CSCC Theatre 1100 Exam 1 Study Guide
Nonmediated or live action theatre - Answer️️ -theatre that is not
observed through an electronic medium
Regional theatres - Answer️️ -permanent, professional, nonprofit theatres
offering first class productions to their audiences
Community theatre ...
Nonmediated or live action theatre - Answer✔️✔️-theatre that is not
observed through an electronic medium
Regional theatres - Answer✔️✔️-permanent, professional, nonprofit theatres
offering first class productions to their audiences
Community theatre - Answer✔️✔️-semi professional and experienced
amateur groups that appeal to their specific audiences
Site specific theatre - Answer✔️✔️-theatre presented in a nontraditional
setting so that the chosen environment helps illuminate the text
Performance art - Answer✔️✔️-most often refers to a solo performance
created by the performer but also can be a work that mixes visual arts,
dance, film, and/or music
Visual arts - Answer✔️✔️-these include painting, sculpture, architecture,
and photography
Performing arts - Answer✔️✔️-these include theatre, dance, opera, and
music, where there are live performers and audience members
Spatial arts - Answer✔️✔️-art forms that exist in space and are created to last
over time
Action - Answer✔️✔️-according to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, a
sequence of events linked by cause and effect, with a beginning, middle,
and end; said by Aristotle to be the best way to unify a play; more
generally, the central, unifying conflict and movement through a drama
Conflict - Answer✔️✔️-tension between two or more characters that leads to
crisis or climax; a fundamental struggle or imbalance-- involving
ideologies, actions, personalities, etc.-- underlying a play
Strongly opposed forces - Answer✔️✔️-the people conflict in a play that are
fiercely determined to achieve their goals
Balance of forces - Answer✔️✔️-the people or forces in conflict must be more
or less evenly matched
Obstacles - Answer✔️✔️-that which delays or prevents by achieving of a
goal by a character; an obstacle creates complication and conflict
Complication - Answer✔️✔️-introduction, in a play, of a new force that
creates a new balance of power and entails a delay in reaching the climax
Crisis - Answer✔️✔️-point within a play when the action reaches an
important confrontation or takes a critical turn; in the tradition of the well
made play, a drama includes a series of crises that lead to the final crisis,
known as the climax
Climax - Answer✔️✔️-often defined as the high point in the action or the
final and most significant crisis in the action
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