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actor manager responsibilities |
-choose and cast actors -sometimes still played roles but always older -decided which plays were performed -read plays and decided the season -hire administrative and FOH staff -weekly salaries -supervised rehearsals -maintaining equipment |
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Lucia Madame Vestris |
-first female actor manager in victorian age -married to charles mathews, were actor managers of covent garden -started in minor theatre, wanted to to more society based light comedy and musical etnertainments -worked at olympic theatre then covent garden proved it was possible for women to do it |
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Eugine Scribe |
-credited with perfection of "well made play" genre -wrote/manufactured lots of plays according ot Victorien Sardou -employed people to write for him, bought ideas -first big hit in 1815 -apparently kept card files with plot devices that he could pull out and insert in any plays |
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the Well Made Play structure |
5 acts: 1rst act has extensive explanation because play starts late in the action 2-3 action oscillated back and forth in an atmospheric mounting tension 4 is most important, ball or other type of climax scene with lots of people on stage. things usually looking pretty bad for the hero 5 is falling action, tieing up loose ends, happy ending each act has same structure of 4/5 rising action and 1/5 falling |
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The Well Made Play plot elements |
-strict logic of cause and effect -plot based around secret known by audience but not characters (everone's in love with the officer masham in GOW) -action and suspense grow mmore intense as play proceeds -hero or protagonist experiences ultimately good and bad turns of fortune -hero's worst point is right before the best -plot knotted by a misunderstanding -denoument is logical and clear, nothing remaining to be explained -overall action replicated in each act -no deep philosophy, radical social evils, society corrupting mankind etc |
