Acting 1 Semester 2 Study Guide

Roman Theatre held onto _____

Greek culture

Roman values were _____ than _______

Different, Greek

Romans preferred big ______ entertainment

Spectacle

Greek tragedy ________ except for _______

Disappeared, literature

_____ were popular and very _____ and bawdy

Comedies, obscene

Other forms of “theatre:”

Chariot races

Gladiator fights

Wild animal fights

Sea battles

Constantine converted to Christianity and ________

Banned theatre

Roman Empire fell because of:

Attacks from warring tribes

Political corruption

Suffering economy

Medieval period: most people weren’t _____

Educated

Catholic Church had a lot of ______

power

_____ were some of the few who could read and write

Monks

______ preserved ______ and ______ of the _____ and ______

Monks, literature, philosophy, Greeks, Romans

For 600 years in Europe, church ______ theatre because they thought it was ____. Traveling _____, ______, and _____ entertained people.

Suppressed, evil. Jugglers, minstrels, storytellers.

1000 C.E. Catholic clergy developed small ______ to add to _____

Theatrical performances, church services

Trope

Short biblical scene

Cycle

A series of tropes that told a whole biblical story

Some churches built _____. ________ _______ were parades of carts with tropes on each to show a whole cycle.

Stages. Pageant weddings

Mystery plays:

Miracle plays:

Morality plays:

Mystery plays: life of Jesus Christ

Miracle plays: lives of saints

Morality plays: vices and virtues are the characters

Vices and virtues:

Based on character traits (named after them)

Morality plays connect to Greek theatre because teaches a _______ ____ to live

Better way

Most famous morality play is ______

Everyman

Moral of Everyman:

We never know when we die, so we should always practice good deeds so that we get to heaven

The Crusades brought back new ______ and transitioned Middle Ages into _______

Ideas, renaissance

Italy Cental to ________ because ________

Renaissance, Rome center of power, travel more manageable from Italy

These things become more popular/acceptable: _______ philosophy, ________ topics, new _____ structures

Greek and Roman, non-religious, political

Everything _____ considered ideal

Greek

Renaissance Playwrights copied

Greek tragedies

Built _____ style theaters

Greek

Teatro Olimpico

First permanent indoor theater, still exist today

Renaissance Theatre conventions

Unity of time ,unity of place, unity of action

Italy theatre: pastoral dramas:

Teatro Farnese:

Shepherds, nymphs, first romance dramas

first modern stage, had a proscenium arch

Italy: Commedia Dell’ Arte

Traveling actors, stock characters, improv

Canovacci:

Lazzi:

Intermezzi:

Audience tell each character apart because:

Canovacci: outline instead of script

Lazzi: special rehearsed scene

Intermezzi: intermission, special other forms of entertainment happened

Audience tell each character apart because: detailed costumes, masks

______ experimented with ______

French, unities

French Combined ______ and ______

Tragedies and comedies

Integrated ______ actors

Most important French renaissance playwright:

Female, Moliere

Moliere wrote about _____ and the _____. Similarities to ________. Loved by __________. Two most famous plays:

Politics, wealthy, Commedia dell’ arte, King of France, Tortuffe and Imaginary Invalid

Similarities btwn French and Italian theater:

Elaborate _______

completely _________

Both ___________

Types of plays (5)

Usually adhere to _______

________ structure

Elaborate stage backgrounds

completely enclosed theatres

Both male and female actors

Types of plays: comedies, tragedies, pastoral dramas, farce, tragi-comedies

Usually adhere to three unities

Five act structure

________ turmoil in England. _______ supporter of theatre, banned ______ drama

Religious, Elizabeth I, religious

Most popular English play in sixteenth century:

_______ perfected _________/_______ Which became preferred for English renaissance drama

Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy

Marlowe, blank verse/unrhymed iambic pentameter

England’s best playwright next to Shakespeare:

“ “

Ben Jonson “he was not of an age, but for all time”

Shakespeare, born in _________, married ________, had ______ children

Stratford upon Avon, Anne Hathaway, three

Shakespeare acted and wrote plays with the most theater group. Built the . Changed name to . Died in , buried in .

The Lord Chamberlains Men, successful, globe theater, the King’s Men, Globe Theater, 1616, Strafford Holy Trinity Church crypt

Wrote plays, sonnets.

38, 154

Three types of Shakespeare plays:

Tragedies, comedies, histories

His plots were

inspired by other works or history

Wrote using . His plays have been, and continue to be, more than .

stylized language, blank verse, iambic pentameter. Produced, any other playwright ever

Globe Theater: First:

Second:

Third:

Characteristics:

Destroyed in fire 1613

Torn down by Puritans 1644

Built in 1997

Open air, circular building

To announce performances:

Roof:

stories

open pit for the “ “

stage was:

flew a flag

thatched

three

groundlings

ornately painted

Renaissance theater in England:

minimal:

theaters were partially:

only:

well developed:

major included .

departure from:

stage backgrounds

enclosed

male actors

storylines

action, on stage

three unities

Renaissance theater throughout Europe:

created for AND

became regular form of entertainment in:

told stories about:

established plays in a format :

series of:

based on classical structures of inherited from the:

entertainment and enrichment, commoners, nobles

permanent enclosed theaters

mortal humans

we recognize today

acts

plot and dialogue, greeks

Types of auditions:

Cold reading:

Prepared:

Inprov audition:

Open audition:

Closed audition:

reading from script no prep

rehearsed, memorized lines and actions

improv around assigned characters and situation

available for anyone

available only for certain people

Resume:

Headshot:

Callbacks:

short account of a person’s career and qualifications

photograph of persons face, included in resume

cast-selection process, in which actors return for a second or third audition

Preparing for an audition:

know:

know: without:

be prepared to show:

prepare: (if necessary)

dress:

the play

the characters you believe you can play, limiting yourself

your acting range

materials

professionally, but don’t inhibit mobility

during audition:

be at all times

speak and move with:

play towards , without

never say “ “

direction is not:

don’t , , or

say “ “, but don’t:

professional

confidence

director, staring

scene!

a bad thing

rush, apologize, get caught up in mistakes

thank you, approach the evaluators