________- The form of literature that reaches its full potential by being enacted before an audience.
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Complication
________- an unexpected problem that occurs while a character is attempting to overcome an obstacle.
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Dialogue
________- what the characters say during a play.
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literary composition
1: a category of artistic, musical, or ________ characterized by a particular style form, or content.
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CHORAGOS
________ (koryphaios)- wealthy citizen appointed by the Archon Eponymous to fund the plays, hire the chorus, pay for costumes, sets, etc.
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Peripeteiai
________- reversal of fortune- anagnorisis- the moment of recognition by the character.
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Antagonist
________ (s)- the principal opposition to the protagonist (s) in a play.
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Orchestra
________: the round space between the theatron and the skene where the chorus in Greek theatre sang and danced.
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Thepsis
________ was the first person called ‘ actor in the 6th century BCE and is credited with winning the first City Dionysia competition.
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Greenwich Village
Off- Broadway- located outside the Broadway district; seats fewer than 500 people; principally in ________ around the upper East and West sides.
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Motivation
________- what a character wants that derives the action and dialogue.
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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.
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Rhapsoidoi
________- storytellers who recited stories of gods and mythical humans to large audiences in public.
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Screen Actors Guild
________ (SAG)- an American labor union representing over 120, 000 film and TV principal performers and background performers worldwide.
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Prologos
________- the prologue or "setting up "of the story.
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Obstacle
________- a person, situation or physical barrier that keeps a character from achieving their goals.
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Exodus
________- the exit or leaving of the chorus.
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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.
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CONFLICT
________ is born out of MOTIVATION and ________ is what makes DRAMA exciting.
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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.
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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 ..
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Parados
________- the entrance of the chorus.
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COMEDY
________-"komoidia, "play or other lighthearted work with a happy ending, usually pokes fun at some aspect of human existence.
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TRAGEDY
________-"tragoidia, "play or other serious work with an unhappy ending.
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Agon
________- the Greek word for conflict between an antagonist and a protagonist.
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Exposition
________- the information given to the audience by characters in a play so that the story can be understood.
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Climactic
________- plot builds seamlessly from beginning to end with no gaps.
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Playwright
________- a person who writes a theatrical script or text intended for live performance.
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League of Resident Theaters
________ (LORT)- non- profit organizations that agree to adhere to a collective bargaining agreement with Actors Equity Association.
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Subtext
________- the unspoken thoughts, feelings, and intentions of the characters that underlie and prompt the action and spoken texts.
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Plato
________- first theorist of theatre who emphasized the similarities between the public recitations of poetry and simple dramatic performances.
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Theatre
________ is the Art of the Moment.
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Chorus
________ was intermediaries between the audience and the characters onstage.
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City Lenaia
________- a festival honoring the followers of Dionysus which first had a competition for comedies in 442 BCE (5th Century BCE)
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Oedipus Rex
________ written by Sophocles is considered one of the most influential plays of all time.
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Broadway
Off- off ________- a term designating certain theatre activity in NYC that is usually non- professional, experimental and avant- garde in nature.
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Greek drama
All ________ is considered climactic, even though the choral odes interrupt the action, story still flows seamlessly if you take out the odes.
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Interactive Literature
________- stories that can be lived out vicariously through an avatar in electronic media-"video game.
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Written Traditions
________- written in some form that can survive the hazards of time to be read at a later date.
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Episodic
________- plot told in ________ or pieces- gaps between parts.
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Greek theatre
________ evolved from the dithyramb, a choral song sung in honor of the Greek God Dionysus at the City Dionysia.
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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)
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Satyr Play
________- a play poking fun at one or more of the tragedies- the origin of our word satire.
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future events
Stories can be fictional accounts of past events or ________.
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City Dionysia
________- festival in Ancient Athens honoring the Greek God Dionysus.
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Motivation
________- what a character wants that drives the action and dialogue.
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Theatre
________ in Ancient Greece was a state sponsored function not a commercial enterprise.
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CONFLICT
________- an opposition of forces between characters in a play.
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