Theatre Appreciation Review

Script Analysis

100

This category from Fuchs focuses on things like climate, mood, and tone.

First things first: The world of the play

200

This category from Fuchs focuses on things like how patterns and characters behave

The social world of the play

300

This category from Fuchs focuses on things like comparisons to other forms like movies, musicals, books, and plays. 

Example: Hamlet is The Lion King

Theatrical Mirrors

400

This category from Fuchs focuses on things like what the play wants you to learn. What is the moral? 

Don't forget yourself

500

Fuchs says you should look at this last when breaking down a script. 

The character

Acting

100

In acting this is a pause or brief moment or anytime there is a shift in the monologue

A beat

200

When one person delivers a speech or tells a story its called this

A monologue

300

This is how a character gets what they want

Tactic

400

This is what the character wants currently. It changes scene by scend

Objective

500

This is what the character wants more than anything. Rarely changes. It's their entire reason for being.

Super Objective

Playwriting

100

This part of a play is typically centered and tells us who is speaking. 

The Character

200

This part of formatting is left aligned and tells us the who, what, when, where, and why.

Stage Directions

300

The speech of a play

Dialogue

400

You can add these to give the action to the actor and help embellish your play. 

Parenthesis 

500

You can do this to a character's name when they first enter in a script.

Capitalize it

Musical Theatre

100

This type of musical theatre song tells us the desires of the character

I want song

200

This type of musical theatre song is usually funny..haha get it? 

A comedy song

300

This type of musical theatre song moves the story along, like a Travel Song from Shrek. 

Transition Song

400

This type of musical theatre song introduces us to the character. In Act 2, it could be a type of realization.

I AM Song

500

This type of musical theatre song is an I want song, but they are usually still trying to get what they want, and it hurts them emotionally. 

A torch song. 

Miscellaneous

100

This type of musical theatre song wakes the crowd up before the end of the show.

The 11 O'clock number

200

Which play was our very first reading in class? 

Clyde's

300

This person was the main character in Fat Ham

Juicy

400

Which game involves movement to the left, right, or across from one another, be careful not to mix up your Z's.

Zip, Zap, Zop!

500

What was Shrek's super-objective? 

To be the hero or to be recognized/wanted.