Audience and Critics

Question 1

Types of Genres

Answer 1

Comedy, Tragedy, Melodrama, Tragicomedy

Question 2

Aristotle’s 6 Elements of a Play

Answer 2

Plot, Character, Theme, Diction, Music, Spectacle

Question 3

Theatre Conventions

Answer 3

Place (scenery), Time, Acting

Question 4

Asides

Answer 4

When then audience hears the actor, but the actors on stage are not supposed to hear

Question 5

Comic Devices

Answer 5

1. Exaggeration
2. Incongruity
3. Automatism
4. Character Inconsistency
5. Surprise
6. Satire

Question 6

Soliloquy

Answer 6

Monologue that shares emotion, actor is talking to themselves

Question 7

Confidant

Answer 7

A person you share information with

Question 8

The significance of Show Boat, Oklahoma, Of Thee I Sing, and West Side Story

Answer 8

They are musical comedies?

Question 9

Critique VS Review

Answer 9

Critique: can be formal or informal, publicly expresses an opinion, inform public ab whether or not to attend a play

Review: less professional, more subjective, kind of like a “summary”

Question 10

Why do audiences attend the theatre? (9)

Answer 10

1. Entertainment
2. Witness change
3. Confront social problems
4. Immediate quality
5. Universal quality
6. Learn about human nature
7. Learn from the past
8. Reaffirm beliefs
9. Feel emotion

Question 11

Theatre vs Drama

Answer 11

Theatre: comes from Greek word meaning seeing place, aka “an event”
Drama: comes from Greek word meaning to do, aka “production, doing the performance, refers to the script”

Question 12

3 Critical Perspectives

Answer 12

1. What makes a play successful?
2. What gives a theatrical production significance or impact?
3. What makes it unforgettable?

Question 13

4 elements necessary for a theatre production

Answer 13

1. Actors
2. A script
3. Audience
4. Place

Question 14

5 facts about case study

Answer 14

1. Hallie Flanagan organized the Federal Theatre Project after AR farmers raid to get food during Dust Bowl
2. Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal was kidnapped and arrested for his work in cultural activism
3. In California, farmers performed actos in flatbed trucks to raise awareness of poor working conditions
4. A New York group traveled to perform to voice their support of the 99% of Americans who are not the wealthiest
5. Juliano Mer-Khamis was murdered for creating theatre that engaged his conflicted community

Question 15

Which theatre style?

This movement was selective; for example, a window on a set might not open but instead be a whole in the wall with curtains over it. It is described as “likeness to life.”

Answer 15

realism?

Question 16

What style of theatre?

This movement was exaggerated and poetic in nature, big costumes, big sets, elaborate language. It came before Realism and centered around freedom of expression.

Answer 16

Romanticism?

Question 17

What style of theatre?

This movement offered audiences a “slice of life”; if a window was on the set, it was a real window, with glass, that opened.

Answer 17

Naturalism

Question 18

What style of theatre?

Bertold Brecht is best known for this style; he wanted the audience to NOT lose themselves in a play and to always be aware that they were being taught a lesson.

Answer 18

Epic-theatre

Question 19

What style of theatre?

This style had shocking dialogue, exaggerated scenes, bright sounds and lights; later was described as a way the playwright revealed inner truth. Characters sometimes represented things or ideas instead of real people.

Answer 19

Symbolism?

Question 20

What style of theatre?

Bertold Brecht is best known for this style; he wanted the audience to NOT lose themselves in a play and to always be aware that they were being taught a lesson.

Answer 20

Theatre of Alienation?

Question 21

What style of theatre?

Plays in this style dealt with the futility and pointlessness of life.

Answer 21

Absurdism