Audience, Directing, and Acting
The specific movement of actors in relation to each other and the set
What was a big development in theatre spaces during the Renaissance Period?
The Proscenium stage
What type of plot structure was Shakespeare famous for using? (Midsummer Night's Dream)
Episodic Plot Structure
(Features: Several sub plots, takes place over several days/with time jumps, everything converges at the end)
What city did the case about banning performances of Hair the musical start?
Chattanooga
3 Unique Qualities of a theatrical experience?
-Relationship between audience and performer
-Engages all 5 senses
-Each performance is unique and non-repeatable.
What is the origin of intermission breaks?
They needed to change out the candles used to light the stage
What type of plot structure is Medea by Euripedes?
Tragic
What type of musical is built around an idea or theme rather than a story?
Concept Musical
(Examples- Hair, Assassins, American Idiot)
What is the type theatre that usually surrounds the audience or tries to involve the audience more actively than a typical play?
Immersive Theatre
Name some historical examples of a THRUST stage
Ancient Greek stages
Noh stages
Elizabethan (Shakespeare's Globe)
What is CATHARSIS?
Purging or releasing emotions
What is the type of theatre that countered Realism and has a distorted dream-like quality?
Expressionism
Which member of the team would usually think about the SPINE OF THE PLAY?
The director
What period of theatre is Neoclassicism related to?
Renaissance
(Renaissance= Rebirth
Neoclassicism= New Classics)
Name two types of comedy and describe them
Farce- slapstick, physical comedy, non stop action
Burlesque- bawdy, lowbrow
Satire- tongue-in-cheek, makes fun of power
Domestic Comedy- about everyday people (sitcoms)
Comedy of Manners- about wealthy society (Importance of Being Earnest- rich people problems)
Alienation and theatricality is related to which theatre maker?
Bertolt Brecht