Playwrights
Who wrote Oedipus?
Sophocles
A dramatic work that is light and humorous in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.
Comedy
Strike
What were the 3 categories of Shakespeare's plays?
Tragedy, Comedy, History
Name two unions and the acronyms they utilize
SAG, AFTRA, AEA, IATSE, AFM
This playwright is known for his comical wit and use of satirical humor, greatly featured in The Importance of Being Earnest.
Oscar Wilde
Was formed with the aim of bringing a greater accuracy of real life to texts and performances through theatrical conventions. It was the dominant style of theatre in the late 19th century. Its goal was “likeness to life”.
Realism
An imaginary wall between the actors and the audience that disallows interaction between the two groups of people.
Fourth Wall
What was founded to employ out of work directors, writers, actors, and artists?
The Federal Theatre Project
A thrust stage has the audience on how many sides?
3
This playwright penned The Pittsburgh Cycle, which consists of 10 plays detailing the hopes and struggles of African Americans.
August Wilson
When the audience is meant to be distanced from the characters in the play so they would think about what the play was saying instead of sympathizing with the characters. The audience is always aware that they are watching a play.
Epic Theatre
The person who runs rehearsals, calls the cues during the show, and in general, is in charge of the technical aspects of the production.
Annual spring festival in early March that featured Greek music, dance, and art.
Theatre Dionysia
This word means "to act without any words"
Pantomime
A realistic playwright who wrote about the mundane lifestyle of the characters, and is known for working with Stanislavski at the Moscow Art Theatre. He was a master of understatement and being subtle. He wrote The Seagull.
Anton Chekhov
Has exaggerated plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions. It is usually based around having the same character traits, e.g. a hero, heroine, villain, and villain’s sidekick. It is also used in scholarly and historical musical contexts to refer to dramas of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Melodrama
Name of the entranceways for a Greek Chorus. Also happens to be the name of a Choral Ode.
Parados
Playwrights in the 1900’s decided to distance themselves from Realism and previous conventions in this series of theatre movements such as Absurdism.
Avant Garde
This playwright was also a spy for Queen Elizabeth. Wrote Doctor Faustus.
Christopher Marlowe
Also the founder of Epic Theatre, this playwright penned many great works such as Mother Courage and Her Children and The Threepenny Opera.
Bertolt Brecht
This form of theatre gave the lower class people of Brazil an outlet for keeping up with what was going on in the world
Theatre of the Oppressed
The character’s thoughts; the hidden meaning underlining what the character’s saying.
Subtext
Commedia D'ell Arte utilized masks and stock characters in an improvised setting. What were the names of the stock improvised scenarios they used?
Lazzi
Who is known as the "Father of Realism"?
Henrik Ibsen