Aristotle's 6 elements of Drama

• Plot

• Character

• Theme

• Diction

• Spectacle

• Song (Music)

  
  

• Aphrodite- goddess of love

• Dionysus- god of theatre, wine, fertility, and nature

  
  

Know who first actor was...

Greek Theatre comes from ancient ritual called

Chorus- anything a chorus does

Need to name 4 alive characters from Antigone

• Antigone

• Haemon

• Creon

• Guards

French playwright who wrote Nazi version

Monkey King must know at least one thing

-On sesame street

-always wore yellow

-wanted to be a god

-Shi-t (sp?)

-Waki

Women in Kabuki

Noh and Kabuki theatre vs. theater

Bunraku theatre

-puppets

-Chanter and musician

-Drums

-Smaller in scale

-pass their acting skills down family member to family member

Globe Theater

Queen on the throne

-Queen Elizabeth I

Blank verse is how we speak and it is also called

-Iambic Pentameter

One comedy

-Henry VIII

4th Wall

-Imaginary wall in front of stage in which audience watches the show

American playwright influenced by Realism

-Tennessee Williams

Absurdist play

-Ends in same place it started in, life loses meaning

Bertolt Brecht

-in his epic theater he wanted you to know you were there so you are not swept away by the story so you can be rational about it

Surrealist play

Dada and Futurism

-similarity is that both involve the audience

Characters in a Dolls House

• Nora

• Torvald

• Grogstad

1870s Norway in Christmas time

Author

-Ibsen

1870s Norway in Christmas time

Spine

-she will ask opinionated question about the spine of Dolls house

Yankee Doodle Boy Author

-George M. Cohan

Show Boat

-George Gershwin

Cats and Phantom of the Opera

-Andrew Lloyd Webber

Concept musical about hippie lyfe