Modern Theater Movements
Aspects of Drama
The Stage
Shakespearean / Classical Theater
Modern Theater
100
An attempt to reproduce faithfully on the stage the surface appearance of life, especially that of ordinary people in everyday situations.
What is Realism?
100
Combines elements of both tragedy an comedy. usually it created potentially tragic situations that bring the protagonist to the brink of disaster but then ends happily.
What is Tragicomedy?
100
An architectural picture frame or gateway "standing in front of the scenery" that operates the auditorium from the raised stage and the world of the play.
What is Proscenium arch?
100
The actors were of this gender.
What is only men?
100
The actors are of these genders.
What is men and women.
200
A type of drama in which the characters are presented as products or victims of environment and heredity.
What is Naturalism?
200
The actor goes off script.
What is improv?
200
The big rug that goes across the stage.
What is the curtain?
200
Shows were performed during this time.
What is the afternoon?
200
The actors are paid this much.
What is a lot? Unless you're not good, then you're a waiter.
300
A style of drama that avoids direct statement and exposition for powerful evocation and suggestion. In place of realistic stage settings and actions, Symbolist drama uses lighting, music, and dialogue to create a mystical atmosphere.
What is Symbolist drama?
300
The appearance of a comic situation or character, or clownish humor in the midst of a serious action, introducing a sharp contrast in mood.
What is Comic relief?
300
A stage that hols the action within a proscenium arch, with painted scene panels designed to give the illusion of three-dimesnioabn perspective.
What is Picture-frame stage?
300
The actors were paid this much.
What is not much?
300
The tickets are this much in the front and back.
What is expensive and cheap?
400
A dramatic style developed between 1910 and 1920 in Germany in reaction against Realisms focus on surface details and external reality. It used episodic plots, distorted lines, exaggerated shapes, abnormally intense coloring, mechanical physical movement, and telegraphic speech to create a dream like subjective realm.
What is Expressionism?
400
Actors have to put these products on their faces even though it hurts their pride.
What is makeup?
400
Objects built specifically for a show to show setting.
What is the set?
400
The name of the theaters were this shape.
What is the Globe Theater?
400
The stage is this shape.
What is a one side stage and a one side audience?
500
Postwar European genre depicting the grotesquely comic light of human beings thrown by accident into an irrational and meaningless world.
What is Theater of the absurd?
500
A protagonist who is lacking in one or more of the conventional qualities attributed to a hero.
What is Antihero?
500
A stage set consisting of three walls joined in two corners and a ceiling that tilts as if seen in perspective, to provide the illusions of scenic realism for interior rooms.
What is Box set?
500
The seats were this in the back and this in the front.
What is expensive and cheap?
500
The shows were put on this often.
What is weeks/months and at night?
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