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Playwrights are what type of artists?
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theatre artists
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The oldest contributor to the craft of theatre (except for actor)
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playwright
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When did the position of playwright become professionalized?
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Renaissance
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Were plays viewed as literature during the Renaissance?
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no
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What were royalties?
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a fee per performance
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Playwrights who write as collectives, or in groups-often still dominated by one person
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collective creation
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From 17th-19th century, this became the norm-primary role was to act took over duties relating to directing too
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actor-manager
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Short, distilled statement that communicates director's overall vision
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Concept
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Read/discuss text, sitting around a table
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"table work"
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"getting it on it's feet"
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Staging the play
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Actors explore character's motivations and relationships with other characters
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Improvisation
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Guide actors in moving about the space
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"Blocking"
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Last phase of rehearsal process
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Technical rehearsals
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Department chair of university theatres, artistic director of regional theatres
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Producers
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View text as jumping off point for a production
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Auteurs
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Analyze the text and interpret the text in order to create a
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Concept
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Rehearsing a play without a script
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Off book
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FAUST was the most famous work of
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Goethe
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Another term for blocking, process of avoiding crowded areas on stage and empty areas to make scene even
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"traffic control"
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Monopoly of American theatres in 1896 by who
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The Syndicate
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