Theater Flashcards
(28 cards)
Grounds Rows
Profile seneray pieces cut out
David Garnick
An actor
Domestic tradegy
Horrible outcome of giving in to sin
Sentimental comedy
Rewards of resisting sin
Romanticism
1800-1850
Melodrama
Good are rewarded and the bad are punished
Realism
Truthful depiction of the real world
Modified realism
What most modern theater is
Who invented musical
America
Eugene O’Niel
The hairy ape
Henrick Ibsen
A dolls house
Anton Chekhov
The cherry orchard
Tennessee Williams
A streetcar named desire
George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalian
August Strindberg
The dream play
Oliver goldsmith
She stoops to conquer
Brinsley Sheridan
The school for scandals
Bertolt Brecht
The Caucasian chalk circle
What was different with an actors life?
Possessed parts
Benefit performance
Actresses
Hired
Whats a box set?
Your looking into a room with one wall removed
How we’re stages lit in the 1800s?
Gas lamps
What is angle perspective?
It goes off in an angle or off to the side
List elements of the well made play
Strict moral justice Good rewarded - evil punished Great pitty Comic relief Superhuman trails by the hero Hair breadth escapes Stock characters
In America how did they shift scenery?
Elevator
Revolving stage
Rolling platforms
