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Drama 116 exam 2
spring '09 drama 116 with strong
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Undergraduate 1
04/05/2009

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Samuel Beckett
Definition

wrote Waiting for Godot

really wierd dramas

absurdist drama

 

Term
absurdist drama
Definition

Beckett!

 

Common Trends:

- unrecoginizable plots

- mechanical characters

- resemble dreams/nightmares

- slapstick comedy

- incoherant dialogue

Term
Bertolt Brecht
Definition
Alienation effect

believed that the sudience should be reminded that they are in the theatre

 

broke the 4th wall

 

Alienation effect  

 

used song

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Verfremdungs-effekt
Definition
use of anti-illusive techniques to remind the spectators that they are in a theatre watching an enactment of reality instead of reality
Term
realism and expressionism
Definition

Tennessee Williams' glass menagerie

 

and

 

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

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AntiRealism
Definition

Louigi Pirandello's 6 characters in search of an author

 

 

Term
Epic Theatre
Definition

bertolt brecht

 

historical, episodic, narrative

 

wanted the audience to question what they were seeing

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Poetic Realism
Definition

Eugene O'neill's Desire under the elms

 

poetic form of realsim that deals with a level of truth that is common to all

 

Term
saddest play ever written
Definition

eugene o'neill's A Long Day's Journey into Night

 

 

Term
social realism
Definition

realsim with a political conscience

 

clifford odets - Waiting for Lefty

was openly leftist labor drama

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epic theatre
Definition

wanted audience to observe critically, draw conclusions, participate in intellectual argument with work at hand

 

not about emotion or relating to the main characters

 

brecht

Term
alienation effect
Definition

making the theatricality of the production's props, lights, sets, and equip visible

 

remind audience that they are seeing a play

 

emotionally detached

 

brecht

Term

Elia Kazan

Definition

directed Streetcar Named Desire and

Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

 

turned people in during the red scare - not well liked for that

Term
Joe Mielziner
Definition

selective realism set designer

 

glass menagerie and death of a salesman

 

Term
father of modern drama
Definition

Henrik Ibsen

 

wrote plays about contemporary life

 

portrait of humanity

Term
realism
Definition

everything had to look and sound accurate

 

"setting, costuming, action so fully realized so as to convince audience that they were listening in on life itself.

 

smaller more intimate stage

 

 

ibsen, strindberg, cheknov

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Stanislavski
Definition
developed "The Method"
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Well Made Play
Definition

defined by Eugunue Scribe

 

1. careful exposition

2. surprises

3.suspense that steadily builds

4. climax late in the play

5. denouncement with no loose endings

 

good ex. A Raisin in the Sun

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Eugunue Scribe
Definition

defined well made play

 

created a "factory" for making plays

Term
Melodrama
Definition

comes from "Melos" which means music

 

used background music and such

 

surprises, unlickely twists, sentimentality

well defined heroes and villians

clear-cut endings

Term
melodrama
Definition

drama that would support the saying that...

 

"man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy"

Term
______ felt that stage was a platform on which political and social issues could be debated
Definition
Bertolt Brecht
Term
To add colored light to a scene you use
Definition
Gel
Term
a style of theatre with unrecognizable plots, mechanical characters, situations resembling dreams and nightmares, and incoherent dialog is associated with _____
Definition

Samuel Beckett's plays

 

ex. Endgame

Play

Term
Henrik Ibsen
Definition

from Norway

 

father of modern drama

 

Ghosts, A Doll's House

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Samuel Beckett
Definition

absurdist drama

 

Martin Esslin

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Martin Esslin
Definition

coined the term "drama of the absurd"

 

 

Term
oedipus and death of a salesman are alike because_______
Definition
they both say a statement about human fallibility
Term
"the end is the beginning and yet you go on"
Definition
Samuel Beckett
Term
Bertolt Brecht's plays were more like _____ than a well made play
Definition
narrative poem
Term
follow spot is used predominately for what
Definition
musical theatre
Term
bertolt brecht loved musical theatre T/F
Definition
true
Term
A Doll's House
Definition

the ending was changed in Germany

 

 

Term
"Line!"
Definition
in a rehersal if an actor forgets a line they say this and the stage manager will feed you the line
Term
"Go Up"
Definition
when a actor forgets their lines
Term
grid
Definition
above the stage where all the instruments are hanging
Term
sides
Definition

excerpts from a script that are used during auditioning process to prepare

 

Term

actor's equity association

 

AEA

Definition

union for stage managers and actors of the stage

 

workdays: 7/9 hours working

 

breaks must be recorded

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dry tech
Definition
rehersal with all technical elements but no acors
Term
10/12
Definition
the weekend before the show starts actors are legally allowed to work for 10/12 hours
Term
calling the show
Definition

stage managers are in control

 

communicate with light/sound/techies..

 

have big cue book = bible

Term
unit set
Definition
can be used for different places that occur within a play
Term

vomitory

(voms)

Definition
entrance to elevated seating from underneath the audience
Term
non traditional casting
Definition
casting without regard to skin color
Term
gobo
Definition
a filter/metal cut-out put in front of an instrument that is used to create effective shadows/illusion like shutters, leaf patterns, prison bars...
Term
weigh the house
Definition
the house manager makes sure the audence is evenly distributed
Term
who keeps the prompt book?
Definition
stage manager
Term
who is responsible for fittings
Definition
wardrobe
Term
what is an instrument and who deals with it
Definition

the lights

 

lighting designer

Term
who records the blocking
Definition
stage manager
Term
"places call"
Definition
stage manager
Term
who calls the cue
Definition
stage manager
Term
responsible for casting
Definition
director
Term
moving away from the audience is moving __stage
Definition
upstage
Term
teasers
Definition
hide the instruments above the stage
Term
to remove something from the stage you would ____ the object
Definition
strike
Term
1st building made specifically for plays in england
Definition
the theatre
Term
federal theatre project
Definition
created to provide work for actors during the depression
Term
odets worked with
Definition
the group theatre
Term
streetcar named desire
Definition

williams

 

original name= poker night

Term
agnes demille brought this to the musical
Definition
ballet
Term
what part of the well made play is missing in a dolls house
Definition
well defined resolution
Term
desire under the elms
Definition
poetic realiam
Term
waiting for godot
Definition
absurdism
Term
waiting for lefty
Definition
social realism
Term
death of a salesman
Definition
realism and expressionism
Term
6 characters in search of an author
Definition
antirealism
Term
playboy of the western world
Definition
poetic realism
Term

The first building made specifically for plays in England:

 

Definition

the theatre

 

Term
  In Elizabethan Theater, a great many playgoers were satisfied to stand around the stage and were nicknamed
Definition
the crownings
Term
much of what we know today about "traveling players" is from the play with in a play mouse-trap in hamlet
Definition
true
Term
the reckoning depicted a group of actors preforming what kind of play
Definition
mystery
Term
shakespeare whose masque in ____ is a delightful short tribute to the drama
Definition
The Tempest
Term
elizabethan masque is
Definition
a special entertainment of royality
Term
shakespeare begain his career as a ___
Definition
poet
Term
burla
Definition
plot
Term
lazzi/lazzo
Definition
comedy routine
Term
mystery plays
Definition
dramatized a series of biblical events
Term
miracle plays
Definition
dramatized the lives of saints
Term
morality plays
Definition
used religious themes to teach moral lessons
Term
coming from the city/port
Definition
right parados
Term
left parados
Definition
coming from the field or abroad
Term
mekane
Definition
machine used to raise/lower actors
Term
peripeteia
Definition
reversal -hero gets what they wanted, but what they want turns out to be destructive
Term
moria
Definition
fate
Term
tragic pattern
Definition
purpose, passion, perception
Term
jo mielziner
Definition
original designer of death of a salesman and glass menagerie - selective realism
Term
acting is not
Definition
showing, narrating, illustration, exhibiting
Term
external acting technique
Definition
approach role through deep/passionate study of human behavior in its outwaard forms
Term
internal belief
Definition
creative process that is intuitive, subconscious, subjective
Term
1st english actress
Definition
nell guynne
Term
neoclassical ideas
Definition
explored thought not emotion
Term
three unities
Definition

time, place, action

 

1 setting, 1 plot, 24 hours... boring

Term
stanislavski
Definition

developed the method

 

if i were in othello's situation, what would i do?

Term
if you wanted to hide the instrumets above the stage in a proscenium house, you would use
Definition
teasers
Term
the federal theater project was created
Definition
to provide work for actors during the depression
Term
to create the illusion of speckled light or light filtering through trees once would use
Definition
gobo
Term
in the modern theater instead of a curtain, one uses
Definition
blackouts
Term
in the professional theater who 1st contacts the actor to tell them they've been cast in a role
Definition
the agent
Term
to remove something from the stage is to ____the object
Definition
strike
Term
the paul green stage can create challenges for the set designer b/c
Definition
objects placed downstage can cause sight problems for the audience
Term

which of the following is not part of nora's delima?

a. she never told torvald

b. she cant convince torvald not to fire krogstad

c. she forged a signature

d. she's afraid her father will find out

e. none of the above

Definition
D
Term
what subject is the beginning of discussion at the beginning of a doll's house?
Definition
torvald's promotion to manager at the bank
Term
a technical rehersal without actors is called a
Definition
dry tech
Term
odets was an influential american social dramatist, and worked as an actor with
Definition
the group theater
Term
miller and odets have what in common
Definition
the house of un-american activities committee
Term
who directed the premier of cat on a hot tin roof?
Definition
elia kazan
Term
arthur miller worked as a writer for which orginization
Definition
the federal theater project
Term
what union to broadway actors join
Definition
AEA
Term
was written in 6 weeks
Definition
death of a salesman
Term
what did biff steal from bill oliver as an adult?
Definition
a pen
Term
the first german actress to play nora
Definition
insisted that she would never leave her children so she would not play the part as written and the ending was changed
Term
orson welle's production of macbeth
Definition

federal theatre project

all black cast

Term
controling artist, responsible for unifying production elements
Definition
director
Term
what did maggie buy for big daddy
Definition
a robe
Term
the saddest play ever written
Definition
a long days journey into night
Term
similarity between death of a salesman and a dolls house
Definition
realistic dialogue
Term
nora is forbidden to eat
Definition
macroons
Term
what is the name of the samuel beckett play that was shown in class
Definition
play
Term
kern and hammerstein
Definition

wrote oklahoma

 

2nd musical

Term
1st musical
Definition
show boat
Term
eugene scribe
Definition
created the well made play
Term
poker night was the original title for what play
Definition
streetcar named desire
Term
who is responsible for all recording of blocking
Definition
stage manager
Term
martin esslin
Definition
coined the term "drama of the absurd"
Term
first to explore complex african american characters on stage
Definition
eugene o'neill
Term
waiting for godot
Definition
absurd
Term
waiting lefty
Definition
social realism
Term
death of a salesman
Definition
realism and expressionism
Term
six characters in search of an author
Definition
antirealism
Term
playboy of the western world
Definition
poetic realism
Term
play
Definition
absurd
Term
glass menagerie
Definition
realism and expressionism
Term
desire under the elms
Definition
poetic realism
Term
in order for theater to happen you must have
Definition
stage, actors, audience
Term
the process of the tragic characters sometimes leads them to a reversal - they get what they want but it turns out to be destructive
Definition
peripeteia
Term
theatre space as we know it today has two components, what were these components called using ancient greek terms
Definition
koilon and skene
Term
oedipus is an example of which tragic realization
Definition
that despite suffering a world order exists and people can learn from suffering
Term
at the end of hamlet what happens
Definition
fortinbras is selected as the king of denmark
Term
the film the reckoning viewed in class follows a group of actors moving from city to city using what as a stage
Definition
pageant wagon
Term
the place where three roads meet is where
Definition
oedipus has a fit of road rage
Term
at the end of the film shakespeare in love is the beginning of which shakespeare play
Definition
12th night
Term
the julie taymor video showed in class shows what kind of rehersal
Definition
technical
Term
oedipus becomes king of thebes because
Definition
he solved the riddle of the sphinx
Term
hamlet is usuall grouped with what other plays
Definition
othello, macbeth, king lear
Term
the king in hamlet says he cannot pray because...
Definition
he has not repented his sins
Term
the drama reaches a conclusion and the characters understand the situation and themselves better than they did at the beginning is part of the
Definition
climax/falling action
Term
T/F if someone is entering the stage from the right parados, that means they are coming from the city or port
Definition
true
Term
hamlets best friend
Definition
horatio
Term
a character in hamlet who cannot see the ghost
Definition
gertrude
Term
a courtier whom hamlet calls a water-fly
Definition
osric
Term
a very talkative old man in hamlet
Definition
polonius
Term
hamlet's father's jester
Definition
yorrick
Term
the hero alone and willful, asserts his/her influence and energy agaist the ultimate mysteries of an imperfect world best describes what kind of drama
Definition
tragedy
Term
the actor's reality includes
Definition

the circumstances of the play

the truth of the character's behavior

objectives

psychological motives

 

NOT: showing the audience the mood of the character

Term
______felt that the stage was a platform on which political and social issues could be debated
Definition
Brecht
Term
in theater if you make the audience _____ they become your friend
Definition
laugh
Term

parallels between theater and life

rehersal ---

audience---

actors----

simulation---

Definition

rehersal- spontaneity

audience - society

actors- humanity

simulation- reality

Term
epic theater
Definition
brecht
Term
zakes mokae
Definition
black man who worked closely with fugard on projects - 1st to play sam at the yale rep theater
Term
example of a tragicomedy
Definition

raisin in the sun

 

also a well made play

Term
melos means
Definition
music
Term
a world without collisions is compared to ___ in master harold
Definition
ballroom dancing
Term
"the end is the beginning and yet you go on"
Definition
samuel beckett
Term
an erotic piece of comic relief that ended the day's performances of tragedies during ancient greek period
Definition
satyr
Term
during ancient greek theater the chorus preformed different songs. parados while moving onto stage and ____ while standing still.
Definition

stasima

 

kind of sounds like static

Term
brecht's plats are more like _____ than well-made plays
Definition
narrative poem
Term
where was the world premier of master harold and the boys?
Definition
new haven, yale
Term
follow spot
Definition
mainly used in musicals
Term
the ground plan
Definition
outlined in tape on the rehersal hall floor so the actors can visualize the environment
Term
going-up
Definition
when an actor forgets their lines during a show
Term
mimesis
Definition
imitation of action
Term
sentimental comedy
Definition
stereotypical virtuous protagonists and villainous antagonists that resolves the domestic trials of middle class people in a pat, happy ending
Term
well made play involves
Definition

exposition

climax

suspense

denouncement

Term
who wrote the saddest play ever written
Definition
eugene o'neill
Term
clifford odets
Definition
federal theater project
Term
what does willy loman think is most important in life
Definition
being well liked
Term
agnes demille
Definition
ballet in musicals!
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