Angels in America & God Said This
THIS is the character that crashes through the ceiling at the end of the play Millennium Approaches
Who is the angel?
Hint: Make sure you study what the angel represents & who are the Angels in America? Think back to lecture...When the actor breaks this convention (of realism), they are speaking directly to the audience.
What is the fourth wall?
Hint: remember to study theatrical styles & their conventions!
True or False: Theatricalism and Realism are mutually exclusive
What is "false"?
This type of theatre space has audiences on three sides of the stage.
Hint: An example is the Jones Playhouse on UW's CampusWhat is a thrust stage?
THIS is the theatre space reminiscent of a tennis court.
What is traverse?
How does the play GOD SAID THIS end?
What is: James (the dad) offers to pick up candy bars for his daughters.
While Lee Strasberg says emotions are central to the doing, while this figure's internal approach says that emotions are a byproduct of the doing.
Who is Stella Adler?
Hint: Study internal and external approaches and figures!
THIS is the style of theatre, developed in the 19th century, aims to show life as it is through heightened imagery and surface details onstage, while THIS is the style of theatre that emerged after WWII and acknowledges that audience's presence.
What is Realism and Theatricalism?
Of all the types of Early Asian Theatre we've encountered in this course, THIS is the only one that takes both intricate mask making and costuming as one of its major conventions.
What is Japanese Noh Theatre?
Hint: Make sure you review the various conventions of the different types of Early Asian Theatre
If a theatrical production was taking place on the Link train, THIS is what you would call that theatrical space.
What is a found space?
In Rachael Herren's guest lecture, the production concept for ANGELS IN AMERICA to take place on a stage filled with sand was the vision made by the _________, and not Tony Kushner, who is the _________.
What are: the director and the playwright.
Define the difference between an actor's OBJECTIVE and their OBSTACLE.
Bonus: THIS is the CONCERN of the Actor that Rachael Herren's Directing exercise at the end of her lecture experimented with.
What are:
1. Objective: What your character wants
2. Obstacle: The barriers (human or circumstance) that are preventing the character from getting what they want.
BONUS:
Subtext: everything your character is thinking but doesn't say.
THIS figure believed theatre is a hammer with which to shape society and is most closely associated with his Epic Theatre.
Who is Bertolt Brecht?
Regarding Sanskrit theatre, private performances in noble courts would have been performed in ______.
What is Sanskrit?
Which of the following characters are defined as Kentuckians in the Character List of GOD SAID THIS:
- James
- John
- Sophie
- Masako
- Hiro
Who are:
1. John
2. James
3. Sophie
This is a theatrical device shared in Tony Kushner's Angels in America (theatricalism) and Leah Nanako Winkler's God Said This (realism) where multiple characters share the literal space of the stage but aren't in the same place onstage.
What is: split scene.
Fill in the blank: For the director, film is _________ while for the actor, the stage is __________
Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT, which we've encountered many times throughout this course thus far, is an example of THIS genre of theatre.
What is: Theatre of the Absurd?
Bill Irwin's "The Marionette" and Japanese Noh theatre actors could both be categorized under this approach to acting.
What is external?
Realism and the role of the director share this in common.
What is: they both emerged in the 19th century.
Name all five conventions of Tony Kushner's Theatre of the Fabulous
What are:
• Two-part form
• Complex narrative structure
• Mixing of everyday experience with the stuff
of dreams and fantasy
• Interruption of the realistic by the ‘angelic’
• Mingling of dialogue, monologue, diatribe,
and poetic voices.
According to Rachael Herren's guest lecture, THESE are the three things that create a unifying vision for the world of the play.
What are:
1. Spine- the what or why
2. Concept - the how
3. Managing pace, rhythm and tone - the space and time of the play.
Define the following THREE genres:
1. Melodrama
2. Tragicomedy
3. Comedy
1. Melodrama is based in conflicts between good and evil, where the source of evil comes from outside of the character.
2. Tragicomedy is the hardest to define. The characters' actions appear quite serious, and the textbook reminds us it's like tasting something simultaneously "sweet & sour"
3. Suspension of natural laws- probability, cause & effect, logic.
Hint: Make sure you review sub-genres of comedy!
THIS is the final feeling of a performance according to the Natyasastra. It's described as follows:
"Persons who eat prepared food
mixed with different condiments and sauces, if they are sensitive, enjoy the different
tastes and then feel pleasure; likewise, sensitive spectators, after enjoying the
various emotions expressed by the actors through words, gestures, and feelings
feel pleasure"
What is Rasa?
Hint: Study Indian Sanskrit Theatre and particularly, the Natyasastra!
In Japanese Bunraku, there are THIS many pupeteers per puppet
What is three?