Comedy
Comedy is both intellectual and _______.
What is Mental
What is universal?
This is to make something lager than it really is.
What is an exaggeration?
This is an audition that is open to the general public.
What is a cattle call?
This type of play represents real life
What is Realism?
Comedy is ______ and _______ oriented. People in different eras won't find things universally funny.
What is time and place?
They know everything worth having demands some form of sacrifice.
What is a trait of a tragic character?
This is a joke that must happen at least three times.
What is a running gag?
This is how many bars a song should be for your audition.
What is 16 bars?
This is real life with no holds barred.
What is naturalism?
These are the categories or levels that comedy is broken into
What are low, middle, and high?
The protagonist doesn't achieve his/her goal.
This is when you see a joke coming.
What is an anticipation?
This is where you are asked to come back and audition again.
What is a callback?
This is a symbolic play where the characters represent an abstract quality.
What is an allegory?
This type of comedy is unreal. It uses unreal settings and characters.
What is fantasy?
This is a characteristic of tragedy that means that audience should FEEL something.
What is emotional?
What is an anticlimax?
This is the union that actors join when working on Broadway.
What is Equity?
This is a high level comedy that makes fun of some aspect of society.
What is satire?
This is a high level of comedy. It relies on puns and allusions. It often makes fun of the upper class.
What is Restoration Comedy?
This is what also can happen to a protagonist in a tragedy.
What is become alienated or exiled from society?
This is when the meaning or message is unclear.
This is when you have no experience with the script at your audition?
What is a cold Read?
This is a type of comedy that is very physical and vulgar in nature. Very low level stuff.
What is farce?