Theatre Midterm

Question 1

First Step of the Plot

Answer 1

Exposition

Question 2

What happens during the exposition

Answer 2

Previous action, Major Dramatic Question

Question 3

What is the second step of plot

Answer 3

Rising Action

Question 4

What is included in rising action

Answer 4

Inciting incident

Question 5

What is the third step of a plot

Answer 5

Climax

Question 6

What is the fourth step of a plot

Answer 6

Falling action

Question 7

What is the fifth step of plot

Answer 7

Resolution/conclusion

Question 8

Parts of a character

Answer 8

Physical, Social, Physological, Moral

Question 9

Melodrama

Answer 9

a play interspersed with songs and orchestral music accompanying the action.
- Romantic drama
- Musicals

534 BC

Question 10

Pre-Realism

Answer 10

• 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

Question 11

What changed theatre?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

How did theatre change after the industrial revolution

Answer 12

Brought on realism

Question 13

Realism

Answer 13

• 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

Question 14

Comedy

Answer 14

• High Comedy
• Low Comedy
• Character
• Situation
• Romantic Comedy

Question 15

Comic Devices

Answer 15

• Exaggerated
• Repetition
• Surprise
• Sarcasm
• Derision

Question 16

Tragedy

Answer 16

• Hamlet
• Othello
• Macbard
• King Lear

Question 17

Comedies

Answer 17

• Much Ado
• As you like it
• AMND
• Twelth Night

Question 18

Histories

Answer 18

• Rich II III
  -Henry IV

Question 19

Romance

Answer 19

• The Tempest
• Cymbiline
• The Winter’s Tale
  -2NK

Question 20

Director

Answer 20

1. Concept reach to production
2. Colaborate
3. Administrative
4. Casting
5. Staging
6. Publishing + integration

Question 21

Scenic

Answer 21

1. Research
2. Ground plan
3. Prelimnary
4. Storyboard
5. Color rendering
6. Drafting plunge
7. Scenic model

Question 22

Costume

Answer 22

1. Illuminate/visibilty
2. Color
3. Distribution
4. Movement

Question 23

Considerations

Answer 23

1. Budget
2. Theatre Space
3. Production period
4. Casting
   5.. Mission of theatre
5. Box office potantial
6. Skills + Strenths

Question 24

Response infinte of director

Answer 24

1. Concept approach to production
2. Collaboration
3. Administrative
4. Casting
5. Staging
6. Polishing and intergration

Question 25

Casting Considerations

Answer 25

1. Skills 2. Type 3. Physical Traits 4. Schedule availablilty

Question 26

Types of theaters

Answer 26

1. prosceniun Arch, Fixed 2. Thrust 2. Arcna 4. Flexible