What is Theatre?
Theatre History
The Stage
Poetics
Theatre History 2
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What is theatre?
Any performance for an audience.
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Where did theatre originate?
Ancient religious ceremonies.
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What type of stage is considered "storybook?"
Proscenium
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What are the six elements of the poetics?
Plot Character Thought Diction Melody Spectacle
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During what era of theatre history were all theatres shut down by the government?
The Renaissance.
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What is an audience?
Group of people joined to witness a single event.
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Who is considered the root of Western theatre?
The Greeks.
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What type of stage is surrounded by the audience?
Theatre in-the-round.
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The "structure of incidents" or what happens during the play.
What is plot?
200
The most know Renaissance playwright who has influenced our ides of Renaissance drama.
Who is Shakespeare?
300
What are the two qualifications of "good" theatre?
Entertains and Enlightens.
300
Greek theatre is based on two divisions. What are they?
Tragedy and comedy.
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What type of stage has the audience only on three sides?
Thrust
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Connects the audience to the story.
What is character?
300
Type of theatre that exaggerates plot and character to appeal to emotions.
What is melodrama?
400
The imaginary wall between audience and actor.
What is the fourth wall?
400
Roman theatre was heavily influenced by which type of theatre?
Greek theatre.
400
What are the two types of stages used during the Medieval period?
Fixed and moveable.
400
The visual elements of the play.
What is spectacle?
400
This age of theatre history is marked by a return to classical ideas and acting.
What is the neoclassical era?
500
The one thing an actor must know before working on the script.
What is conflict?
500
During what period of theatre history were masks used exclusively?
Greek.
500
Draw a chart illustrating the stage directions used in theatre.
Up Right Up Center Up Left Right Stage Center Stage Left Stage Down Right Down Center Down Left
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The rhythm of speech used with music.
What is melody?
500
List the eight periods of theatrical history in chronological order.
Greek Roman Medieval Renaissance Restoration Neoclassical/Melodrama Romantic/Realism Modern
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