chapter 1 Flashcards
(28 cards)
characteristics that all performers share
audience, actors, arrangement, arena, action
purposes of performance can be categorized as
organization, ?, ?
the difference between ritual and theatrical performance
theatre tries to be an artwork while rituals do not
aesthetic response is
positive response to the arts form and the quality of its execution
what type of theatrical genre became the most popular during 19th century Europe and America?
melodrama
what are Aristotle’s 6 elements of drama
plot, character, diction, thought, music, spectacle
episodic plays often have an early_______ and tend to explore a ______rather than tell a story.
point of attack, condition
playwrights give 4 main types of character information which are
physical: external experience
social: characters place in his or her environment
psychological: inner workings of the mind that precede the action
moral/ethical: what characteristics are willing to do to get what they want
if the character is alone on stage or speak as if the others cannot hear him or her
soliloquy
name four of the most predominate genres of plays
comedy, tragedy, melodrama, musical theatre
later in ______ and the in ______ world, play writing was professionalized, but still relativity esteemed, and although the works of only a handful of these playwrights exist today, we know the names of many more
Greece
Roman
the _____ plays of the middle ages, in fact, are identified by the town or city that produced them, such as new York and Wakefield cycles
cycle
the system of flat fees continued until the late 18th century, when the first law granting royalties(fees for performance) was passed in ______
France
the first professional female playwright was
Aphra Behn
this type of playwright became more common in the US during 1960’s as theatre artists and companies, such as the living and opera theatres, sought working methods alternative to those of the mainstream
collabrative
the most famous playwright off the “play doctor” was
Abe Burrows
what is the process called “new play development”
playwright plays are chosen but can be altered through the process
the four typical; configurations for theatre
thrust, proscenium, flexible, arena
the proscenium stage was first introduced in_______ during the _______ in the _________ century in conjunction w/ the development of _______ scenery
Italy, the renaissance, 16th, perspective
flat scenery unless put far upstage, fails to work in ______ configuration
thrust
theatre of Dionysus on the Akrapolis in Athens has a ______ configuration
thrust
the _____ theatre consists of a stage surrounded on all four sides by raised audience
arena
Paratheatricals are
gladiatorial combat in ancient italy
“black box” theatre and many amateur, educational, and even professional companies have all used the ______ configuration
flexible
