Antigone
Who wrote Antigone?
Who is Sophocles?
What is Genre?
Who wrote The Piano Lesson?
Who is August Wilson?
A series of actions that make up the play is known as what?
What is plot?
Classic plays use historical background technique and are plays written before the emergence of what?
What is Realism?
If the chorus leader comes out and moves stage left first and the rest of the chorus goes in the opposite direction first, they are engaging in what?
What is antistrophe?
This is how the play is told.
What is Style?
Whose ghost are they trying to exorcise?
Who is Sutter?
According to Thomas, "the cumulative effect of all the given circumstances creates" what?
What is the world of the play?
In modern technique, emerging at the start of the 19th century, how is a backstory revealed?
What is it is peppered throughout the story through meticulously coordinated patterns of action and deception?
Tiresias is the raisonneur in Antigone. What does raisonneur mean?
What is the "voice of reason"?
Name the 5 Genres.
What is comedy, tragedy, melodrama, farce, & tragicomedy?
Name the preacher whose proposal is denied widowed Berniece.
Who is Avery Brown?
Define the difference between stasis and intrusion.
In many contemporary plays the background story seems inadequate to motivate the onstage behavior of the characters, what technique is this?
What is minimalist technique?
What is Antigone buries Polynices and grants him burial rites?
Actions are composed of 2 “events”: the cause and the effect, also known in theatre as the what and what?
What is the "trigger" and the "heap"?
Lymon and Boy Willie come from Mississippi to sell what?
What is watermelons?
What is Freytag's Triangle/Pyramid?
In Antigone the backstory reveals that Antigone and Ismene's brothers died killing each other in war, what are their names?
Who are Etocles and Polynices?
Name all the characters that have passed on at the end of Antigone and how they died.
Name 4 of the 6 types of Theatricalism.
What is Symbolism, Surrealism, Expressionism, Theatre of the Absurd, Total Theatre, & Epic Theatre?
Explain the piano's history.
What is during slavery, a man named Sutter owned the Charles family. He wanted to make an anniversary present out of his friend's piano but could not afford it. Thus he traded a full and half grown slave—Doaker's grandmother Berniece and his father—for the instrument. Though initially Sutter's wife loved the piano, she eventually came to miss her slaves, falling desperately ill. So, Sutter asked Doaker's grandfather, Willie Boy, to carve the faces of his wife and child into the piano. Willie Boy did not only carve his immediately family, however, but included his mother, father, and various scenes from the family history. Years after slavery, Berniece and Boy Willie's father, Boy Charles, developed an obsession over the piano, believing that as long as the Sutters held it, they held the family in bondage. Then, Doaker and Wining Boy stole it?
What are the three types of time in theatre?
What is time of composition, time of action, and dramatic time?
What are the 4 Types of Dramatic Conflict?
What is Me against myself, Me against other individuals, Me against society, & Me against fate, or the universe, or natural forces, or God, or the gods?