Check - Drama - W/E - 22.7.21

What is a genre of theatre?

• Comedy Theatre

• French Theatre

• A type of theatre

• TragedyTheatre

When did the genre of melodrama begin?

• Victorian times

• 2021

• In Elizabethan times

• In the middle ages

What is the correct term for characters you see repeated in different Melodramas?

• Genre

• Soap Characters

• Staple Characters

• Stock Characters

What description goes with this key term? Exaggerated characterisation

• What happens in a scene

• Playing characters as largely as possible.

• Facial expression

• Body language

What stock characters do you find in melodramas?

• Romeo and Juliet

• A hero, a damsel in distress and a villain

• Witches and wizards

• Caliban, Prospero and Ariel

What is contained in a script?

• An improvisation

• The ideas for a play

• What the characters say and the stage directions

• The film of a play

What are proxemics?

• Use of stage space to show character relationships

• Moving around the stage

• Being on one part of the stage

• Making eye contact with the audience

What description matches this key word? Physicality

• Your vocal tone

• How slowly you move

• How fast you move

• How you move on stage

What are stage directions for in a script?

• To explain where the audience need to sit

• To give directions to the theatre for the audience

• To tell actors how to speak, what to do and where to go

• To boss the actors around

Why is the acting in melodrama so exaggerated?

• To make the performance serious

• So the actors enjoy themselves

• To make it entertaining for the audience

• To teach the audience