Comedy and Tragedy
What is the difference between comedy and tragedy?
What is comedies end with people joining together in celebration and tragedies end with the characters alone.
What kind of special effects did Shakespeare use?
What is
Realistic swordplay
Sheep’s blood bladders
Trapdoors for ghosts
Cannons
Which ISM uses real sounding dialogue?
What is Realism?
A drama set entirely to music, all the lines are sung usually to grand classical music.
When a dramatist or director tries to distance or estrange the audience so they can consciously think about the play’s theme.
What is the Alienation Effect
A play with sophisticated humour and wit, generally relating to social commentary or political satire
What is high comedy
What is it called when you use language to create a scene instead of set pieces?
What is verbal scene painting.
Which ISM allows for longer time spans, wider sweeping plots, frequent shifts in location and large casts?
What is Epic Theatree
A play built around a particular band’s songs
What is a Jukebox Musical
The Three Categories of this ISM are: Fatalist, Hilarious and Existentialist.
What is Absurdism
What is Greece.
True or False: Shakespeare used historically accurate costumes.
Waiting for Godot is an example of what ism?
What is absurdism
The spoken lines of dialogue as well as plot of a musical.
What is the Book.
What is the main character of a tragedy called?
What is a Tragic Hero
Socially relevant comedies that force audiences to reassess their culture, community and values. Prime function was to expose the blemishes of society through political Satire.
What is Comedy of Ideas.
Who played the role of women in Shakespearean times?
What is adolescent/teenage boys.
What type of ISM takes a heartfelt look at life, stress instinct, intuition and emotions?
What is Romanticism
A song that often results in a torrent of applause
What is a showstopper
What is a character's fatal flaw called?
What is Hamartia
Main style of low comedy. It traps characters in fast-paced situations with wild complications, mistaken identities and incredible coincidences.
What is Farce
How did most Shakespearean plays begin?
What is with an event (like fighting)
Which ISM uses: Dark lighting, exaggerated gestures, and physicality and symbolic rather than literal sets.
What is Expressionism
Repeating a song with some new lyrics, meaning, or subtext to make a dramatic point.
What is a reprise
What uses formulaic plots with oversimplified moral dilemmas and often supports the values of: love, marriage, God and country