Theater Final

What is a Monologue

• an acting exercise composed of two students who portray a memorized selection from a published work of literature.

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  1. the art or occupation of performing in plays, movies, or television productions.

• a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.

• handwriting as distinct from print; written characters.

What Is Dialogue?

• A Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

• a long, speech by one person during a conversation.

• the written text of a play, movie, or broadcast.

• 1. an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.

What Are Stage Directions?

• 1. an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.

• the place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred.

• a sequence of continuous action in a play, movie, opera, or book.

• A dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by music.

What is Melodrama?

• Romance genre stories involve chivalry and often adventure. The prevailing type of story in the romance genre consists of a love relationship between a man and a woman, often from the woman's point of view.

• a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character.

• a dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions.

• a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing

What is Comedy?

• a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms.

• a story or play in which there are a lot of exciting or sad events and in which people's emotions are very exaggerated.

• a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (such as destiny) and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion

• a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending;

Poseidon, Athena, Aphrodite, and Zeus are all gods in...

• Greek Mythology

• Roman Mythology

• Christianity

• Judaism

What is a playwright?

• the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text

• a person whose profession is acting on the stage, in movies, or on television.

• the creative leads of the film.

• a person who writes plays.

What is an actor?

• a person whose profession is performing on the stage, in movies, or on television.

• a person responsible for the financial and managerial aspects of making of a movie or broadcast or for staging a play, opera, etc.

• a person who dances, especially professionally.

• a person who practices or studies

What is a setting?

• a raised floor or platform, typically in a theater, on which actors, entertainers, or speakers perform.

• an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment.

• the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.

• the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth

What is a Tragedy?

• A genre of drama that is characterized by its happy and cheerful endings.

• A genre of drama that is characterized by its humorous and light-hearted tone.

• A genre of drama that is characterized by its serious and somber tone, typically with a sad or disastrous conclusion.

• A genre of drama that is characterized by its exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions.