theater final
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- Who wrote proof
- David Auburn
- Who wrote Lawnchair man
- Peter ullin
- Who wrote Archangels?
- Dario Fo
- who wrote Andres Mother
- terrance McNally
- who directed Proof?
- randy Reinholz
- who directed lawnchair man?
- paula Kalustian
- who directed archangels?
- peter Larlham
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- willing suspension of disbelief
- values of art
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a. entertainment
b. education/edification
c. enlightenment/exultation
d. economics - 10. who is responsible for running a play, producing it, etc.
- a. stage manager
- 11. deportment:
- a. conduct/behavior
- 12. Who was the first actor?
- a. 534 BC Thespis becomes world's first actor
- 13. 3 ingredients to creativity:
- a. novelty, value, and passion
- 14. final scenes in a play that ties up loose ends after climax
- a. denouement
- 15. Most important trait of a playwright is
- a. Fidelity to the rules of art
- 16. Who was the creator of psychodrama
- a. J.L. Moreno
- 17. What type of stage gets rid of scenery
- a. Arena format
- 18. What is not an element of speech
- a. Mastication
- 19. Theater derived from 2 sources
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a. Realism/naturalism
b. Came from Greece
c. prehistoric rites/religious practices - 25. superobjective
- a. the driving force that governs a characters actions throughout the play
- 26. who cofounded group theater
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a. lee strasberg
b. Harold - 24. 2 golden eras of theater
- musical theater – 1943 -1968
- 27. Dran
- a. Means to do
- 28. theatron
- a. a place where spectators come to watch a performance
- 29. greek god of theater
- a. Dionysos
- 30. Linear plot
- a. the most traditional form of plotting, beginning with exposition and building through a series of minor crises to a major crisis and climax
- 32. 3 greek tragedians
- a. Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
- 33. Who wrote waiting for godot
- a. Samuel Beckett
- 34. stage fright is
- a. legitimate fear
- 38. background information
- a. exposition
- 41. essence of dramatic action
- conflict
- 42. 6 elements of drama
- a. Thought, Theme, Ideas; Action or Plot; Characters; Language; Music; and Spectacle
- 43. who do oxfordians think wrote shakespeares plays
- a. Edward de Vere
- 44. Politics in theater want to elicit or influence
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a. Thought
b. Emotion
c. Passion
d. Action or non action - 45. pace
- a. rhythm
- 46. rate
- a. how fast you speak
- 47. blocking
- a. movement that director gives the actors
- climax
- a. The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series or progression; a culmination.
- 49. first play in musical theater- 1866
- a. black crook
- who was monarch in 1603 and who took over
- 50. Queen Elizabeth I was the monarch, and James I took over in 1603 when she died
- 52. subtext
- The hidden meaning behind a line of dialogue; the real reason a character chooses to speak.
- who wrote the lyrics for sweeny todd, etc
- 53. Stephen Sondheim
- 54. catharsis:
- an emotional release associated with talking about the underlying causes of a problem
- 56. Norwegian playwrite who is the father of modern drama and wrote a dolls house
- a. Ibsen
- 57. which city is the international capital of the worlds musical theater
- nyc
- 58. farm workers theater
- a. El Teatro Campesino
- 59. picture frame stage
- a. proscenium
- 60. 7 fine arts
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a. theater
b. dance
c. music
d. painting
e. sculpture
f. poetry
g. architecture - 61. what playwright said “art is a hammerâ€
- a. brecht
- 62. min requirements for theater building
- a. place to act and place to wach
- 63. genre
- a. A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content
- 65. who wrote radio doll, African American playwright
- a. august Wilson
- 66. When was Shakespeare born?
- April 23, 1564