Theatre History
What is Primitive Theatre?
Anton Checkov is the most prominant playwright of this Theatre Movement.
What is Realism?
The most recent play we have read all together.
What is The Odd Couple?
This acting Theorist uses Games in order for the actor to connect to the physicality of the character.
Who is Viola Spolin?
This is the first thing that you do when you enter the classroom every day!
What is put your phone in the phone tree!
These are the 3 M's of Medieval Theatre.
What are Mystery, Miracle, and Morality Plays?
This is the name of the improvised and strung together scenes of Commedia D'el Arte.
What are Lazzi?
This play tells the story of human kind as they deal with death and the consiquences of the way that they lived.
What is Everyman 2.0?
This acting theorist uses repetition to break the actor from the text, and have them live in the moment rather that worry about the words.
Who is Sanford Meisner?
This is the way that you should answer your bell ringer every day.
What is in a complete sentence?
This is the playwright of the Thebian Trilogy.
Oedipus, Oedipus in Colonus, and Antigone.
Who is Sophicles?
This theatrical movement contained large scale spectacle like train crashes, moving water, and other special effects.
What is romanticism?
This play looks at a false preist and his control over a family unit. By the time they catch on, it's almost too late!
What is Tartuffe in Texas?
This acting theorist is the father of "The Method"
Who is Lee Strasberg?
The two powerschool categories are...
What are assessments and classwork?
This is the rhyme scheme that William Shakespeare and other playwrights of his time wrote their plays in.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
Parts that were Male, but were played by women are called breeches parts. They appeared in this theatrical era.
What is the Restoration?
This play takes place in the apocolypse, and is about two sisters.
What is Antigone Now?
This is Uta Hagen's 8th Question.
What are Musical Theatre Thursday, Throwback Thursday, and Techno Thursday?
This leader outlawed Commedia D'el Arte when they rose to power.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Gladiator fights included sword play, archery, and these two animals.
What are Bears and Lions?
This play is the modern retelling of a play that involves a person seeking ultimate knowledge, and paying the ultimate price.
What is Doctor Faustus?
This acting Theorist's work involves sensory awareness and use of the imagination to lock into the character's enviornment through the 5 senses of the actor.
Who is Stella Adler?
In an acting class, this is the most important part of the class. (I say this to you EVERY SINGLE TIME we go to perform something and you are stressed out.)
What is progress over perfection?