Genres
This genre is light-hearted and wants to make people laugh.
What is Comedy?
What is exaggeration?
Tragedy often deals with the fallout or ____ from a character's "tragic flaw"
What are consequences?
Hamilton is an example of this genre of theatre
What is a musical?
This genre is known for it's singing and dancing
What is musicals?
In Musicals, the memorized dances that actors have to learn are called _____.
What is choreography?
Melodrama is known for not asking it's audiences to think much, sometimes called ______ TV.
What is "Turn your brain off"
Superhero movies are examples of____.
What is melodrama?
This genre is an extreme version of comedy
What is Farce?
In tragedy, this means the situation is very serious - life or death.
What is high stakes?
Unlike other theatre involving song or dance, Musicals use these to reveal _____.
What is "character development, emotions, or plot points"
A play about the real story of Anne Frank, using only the exact words from her journal would be an example of this genre of theatre
What is Documentary Theatre? (Tragedy is also correct).
This genre uses the exact words of real people
What is Documentary/Verbatim Theatre?
In Documentary/Verbatim theatre, this means that the set has very few elements.
What is minimalistic?
This element of comedy is when people make jokes that exploit how words can mean two different things
What is wordplay?
What is farce?
This genre has clear villains and heros.
What is melodrama?
In melodrama, this means a character fits into an easily identifiable mold such as hero, school bully, kind grandmother, etc.
What is archetype?
This element of farce is when people can be harmed by physical injury for humor (like the wall mount hitting the "dead" man exiting the stage in the example we watched.)
What is slapstick?
Hamlet (which we started to watch in class) is an example of ____.