Genre and Style
What is comedy
The term for text spoken by characters within a play.
What is dialogue
As an actor, articulating *how* you will achieve your objective is described as this.
What are tactics
The City Dionysia festival was a celebration of this Greek god.
Who is Dionysus
This character experiences hammartia in the play Antigone.
Who is Creon
This is a convention with farce.
What is overturning authority, importance of actors, physical humor/chaos, situation-based comedy
The term for the moment when a protagonist makes their objective clear.
What is the inciting incident
Acting approaches that include physicality, movement, breath, and the body can be defined this way.
What are external approaches.
This philosopher believed that theatre was a powerful teaching tool.
Who was Aristotle
This character discovered the death of Mr. Wright at the beginning of Trifles.
Who is Mr. Hale
You can expect tragedies to end with themes of ______.
What is regeneration and renewal
The dramatic structure that includes chronological events shown to the audience in a different order from how they occurred.
What is non-linear structure
Lee Strausberg popularized this acting technique.
What is The Method
The Greeks used the ekkyklema for this.
What is staging bodies during plays because they couldn't stage violence
What is the death of his family
This is a common misconception about tragicomedy
What is a blend of tragedy and comedy (tragicomedy is based in ambiguity and no fixed moral system)
The world of the play as structured and suggested within the text can be described as this.
What are the given circumstances
What is responding to your scene partner, breaking down patterns of socialization, being present
What is Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale hiding evidence to protect Mrs. Wright
Before realism, actors used this style of performance in a specific genre.
What is declamatory acting in melodrama
Defined as the protagonist
What is the character who drives the plot
The "magic if" was a concept initially created by this person.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavski
This is one of the purposes of the Chorus in Greek theatre.
What is acting as mediator for the audience, explaining the mythology, analyzing the story
This character in Antigone represents the "middle way" between two extremes.
Who is Ismene