Chapter 6: Romanticism/Realism/Naturalism

Question 1

Box Set

Answer 1

A setting that fully encloses the acting space on three slides like the walls of a room, resembling a box with one side removed

Question 2

Gas Table

Answer 2

The Control Board for a lighting system that uses gas as the illuminant

Question 3

Independent Theatre Movement

Answer 3

Beginning in the 1880s, artistic movement away from mainstream. Not censored, Avant-garde theatre

Question 4

Limelight

Answer 4

The first effective spotlight. Extremely bright due to light shining through a column of calcium

Question 5

Stanislavsky’s method

Answer 5

“Method Acting”- actors completely become the character

Question 6

Naturalism

Answer 6

Extreme Realism, working class = middle and upper class. Recreates the details fo everyday life

Question 7

Neoclassicism

Answer 7

Renaissance - end of 1700s, only saw tragedy (upper class) and comedy (middle/lower class) Never mixing. Only 5 acts, Time + Place + Action, poetic justice

Question 8

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)

Answer 8

• Known as the founder of Modern Drama.
• Large Controversy because his plays didn’t reaffirm accepted values/institutions, “Immoral and Corrupting”
• “A Doll’s House”
• Social and Personal Morality

Question 9

George Bernard Shaw

Answer 9

• “Mrs. Warren’s Profession

Question 10

Anton Chekhov

Question 11

Panorama

Question 12

Melodrama

Question 13

Romanticism

Question 14

Realism