Introduction to Theatre Study Guide Unit 3 Exam

Introduction to Theatre STUDY GUIDE Unit 3 Exam. Fall 2022 The technical term for revelation of background material in a play is exposition. Another word that means "contrast in the connection of scenes" is juxtaposition. . A selection and arrangement of scenes from a story is called a plot. A full account of an event or series of events, usually told in chronological order, is called a story. The final and most significant crisis is referred to as the Climax. Comedy is one type of genre a playwright can use when developing a script. Some other types of genre are Tragedy, Melodrama, Musical, Docudrama, Farce. Laertes meets Hamlet in a duel. Ophelia’s father; Hamlet mistakenly kills Polonius. The two men sent with Hamlet to England; they carry a secret letter that Hamlet discovers and switches are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ophelia kills herself by drowning after going a bit mad. Gertrude marries Claudius within two months of her husband’s death. Prince of Denmark whose father recently died is Hamlet. What convinces Hamlet of Claudius’s guilt in the death of Hamlet’s father is that Claudius has a violent reaction to the play Hamlet stages. The Mouse-trap is a children’s game that Hamlet pretends to play. Shakespeare’s eleven year-old son was named Hamnet. Shakespeare’s hometown is called what Stratford-Upon-Avon. Shakespeare studied Latin in school. Shakespeare’s grammar school met 6 days a week. The hours daily of the school were 7am-6pm. The name of Shakespeare’s theatre which sits across the river Thames is called The Globe. Iambic Pentameter. What is iambic pentameter? Let’s look at these two terms separately. An iamb is a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. Say the words between, mature, and instead. These are iambs. In poetry, repeated rhythmic units are called “feet.” An iamb is a kind of foot. Pentameter means that the foot is repeated five times. It has the Greek root penta-, which means five. (Think of a pentagon; it has five sides.) Now put the two terms together: iambic pentameter is a line of poetry with five iambs in it. It has this rhythm: da DUM / da DUM / da DUM / da DUM / da DUM The Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet is the basis for the musical West Side Story. The composer and who originated the title role of Hamilton is Lin Manuel-Miranda. Hamilton’s adversary and antagonist at the end of the show is Aaron Burr. When a musical is based around an idea rather than a story, it is called a concept musical. The true American musical, combining music, dance, and a singular dramatic story at the center, was first established in the late 1920s with the musical Showboat. Even though the three longest-running musicals in Broadway history were 1980s British imports, the modern musical theatre form is predominantly a product of American talent and creativity. Opera was originated by men who thought they were imitating Greek drama. Of Thee I Sing was the first Broadway musical to receive the Pulitzer Prize. The book of a musical is called the libretto. The famous Indian form of dance theatre which uses extensive use of facial expressions is called kathakali. The type of Chinese Theatre which features song and dance is called Chinese Opera. A Japanese formal type of theatre which has elements based in Zen Buddhism is called Noh Theatre. The famous Japanese puppet theatre is called Bunraku. Gilbert and Sullivan wrote the British operettas The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado? The play written by Simon Stephens and was based on a novel of the same name is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Wellington is the name of the dog in the play. The subject was Christopher wanting to take his A levels in is Maths. Christopher was putting together a train set on the floor when at school and talking to his teacher in Act One. What was the color that Christopher said wasn’t his favorite? Yellow What was the one thing that made Christopher cry out when it happened? Anyone touching him. Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote the lyrics and music for Oklahoma! Curly (the cowboy) tells Aunt Eller that he had thought much about The Box Social Gunshots made people run to the smokehouse. The Peddler (bids $51) so Will can keep his $50 he bet on Annie's box so that he has the money to give Annie's father. Will Parker marries Aunt Eller at the end of Oklahoma! The two girls that get in a fight over an "Oklahoma Hello" from Will are Annie and Gertie. The item Laurie buys from the Peddler man that causes her to have her "dream" are smelling salts-"Elixir of Egypt" The character that dies in the show is Judd Fry. The city that Will Parker travel to and sing about is Kansas City.