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ocr AS Level Drama and Theatre (H059-05) Question Paper May2024.

GCE AS/A LEVEL 2690U20-1 DRAMA AND THEATRE – AS unit 2 Text in Theatre

ocr AS Level Drama and Theatre H059-05 Mark Scheme June2023.

(T/F): To show the corpses in a Greek play, the "eccyclema" was lowered from the roof of the "skene". - Answer-False Most of the attendees to the festival of plays were _____ and _____. - Answer-Men and boys At the theatre of Dionysus, what was the thymele? - Answer-An altar dedicated to Dionysus What term that we use today for contrived endings came about because of the overuse of gods to resolve difficult dramatic situations? - Answer-Deus ex machina Similar to a modern parade float,...

THEA 128B! Final Exam Study Guide Qs&As According to Peter Brook in The Empty Space, as long as one has the intent to create a fictional world, you only need three elements to create theatre: an actor,______, and a space. - ANS-An audience Aristotle wrote the treatise called ______, which described what he thought to be the components of a good tragedy. This formed the basis for all Western theatre criticism to come. - ANS-The Poetics An unspoken agreement between actor and audience conce...

AS (NEW) DRAMA AND THEATRE STUDIES - UNIT 2 2690U20-1

Western audiences, to a great degree have been brought up watching Aristotelian story telling Correct Answer: True The inciting incident in a story happens after the crisis Correct Answer: false there were 24 chorus members in the tragedy of sophocles Correct Answer: false according to the aristotle good tragedies raise questions about the meaning of human kind's existence Correct Answer: true the new comedy of menander was severely critical of the athenian government's role in t...

Chorus correct answers In ancient Greek Drama, a group of performers who sang and danced, sometimes participating in the action but usually simply commenting on it. In modern times, performers in a musical play who sing and dance as a group Thespian correct answers Synonym for performer; from thespis, who is said to have been the first actor in ancient Greek theatre City Dionysia correct answers The most important Greek festival in honor of the god Dionysus, and the first to include drama ...

Creon was rashly accused of trying to overthrow his brother in law King Oedipus and was almost exiled because of it. correct answers true The Greek chorus for this play is made up of townspeople who appear to seek answers for the Plague which has overcome their city. correct answers true Theatre in Greece was highly competitive with intense contests for both playwrights and actors correct answers true Greek theatre regularly mocked those irrational lower class Greeks who still believed ...

Medium - The means by which content is provided to the consumer Gesamtkunstwerk - A term coined by Richard Wagner that literally means "a total work of art" unifying all aspects of a production: spoken word, music, lyrics, scenery, lighting, costuming into a unified and cohesive whole Well-made Play - Pièce bien faite in French; in the nineteenth century, a superbly plotted play, particularly by such gifted French playwrights as Eugène Scribe () and Victorien Sardou (1831- 1908) Probl...