Exam 1

Question 1

Six Types of Art

Answer 1

0D=Music
1D=Literature
2D=Paintings
3D=Sculpture
4D=Performance
Functional=Cars

Question 2

Theatre Elements

Answer 2

Audience, Idea, Actor, Costumes, Dedicated Space, Sets, Lights, Sound

Question 3

Feedback

Answer 3

*Positive or negative response from audience

Question 4

Audience

Answer 4

Respect actors, building and law

Question 5

Suspension of Beliefs

Answer 5

Pretending a story is real

Question 6

Aesthetic Distance

Answer 6

Knowing its fake

Question 7

Dramatic Structure

Answer 7

• Linear = BME
• Cinematic = every other combination of BME
• Contextual = plot-less

Question 8

Division of Theatre

Answer 8

Fourth Wall = imaginary wall; prevents interaction with audience

Question 9

Genres of Theatre

Answer 9

• Representational = uses the 4th wall

* Presentational = breaks the 4th wall

Question 10

Playwright

Answer 10

• Creating the text: subject, focus, purpose, develop the story, create characters
• Tools: characters, dialogue, action, stage direction
• Process : conception, execution, revision, production
• Goethe: What was the intent? Was the intent achieved? Was it worthwhile?
• Antagonist: a person that represents the opposition of the protagonist
• Protagonist: main character
• Foil: reflects a character/opposite
• Climactic: near the end of the story
• Episodic: long period, many characters, and locations (subplots

Question 11

General pattern of plot

Answer 11

Attractive Hero overcomes a Great Adversity to achieve a Worthwhile Goal

Question 12

Sequence of plot

Answer 12

• Beginning: Introduction and Inciting Incident
• Middle: Complications and Climax
• End: Resolution and Denouement

Question 13

Actors

Answer 13

Actor vs. Character

Four Sources of Character Info

1. Stage directions
2. Character says about self
3. What others say about the character
4. What the character does

Self

1. Body vs face
2. Projection and enunciation
3. Imagination
4. Discipline

Question 14

Projection

Answer 14

Ability to be heard at a distance

Question 15

Enunciation

Answer 15

Ability to pronounce

Question 16

Stanislavski Method

Answer 16

Break into units, objective (unit), obstacle action

The Magic “if”

• What would I do IF I was the character (super objective)

*Head
What would I DO

*Heart
What would I FEEL

Question 17

Limitations

Answer 17

Words from playwright

• Actions from director
• Clothes from costume designer
• Environment from set designer

Question 18

Evaluating

Answer 18

Believability

Question 19

The 3 P’s

Answer 19

People
Place
Process

Question 20

Type of Theatre

Answer 20

• Proscenium= one side, arch, big Set
• Thrust = 3 sides, big set, intimate
• Arena= 4 sides, no bigger than a couch, intimate

Question 21

Subtypes

Answer 21

• Amphitheater= outside
• Black Box= audience can be wherever
• Found Space = no equipment

Question 22

Greek Theatre (Aristotle)…Three unities of theatre

Answer 22

• Time
• Place
• Action

Question 23

Six Elements of Theatre

Answer 23

Plot, Characters, Thought, Diction, Music

Question 24

Dates

Answer 24

*Pre 534 BC = Thespis was the first man to stop out the chorus & act

• 534 BC = Athens Drama Festivals
• 471 BC = Second actor
• 468 BC = Third actor

Question 25

Roman Theatre

Answer 25

* 975 AD = Birth of liturgical drama (theatre in church) | * 1200 AD = Outdoor religious drama

Question 26

Lysistrata

Answer 26

Persuades women to withhold sex to end Peloponnesian War

Question 27

Everyman

Answer 27

God calls Everyman and he goes on a journey to find a trait to go with him before he dies