Theatre History
What prominent playwright was popular during the Renaissance/Elizabethan era?
What is Shakespeare
What is the definition of blocking?
What is the precise staging of actors in order to facilitate the performance of a play, ballet, film or opera. This includes not only how characters travel from one place to another onstage but also their spatial relationships to one another.
According to the plot pyramid, what is labeled as the most interesting part or reveal of the story?
What is Climax
Who's perspective are the stage directions from?
What is The Actor?
Who is the God of Theatre?
What is Dionysus
What other era of theatre does Roman theatre have most in common with?
What is Greek Theatre?
Give at least three examples of Given Circumstances
What is Background, Relationships, Beliefs, Desires, and Motivations
Describe the differences between Absurdism and Realism
What is: Realism - Accurate and realistic representation of a recognizable aspect of every day of life. Absurdism - Surreal or deliberate strange representation of everyday life.
This type of stage is a flexible space, and is best used for schools, touring productions, and rehearsal.
What is a Blackbox Stage?
Who was the first actor to step out of the chorus?
What is Thespis
What type of theatre space was common among Commedia Dell’Arte?
What is raised platforms in public squares?
What is the Moment Before, and how can it help the actor?
What is the moment that happens right before the actor starts saying their lines. The moment before can help the actor develop a natural reaction in the moment when they are given the context of the scene.
According to the plot pyramid, what comes after Exposition?
What is Inciting Incident
This type of stage requires limited scenery in a show because of the sides that the audience sits in.
What is a Arena Stage?
The playwright who wrote Oedipus Rex
What is Sophocles
Name the two most notable playwrights of the Victorian Theatre Era
What is George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde?
List the four components of the Laban Movement Technique
What is Direction, Weight, Speed, and Flow?
List the 4 specific elements you have to think about when writing a world for a play.
Space, Time, Location, and Language
What is the definition of cheating out?
What is to turn your face or entire body either out to the audience to be seen better without completely turning (so it still looks natural, but you are not completely in profile).
Songs that were performed in honor of Dionysus
What are Dithyrambs
The Restoration theatre was a notable step forward in theatre history because..
What is the beginning of Women being allowed to perform on stage in England.
List all of the "9 Viewpoints"
What is Spatial Relationship, Kinesthetic Response, Shape, Gesture, Repetition, Architecture, Tempo, Duration, and Topography
List the 4 specific elements you have to think about when writing a character for a play.
What is Background Information, Specific Information, Objectives and Goals, Thoughts and Feelings
List all of the 9 stage directions
What is Upstage Right, Upstage Left, Upstage Center, Center, Stage Left, Stage Right, Downstage Center, Downstage Left, Downstage Right
List Aristotle’s 5 Elements of Tragedy
What is:
- Tragedy must provide catharsis (an emotional purge)
- The hero must be someone of high social position and have a tragic flaw
- There must be a change of fortune or discovery
-Plays must be written in the highest form of poetry
- Three Unities: Action (related events), Time (within 24 hrs), Place (one locale)