theater ch 7

As seen in some of Chekhov's plays it is possible to combine the climactic and the episodic forms.

False

Common structure in musical theatre requires that every song have a segment that involves the chorus.

False

In a climactic drama, the plot begins early in the story.

False

Patterns as structure exist not only in dance but also in some plays, where the characters movement and circumstances can be repetitive, as in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

False

The term "robot" was actually first used in an early twentieth-century play by Neil Simon.

False

When nonhuman characters are written into a script it is typically because the producers do not want to create a stage prop when an actor can solve the problem nicely.

False

the main representative character in Henrik Ibsen's "a Dolls House" who to this day serves as a symbol of the modern woman is

Nora helmer

A tableaux structure begins with characters arranged in a visual stage picture and the action, frequently nonverbal, proceeds from that tableaux until the end of the scene.

True

Minor characters in a play are always written as basic stock characters.

True

Narrators in the most traditional sense remain outside the action of the play and typically comment on the action communicating directly with the audience.

True

We know that playwrights frequently write plays about a single family in classic climactic structure and they will also occasionally create two contrasting characters that are siblings or husband and wife in order to allow character traits to stand out more dramatically in the action.

True

minor characters are

all of the above

an intellectual or artistic movement that breaks with tradition and therefore seems ahead of its time is called _______; literally, it means "advance guard in a military formation"

avant- garde

the technical term fro revelation of background material in a play is called

exposition

_________ was at the heart of most plot communications in the commedia dell'arte

harlequin

another word that means "contrast in the connection of scenes" is

juxtaposition

which is not a characteristic of extraordinary characters?

pivotal but minor role

a repetition or reenactment of a proceeding or a transaction which has acquired special meaning is called a

ritual

a ______ reinforces or runs parallel to the major plot in an episodic play

subplot