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Chapter 1

The word "theatre" comes from this Greek

word which means seeing

place. . .  

What is theatron? 

This is the name for a long

standing theatre company or

group of theatre practicioners.

 

What is troupe? 

In this theatrical craft or job, technicians execute in proper sequence, and with carefully rehearsed

timing, the light and sound cues, the shifting

of scenery, the placement of properties,

etc. 

What is crewing? 

The task of handling all necessary

personnel, financing; promotion and legal

efforts is the responsibility of this

person.  

What is the producer?

 

The responsibilities for admitting, seating, and

providing for the general comfort of the audience falls

to this person.  

What is the house manager?

 

The person who controls and develops the

artistic product and provides it with a unified vision.  

 

What is the director?

 

This theatrical craft is usually executed away

from the theatre

building.  

What is the playwriting?

 

This distinctive feature of theatre,

separates it from other arts and

started what we know as acting. 

 

What is the impersonation?

 

He created the “paradox of the

actor” that onstage the actor

disappears or seems lifeless while the

simulated character seems to live. 

 

Who is Denis Diderot?

 

The English word for person comes from this

Latin word for mask. 

 

What is persona? 

 

This mode of performance is less theatrical

and more realistic. 

 

What is representational?

 

 

This mode of performance

acknowledges the audience— the

performer jokes, and responds overtly to

the audience. 

What is presentational?

 

 

The mode of performance in

which the audience watches interactions that are staged as if no audience were

present at all. 

What is representational?

 

an action focused around a particular

conflict, which gives the action

significance  

What is a play?

 

The purging or cleansing of pity and terror, which

the audience develops during the climax of a

tragedy

What is catharsis?

 

Oedipus' adoptive parents

 

Who are Polybus and Merope?

 

wrote Oedipus the King 

Who is Sophocles?

 

Wrote the Poetics and is considered

the first dramaturg. 

Who is Aristotle? 

The final scene, action, or lines in a

play devoted to bringing the play to a

new level of harmony,

understanding, or resolution after the

climax  

denouement 

The historical length of most

plays 

What is two to three hours?

 

The number of acts in traditional full length plays

 

What is three? 

The minimal requirement for a theatre “building

 

What is a place to act and a place to

watch? 

In play construction, the single action that

initiates the major conflict of

the play 

What is the inciting incident?

 

Oedipus’ wife and mother

 

Who is Jocasta? 

The blind prophet who tells Oedipus

that he is the killer of Laius.

 

Who is Tiresias? 

Jocasta’s brother; Oedipus accuses him of trying to take over the

throne 

Who is Creon? 

This is where Oedipus learned that his destiny was to kill his

father and marry his mother

 

What is the oracle of Delphi?

 

Oedipus used these to stab out

his eyes 

A public meeting in ancient Greek times where the playwright and actors would

publicize the play 

What is a proagon?

 

Like when a circus comes to town, ancient

greek plays often started with this.

 

What is a procession or

parade? 

In Elizabethan times, this would be flown above

the playhouse to advertise the

play 

What is a flag? 

Aristotle’s 6 elements (plot,

character, thought, diction, music,

spectacle) comprise this axis of play structure.

What is vertical?

Aristotle’s element that describes the play's use of rhythm and

sounds

What is music? 

Aristotle’s element that

includes words, epigrams,

imagery and other literary devices. . .

What is diction? 

The temporal events of the play; how the

play is experienced in

time is the ________ axis.

 

What is horizontal?

 

Aristotle’s element that includes all

visual aspects of the play

(lighting, costumes,

scenery, etc)

What is spectacle?

 

Aristotle’s element that

involves making an

audience care.

What is character?

 

The abstracted intellectual

content of the play.

What is theme? 

dramatic genre purports to be serious but, in fact,

deals with human issues on only the most superficial level, embellished with

spectacular staging, sensational dialogue, and

highly suspenseful and contrived plotting 

What is melodrama?

 

Shakespeare often used this opening speech

to give exposition to the audience.

 

What is prologue? 

A play that dramatizes the

key events in the life of a king or head of state,

such as Shakespeare's

Henry IV  

What is a history play?