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Theatrical Elements
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Musicals!
Plots
100
"STELLLLLAAAAAA!!!"
What is Stanley Kowalski from "A Streetcar Named Desire"?
100
These are the people presented in the play that are involved in the perusing plot.
What is Characters?
100
This mother killed her children to spite her ex-husband because she "hated him more than she loved them."
What is Medea?
100
"Supercalafragilisicexpialadocious"
What is "Mary Poppins"?
100
A man prepares for his final trip-the trip to the afterlife. But nobody wants to go with him!
What is "Everyman"?
200
"My own flesh and blood—dear sister, dear Ismene, how many griefs our father Oedipus handed down! Do you know one, I ask you, one grief that Zeus will not perfect for the two of us while we still live and breathe? There’s nothing, no pain—our lives are pain—no private shame, no public disgrace, nothing I haven’t seen in your grief and mine."
What is Antigone from "Antigone"?
200
Where a play takes place.
What is Setting?
200
This mother marries her son-ewwwwww!
What is Jocasta?
200
"I feel Pretty"
What is "Westside Story"?
200
Viola loves Orsino, Orsino loves Olivia, Olivia loves Cesario, who happens to be Viola impersonating a man. But then Olivia meets Sebastian, Viola/Cesario's twin brother...what is this?!
What is "Twelfth Nigh, or What You Will?"
300
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
What is Algernon from "The Importance of Being Earnest"?
300
A tragedy ends usually in death, as opposed to this type of play that ends happily, usually with marriages.
What is Comedy?
300
This mother won't allow her daughter to marry the man she loves because he was found in a leather purse in a railway station.
What is Aunt Augusta?
300
"The Wizard and I"
What is "Wicked"?
300
This disfuntional family makes a failed attempt to find a suitor for their crippled daughter/sister
What is "The Glass Menagerie"?
400
"All motion is relative. Perhaps it is YOU who have moved away - by standing still."
What is Henry Drummond from "Inherit the Wind"?
400
The section of the plot beginning with the point of attack and/or inciting incident and proceeding forward to the crisis onto the climax. The action of the play will rise as it set up a situation of increasing intensity and anticipation. These scenes make up the body of the play and usually create a sense of continuous mounting suspense in the audience.
What is Rising Action?
400
This mother kills herself after learning of the death of her own son.
What is Eurydice?
400
"Seasons of Love"
What is "Rent"?
400
A dreaded in-law comes to town...she's literally crazy!
What is "A Streetcar Named Desire"?
500
"Ye think in the beginning full sweet, Which in the end causeth the soul to weep."
What is the Messenger from "Everyman"?
500
A long speech made by a character representing thought.
What is Soliloquoy?
500
This mother forces her son to bring home a possible suitor for her crippled daughter.
What is Amanda?
500
"Can't Stop the Beat"
What is "Hairspray"?
500
This Greek tragedy is about a man destined to kill his father and marry his mother
What is "Oedipus Rex"?