Chapter 7

Question 1

theatre traditions origiins

Answer 1

• ritual
• storytelling
• shamanism, trance, magic

Question 2

ritual

Answer 2

a traditional cultural practice, usually religious, involving precise movements, music, spoken text, or gestures, that serves to communicate with deities. Ritual is often incorporated into plays, either a conventions of the theatre or as specific dramatizied actions.

Question 3

storytelling

Answer 3

: a personal and individual way of recounting events, imaginary or real, it requires an audience

Question 4

theatre in the west (Western Drama)

Answer 4

a branch of theatre art that encompasses many different types of drama. Together they are characterized by being very literal and intellectual, containing tightly written plots, stunning reversals, crescending climaxes and elaborate plot closures

Question 5

theatre in the west-

western drama. chronological order

Answer 5

• Ancient Greece (Greek drama)
• Roman Drama
• Medieval drama
• Renaissance Drama
• Royal theatre
• The romantic Theatre

Question 6

Ancient Greece

Answer 6

1. Celebrate/honor diunysus (God of Wine and Fertility)
   a. Lots of drinking/drunkenness
   b. Orgy
   i. Mardi gras
   ii. Dithyramb – celebration of Dionysus
2. Tragedies come out of this tradition
3. Tail stories that was told
   iii. Aeschylus credited with being the first playwright in ancient Greece
   iv. Sophocles
   v. Euripides
4. Tragedy – 33 plays survive
   vi. Aristophanes 11 plays survive
5. Comedy
   vii. Ancient Greek Theatre

Question 7

Roman Drama

Answer 7

(thru first millennium A.D)

i. Vomitoria
1. walkway
ii. Roman Theatre

Question 8

Medieval Drama (1000ad)

Answer 8

i. Easter Ceremony – Quem Queritis “Whom seek ye?”
ii. By 1250 – this moved outdoors
iii. Medieval Drama
iv. Beginning of producers

Question 9

Renaissance Drama

Answer 9

– Rebirth of Classical civilization

i. Originated in Italy 1400s with commedia del Arte
1. (commedia - troops of players, 2 dimensional characters)
a. Funny situations
2. Led to burlesque, sit-coms, “slapstick”
ii. London 1500’s
1. Shakespeare
a. Company of actors
b. The Globe – Public
c. Renessaince –

Question 10

Royal theatre

Answer 10

intellectual – aristocracy (plays aimed more at the aristocracy)
i. Neoclassical, intellectual, philosophical

Question 11

The Romantic Theatre

Answer 11

(romantic period – 18th/ 19th C)

i. Natural world, wild, emotional, of the heart
ii. Gave rise to meolodrama, grand opera, modern realism (westerns)

Question 12

Theatre in the East

Answer 12

(Eastern Drama): A branch of theatre art that encompasses many different types of drama. Together they are characterized by their rhythmic and melodic language, their visual and sensual experience, broad stylization, and they are deeply traditional and has its roots in metaphysics, dance, song, mime, gesture, acrobatics, puppetry, music, sound, costume, and make up are very much a part of this

Question 13

Theatre in the East. Chronological Order

Answer 13

• India
• China
• Japan

Question 14

India

Answer 14

i. Katakhai – the most widely known regional dance-drama form “story play”
1. Ramayana
2. Mahabharata
3. Text is sung

Question 15

China

Answer 15

tuneful theatre, Chinese opera

1. Beijing (peking) opera “jingju”
   a. Founded in 1790

Question 16

Japan

Answer 16

• Noh/no

- kabuki

Question 17

Noh/No

Answer 17

the classical dance drama of japan, performed on a bare wooden stage of fied construction and dimensions and accompanied by traditional music, noh is the aristrocratic forebear of the more popular Kabuki and has remained generally unchanged since its 14tth C beginnings

1. Cypress flooring/stage is a square shape – 18 feet by 18 feet
   a. The “shite” – the doer – central character – in mask
   b. “waki” – secondary character, challenges the shite

Question 18

Kabuki

Answer 18

ii. Kabuki – created in Kyoto in 16oo,, one of the national theatres in japan. Features magnificent flowing costumes; highly stylized scenery, acting and makeup; and elaborately styled choreography
1. All female – mid century, government changed to all male
2. Ka
a. Waguto – naturalistic, elegant “soft” style
b. Aragoto – the thundering “rough s- 1725
c.
d. tyle
3. Genres – history and domestic
4. Askey
5. Chikamatsu monzaemon (1653
6. Bunraku – japanese puppet theatre – still peformed today