Exam 3 Review

Match the following playwrights with their genres

• English Restoratoin

• Molière

• Spanish Golden Age

• Aphra Behn

• French Neoclassical

• 1. 1. Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Which genre of playwriting is characterized by specific rules about the action being believable, upholding morals, and not mixing dramatic styles?

• Spanish Golden Age

• French Neoclassical

• Restoration Comedy

List one of the 3 unities in French Neoclassical writing

Who was the Norwegian playwright known as the father of realism?

• Brecht

• Chekhov

• Strindberg

• Ibsen

Which playwriting genre is known for symbolism, distorted reality, and non-realistic dialogue

• melodrama

• expressionism

• realism

• epic theatre

Which genre of playwriting was meant to influence social and political change?

• melodrama

• expressionism

• realism

• epic theatre

What is one thing said or done that signals an actor to say or do something?

• action

• cue

• cause

• motive

Who co-founded the Moscow Art Theatre, training actors in the first methods for realism?

• Brecht

• Strasberg

• Chekhov

• Stanislavski

What is the term for the rehearsals where the director and actors work through a scene intensively, stopping and starting to make new discoveries regarding characters and relationships?

• relationship work

• scene-by-scene work

• technical rehearsal

• moment-to-moment work

Which of the following is the final step in the director's process

• play selection

• dress rehearsals & previews

• design meetings

• casting