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Dionysus
Dionysus - the god of the grape harvest), winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy, and was also the driving force behind Greek theater. TERM 2
Orchestra
DEFINITION 2 literally means a dancing circle; it was a raised stage TERM 3
Tragedy
DEFINITION 3 goat-song TERM 4
Skene
DEFINITION 4 First piece of background; it's a wall with a couple of doors in it that would stand for all of the different houses; eventually it was given a roof TERM 5
Cothurni
DEFINITION 5 the things worn on the bottom of shoes, by people usually portraying Greek gods
Pageant Wagon
Mystery plays and Miracle plays (which are two different things) are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. These were the plays performed on the pageant wagons, which was a platform on wheels, something like our modern parade float, where plays such as. It is also referred to as a processional, or portable stage. It encouraged episodic, loosely knit play structures. TERM 7
King James I of England
DEFINITION 7 Shakespeare wrote plays for him, that maintained a focus on the occult TERM 8
Shakespeare's Company
DEFINITION 8 The Lord Chamberlain's Men --> The King's Men James Burbage built "The Theatre" and "The Globe." His son Richard Burbage was the lead actor in Shakespeare's acting company. William Shakespeare owned shares in his own acting company. TERM 9
The Globe Theater
DEFINITION 9 The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. There was a thrust stage in the Globe Theatre. A thrust stage is the kind that goes out into the audience. TERM 10
Proscenium Theaters
DEFINITION 10 An ornamental facade, or the proscenium arch, frames the stage thus masking its inner workings.
Point of Attack or the Inciting Incident
After it happens, the events flow from this. It is the event that sparks all of the events which culminate in the play TERM 17
Crisis
DEFINITION 17 The event that makes the resolution of the play inevitable, and it leads us to our climax--it is the turning point of the action. TERM 18
Climax
DEFINITION 18 In general, a climax is a point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series; i.e., a culmination. It is usually close to the end; and it is the highest point of the play, with the most action. TERM 19
Resolution
DEFINITION 19 It restores the balance and satisfies the audiences expectations TERM 20
Epic (Episodic)
DEFINITION 20 over a large period of time; structured in episodes. Time is expanded, and it shows with equal weight every event in the protagonist's life. Most of Shakespeare's romances were this kind of play. Berthold Brecht wrote epic plays, There are uaually songs between episodes. EX) Shakespeare: The Winter's tale, Pericles: Prince of Tyre It's a series of loosely knit scenes.
Climactic
Builds towards a climax, fewer characters, time is foreshortened. Macbeth is one of these plays Aristotle wrote the poetics, the very first book of dramatic criticism... the perfect climactic play took place in one day. We are supposed to empathize. TERM 22
Sam Shepard
DEFINITION 22 Sam Shepard is an American playwright and an actor who wrote buried child TERM 23
Wright
DEFINITION 23 old anglo saxon word for builder TERM 24
Lillian Hellman
DEFINITION 24 Lillian Florence -Lily- Hellman, was linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes. She said of the theatre, "The manuscript, the words on the page, was what you started with, and what you have left. The production is of great importance, has given the play the only life it will know, but is gone, in the end, and the pages are the only wall against which to throw the future of measure the past. TERM 25
Edward Albee
DEFINITION 25 Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story (1958), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He was an absurdist playwright.
Character
includes the physiological or psychological makeup of the persons in the play. TERM 32
Language
DEFINITION 32 a spoken word, including symbols or signs. TERM 33
Meaning
DEFINITION 33 underlying idea, its general and particular truths about experience Today we frequently use the word theme or message when we discuss the play's meaning. TERM 34
Spectacle
DEFINITION 34 indluded all visual and aural elements: music, properties, machines, and lighting effects TERM 35
Time: Actual and Symbolic
DEFINITION 35 Symbolic time is integral to the play's structure, and may take place over years.
Action
an element of drama. Action is to drama as soul is to the body. TERM 37
Situational Structure
DEFINITION 37 Situation shapes the play in absurdist dramas. The bald soprano is an example. TERM 38
Postmodernism
DEFINITION 38 Postmodernism is most often considered a movement called for doubling, or placing contradictory experiences within the same frame of reference. TERM 39
Theatre of
Images
DEFINITION 39 A term coined by Bonnie Marranca, to describe the postmodern work of Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, and Lee Breuer. TERM 40
Robert Wilson
DEFINITION 40 said, "Most theatre we see today is thought about int terms of the word and not the text...and that's not the case with my work. In my theatre, what we see is as important as what we hear. What we see does not have to relate to what we hear. They can be independent."
Monologue
Definition TERM 47
Soliloquy
DEFINITION 47 Definition TERM 48
Aside
DEFINITION 48 An aside is a dramatic device in which a character makes a brief remark to the audience. TERM 49
Anton Chekhov
DEFINITION 49 His use of sound and silence: sounds with silence, words with noise, physical activity with aural effects. In his plays, what people do is frequently more important than what they say. Sounds are juxtaposed to events in life. TERM 50
Brecht's Gestic Language
DEFINITION 50 a matter of the actor's overall attitude towards what is going on around them, and what they are asked to do within the circumstances of the text. --> Visible in the caucasian chalk circle
The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard ( or Vishniovy sad in Russian) is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It is about a family who has an orchard but doesn't want to sell it. Eventually somebody decides to do just that, and buys the house. The servant is forgotten and dies alone. TERM 52
Brecht's Magic Realism
DEFINITION 52 Definition TERM 53
Adolphe
Appia
DEFINITION 53 Adolphe Appia was a Swiss architect and theorist of stage lighting and dcor. He built the theoretical foundations of modern expressionistic and theatrical practices Artistic unity was his basic goal of theatrical production TERM 54
Ming Cho Lee
DEFINITION 54 Ming Cho Lee is a Chinese-born American theatrical set designer. TERM 55
Richard Pryor
DEFINITION 55 Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III was an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and MC.
