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Jeopardy Theatricalism Existentialism/ Epic Theatre RomanticismTheatre of the Absurd Symbolism $100100$100100$100100$100100$100100 $200200$200200$200200$200200$200200 $300300$300300$300300$300300$300300 $400400$400400$400400$400400$400400 $500500$500500$500500$500500$500500
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Double Jeopardy Renaissance/ Realism NaturalismTrue/ False $200200$200200$200200 $400400$400400$400400 $600600$600600$600600 $800800$800800$800800 $10001000$10001000$10001000 Final Jeopardy
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Welcome to Theatre Jeopardy Theatre Styles
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$100 Question Theatricalism Describe the Theatrical movement
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$100 Answer Theatricalism Audience takes active role by watching critically
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$200 Question Theatricalism What century did this style start?
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$200 Answer Theatricalism 20 th century
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$300 Question Theatricalism In order to keep the Illusion of the theatre this styles believes that ………..
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$300 Answer Theatricalism Nothing should separate the audience from the actor
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$400 Question Theatricalism This style received its inspiration by turning away from with theatre style?
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$400 Answer Theatricalism Naturalism
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$500 Question Theatricalism Name a famous playwright from this style
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$500 Answer Theatricalism Bertolt Brecht
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$100 Question Existentialism/Epic Theatre Describe the this theatre movement
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$100 Answer Existentialism/Epic Theatre Humans must accept responsibility for their actions
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$200 Question Existentialism/Epic Theatre What century did this movement begin?
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$200 Answer Existentialism/Epic Theatre Mid-20 th century after the birth of theatricalism
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$300 Question Existentialism/Epic Theatre This style believed that even though our existence is unexplainable ultimately human what?
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$300 Answer Existentialism/Epic Theatre Have freedom of choice/they are the masters of their own fate
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$400 Question Existentialism/Epic Theatre Why does the Epic theatre believe that audience members should not form strong bonds with the actors?
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$400 Answer Existentialism/Epic Theatre Actors should cause the audience to reflect on their individual lives
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$500 Question Existentialism/Epic Theatre What is the usual theme and purpose of the epic theatre?
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$500 Answer Existentialism/Epic Theatre Political dramas is purpose is to educate
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$100 Question Romanticism Describe the Romanticism movement
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$100 Answer Romanticism It was a devotion to beauty, and worship of nature
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$200 Question Romanticism What century did this style began?
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$200 Answer Romanticism 19 th Century
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$300 Question Romanticism This style spring from what culture ?
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$300 Answer Romanticism Roman
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$400 Question Romanticism Plays of this era focused on what?
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$400 Answer Romanticism Focused on emotions, sentiment and imagination Elaborately staged and used supernatural elements Hero’s were independent and defended individually Common theme was the gulf between spiritual and their physical limitations
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$500 Question Romanticism Broke the tradition of the neoclassical and the classical which where what?
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$500 Answer Romanticism Biblical Paly and stock characters
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$100 Question Absurd Describe the Absurdist movement
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$100 Answer Absurd Communication between humans is impossible
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$200 Question Absurd What time period did this movement start?
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$200 Answer Absurd 1950’s
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$300 Question Absurd The theme of the Absurd play is what?
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$300 Answer Absurd Illustrate man kinds lack of knowledge
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$400 Question Absurd How were this plays presented
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$400 Answer Absurd Plots do not have traditional structure Characters are not realistic and they usually fail to communicate Setting is frequently a strange, unrecognizable locale Dialogue seems to make little sense and the language is unreliable
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$500 Question Absurd This movement believes that we can be free if we what?
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$500 Answer Absurd Give up the quest for knowledge and admit that the mysteries of the world will always be a mystery
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$100 Question Symbolist Describe the symbolist movement
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$100 Answer Symbolist The most pure creation is accidental
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$200 Question Symbolism What time period did this movement start?
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$200 Answer Symbolism Late 19 th century
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$300 Question Symbolism The actors symbols for _______ and the set was _______
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$300 Answer Symbolism the unknown and often fiction
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$400 Question Symbolism How do symbolic images represent emotions, ideals, and values?
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$400 Answer Symbolist Symbolic images rather than concrete actions would be the basic means of communication and represented emotions, ideals, and values Characters were figures representative of the human condition Stage pictures had only the bare essentials necessary to evoke the dramatic universe Themes were chosen from myth or fairy tales and used poetic language and a deliberately artificial style of staging
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$500 Question Symbolist Which popular C.S. Lewis childern’s novel is a perfect example of this movement?
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$500 Answer Symbolist The lion, witch and the wardrobe
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$200 Question True/False Naturalism presented a slice of life on stage
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$200 Answer True/False True
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$400 Question True/False Existentialist writers accept traditional beliefs
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$400 Answer True/False False
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$600 Question True/False Naturalist did not believe in scientific discoveries
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$600 Answer True/False False
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$800 Question True/False Symbolist playwrights believed God didn’t exist.
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$800 Answer True/False False
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$1000 Question True/False Realism arose as a response to the giant spectacle melodramas that were popular in the 19 th century.
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$1000 Answer True/False True
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$200 Question Naturalism Describe this movement simply
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$200 Answer Naturalism “Real flies on real meat”
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$400 Question Naturalism What major difference does this movement break that most other do not?
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$400 Answer Naturalism The 4 th wall
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$600 Question Naturalism Naturalism create the illusion of what?
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$600 Answer Naturalism Reality
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$800 Question Naturalism What kind of subject matter did naturalist plays present?
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$800 Answer Naturalism The boredom, depression and frustration of everyday life
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$1000 Question Naturalism What things is naturalism based on?
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$1000 Answer Naturalism Based views on contemporary scientific theory Aimed to present ordinary life as accurately as possible – no theatrical sense – in the extreme “slice of life” and “real flies on real meat” Showed how human beings act in response to forces of nature and society that are beyond their control Subject matter emphasized the boredom, depression, and frustration of contemporary life
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$200 Question Realism/Renaissance Describe this movement
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$200 Answer Realism/Renaissance Uses the 4 th wall
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$400 Question Realism/Renaissance What time period did this movement begin in?
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$400 Answer Realism/Renaissance End of the 18 th century
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$600 Question Realism/Renaissance This movement was unique because writers refused to
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$600 Answer Realism/Renaissance make simple moral judgments or to resolve dramatic action neatly
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$800 Question Realism/Renaissance How did Realism change contemporary theatre?
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$800 Answer Realism/Renaissance Ushered in modern theatre and changed contemporary theatre in every aspect, from scenery, to styles of acting, from dialogue to makeup
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$1000 Question Realism/Renaissance What things are realism based on?
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$1000 Answer Realism/Renaissance Replaced the artificial romantic style with accurate depictions of people in plausible situations Writers refused to make simple moral judgments or to resolve dramatic action neatly Presents life as it actually is; characters talk, dress, and act as people in ordinary life do Actors attempt to become their characters; living their lives in real room with the audience spying on them through the invisible fourth wall
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Final Jeopardy What is the purpose of theatre styles? What is the purpose of such style classifications? Why did they arise and why do we study them?
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Final Jeopardy Answer Your opinion
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