Musicals
Character in a Play
Shakespeare
Types of Theatre
Vocabulary
100
A man who wears a mask because of his deformation, falls in love with a girl named Christine.
What is Phantom of the Opera?
100
He lives with his mother and disabled sister and works at a job that he hates to help support them. He's also the narrator of the play.
Who is Tom from The Glass Menagerie?
100
Two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
100
The audience is placed on three sides of the stage.
What is Thrust?
100
French terms meaning male and female praise singers.
What is griot/griotte?
200
Tells the story of Sophie, a bride-to-be with one wish: to have her absent father walk her down the aisle. The plot serves as a background for many ABBA songs.
What is Mamma Mia?
200
Orgon's house guest and a hypocrite in Moliere's play.
Who is Tartuffe?
200
The revenge of this prince exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering his father, who was Claudius's brother, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and this prince's mother.
What is Hamlet?
200
The audience faces the actors on one side.
What is Proscenium?
200
The character most actively trying to prevent the protagonist from achieving his goals.
What is antagonist?
300
It is about a barber who killed his clients for cash while his accomplice used their meat for her pies.
What is Sweeney Todd?
300
Cyrano’s cousin, a beautiful and intellectual heiress. She has a soft spot for romance and a love for poetry and wit.
Who is Roxane?
300
A warrior who marries into society, his inability to adjust to a world of more subtle power causes him to feel weakened and useless. When Iago, a character who loves misery for misery's sake, convinces him that his wife is having an affair he becomes wildly jealous and kills her.
What is Othello?
300
Usually circular and completely surrounded by the audience.
What is Arena?
300
The audition step where actors are given a piece of text to work on.
What is a callback?
400
A prequel to the Wizard of Oz, about two witches: Elphaba and Galinda.
What is Wicked?
400
The stranger from afar, who defeated the Sphinx and was made King of Thebes.
Who is Oedipus?
400
About a Scottish man who meets three witches that make a prophecy.
What is Macbeth?
400
Aims to eliminate the space between the actors on stage and the audience by using the total theatre space.
What is Environmental?
400
The meaning of sturm und drang.
What is storm and stress?
500
A rock musical about German teenagers coming of age in the late 1800s.
What is Spring Awakening?
500
Berniece and Boy Willie's uncle and the owner of the household in which the play, The Piano Lesson, takes place.
Who is Doaker Charles?
500
A comedy about a girl who disguises herself as a man to be near the man she loves, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
What is Twelfth Night?
500
An adjustable theatre space that holds fewer than 100 people.
What is Black Box?
500
A monologue in which the character speaks his or her thoughts aloud, not directed toward any other person.
What is a soliloquy?
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