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Senior Sem Exam #RIP

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"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" playwright
Albee
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" style
absurdism
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" protagonist
George
A Streetcar Named Desire
Williams, realism, Blanche
Dutchman
Bakara, realism, Clay
Fences
Wilson, realism, Troy Maxson
Long Day's Journey Into Night
O'Neil, naturalism, Edmund
The Little Foxes
Lillian Hellman, realism, Regina
Our Town
Wilder, expressionism, group protagonist-The Town
Getting Out
Marsha Norman, naturalism Arlie/Arlene
The Zoo Story
Albee, realism, Peter
Death of a Salesman
Miller, naturalism, Willie
All My Sons
Miller,
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry, realism, Walter
Comedie Francaise
1st national acting company of France, active in 18th century
French scene
when a scene begins and ends with the arrival/departure of a character
Racine
17th century French playwright known for tragedies and Alexandrine verse
French Neo-classicism
holds to the three unities, attempt to recreate ideas of classical drama
Moliere
17TH century French playwright, known for comedies and satire
fop
stylish man overly concerned with appearance, 17th and 18th century, usually the butt of the joke
cabal
group of plotters
The Beggar's Opera
Gay, ballad opera, Macheath
Lysistrata
Aristophanes, comedy, lysistrata
Oedipus
Sophocles, tragedy, Oedipus
Antigone
Sophocles, tragedy, Creon
Titus Andronicus
Shakespeare, tragedy, Titus Andronicus
Everyman
Anonymous, morality play, Everyman
The Second Shepherd's Play
no author, mystery play, the shepherds
Tartuffe
Moliere, Restoration comedy, Orgon
The Country Wife
Wycherly, Restoration comedy, Horner
Phedre
Racine, Restoration tragedy, Phedre
All for Love
Dryden, Restoration tragedy, Antony
Venice Preserved
Ottawa, Restoration tragedy, Jaffir
The Tragedy of Jane Shore
Rowe, 18th century tragedy, Jane Shore
The London Merchant
Lillo, 18th century tragedy, George Barnwell
She Stoops to Conquer
Goldsmith, 18th century comedy, Kate Hardcastle
three themes of American Drama
1. The "American Dream"
2. Otherness in society
3. The human condition in 'Merica.
Oriestaia
only extant Greek trilogy
Aeschylus
introduced second Greek actor
agnorisis
the recognition scene, they recognize what they're doing isn't working and have to change tactics
mystery play
play containing a bible story, performed by guilds, example is Second Shepherd's Play
miracle play
presents a real or fictitious account of the life, miracles, or martyrdom of a saint., example is St. John the Hairy
morality play
he characters personify moral qualities (such as charity or vice) or abstractions (as death or youth) and in which moral lessons are taught, example is Everyman
tableau vivant
no lines and no movement
three unities
time, place, and action
-24 hours, one location, one main plotline but can have a smaller subplot
Tartuffe
example of high and low comedy (wordplay and slapstick)
stoicism
Seneca is responsible for popularizing this philosophy which influenced Kydd and Shakespeare
Sophocles
introduced the third actor
Conscious Lovers protagonist
Sir John Bevil
Comedy of manners written by
Restoration playwrights
Thyestes
written by Seneca, influenced Titus Andronicus
Senex
stock character in Roman comedy
how the popular Elizabethan playhouse and permanent Roman stage were similar
layout of the stage with the columns, and where the audience was in relation to the stage
Restoration comedy
abuse of noble class, lots of low comedy and baudy comedy,
18th century comedy
more high comedy, tends to be more moralizing, wanted bad people to get their comeuppance
Ming Cho lee
prolific for use of collages and large single scenic elements, taught at Yale and influenced many other designers
EPIC strips
used to outline
LED strips
can be used to light doorways or boxes
par can
can be used for follow spots
3 considerations for designing costumes and sets
actor safety, time period, time of day
6 main types of stages
round, reverse round, thrust, alley, proscenium, moveable audience
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