Define the term genre?

A French word meaning type or category. In theatre, genre denotes the category into which a
play falls. Example: tragedy, comedy or tragicomedy.
Define Tragedy?
Dramatic form involving serious actions of universal significance usually with a unhappy
ending. Example: Othello, Macbeth
Define Romanticism?
Ninteenth century dramatic movement that imitated the episodic structure of Shakespeare, and
thematically focused on the gulf between human beings spiritual aspirations and physical
limitations.
Define Heroic Drama?
Serious but basically optimistic drama written in verse or elevated prose, with noble or heroic
characters in extreme situations or unusual adventures.
Define domestic drama?
Drama dealing with problems particularly family problems or middle and lower class
characters.
Define Melodrama?
Dramatic form made popular in the niteeth century that emphasized action and spectacular
effects and also used music to underscore the action; it had stock characters, usuallu with clearly
defined villians and heroes.
Define Slapstick?
Type of comedy, or comic business that relies on ridiculous physical activity often violent in
nature- for its humor.
What is comic premise?
Idea or concept in a comedy that turns the accepted notion of things upside down.
What is a satire?
Comic form, using irony and exaggeration to attack and expose folly and vice
What is a Farce?
A subclass of comedy with emphasis on exaggerated plot complications and with few or not
intellectual pretentions.
Define Theatre of the Absurd?
Twentieth century plays expressing the dramatists sense of absurdity and futility of human
existence through the dramatic techniques they employ.
Define Multimedia?
Use of electronic media, such as slides, film, and videotape in live theatrical presentations.
What are happenings?
Non-literary theatrical events, developed in the 1960s in which script is replaced with a scenario
which provides for chance occurrences.
Define Environmental theatre?
A type of theatre, made popular in the 1960s, which attempts to eliminate the distinction
between audience and acting space and which emphasizes a multiple focus for the audience
rather than a single focus.
Define Postmodernism?
Theory that division of art works into modernist categories, such as realism and departures from
realism, is artificial. Mix of realistic and non-realistic elements as well as techniques from
popular land traditional art.
What is role playing?
In everday life, the acting out of a particular role by copying the expected social behaviour of
that position.
Emotional recall?
Stanislavskis exercise, which helps the performer to present realistic emotions. Basically
method acting.
Define the role of a producer?
The person responsible for the business side of a production, including raising the necessary
money.
Define a Managing director?
In non-profit theatre organisations, the individual who controls resources and expenditures.