Script Analysis | Caveman Drama! | The Wandering/Wondering Greeks | Rome, ROme,ROMe, ROME! | Broadway and Hollywood Musicals |
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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 American TV?
Roman Theatre could be compared to this Variety of entertainment that we all have access to in our homes.
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What is "The Wizard of OZ?"
The 1939 musical about a girl that is taken by a tornado to a magical land called OZ
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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 are the Etruscans?
The people that controlled Rome in its earliest days and gave them their love of festival and music.
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What is lip-synching?
The technique used by actors in film to look as though they are singing live for the camera.
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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 Mime?
The form of comedy that the Romans enjoyed that employed stock characters and music with no talking.
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What is an audience?
The one element that Broadway Musicals have that film musicals do not. (You have been one before.)
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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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Who is Plautus?
The author of The Menaechmus Twins, he is a Roman comedic playwright who is the author of over 130 plays.
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Who is Toto?
The name of the "four-legged" character that got paid more than the actors playing the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.
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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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What are Gladiatorial fights and Chariot Races?
The activities that caused the decline of theatre as popular entertainment.
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What is Proscenium?
The type of presentation that most Broadway shows use, it allows them to create great transitions like the disappearing nursery scene in Peter Pan. Hint, our stage is one of these types of stage.
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