comprise this axis of play structure.
What is vertical?
Aristotle’s element that describes the play's use of rhythm and sounds
What is music?
Aristotle’s element that includes words, epigrams, imagery and other literary devices...
What is diction?
The temporal events of the play; how the play is experienced in time is the ________ axis.
What is horizontal?
Aristotle’s element that includes all visual aspects of the play (lighting, costumes, scenery, etc)
What is spectacle?
Aristotle’s element that involves making an audience care.
What is character?
The abstracted intellectual content of the play.
What is theme?
dramatic genre purports to be serious but, in fact, deals with human issues on only the most superficial level, embellished with spectacular staging, sensational dialogue, and highly suspenseful and contrived plotting
What is melodrama?
Shakespeare often used this opening speech to give exposition to the audience.
What is prologue?
A play that dramatizes the key events in the life of a king or head of state, such as Shakespeare's Henry IV
What is a history play?