unit 1 test theatre appreciation

the term nomediated means

live theatre

a permeant professional nonprofit theaters that offer first class production to audience are

regional theatres

Semiprofessional and experienced amateur groups present plays to a specific audience that include College, Universities, and high Schools are known as?

Community theatre

Musicals using previously recorded rock and pop Music

Jukebox

include Theatre, dance, opera, and music.

Preforming arts

A_ observes the production, analyzes it and then comments on it.

Critic

_ reports on the production and then gives a brief opinion or whether it is worth seeing.

Critic

The is the person who discover promising

new plays and works with playwrights on developing new scripts.

Dramaturg

A creates the script.

playwright

A character who has outstanding traits of human behavior to the exclusion of all other attributes. These characters often seem like stereo types and are most often used in comedy and melodramas.

Stock

This principle or leading character in a play the one holding the drama is about.

Protagonist

The --_ is an opponent of the protagonist in a drama. This person is the foil or the counterpart to the main character.

Antagonists

In theatre the word denotes the category into which a play falls it is a French word meaning type or category.

Genre

This is a serious drama where the main or primary character has a downfall.

Tragedy

This music or type of song drama has characteristics that speaks to our paranoia with Issues that are clear-cut. There is a strong delineation of right and wrong. Characters are clearly good or bad.

Melodrama

One of the great playwrights of the 17th-century from France, who wrote mostly comedy plays. One of his most loved plays was Tartuffe.

Plays focused on the alienation of man and his plight within an illogical, unjust, ridiculous world. Although these plays are usually serious the viewpoint is generally depicted in the play with considerable humor.

Absurd

The two major playwrights in the theater of Absurdism are

Beckett and Pinter

Closely resembled what people could identify with and verify from their own experience. While on stage it presents people places and events that correspond with everyday life.

Realism

This person created and taught this famous technique for Realistic Acting

Stanislavski

The is the coordinator of all the elements of the production and is responsible for making the the production cohesive and exciting

Director

This person is known for creating the puppetry used in the Lion King.

Taymor