Basics/Terminology
What is Upstage Right?
Was (or introduced) the first actor.
Who was Thespis?
Wrote most of the surviving Roman comedies, including The Menaechmi.
Who is Plautus?
To partly face someone on stage, while remaining open to the audience.
The setting of Comedy of Errors.
What is Ephesus?
A design in which the audience is on one side.
What is a proscenium stage?
Choragos.
Who is the leader of the Chorus?
Three types of plays during the Middle Ages.
What are Mystery, Miracle, and Morality plays?
The Five Ps.
What are Projection, Pronunciation, Pitch, Pace, and Punch?
What is iambic pentameter?
The author of a play.
What is a playwright?
God of wine and theatre.
Who is Dionysus?
Anonymous author of The Second Shepherd's Play.
Who is "the Wakefield Master"?
To try something other than the obvious choice, and/or to have a dynamic, multi-layered scene.
What does it mean to "play the opposites"?
The wife of Antipholus of Ephesus.
Who is Adriana?
Useable area of the stage Downstage of the main curtain.
What is the apron?
Wrote "Poetics," which examines the features of a good Tragedy.
Who is Aristotle?
The full title of a morality play we read (a short version).
What is The Summoning of Everyman?
An example of the Objective Formula.
What is "I want to (tactic) (so-and-so) to/into/so that (desired outcome) ?
The person Antipholus of Syracuse falls in love with.
Who is Luciana?
The person responsible for the smooth running of a show during performances.
What is a stage manager?
The term for the tragic flaw that leads to a tragic hero's downfall.
What is hamartia ?
Four examples of Roman stock characters.
What are
Adulescen, Senex, Matrona, Virgo, Servus Callidus, Parasitus, Miles Gloriosus, Ancilla ?
The 10 Guideposts.
What are Moment Before, Events, Location, Relationship, Status, Communication, Discovery, Conflict, Importance, Playing the Opposites?
An example of an original line of iambic pentameter (composed by you; here, now, on the spot).
What is _ _ _ _ _ ?