Types of Drama & Character development
A silent form of the drama in which the story is developed by movement, gesture, facial expression, and stage properties.
What is Pantomime?
The speed at which words are spoken.
What is Rate?
The emotional feeling of the play.
What is Mood?
He wrote Medea.
Who is Euripides
Which Person analyzes the text and creates a vision for bringing the play to life?
Who is the Director?
The type of drama where the chief objective is to amuse.
What is Comedy?
Using the correct vowel and consonant sounds in words, and the placing of the accent on the stressed syllables.
What is Pronunciation?
The series of related events that take place in the play.
What is Plot?
He added a single voice to the chorus; became the first actor.
Who is Thespis?
The _____________oversees all the technical crews during the preparation period.
Who is the Tech Director?
These showed how useless human efforts were to change fate determined by the gods in Greek and Roman times.
What are Tragedies?
The relative highness or lowness of the voice at any given time.
What is Pitch?
The basic idea of a play; the specific idea that gives unity and purpose to everything that happens in the play.
What is Theme?
Greek and Roman theatre use a ____________ to explain situations and comment on the action of the play.
What is the Chorus?
Whenever scenery moves on or off stage horizontally from the wings, or offstage areas, this is the responsibility of the ____________.
What is the Deck Crew?
What the character wants.
What is Objective?
Speaking continuously on one level; giving each sentence exactly the same inflection.
What is Monotone?
The information put before the audience that gives the where, when, why, and who facts of a play.
What is Exposition?
The __________ was a circular area where the chorus danced.
What is the Orchestra?
The person or persons that control the money.
Who are the Producers?
The thing that gets in the way of what the character wants.
What is Obstacle?
The strength, force or intensity with which sound is made.
What is Volume?
What are the parts of a performance that support the action of the actors?
What is Lighting and Sound, Costumes and Props, Scenery and Stage Set?
These were used to show emotions of the actors, and also used as megaphones.
What are Masks?
The ____________________is the brain that tells all the other parts what to do.
Who is the Stage Manager?