Drama 115 Vocab - Exam 2

The evolutionary process should be seen as the expression of an enduring life force (elan vital), that is continually developing. "The mechanical encrusted on the human"

• - Henri __________

• Tartaten

• Bergson

• Loyal

• Bergsan

Set with proscenium arch stage and three walls.

Melodrama

• Box Set

• Climatic Structure

• Melodramatic Scene Stage

• Dialectics

Satirizes norms

Comedic exposure

Deflation puts down or deflates the power character of conventional manners and morals

Social codes and rules exploded as farce

• Comedy of Manners

• Demystification

• Dialectics

• Epigram

The Origin of Species

All Creatures have in common ancestry, beings evolve through survival of the fittest

Affected Naturalism Drama

• Darwin

• Freud

• Genre

• Illusionism

First time in naturalism

Necessary to show actors how the scene should look

• Director

• Coordinator

• Episodic structure

• Marx

Settles all the dramatic potentials to show that issue of the story has been resolved.

• Dramatic Closure

• Dramatic Passions

• Dramatic Epilogue

• Dramatic Farce

Representing emotional states through body position and facial expression

• Dramatic Passions

• Epic Theatre

• Epic Expressions

• Dramatic Positioning

Witty

Meaningful quotations

A very formal balanced statement that expresses some point of view in a concise, memorable way

• Epigram

• Episodic Structure

• Facial Expressions

• Actor Speech

The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which necessary background information is provided. Ibsen's A Doll's House, for instance begins with a conversation between the two central characters, a dialogue that fills the audience in on events that occurred before the action of the play begins, but which are important in the development of its plot.

• Exposition

• Introduction

• Epilogue

• Prologue

An exaggerated style that is anarchic and aggressive, undermines conventional values and indulges anti-social impulses.

• Farce

• Genre

• Freud

• Illusionism