Acting Spring Exam

oratory skills with standard patterns of physicality

Declamatory/Bombastic

This actor is known for this lifelike protrayal and observation

Charles Macklin

These actors were known for their rivalry in acting performance and interpretation

Dumesnil and Clarion

This actress had the more natural talent, instinct, and bombast

Dumesnil

This actress was more focused on her preparation and craft

Clarion

Famous actor and actor-manager who used rehearsal and emphasized memorization

Caroline Neuber

Director known for natural acting style, character development, prep/research, and disipline

David Garrick

German writer known for “stage german,” intensive rehearsal/rules, position of bodies on syahes, historical accuracy, and “rules for actors”

Goethe

The early 19th century dealt with

The Industrial Revolution

What pamphlet by Karl Marx is against capitalism and expresses the idea of socialism

The Communist Manifesto

Who wrote The Communist Manifesto?

Karl Marx

Written by Karl Marx complains about Capitalism and explains how it will collapse in the future

Das Kapital

Who wrote Das Kapital?

Karl Marx

First US female playwright

Anna Cora Mowatt

Who wrote Fashion?

Anna Cora Mowatt

Actor with strong physical gestures and vocal points?

Edward Kean

phsyical and emotional displays with speicfic character types

Melodramatic/Comedic

2 Other terms for melodrama

song drama, music drama

Actor with classical acting style?

John Phillip Kemble

Influenced by storm and stress, episodic, rejected neoclassical rules, romantic hero outcast

Romanticism

Includes underscoring throughout the show, big emotions, clear good/bad

Melodrama

Examples of a Melodrama

Sweeney Todd, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lord of the Rings, String of Pearls

What is the play structure built mechanically to its climax, contrived, and always resolved at the end?

The Well Made Play

Actress who was formal dignified, and work was carefully crafted and detailed

Sarah Siddons

"Macready pause, actor, actor-manager, director, researched roles, pioneer in realism, introduced blocking??

William Charles Macready

Popular Entertainment

Circus, Varity

musical parody mocking upper class

Burlesque

Lighthearted with variety of acts

Vaudeville

white actors with blackface masks, mocked racial sterotypes

Minstrel shows

Paid groups of audience to boo/clap

Claque

riots at Covent Garden due to more expensive ticket prices

Old Price Riots

Play by Victor Hugo, Comedie Francaise, sparked romanticism

Hernani

riot at Astor Place Opera House battle of the classes

Astor Place Riot

who was the upper class w/ in the riot

Macready

who was the lower class w/ in the riot

Edwin Forrest

Aspects of Delsarte's acting theory

Actors convey emotions, specific and pre-established gestures and body movements

Touring company ex

Combination Company

Georg II was Germany and what?

Duke of Saxe Meiningen

Who founded the Booth Theatre?

Edwin Booth

first theatre with fly system and modern proscnium arch

Booth Theatre

New technology examples

Revolve, Evevator Stage, Gas Table, Panorama

Wagner's theatre which had continental seating?

Festspielhaus

director known for crowd scenes and historical accuracy?

Georg II

Who created the Acting Theory

Delsarte

first African American actor to achieve acting success

Ira Aldridge

What was a long run considered

100+ consecutive performances

global star that was outgoing, a vocalist, and known for grand style

Sarah Bernhardt

global star that was more reserved, natural, known for facial expressions

Eleonora Duse

Writer of Hernani, playwright-manager

Victor Hugo

UK actress known for breeches roles

Madame Vestris

US actress known for performing during Lincoln's assisinatioc

Laura Keene

known as the FIRST DIRECTOR, from germany, idea of total theatre

Richard Wagner

means masterwork, term by Wagner

gesamtkunstwerk

Name 3 Plays by Henrik Ibsen

Hedda Gabler, A Doll's House, Ghosts

Name 4 plays by Anton Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Three Sisters, Uncle Vayna

Where and who created Naturalism

France, Emilie Zola

Stanislavski method goal 1

make outward behavior natural and convincing

goal 3

life of character is dynamic and continous

present ordinary life on stage 1870's, ordinary people, normal behavior, vernacular, conflict doesn't always resolve neatly

Realism

Realism Motto

Ordinary characters on the most extrordinary day of their lives

Who wrote Hedda Gabler, A Doll's House, and Ghosts?

Henrik Ibsen

Who wrote The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Three Sisters, and Uncle Vayna?

Anton Chekhov

Who wrote Pygmalion and Mrs. Warren's Profession?

George Bernard Shaw

Name 2 plays by George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Saint Joan

What theatre in England was producing realism?

The Independent Theatre

Naturalism Motto

A slice of life

France theatre known for motivated lighting and meaning "free theatre"

Theatre Libre

meaning free stage, Germany

Freue Buhne

Opened in Russia by Chekhov

Moscow Art Theatre

Russian theatre leaders

Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

goal 2

actor conveys goals and objectives

meaning for dynamic

change

goal 4

develop strong sense of ensemble play

foundational practices

Relaxation, Concentration, and Observation

Inner truth features

magic if, emotional recall, substitution, purpose

Through Line of a role

Superobjective, ensemble

Who was symbolism influenced by?

Nietzsche

German playwright known for Spring Awakening story

Frank Wedekind

Where did symbolism originate?

France

Aspects of symbolism:

Little/no plot action, heavy metaphors

Belgian playwright known for his symbolic works?

Maurice Maeterlink

Maurice Maeterlink

Master Builder, John Gabriel Borkman

Master Builder, John Gabriel Borkman

Henrik Ibsen

This Swedish playwright wrote Miss Julie and A Dream Play

August Strindberg

Plays by August Strindberg

Miss Julie and A Dream Play

This designer was known for a simple symbolic set and the use of multiple locals

Adolphe Appia

This designer created the "Uber Marionette" idea, believed 1 artist should be responsible for all visual elements, and that shows should have 1 unit setting

Edward Gordon Craig

The concept by Edward Gordon Craig where an ideal actor acts as a puppet

Uber Marionette

This Russian director was known for avant-garde and being a theatricalist, created Biomechanics

Meyerhold

This concept inspired by machines and taylorism is by Meyerhold and deals with one's intricate physical control in performance

Biomechanics

This theatre approach was popularized by Meyerhold

Constructivist

This concept deals with looking at a range of various perspectives to find the best approach to utilize in theatre - "Let the play dictate what is necessary"

Eclectics

Organization in early US commercial theatre controlled by 6 men that controlled many theatres and their bookings

Theatrical Syndicate

English acting director using acting perspective

Henry Irving

African American stock company in Harlem that produced a new play every week

LaFayette Players

Famous African American actress

Anita Bush

Italy, Six Characters in search of an author

Luigi Pirandell

bertolt brecht, bring social change, thought over emotion alienation effect, theoretical, and political

Epic Theatre

Text oriented theatre, France

Jacques Copeau

art/lit movement, highly subjective, distory reality to present inner feelings, 1st person, Protagonist's POV, episodic

Expressionism