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Chapter 1
The word "theatre" comes from this Greek
word which means seeing
place. . .
What is theatron?
This is the name for a long
standing theatre company or
group of theatre practicioners.
What is troupe?
In this theatrical craft or job, technicians execute in proper sequence, and with carefully rehearsed
timing, the light and sound cues, the shifting
of scenery, the placement of properties,
etc.
What is crewing?
The task of handling all necessary
personnel, financing; promotion and legal
efforts is the responsibility of this
person.
What is the producer?
The responsibilities for admitting, seating, and
providing for the general comfort of the audience falls
to this person.
What is the house manager?
The person who controls and develops the
artistic product and provides it with a unified vision.
What is the director?
This theatrical craft is usually executed away
from the theatre
building.
What is the playwriting?
This distinctive feature of theatre,
separates it from other arts and
started what we know as acting.
What is the impersonation?
He created the “paradox of the
actor” that onstage the actor
disappears or seems lifeless while the
simulated character seems to live.
Who is Denis Diderot?
The English word for person comes from this
Latin word for mask.
What is persona?
This mode of performance is less theatrical
and more realistic.
What is representational?
This mode of performance
acknowledges the audience— the
performer jokes, and responds overtly to
the audience.
What is presentational?
The mode of performance in
which the audience watches interactions that are staged as if no audience were
present at all.
What is representational?
an action focused around a particular
conflict, which gives the action
significance
What is a play?
The purging or cleansing of pity and terror, which
the audience develops during the climax of a
tragedy
What is catharsis?
Oedipus' adoptive parents
Who are Polybus and Merope?
wrote Oedipus the King
Who is Sophocles?
Wrote the Poetics and is considered
the first dramaturg.
Who is Aristotle?
The final scene, action, or lines in a
play devoted to bringing the play to a
new level of harmony,
understanding, or resolution after the
climax
denouement
The historical length of most
plays
What is two to three hours?
The number of acts in traditional full length plays
What is three?
The minimal requirement for a theatre “building
What is a place to act and a place to
watch?
In play construction, the single action that
initiates the major conflict of
the play
What is the inciting incident?
Oedipus’ wife and mother
Who is Jocasta?
The blind prophet who tells Oedipus
that he is the killer of Laius.
Who is Tiresias?
Jocasta’s brother; Oedipus accuses him of trying to take over the
throne
Who is Creon?
This is where Oedipus learned that his destiny was to kill his
father and marry his mother
What is the oracle of Delphi?
Oedipus used these to stab out
his eyes
A public meeting in ancient Greek times where the playwright and actors would
publicize the play
What is a proagon?
Like when a circus comes to town, ancient
greek plays often started with this.
What is a procession or
parade?
In Elizabethan times, this would be flown above
the playhouse to advertise the
play
What is a flag?
Aristotle’s 6 elements (plot,
character, thought, diction, music,
spectacle) comprise this axis of play structure.
What is vertical?
Aristotle’s element that describes the play's use of rhythm and
sounds
What is music?
Aristotle’s element that
includes words, epigrams,
imagery and other literary devices. . .
What is diction?
The temporal events of the play; how the
play is experienced in
time is the ________ axis.
What is horizontal?
Aristotle’s element that includes all
visual aspects of the play
(lighting, costumes,
scenery, etc)
What is spectacle?
Aristotle’s element that
involves making an
audience care.
What is character?
The abstracted intellectual
content of the play.
What is theme?
dramatic genre purports to be serious but, in fact,
deals with human issues on only the most superficial level, embellished with
spectacular staging, sensational dialogue, and
highly suspenseful and contrived plotting
What is melodrama?
Shakespeare often used this opening speech
to give exposition to the audience.
What is prologue?
A play that dramatizes the
key events in the life of a king or head of state,
such as Shakespeare's
Henry IV
What is a history play?