Script Analysis | Caveman Drama! | The Wandering/Wondering Greeks | R |
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What is Exposition?
Time, Place, Mood and Atmosphere, and Preliminary Situation are all found in this section.
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What are Performative Elements?
Examples of Political Campaigns, Holiday Celebrations, Religious Ceremonies,(Lighting of candles and singing,"Happy Birthday.")
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What is the City Dionysia?
The festival in honor of the god Dionysis, that tragedies were performed by choruses.
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What is the Initial Incident?
The "first" event that happens to move the plot along.
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What is Cultural Darwinism?
The racist concept that says that one cultureis better than another.
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Who is Thespis?
The Playwright that stepped out of the chorus and is known as the Father of Actors.
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Who is Sugar Kane?
The character played by Marilyn Monroe in the 1959 film Some Like it Hot.
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What are Unity Candles?
The Performative Element at weddings that was invented by a candle company in the 1970's to up the sale of candles.
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What is the year 534 BCE
The year that Athens organized the City Dionysia and gave birth to official theatre,
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What is the Preliminary Situation of Peter Pan?
When Mrs Darling sees a boy at the window and traps his shadow.
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What is the Ikernofret Stone?
The earliest evidence of Performance in Egyptian Culture was Carved into this stone in heiroglyphics.
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Who is Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
The three major Greek Playwrights whose work is the only existing work to survive.One invented the second actor and one invented the third actor.
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What is Mood and Atmosphere?
The personal reaction that is answered only after the plot is concluded, (Located in the Exposition.)
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What is the Abydos Passion Play?
The performance that was reinacted showing the death and ressurection of the Egyptian god Osiris inscribed on the Ikernofret Stone.
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Who is Aristopanes?
The only playwright to have a comedy survive. His work usually evolved from a "Happy Idea,"
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