Theatre Midterm Flashcards

1
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First Step of the Plot

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Exposition

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2
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What happens during the exposition

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Previous action, Major Dramatic Question

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3
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What is the second step of plot

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Rising Action

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4
Q

What is included in rising action

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Inciting incident

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5
Q

What is the third step of a plot

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Climax

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6
Q

What is the fourth step of a plot

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Falling action

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7
Q

What is the fifth step of plot

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Resolution/conclusion

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8
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Parts of a character

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Physical, Social, Physological, Moral

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9
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Melodrama

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

534 BC

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10
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Pre-Realism

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  • 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
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11
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What changed theatre?

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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

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12
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How did theatre change after the industrial revolution

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Brought on realism

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13
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Realism

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  • 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
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14
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Comedy

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  • High Comedy
  • Low Comedy
  • Character
  • Situation
  • Romantic Comedy
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15
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Comic Devices

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  • Exaggerated
  • Repetition
  • Surprise
  • Sarcasm
  • Derision
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16
Q

Tragedy

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  • Hamlet
  • Othello
  • Macbard
  • King Lear
17
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Comedies

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  • Much Ado
  • As you like it
  • AMND
  • Twelth Night
18
Q

Histories

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  • Rich II III
    -Henry IV
19
Q

Romance

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  • The Tempest
  • Cymbiline
  • The Winter’s Tale
    -2NK
20
Q

Director

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  1. Concept reach to production
  2. Colaborate
  3. Administrative
  4. Casting
  5. Staging
  6. Publishing + integration
21
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Scenic

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  1. Research
  2. Ground plan
  3. Prelimnary
  4. Storyboard
  5. Color rendering
  6. Drafting plunge
  7. Scenic model
22
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Costume

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  1. Illuminate/visibilty
  2. Color
  3. Distribution
  4. Movement
23
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Considerations

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  1. Budget
  2. Theatre Space
  3. Production period
  4. Casting
    5.. Mission of theatre
  5. Box office potantial
  6. Skills + Strenths
24
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Response infinte of director

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  1. Concept approach to production
  2. Collaboration
  3. Administrative
  4. Casting
  5. Staging
  6. Polishing and intergration
25
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Casting Considerations

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  1. Skills
  2. Type
  3. Physical Traits
  4. Schedule availablilty
26
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Types of theaters

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