THEATER FINAL/ Hosking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Musicals that featured the work of director/choreographers

Kathakali and Sanskrit Theater are forms of ________theater.

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

Dramatic Theater has actors playing characters in stories of conflict.

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

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

Musicals that feature mostly singing with very little dialogue

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

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

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

EXTRAVAGANT court entertainment written for monarchs in the Renaissance era.

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

Peking Opera is a form of Chinese Theater.

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

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

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

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

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

Musicals that feature well developed characters and plot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

During the Renaissance the three main categories of theater were:

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

The three major playwrights of Greek Tragedies were

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

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

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

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

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

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

Plautus, Terrence, and Seneca were Roman Playwrights.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Middle Ages plays about the lives of Saints.

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

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

Jukebox Musicals feature the songs of a particular band.

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

Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett were Absurdist playwrights.

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

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

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

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

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

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