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Section 1 Flashcards

1
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Module 1 introduced the idea of the ‘socially theatrical’ person. Is this the same as theatre?

A

No

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2
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Section 1 discussed professional wrestling. Is The Undertaker doing theatre (according to your reading?)

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Yes. Theatre in the “raw”.

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3
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On stage, “we will accept that a stage has become an ocean for the duration of a performance”. What is this called in theatre?

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Stage convention

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4
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To cry at the death of Mufasa in a production of The Lion King means you have…

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Suspended your belief

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Can a bench be a car?

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  • in theatre yes
  • if there is an accepted stage convention, yes
  • if you have suspended your belief, yes

(all of the above)

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“A strong theatrical event has an agreed upon script/event that has been created by a script writer or playwright.” The assumption when going to a play is that something interesting is going to happen worthy of our attention. Which of the following is more likely to appear in a stage play?

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A 12 year old vampire with a blood allergy has arrived at summer camp and has forgotten his sun screen

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What is a big difference between live theatre and film?

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The immediacy is different

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Live theatre events are always different each night whereas a film never changes. What examples were given?

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During a showing of Avengers: The Age of Ultron, a cell phone goes off. The person is rude and begins to talk loudly on the phone. Mark Ruffalo can’t hear this in film and respond AS THE HULK, “Get off phone, puny man, or Hulk SMASH!” No, it is always the same performance no matter what.

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Live theatre events are always different each night whereas a film never changes. What examples were given?

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A ten-year-old girl stood up in the front row and yelled at the actor playing Falstaff. She said, “I can’t understand a damn word you’re saying! And besides! This is a re-run! I saw this show last week!”

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10
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Are Reality TV shows and stage Realism real?

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NO!

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What exactly is realism?

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  • theatrical illusion
  • truth seeming
  • performance style

(all of the above)

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Who or what is Og?

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A sensitive theoretical caveman

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13
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The most common Western dramatic form of storytelling uses…

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Cause and effect

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If you build logically toward a climatic end of a story, this is probably what form of dramatic storytelling structure?

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Climatic

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__________ explores the belief that the entire world is _________ and therefore any truthful exploration of the human experience will also be __________ and make little sense.

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Absurdism/absurb

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It may be assumed that we developed basic language skills before we began telling actual story.

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True

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17
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Some surmise that the ability to tell a story is not only entertaining and sometimes educational, but may be…

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A key human survival trait

18
Q

A ——– is nothing without the story behind it that explains is.

A

Ritual

19
Q

According to a major theory presented in your module, the first story and ritual was invented…

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  • by Og
  • to call on the spirits for aid
  • to create hope

(all of the above)

20
Q

What is a Kusillo?

A
  • the world’s oldest known clown
  • a mythical creature of the underworld
  • an embodiment of chaos and creation

(all of the above)

21
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——— is a repeatable event. Great care must be taken. There are rules/conventions that must be followed that match the expectations of the group.

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  • ritual
  • drama

(all of the above)

22
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Where was the first recorded play?

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Egypt

23
Q

What character was featured in the Aydos Passion Play?

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Osiris

24
Q

Any play that details the story of life, death, and resurrection of any deity may be called?

A

A passion play

25
Q

Which culture, Egyptian or Greek, had more influence on later Western cultures?

A

Greek

26
Q

Greek theatre was performed…

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  • outdoors
  • in the daylight
  • with no sound aplification

(all of the above)

27
Q

Deus Ex Machina means ‘God in the Machine’. What does it refer to?

A

A special effect where gods are flown in with ropes and pulleys

28
Q

Greek plays were also performed as a part of religious festivals in honor of…

A

Dionysus

29
Q

The function of the Greek Chorus was to watch and comment on the action after a major scene took place. These ‘chorale odes’ may have…

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Been sung or chanted

30
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According to many records, __________ is considered to be the person who was the first principal actor in a play. (We discussed earlier that this has been discovered to be incorrect.) The story goes that _________ stepped away from the Chorus and spoke to them and engaged in a dialogue that was different from the group chanting that had been going on.

A

Thepsis

31
Q

Greek Tragic Poets normally presented their plays in groups of four: three tragedies and a Satyr Play. Where?

A

Festival Dionysus

32
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The Satyr Play…

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  • was an early form of comedy
  • is the origin of the word ‘satiric’
  • was performed in addition to tragedies

(all of the above)

33
Q

Who is often called the father or Greek drama (and/or tragedy)?

A

Aeschylus

34
Q

He was the first to introduce the use of three actors separate from the Chorus. His most famous tragedies feature Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. Who is this man?

A

Sophocles

35
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He was a rebel known for daring to raise questions about the validity of the gods themselves. Two of his most significant works were The Bacchae and Medea. Who was he?

A

Euripedes

36
Q

Who was the most siginificant comic Greek Playwright? He wrote Lysistrata.

A

None of the above

(Aristophanes)

37
Q

The Greek philosopher Aristotle (one of the big three of ancient philosophy) described the formula for a dramatic script. It is believed that Aristotle wrote two books on the dramatic form; one on tragedy and one on comedy. Only the book on tragedy survived. What is it called?

A

The Poetics

38
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What is a kathornoi?

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A stage shoe

39
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What is an Archon?

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  • chief magistrate
  • first producers or perhaps a generous church Deacon
  • the person you applied to as a playwright in Greece

(all of the above)

40
Q

Playwrights were referred to as didaskalos, which means…

A

Teacher

41
Q

If you are a kritai, you are a…

A

Judge

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