CSET Subtest 3: Theatre

• Development of communication of characters in formal or informal productions or improvisations
• Sensory elements: Movement, sound, and spectacle
• Expressive qualities: Mood, emotions, ideas, dynamics

• Involves interaction of all elements
• Includes design, rhythm, design, climax, conflict balance, and sequence

Involves objective, purpose, theme, or basic idea of a work of drama

• Value of judgement
• Includes knowledge, insight, wisdom, or feeling imparted by a work

• Involves degree to which a dramatic work succeeds
• Includes the evaluation of work's success such as entertaining, informing, inspiring

• Costumes
• Set
• Lights
• Props
• Make up
• Sound

Reenactment of life situations for entertainment and human understanding

• Extends into audence's seating area
• Audience surrounds on all 3 sides

Act of movement without planning

First talking film starring Al Jolson

• Give courtiers a chance to indulge a taste for dressing up as peasants, singing, and dancing
• Italian Renaissance
• Attempt to recapture the Greek Satyr Play

Play writing device of providing info to the audience

Students improvise scenes for their own growth and edification, not that of an audience

The portion of action that immediately follows the climax of the play

• Physical confrontation of audience and actor which the audiece surround the playing area
• "Theatre in the Round"

• Traditional theatre thought to be espoused by Aristotle
• Simple, unity, not mix of comedy and tragedy

To decide upon the gross movements of actors upon the stage

• Resident company which actors were hired according to lines of work
• Large numbers of plays were prepared in short time

• Symbols that are vague in term of strict definition, but rich in poetic meaning.
• Emotional rather than intellectual

Between drama and tragedy, very serious but is saved in the end

• Temporary "rules" of the performance.
• Specific to particular cultures, styles of theatre, and even individual productions

• Characteristic comedy of the English Restoration period
• Known for glittering language, salicious plot, and debauched characters

Form of physical configuration between actor and audience encouraged by the proscenium arch

Greek drama coesxisting with tragedy

Throws the world of the play into disequilibrium (destroying stasis)

Tunnels that allowed the audience to exit the theatre with ease

An opening in the wall between the stagehouse and the auditorium

Renaissance writers attempt to recapture the Glory of theatre in ancient Greece and Rome