Terms
Theater
Shakspearean/Classical
Tragicomidy and the Absurd
Modern Theater
100
a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
What is Modernism
100
3 walls that joined in 2 corners and a ceiling that is tilted
What is Box Set
100
Which genre focused on the gods and Kings
What is Classical
100
Ordinary people, inglorious, inarticulate, who carry on not from bravery but from inertia
What is Antiheroes
100
a period of great change within the theatrical culture of the 20th century.
What is Modern Theater
200
The attempt to reproduce faithfully the surface appearance of life is known as
What is Realism
200
A structure that holds the action within a proscenium arch
What is Picture-frame stage
200
Which genre focused more on religion aspect
What is Classical
200
Plays that stir us not only to pity and fear, but also to laughter
What is Tragicomedies
200
late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism.
What is Postmodernism
300
A kind of realism in fiction and drama dealing with the more brutal or unpleasant aspects of reality
What is Naturalism
300
A gateway standing in front of the scenery
What is proscenium arch
300
Which theater genre was acted out on a smaller stage
What is Shakspeare
300
Meaning that the section of comedy introduces a sharp contrast in mood
What is Comic relief
300
"Political theatre" is a term that has been used to refer to three different things: theatre that comments on political issues, political action or protest that has a theatrical quality to it, and any action by politicians that is intended to make a point rather than accomplish something substantive
What is Political Theater
400
Exaggerated make up and costuming, writers and producers reflect on intense states of emotion and depict the world through the eyes of lunatics
What is Expressionism
400
Type of play that first staged in Paris in the 1950s
What is theater of the Absurd
400
Which genre was considered to be almost taboo
What is Shakespeare
400
Stands a philosophical fear that human existence has no meaning
What is a Theater of the Absurd
400
began in the late nineteenth century that would expand into what might be called antirealistic theatre.
What is Symbolism
500
French theater, influentially expressed by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck, whose work conjures up a spirit world we cannot directly perceive
What is the Symbolist Movement
500
Explores the lives, problems, and occasional triumphs of contemporary women
What is feminist theater
500
Which genre usually had the most amount of people
What is Shakespeare
500
Passages of clownish humor
What is Comic Relief
500
also known as avant-garde theatre) began in Western theatre in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu plays as a rejection of both the age in particular and, in general, the dominant ways of writing and producing plays.
What is Experimental Theater
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