Theatre Appreciation Final

Play that breeches roles, women all had sex with one man

play that right succeeds and wrong is punished

play written by the first female professional playwright

in this kind of comedy
right rewarded wrong punished
adulterous affairs
stock characters, witty and clever from the upper class
two young lovers united, wicked characters punished

only two theatres- Durry Lane and Convent Garden
Lord Chamberlain responsible for licensing plays

what does baroque mean

New French form did not fit neoclassical ideals of tragedy, middle class stuff

Middle class drama

Strum und Drang

Sturm and drang was

director that was a strict disciplinarian
responsible for all artistic decisions
preparation and research stressed
rehearsals were extended

Regisseur- directorial director
rules for performer in their personal lives
rules of conduct for audience
actors faced the audience
careful stage composition
believed in accuracy in costumes and setting

Romanticism was influenced by

troupe of performers performing together for a set of time in a number of plays

o     Gesmtkunstwerk
– total unified artwork controlled by one person
o     total theatre and directing
o     opera needs a controlling figure to unify it
o     Musicians forbidden to tune the instruments
o     audience not to applaud

Who was the first director to extinguish the house lights?

Meiningen players
o     Rehearse for extended periods of time
o     Refused to open a show until it was ready
o     Opposed the star system
o     Known for intricately planned crowd scenes
o     Historically accurate settings and costumes.

Who wrote Doctor Faustes and what is it about?

Shakespeare's theatre company?

Lower class audience members who stood in the yard/pit

contained own lines and cues rather than a full script

kinda
like a intermezzi – professionally stage mythological allegories that
praise the monarch, music and dance and used amateur performers.  (He
once paid 4000 pounds for one)

designer who studied in Italy , introduces Italian style of theatre and scenic design to the court masques.

existing courtyards, temporary at first but became permanent.

unaccompanied women’s area, guarded

What is Tartuffe about?

wrote comedies but soon turned to tragedies

did not follow neoclassical rules, caused controverseys and was popular

What is the Cid about?

comfortable with neoclassical rules

based on play by Euripides, step mother falls in love with step son,  tells father that the son raped her, the father summons the minotaur to kill son, mother tells the truth and kills herself

1548, granted a monopoly for presentation of religious drama

1634 converted indoor tennis court

1660 largest playhouse in Europe. Stage bigger than audience space
benches for audience on stage

what does renaissance mean

imitated Greeks and Romans, focused on humans rather than gods

short pieces depicting mythological tales, in between acts of plays, spectacular scenic effects

subject matter is romance, not overly bawdy, characters are mythological creatures, shepherds

What does Comedia Dell Arte mean?

short plot outlines without dialogue

repeated bits of comic business, usually physical, and sometimes bawdy and obscene

a wooden sword in comic fight scenes, today horseplay

comedy deals with ___ __ people

tragedy deals with ___ and ____ people

"true to life" not realism in modern drama, permitted stock characters and situations

three unities, unity of

monologue of someone's internal thoughts

first theatre with proscenium arch was

where audience stood in 3 countries

illusion of depth, important in art introduced to theatre in scenic elements

parallel grooves on and above the stage floor

series of wheels and pulleys below the stage attached to framework to allow scene to change automatically

secular drama on themes of love and honor, episodic in structure

who were the realistic playwright pioneers?

most famous naturalist theatrist and playwright

What is the symbol of the Moscow art theatre and why?

group theatre was

federal theatre project was

Meyerhold invented

representation of reality was distorted in order to communicate inner feelings

idealized war and machine age, mechanization and machinery

subconscious in the highest form or reality
attempted to recreate the subconscious dramatically

Proposed by Artaud. Emphasis on the sensory.

developed epic theatre, focused on storytelling

nonliterary or unscripted theatrical event using a scenario that allows for chance occurances

term coined by Jerzy, theatre stripped to bare essentials of actor and audience

Dodge-ball. Way of resolving plots, Hollywood ending.

foolish servant in patchwork outfit, physical humor

Rules developed by critics during the Italian Renaissance, supposedly based on the writings of Aristotle

16 line with stressed and unstressed syllables with 10 beats.

Rejected all artistic rules, episodic, hero-social outcast sought justice; knowledge and truth

Owned a theater with the first fly system and arm chairs

Peter Brooke, mental hospital, inmates re vault

italian family that had multi point perspective

they adress audience, fancy movements

women dressing as men

comedy of upper class, reputation

having some parts being more realistic than others

represents other things

aehra behn

a play in which a woman was destroyed

women leaves family, taboo subject

man kills himself, symbol of Moscow art theatre

play, he never comes