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Final Exam Review | THEA 102 - Introduction To Theater, Quizzes of Theatre

Class: THEA 102 - Introduction To Theater; Subject: Theater; University: SUNY at Binghamton; Term: Fall 2010;

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Dionysus
DEFINITION 1
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
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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.