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wrote Waiting for Godot really wierd dramas absurdist drama |
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Beckett! Common Trends: - unrecoginizable plots - mechanical characters - resemble dreams/nightmares - slapstick comedy - incoherant dialogue |
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| Alienation effect believed that the sudience should be reminded that they are in the theatre broke the 4th wall Alienation effect used song |
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| use of anti-illusive techniques to remind the spectators that they are in a theatre watching an enactment of reality instead of reality |
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| realism and expressionism |
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Tennessee Williams' glass menagerie and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman |
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Louigi Pirandello's 6 characters in search of an author |
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bertolt brecht historical, episodic, narrative wanted the audience to question what they were seeing |
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Eugene O'neill's Desire under the elms poetic form of realsim that deals with a level of truth that is common to all |
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| saddest play ever written |
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eugene o'neill's A Long Day's Journey into Night |
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realsim with a political conscience clifford odets - Waiting for Lefty was openly leftist labor drama |
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wanted audience to observe critically, draw conclusions, participate in intellectual argument with work at hand not about emotion or relating to the main characters brecht |
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making the theatricality of the production's props, lights, sets, and equip visible remind audience that they are seeing a play emotionally detached brecht |
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directed Streetcar Named Desire and Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof turned people in during the red scare - not well liked for that |
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selective realism set designer glass menagerie and death of a salesman |
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Henrik Ibsen wrote plays about contemporary life portrait of humanity |
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everything had to look and sound accurate "setting, costuming, action so fully realized so as to convince audience that they were listening in on life itself. smaller more intimate stage ibsen, strindberg, cheknov |
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defined by Eugunue Scribe 1. careful exposition 2. surprises 3.suspense that steadily builds 4. climax late in the play 5. denouncement with no loose endings good ex. A Raisin in the Sun |
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defined well made play created a "factory" for making plays |
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comes from "Melos" which means music used background music and such surprises, unlickely twists, sentimentality well defined heroes and villians clear-cut endings |
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drama that would support the saying that... "man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy" |
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| ______ felt that stage was a platform on which political and social issues could be debated |
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| To add colored light to a scene you use |
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| a style of theatre with unrecognizable plots, mechanical characters, situations resembling dreams and nightmares, and incoherent dialog is associated with _____ |
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Samuel Beckett's plays ex. Endgame Play |
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from Norway father of modern drama Ghosts, A Doll's House |
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absurdist drama Martin Esslin |
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coined the term "drama of the absurd" |
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| oedipus and death of a salesman are alike because_______ |
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| they both say a statement about human fallibility |
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| "the end is the beginning and yet you go on" |
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| Bertolt Brecht's plays were more like _____ than a well made play |
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| follow spot is used predominately for what |
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| bertolt brecht loved musical theatre T/F |
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the ending was changed in Germany |
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| in a rehersal if an actor forgets a line they say this and the stage manager will feed you the line |
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| when a actor forgets their lines |
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| above the stage where all the instruments are hanging |
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excerpts from a script that are used during auditioning process to prepare |
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actor's equity association AEA |
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union for stage managers and actors of the stage workdays: 7/9 hours working breaks must be recorded |
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| rehersal with all technical elements but no acors |
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| the weekend before the show starts actors are legally allowed to work for 10/12 hours |
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stage managers are in control communicate with light/sound/techies.. have big cue book = bible |
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| can be used for different places that occur within a play |
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| entrance to elevated seating from underneath the audience |
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| casting without regard to skin color |
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| a filter/metal cut-out put in front of an instrument that is used to create effective shadows/illusion like shutters, leaf patterns, prison bars... |
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| the house manager makes sure the audence is evenly distributed |
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| who keeps the prompt book? |
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| who is responsible for fittings |
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| what is an instrument and who deals with it |
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the lights lighting designer |
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| moving away from the audience is moving __stage |
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| hide the instruments above the stage |
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| to remove something from the stage you would ____ the object |
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1st building made specifically for plays in england
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| created to provide work for actors during the depression |
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williams original name= poker night |
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| agnes demille brought this to the musical |
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| what part of the well made play is missing in a dolls house |
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| realism and expressionism |
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| 6 characters in search of an author |
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| playboy of the western world |
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The first building made specifically for plays in England:
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| In Elizabethan Theater, a great many playgoers were satisfied to stand around the stage and were nicknamed |
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| much of what we know today about "traveling players" is from the play with in a play mouse-trap in hamlet |
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| the reckoning depicted a group of actors preforming what kind of play |
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| shakespeare whose masque in ____ is a delightful short tribute to the drama |
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| a special entertainment of royality |
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| shakespeare begain his career as a ___ |
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| dramatized a series of biblical events |
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| dramatized the lives of saints |
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| used religious themes to teach moral lessons |
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| coming from the city/port |
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| coming from the field or abroad |
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| machine used to raise/lower actors |
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| reversal -hero gets what they wanted, but what they want turns out to be destructive |
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| purpose, passion, perception |
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| original designer of death of a salesman and glass menagerie - selective realism |
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| showing, narrating, illustration, exhibiting |
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| external acting technique |
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| approach role through deep/passionate study of human behavior in its outwaard forms |
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| creative process that is intuitive, subconscious, subjective |
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| explored thought not emotion |
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time, place, action
1 setting, 1 plot, 24 hours... boring |
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developed the method
if i were in othello's situation, what would i do? |
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| if you wanted to hide the instrumets above the stage in a proscenium house, you would use |
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| the federal theater project was created |
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| to provide work for actors during the depression |
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| to create the illusion of speckled light or light filtering through trees once would use |
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| in the modern theater instead of a curtain, one uses |
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| in the professional theater who 1st contacts the actor to tell them they've been cast in a role |
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| to remove something from the stage is to ____the object |
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| the paul green stage can create challenges for the set designer b/c |
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| objects placed downstage can cause sight problems for the audience |
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which of the following is not part of nora's delima?
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b. she cant convince torvald not to fire krogstad
c. she forged a signature
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| what subject is the beginning of discussion at the beginning of a doll's house? |
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| torvald's promotion to manager at the bank |
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| a technical rehersal without actors is called a |
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| odets was an influential american social dramatist, and worked as an actor with |
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| miller and odets have what in common |
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| the house of un-american activities committee |
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| who directed the premier of cat on a hot tin roof? |
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| arthur miller worked as a writer for which orginization |
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| the federal theater project |
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| what union to broadway actors join |
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| what did biff steal from bill oliver as an adult? |
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| the first german actress to play nora |
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| insisted that she would never leave her children so she would not play the part as written and the ending was changed |
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| orson welle's production of macbeth |
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federal theatre project
all black cast |
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| controling artist, responsible for unifying production elements |
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| what did maggie buy for big daddy |
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| the saddest play ever written |
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| a long days journey into night |
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| similarity between death of a salesman and a dolls house |
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| what is the name of the samuel beckett play that was shown in class |
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wrote oklahoma
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| created the well made play |
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| poker night was the original title for what play |
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| who is responsible for all recording of blocking |
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| coined the term "drama of the absurd" |
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| first to explore complex african american characters on stage |
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| realism and expressionism |
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| six characters in search of an author |
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| playboy of the western world |
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| realism and expressionism |
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| in order for theater to happen you must have |
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| the process of the tragic characters sometimes leads them to a reversal - they get what they want but it turns out to be destructive |
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| theatre space as we know it today has two components, what were these components called using ancient greek terms |
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| oedipus is an example of which tragic realization |
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| that despite suffering a world order exists and people can learn from suffering |
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| at the end of hamlet what happens |
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| fortinbras is selected as the king of denmark |
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| the film the reckoning viewed in class follows a group of actors moving from city to city using what as a stage |
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| the place where three roads meet is where |
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| oedipus has a fit of road rage |
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| at the end of the film shakespeare in love is the beginning of which shakespeare play |
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| the julie taymor video showed in class shows what kind of rehersal |
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| oedipus becomes king of thebes because |
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| he solved the riddle of the sphinx |
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| hamlet is usuall grouped with what other plays |
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| othello, macbeth, king lear |
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| the king in hamlet says he cannot pray because... |
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| he has not repented his sins |
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| the drama reaches a conclusion and the characters understand the situation and themselves better than they did at the beginning is part of the |
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| T/F if someone is entering the stage from the right parados, that means they are coming from the city or port |
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| a character in hamlet who cannot see the ghost |
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| a courtier whom hamlet calls a water-fly |
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| a very talkative old man in hamlet |
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| the hero alone and willful, asserts his/her influence and energy agaist the ultimate mysteries of an imperfect world best describes what kind of drama |
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| the actor's reality includes |
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the circumstances of the play
the truth of the character's behavior
objectives
psychological motives
NOT: showing the audience the mood of the character |
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| ______felt that the stage was a platform on which political and social issues could be debated |
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| in theater if you make the audience _____ they become your friend |
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parallels between theater and life
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rehersal- spontaneity
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actors- humanity
simulation- reality |
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| black man who worked closely with fugard on projects - 1st to play sam at the yale rep theater |
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raisin in the sun
also a well made play |
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| a world without collisions is compared to ___ in master harold |
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| "the end is the beginning and yet you go on" |
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| an erotic piece of comic relief that ended the day's performances of tragedies during ancient greek period |
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| during ancient greek theater the chorus preformed different songs. parados while moving onto stage and ____ while standing still. |
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stasima
kind of sounds like static |
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| brecht's plats are more like _____ than well-made plays |
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| where was the world premier of master harold and the boys? |
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| outlined in tape on the rehersal hall floor so the actors can visualize the environment |
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| when an actor forgets their lines during a show |
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| stereotypical virtuous protagonists and villainous antagonists that resolves the domestic trials of middle class people in a pat, happy ending |
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exposition
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| who wrote the saddest play ever written |
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| what does willy loman think is most important in life |
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