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Mid-term Flashcards

1
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Rituals

Efficacy

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Unconscious guidelines

Symbolic time

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Entertainment

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Fun
Only for present
Criticism
Theatre

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Spectrums

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Amusement and art
Entertainment and efficacy
Empathy and aesthetic distance

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4
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Theatron

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Seeing place

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5
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Proscenium stage

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FRAME
realism
Distance

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Thrust (classical)

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3/4 round
Audience on 3 sides
Classics, storytelling

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Arena stage

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Tribal ancient rituals
No elaborate scenery
Intimate

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Traverse

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Audience on 2 sides 
Runway and Harry Potter 
Lot of space 
Want audience to see everything 
Good conflict
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Found space

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Non-traditional
Not built as performance space
Bar, tent, living room

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Black box

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Newest
Economically and aestheticly popular
Flexible and moveable

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11
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Empathy

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Feeling

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12
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Aesthetic distance

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Thinking and analyzing

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13
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18th century Japan

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Banned popular plays about lovers commuting suicide

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14
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Off-off-Broadway

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Described plays that happened outside traditional theatre places

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Dionysus

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Greek god of theatre, wine, fertility

Celebrations led to theatre

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Bloody bloody Andrew Jackson

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Humor and rock music for popularity of historic figure

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17
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Plato

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Theatre is potentially dangerous to public

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18
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Drama and therapy

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Creating theatre has beneficial effect

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19
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Cat on a hot tin roof

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No traditional casting of African Americans

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20
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Aristotle

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Student of Plato

Liked theatre, unlike him

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21
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Six elements of theatre

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Spectacle 
Rhythm
Language 
Thought 
Character
Plot
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22
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Plot

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Mythos

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Thought

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Dianoia

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Character

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Ethos

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25
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Language

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Lexis

Diction

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26
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Rhythm

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Melos

Music

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27
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Spectacle

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Opsio

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28
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Persona

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Ancient Rome, mask worn

Now, social role

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29
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Front of house

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Theatre operations that deal directly with audience

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30
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Sweeney Todd

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“Stunning amalgamation of humor horror and melodrama

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31
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Representational

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made to look and function realistically

32
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Presentational

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Suggests world for the play without authentically showing it

33
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Director

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Picks out costumes with costume designer

34
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Taste

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Personal preference

35
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Freitag’s plot diagram

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Exposition | inciting incident | rising action | climax | falling action | resolution | denouement

36
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Denouement

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“New norm”/ world order

37
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Exposition

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Show normal nothing fancy

38
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High art

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Fine and fancy

39
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Low art

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Pop culture

40
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Tragedy

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Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides

41
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Comedy

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Aristophanes

42
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Tragedy

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Classic (good vs. evil) 
Complex (reversal of fortune) 
Pathetic (motivated by passion) 
Ethic (moral) 
Simple 
Modern (tragic view of life)
43
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Comedy

Renews in end of play

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Idea (“smart”, if/then)
Character (from persona)
Manners (make fun of social)
Farse (low comedy)
Situational (people aren’t funny, situation is)
Sketch (SNL)
Cringe (embarrassing, schadenfreude {harm-joy})

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Tragic comedy

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More empathy
Serious work with happy ending
Blurs lines
Focus on character

45
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Dark (Black) comedy

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Audience experiences laughter and discomfort

Horrible bosses

46
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Melodrama

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Empathy
Exaggerated plot and character
Polar molarization (good vs. evil)
Titanic

47
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Linear plot

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Events progress forward and sequentially

48
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Metatheatre

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Play within a play

49
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Levels of characterization

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Physical, biological, social, ethical, psychological

50
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Ruined

A

Challenges human ethical choices in disturbing way

51
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Arthur miller

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Wrote “tragedy and the common man”

52
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Convention

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Agreement between actors and audience that we don’t think think about them.

53
Q

We have more than ______ percent of Greek plays produced in classical period

54
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Orchestra

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Dancing place

55
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Theatron

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Seeing place

56
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Skene

57
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Parados

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Area for entering and exiting

58
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Kabuki

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Most popular form of Classical Japanese theatre

59
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Shakespeare’s company

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Lord chamberlains men

60
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Neoclassical theatre relied on

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Time, place, and action

61
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David Douglass

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Built first permanent theatre structure in U.S.

62
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Communitas

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Spirit of community

63
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Stages of rituals

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Initiation
Liminality
Re-integration

64
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First actor

65
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Second actor

66
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Third actor

67
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Deus ex machina

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Mechane (crane)
Ekkyklema (trap door)

Problems magically solved @end

68
Q

Terence and Plautus

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Took Greek theatre made by Menander

69
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Medieval drama

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Liturgical (church)

Vernacular (street)

70
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Hrotsvitha of gandersheim

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First female play write

71
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Commedia dell’arte

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Comedy of professionals
Troupes
Stock characters

72
Q

Lazzi

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Little comedic things
Slipping on banana peel
Every character has

73
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Enamorate

74
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Vecchi

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Older gen 
Blocks lovers 
Father or rival 
Il capitano 
Il dottore
Pantalone
75
Q

Zanni

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Servants
Help lovers
Arleachino
Colombina

76
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English Renaissance

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Elizabethan era 
Golden era 
Playhouses 
Flags 
Shakespeare 
Kings men troupe 
Iambic pentameter
77
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Peter brook’s def of theatre

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Empty space
Performer
Spectator

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