THEATER FINAL/ Hosking

Bertolt Brecht's Epic Theater is an example of theater during the Renaissance era .

Musicals that featured the work of director/choreographers

Ritual Theater always has actors playing characters in stories of conflict.

Sondheim, Hammerstein, Gershwin, Miranda are all composers in Musical Theater

Aristotle's Three Unities for playwriting included consistency of time, place, and action.

Wrote plays filled with classical allusions and characters seeking knowledge; wrote Faustus; murdered at the age of 29. 

Bunraku, Kabuki, and Noh are forms of Japanese Theater.

Performer who stepped out of the Greek Chorus, wore masks to present individual characters; name means actor.

Musicals that feature mostly singing with very little dialogue

Helped lead to the end of liturgical drama, because it allowed access to information for the masses.

Believed human life , the here and now, was to be celebrated rather than worrying about salvation afterlife.

Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett were Absurdist playwrights.

Aeschylus was often called the father of tragedy; wrote about profound spiritual and moral issues; wrote THE ORESTEIA.

Jukebox Musicals feature the songs of a particular band.

1927 musical combined musical comedy and serious drama and black and white actors performed on the stage together.

In this period of theater history, significant playwrights included Plautus, Terence, and Seneca.

Precolonial, colonial, and "total" theatre are forms of African Theater.

Mixed tragedy and comedy, filled his popular plays with implied sex, and many of his plays have been made into films.

Dramatic Theater has actors playing characters in stories of conflict.

Daguerreotype/photography inspired the birth of realism because it allowed people a more realistic version of life.

Plautus, Terrence, and Seneca were Roman Playwrights.

Corneille, Racine, Molière are playwrights of the French Renaissance era.

MELODRAMA was a knock-off and cheap imitation of Romanticism.

In this time in theater history, theatre grew out of religious rituals celebrating the god Dionysus.

Incorporated a group of stranded Parisian ballet dancers into the show and is regarded as the first American musical.

Restoration playwright, Aphra Behn, wrote plays about sexual intrigue, loveless marriages, and satire.

Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde were...

During the Renaissance the three main categories of theater were:

1943 landmark production included serious plot elements and well-developed characters.

Musicals that feature well developed characters and plot.

The three major playwrights of Greek Tragedies were

Kathakali and Sanskrit Theater are forms of ________theater.

 Middle Ages plays about how we should conduct our life, Example: Everyman

Term for a prop that was used by the performers in Commedia plays to "hit" each other for laughs.

Off-Off Broadway movement resulted largely because the Off-Broadway movement became more expensive and more commercial

Some writers felt there was too much emphasis on science and wanted to focus more on human experience, and feelings.

Restoration actress, who specialized in performing “breeches roles.” She also became the mistress of King Charles II.

Orchestra, Skene, and Theateron are parts of a Greek Theater.

Members of a religious reform movement who objected to the theater-considered it a "temptation of the devil".

Romantic playwrights broke the neoclassical rules such as the three unities.

Often found himself in trouble with the law; first poet laureate of England; buried standing up. 

Middle Ages plays about the lives of Saints.

Humanism was an intellectual movement that grew out of 15th century ITALY & resulted in radical change in thinking.

Darwin, Marx, and Freud influenced the theatrical style called___________.

Theatres began to turn to the middle class for patronage-playwrights wrote about middle class heroes during...

Scholars believe theatre grew out of a ritual called the dithyramb, a hymn sung to the god__________. 

The most popular form of theatre was comedy of manners. Women were finally accepted as actors and playwrights.

The Roman Catholic Church virtually ended theatre threatening excommunication of those who participated in theater...

Began his acting career at the African Theatre in NYC in the early 1820s but faced racism and moved to Europe.

In declamatory acting style of the humanist theater, the actor NEVER addresses the audience directly

In the Middle Ages, Theatre started to make a comeback, but was used mainly for religious purposes.

The Rise of Christianity meant the abandonment of  hundreds of THEATERS from Africa to England during the...

Mystery, Miracle, and Morality plays were performed on pageant wagons.

Euripides was the Greek playwright "never afraid to speak his mind" and wrote MEDEA.

The emotional release, from witnessing tragedies, that evokes the feelings of PITY AND FEAR.

Theatre became much more realistic thanks to inventions such as electricity and the camera...

The Modern Era “re-theatricalize” theatre and led to the avant-garde, Brecht’s Epic Theatre, and other experimental work

The Greek playwright considered "The Wise One" who wrote Oedipus the King.

Wanted audiences to intellectually view his plays and never forget it was a play and not reality.

Periaktos, Ekkyklema,Mechane are all scenography created during the Italian Renaissance.

Avant-garde theatre included styles created by playwrights, designers, and directors in rebellion of realism

A shift in thinking glorified humans’ power to reason and analyze. Sentimental comedy and domestic tragedy were popular.

Peking Opera is a form of Chinese Theater.

Domestic Tragedies & Sentimental Comedies were the most popular form of Renaissance plays.

Italian comedies that mimicked the work of Roman mimes and were improvised farces featuring stock characters.

Roman Theatre appropriated some of the ways of Greek theatre but was less religious and more about amusement.

Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac is an example of a Greek play.

INTERLUDES were short non-religious plays inserted in between  larger court entertainments.

Known as a “rebirth” and marked by renewed interest in the philosophical, artistic, and scientific ideas.

EXTRAVAGANT court entertainment written for monarchs in the Renaissance era.

_______caused people to turn away from live theater and toward it's more "real" version of entertainment.  

Puritans were still very much against theatre. Significant playwrights included Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare.