theatre test 1 Flashcards
(18 cards)
Presentational and Representational Performance
Presentational-acknowledges the audience
Representational- does not acknowledge the audience
6 elements of theatre
- plot
- character
- thought
- diction
- song
- spectacle
Convention
a theatrical custom when the audience accepts without thinking
Protoganist and Antagonist
protaganist-leader of action
antagonist-opposer of action
Eugene O’ Neil
Long Day’s Journey Into The Night
Tennesse Williams
The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
Edward Albee
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf
Neil Simon
The Odd Couple
August Wilson
wrote a play in every decade 1984-2005
Who wrote Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
Who wrote Ghosts
Henrick Ibsen-father or realism
Realism in Ghosts
adultry, STDS, incest, assisted suciucde
Waiting for Godot and Theatrical convention
talk about going somewhere, curtains close they stay seated
Waiting for Godot and Criteria for a good play
- credible but suprising
- compression and economy
- characters with depth
- significant themes presented with a clear purose
- rhythm to which actors can respond
- celebration of the human condition
Theatre definition
-preformed by people impersonating chracters in front of an audience gathered at a specific place for a certain amount of time, a play you see and hear
Climatic and Episodic Structure
Climatic- plot begins late in story,local scenes and characters are limited.
Episodic- may rrange over an entire city or counties, has many characters, marked by several different actions, juxaposition
Experimental Structure
- ritual
- Polish Laborartory Theatre, Living Theatre, The Open Theatre, rediscover theatre by showing traditionss, emphasis on non verbal theatre, improvise, and physcial environment
