Theatre II WOD Test 101-120

group of actors & directors in the US who worked together in New York from 1931 to 1940 to produce forceful, naturalistic, and highly disciplined plays with a political message

• Board of Directors
• Actor's Guild
• Group Theatre
• Sag-Afra

process of making each event, person & place (to the smallest physical object) as exact as possible, details explored to discover relevance to characters

• particularization
• realization
• internalization
• materialization

theatre which tries to create an illusion of reality

• anthological
• original
• representational
• presentational

emphasizes theatricality & acknowledges theatre as theatre; there’s no illusion

• representational
• original
• presentational
• anthological

final appearance of the cast, at the end of the play, to receive the applause of the audience

• Debut
• Curtain Call
• Center stage
• Last call

Distinguish formal 5 Act plays produced by licensed theatres from in unlicensed theatres that sprang up in 19th Century, particularly those featuring dance & choral numbers as a primary feature (ie. revues)

• Benevolent Theatre
• Extrume Theatrics
• Legitimate Theatre
• Light Theatre

3 Neoclassical rules for drama derived from Aristotle's Poetics

• Actors laws
• Unities
• Lists
• Commandments

to rewrite a drama into a work otherwise not written for the stage

• dramatization
• Demonstrations
• Rewrites
• Altruism

words or lines in a script that the playwright wants stressed, usually identified with italics

• Playwriting
• Castmaking
• Scriptcraft
• Emphasized Dialogue

a change of setting, props, lights, &/or costumes between acts.

• Act change
• Scene change
• Strike
• dissemble