Theatre Midterm Flashcards
First Step of the Plot
Exposition
What happens during the exposition
Previous action, Major Dramatic Question
What is the second step of plot
Rising Action
What is included in rising action
Inciting incident
What is the third step of a plot
Climax
What is the fourth step of a plot
Falling action
What is the fifth step of plot
Resolution/conclusion
Parts of a character
Physical, Social, Physological, Moral
Melodrama
a play interspersed with songs and orchestral music accompanying the action.
- Romantic drama
- Musicals
534 BC
Pre-Realism
- Roles conveyed throw gesture and posture
- Actors spoke lines written for heightened poetic language
- Often one-dimensional characters n
- Exotic locations or exciting locals
- Predictable, tidy endings
- Clear cut good versus evil
- Plays centered around the upper class , public figures, etc.
- Often lack unity of time and place
What changed theatre?
The industria; revolution which brought technology,more lighting and complexity to theatre, more slelective moetional lighting that also expanded the stage, fly stsems, accurate costuming
How did theatre change after the industrial revolution
Brought on realism
Realism
- Slice of life(decor becomes apart of the action_
- Fourth wall
- Plays about middle class
- realistic
- Actors work from life, truthful reactions, trained
- Action and objective
- Emergency of the stage director
Comedy
- High Comedy
- Low Comedy
- Character
- Situation
- Romantic Comedy
Comic Devices
- Exaggerated
- Repetition
- Surprise
- Sarcasm
- Derision