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Metamorphosis Context Quiz

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Practitioner who likes performers physically creating furniture, scenery, or objects with their bodies.
Jerzy Grotowski
Overstated physical actions used to communicate emotion or character clearly.
Exaggerated movement
Two actors speaking different lines simultaneously for contrast or tension.
Contrapuntal speech
An artistic style blending dream-like or illogical imagery with reality.
Surrealism
When performers speak straight to the audience instead of remaining within the scene.
Direct address
A confrontational theatre style designed to shock and challenge audiences.
In-yer-face theatre
Storytelling through physical movement without spoken dialogue.
Action mime
A social system where men traditionally hold primary power and authority.
Patriarchal society
A highly stylised Japanese theatre form using bold movement and makeup.
Kabuki theatre
A dramatic frozen pose in Japanese theatre showing emotional climax.
Mie
A set design using mainly one colour or shades of a single colour.
Monochromatic set
Stretching vowels or consonants to heighten tension or atmosphere.
Elongation of sound
A surreal, oppressive situation resembling the worlds created by Franz Kafka.
Kafkaesque nightmare
An artistic movement focused on emotional truth over realism through distortion.
Expressionism
Movement performed at a deliberately reduced speed for dramatic effect.
Slow motion
A political and economic belief centred on collective ownership and equality.
Socialism
Mechanical, machine-like physicality lacking fluid natural movement.
Robotic movement
Actors suddenly holding still to create a dramatic image.
Freeze frame
A style of theatre combining movement, mime, sound, lighting, and acting equally.
Total Theatre
Action sped up unnaturally to compress time theatrically.
Fast forward
The name of the practitioner who adapted The Metamorphosis into a physical theatre piece.
Steven Berkoff
The writer of The Metamorphosis.
Franz Kafka
A theatre theory aiming to overwhelm audiences through sensory experience and shock.
Artaud theatre of cruelty
Jerky, puppet-like movement inspired by machinery or dolls.
Clockwork marionettes
A complex administrative system often shown as cold or uncaring.
Bureaucracy
Distorted or unsettling stage pictures creating discomfort or horror.
Grotesque images
A Japanese pacing structure meaning introduction, development, and rapid conclusion.
Jo ha kyu
An economic system focused on private ownership and profit.
Capitalism
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