What is Theatre?

DRAMA

________- The form of literature that reaches its full potential by being enacted before an audience.

Complication

________- an unexpected problem that occurs while a character is attempting to overcome an obstacle.

Dialogue

________- what the characters say during a play.

literary composition

1: a category of artistic, musical, or ________ characterized by a particular style form, or content.

CHORAGOS

________ (koryphaios)- wealthy citizen appointed by the Archon Eponymous to fund the plays, hire the chorus, pay for costumes, sets, etc.

Peripeteiai

________- reversal of fortune- anagnorisis- the moment of recognition by the character.

Antagonist

________ (s)- the principal opposition to the protagonist (s) in a play.

Orchestra

________: the round space between the theatron and the skene where the chorus in Greek theatre sang and danced.

Thepsis

________ was the first person called ‘ actor in the 6th century BCE and is credited with winning the first City Dionysia competition.

Greenwich Village

Off- Broadway- located outside the Broadway district; seats fewer than 500 people; principally in ________ around the upper East and West sides.

Motivation

________- what a character wants that derives the action and dialogue.

Aristotle

________- (384- 322BCE) student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great, founder of the LYCEUM wrote The Poetics (335- 323BCE) Much of what we know about Greek artistic thought comes from that document.

Rhapsoidoi

________- storytellers who recited stories of gods and mythical humans to large audiences in public.

Screen Actors Guild

________ (SAG)- an American labor union representing over 120, 000 film and TV principal performers and background performers worldwide.

Prologos

________- the prologue or "setting up "of the story.

Obstacle

________- a person, situation or physical barrier that keeps a character from achieving their goals.

Exodus

________- the exit or leaving of the chorus.

collaborative product

The ________ of actors, playwrights, designers, directors, and spectators… theatre constructs imaginative worlds that we can marvel at, be moved by, and learn from.

CONFLICT

________ is born out of MOTIVATION and ________ is what makes DRAMA exciting.

Skene

________- the "scene house "in Ancient Greek theatre behind which actors would change costumes and don masks; usually had 3 openings for entrances and exits.

Theater

________ is the art of the movement, and its ability to captivate us with its illusion is linked to its magical but always precarious slight of hand ..

Parados

________- the entrance of the chorus.

COMEDY

________-"komoidia, "play or other lighthearted work with a happy ending, usually pokes fun at some aspect of human existence.

TRAGEDY

________-"tragoidia, "play or other serious work with an unhappy ending.

Agon

________- the Greek word for conflict between an antagonist and a protagonist.

Exposition

________- the information given to the audience by characters in a play so that the story can be understood.

Climactic

________- plot builds seamlessly from beginning to end with no gaps.

Playwright

________- a person who writes a theatrical script or text intended for live performance.

League of Resident Theaters

________ (LORT)- non- profit organizations that agree to adhere to a collective bargaining agreement with Actors Equity Association.

Subtext

________- the unspoken thoughts, feelings, and intentions of the characters that underlie and prompt the action and spoken texts.

Plato

________- first theorist of theatre who emphasized the similarities between the public recitations of poetry and simple dramatic performances.

Theatre

________ is the Art of the Moment.

Chorus

________ was intermediaries between the audience and the characters onstage.

City Lenaia

________- a festival honoring the followers of Dionysus which first had a competition for comedies in 442 BCE (5th Century BCE)

Oedipus Rex

________ written by Sophocles is considered one of the most influential plays of all time.

Broadway

Off- off ________- a term designating certain theatre activity in NYC that is usually non- professional, experimental and avant- garde in nature.

Greek drama

All ________ is considered climactic, even though the choral odes interrupt the action, story still flows seamlessly if you take out the odes.

Interactive Literature

________- stories that can be lived out vicariously through an avatar in electronic media-"video game.

Written Traditions

________- written in some form that can survive the hazards of time to be read at a later date.

Episodic

________- plot told in ________ or pieces- gaps between parts.

Greek theatre

________ evolved from the dithyramb, a choral song sung in honor of the Greek God Dionysus at the City Dionysia.

theatrical performance

A(n) ________ is NOT real (ILLUSION) and involves the participants pretending to be someone they are not and pretending to be doing things that they really are not (ACTING)

Satyr Play

________- a play poking fun at one or more of the tragedies- the origin of our word satire.

future events

Stories can be fictional accounts of past events or ________.

City Dionysia

________- festival in Ancient Athens honoring the Greek God Dionysus.

Motivation

________- what a character wants that drives the action and dialogue.

Theatre

________ in Ancient Greece was a state sponsored function not a commercial enterprise.

CONFLICT

________- an opposition of forces between characters in a play.

Motivation

________ can also be defined as GOALS.