Quote ID
I’ve been free, Father! For one moment—down here on earth—I have been free! When I did what I did I was free! Free and not afraid! How is that, Father? How can that be?
Helen/Young Woman in Machinal
The idea that there is an invisible, imaginary “wall” that separates actors from an audience.
Fourth Wall
True or False: Elinor Fuchs asks you to consider how much tickets cost when visiting the small planet of a play.
False
Fuchs defines tragedy as moving from ___ to ___.
Threat to Disaster OR Union to Disunion
Bonus: She describes Comedy as moving from ___ to _____?
What three things over time equal theatre?
Actor + Idea + Audience
This is like you've Googled the French etymology of an English person's name, but you're not English and thinking about it in Dutch.
Narrator/Javaad Alipoor in Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
This plot structure moves smoothly from opening to closing with exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Climatic Plot Structure
In lecture we discussed the two building blocks of theatre that makes it distinct from film/television/fiction are: people and ___
Objects
True or False: The Importance of Being Earnest can be called a comedy because it uses bright colors and the characters do not fight with one another.
False: The play is a comedy because the characters actions and attitudes create comic situations, the fortunes of the central character rise by the end of the play, and generally it ends in "union."
True or False: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World features a linear, climactic structure that mirrors the realism of our world
False: The play uses a non-linear structure to replicate the distracted way we experience the online world
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune—to lose both seems like carelessness.
Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest
Which style of acting creates realistic, believable, and every day characters?
Representational
True or False - Barbara Clayton's essay notes the audience is not a central element of the production since they are not on the stage.
False - Audience is one of Clayton's seven elements of theatrical production
True or False: Dominique Morriseau said that because a ten minute play has so little time, "we have to get right at the heart of the matter."
True
This plot structure tends to be attached to Expressionism.
Episodic
You stood against our deaths, as a tower for my land. From that time onward you were called my king, and you have received the greatest of honors, ruling in this, the greatest of cities, in Thebes.
Chorus from Oedipus
What is this the below quote an example of?
"The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands in perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's own clean linen in public."
Epigram - inverts traditional platitudes through clever turns of phrase
List all six of Aristotle's Elements of Drama
Plot, Character, Thought, Language, Music, Spectacle
Realism focuses on recognizable, everyday actions, languages, and situations. Expressionism focuses on subjective, emotional experiences and often distorts time and reality.
True or False: The podcast in Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World is an example of Meta-theatre because the host has a recording microphone.
False - but there is metatheatre in the play. What other moments would represent metatheatre?
I looked at that book for hours— Just… stared at it. Memorized all the pictures. And there was this one page I loved more than any of the others- I kept the book open to that page all the time.
Sarah from A Rare Bird
True or False: an audience experiences catharsis after a play has a happy ending.
False, Catharsis, most often found in tragic plays, is the process of purging emotions of pity and fear within an audience by the action of the play. By believing what they saw on stage for a moment, they experienced a strong, emotional, reaction.
True or False: In lecture, Jen discussed one tip before you start reading a play is to look up the playwright and their point of view.
True! Bonus:Can you list the other three tips before reading?
True or False: Satire means the same thing as comedy because they both make people laugh.
False: Satire uses exaggerated characters and situations to mock societal weakness/problems. It is a sub-genere of comedy.
Fill in the blanks: Elinor Fuchs said that "Before making judgements, we must _____ __________"
ask questions.