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How did non-theatre-related changes that took place in the mid-nineteenth century affect theatre?
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There were profound changes in religion, philosophy, psychology and economics
There was the challenging of beliefs that have accepted as standards for centuries. |
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What technical innovations occurred in the mid-nineteenth century in the theater?
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Gas Light
The fourth wall New machinery |
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What are some qualities of melodrama?
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Background music
Well -defined heroes and villains (virtuous maidens and extreme villains) Surprises and unlikely twists Sentimentality Clear-cut Ending Melodrama Today |
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Where did melodrama first develop?
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Developed in Germany and France
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What is the Well Made Play, and who is responsible for it? What are the five ingredients?
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Eugene Scribe. It was basically a factory for making plays.
A careful EXPOSITION telling the audience what the situation is usually including one or more secrets to be revealed later. SURPRISES, such as letters to be opened at a critical moment and identities to be revealed later. Withheld secret. SUSPENSE THAT BUILDS steadily throughout the play, usually sustained by cliff-hanging situations and characters who miss each other by way of carefully timed entrances and exits At critical moments, characters lose important papers or misplace identifying jewelry, for instance. A battle of wits. A CLIMAX late in the play when the secrets are revealed and the hero confronts his antagonists and succeeds. A DENOUEMENT, the resolution of the drama when all the loose ends are drawn together and explanations are made that render all the action plausible. The protagonist is saved. |
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What was Naturalism and who is associated with it?
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Emile Zola. No twists, surprises, suspense, convoluted plots, showed the dark side of life
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Henrik Ibsen
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Norwegian playwright, Pillars of Society, A Doll's House, realism, serious drama.
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August Strinberg
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Sweedish playwright, expressionist. Actually was first a naturalist, then expressionist. Less rigid in his plays than emile zola. Miss Julie is play in the book. j
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Expressionism
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Disregarded the strict demands of naturalism to present a "slice of life" without artistic shaping of plot or resolution. Focused on dreams, nightmares, symbols.
Abandoned realism and verisimilitude (degree to which drama reflects reality), presenting nightmarish images of the individual unconscious |
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Anton Chekhov
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Russian playwright , hugely influential, A realist. Plays were very lifelike. Master of the subtext, which is dialogue that seems simple but contains implied deeper meanings.
His plays are also very clear and direct. Shows characters ambitions, pain, and success, also touches on social changes. The Cherry Orchard is in the text. |
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REALISM and MYTH
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Sigmund Freud and his theories of psychoanalysis
Stimulated a new interest in myth and dreams That it was a psychological link between people - collective unconscious |
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Poetic realism
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Playwrights that used elements of myth in their plays produced a poetic form of realism that deals with a level of truth common to all humans.
Eugene O’Neill, Desire Under the Elms, Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge |
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Eugene ONeill
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Realist, american playwright. Had a dark vision of the world . . . his characters are haunted. To some extent, his tragedies were the first to really make it on Broadway. A Long Days Journey Into the Night, the saddest play ever written.
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Social Realism
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Clifford Odets, waiting for lefty. Realism with a political conscience
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Realism and Expressionism
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Apparently we are supposed to know that Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller are associated with this.
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Antirealism
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Louigi Pirandello - also an experimentalist.
Six Characters in Search of an Author (no objective truth to be known) He turned the Expectations of drama upside down. Well ? |
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Epic theater and Brecht
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Brecht is an influential german playwright. He believed that the audience is expected to interact seriously with the work, and not so much just emotionally respond. Used alienation to keep the audience emotionally detached but intellectually alert to the play.
Alienation effect Opposite of “suspending one’s disbelief” Did not want to show the illusion of theater |
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Absurd Theater
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Martin Esslin coined the term "The Theatre of the Absurd"
mainly was Samuel Beckett. He wrote: Happy Days Waiting for Godot Eugène Ionesco The Bald Saprano |
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Three Beckett plays
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Waiting for Godot
Endgame Happy Days |
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the house
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where the audience sits
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house manager
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manages the house
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weigh the house
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evenly distribute audience
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late comers
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a lot of people have to work together to decide when to seat people that are late
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legs
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curtains that hide the wings
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wings
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off stage area to left and right of promescium stage.
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teasers
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curtain that hides some light lights and stuff above the stage
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foot lights
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not often used now, but low-lying lights
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Special
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a lighting cue.
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follow spot
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light that follows you
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gel
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filter for light that changes its color
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spike marks
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tape that shows where props should go.
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blocking
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recorded in promptbook. Movement of actors on stage.
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cross
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a particular movement of actors
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cue-to-cue
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technical rehearsal, just the cues and none of the stuff in between.
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dramaturg
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does the research for the play
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gobo
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light filter, changes the shadows, can create some cool effects
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model
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set designer creates a model of the set
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monologue
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long speech in a play
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non-traditional casting
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color-blind casting
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practical
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the actor is near a light. and he actually turns it on. a non practical would be him faking to turn it on but someone else actually doing that.
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preview
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a performance before official opening.
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promptbook
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contains all the stage notes, cues, quick changes, props, etc. stage manager has it.
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raked
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at an angle, going up, either the audeince or the stage can be raked.
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sight lines
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what the audience can and cannot see.
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soliloquy
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speech that other characters on stage "can't hear"
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vomitory
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enterance for actors from either underneath or left/right of audience.
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unit set
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one set for all different locations
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strike
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to remove something from stage
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apron
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The apron is any part of the stage that extends past the proscenium arch and into the audience or seating area.
Most stages edges are curved slightly outward providing a very small apron. Some have a large playing space protruding into the audience and in turn a very large apron. An apron stage can also be another name for a thrust stage. |
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fittings
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fitting the costume to the actors. during rehearsals.
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photo call
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takes photos of a rehearsal
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half-hour
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30 minutes before show starts, stage manager calls this
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places
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stage manager calls this and actors are supposed to go where they are when the play starts.
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Calling the show
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stage manager calls the show. loads up the cues.
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ten out of twelve.
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a silly rule about how long actors can work on one weekend during a month
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read through
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sit around table, actors read through entire script
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dry tech
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tech rehearsal without the actors
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dress rehearsal
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rehearsal with costumes.
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blackout
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lights go out. modern theater uses it a lot to end plays
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AEA
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union for actors and stage managers
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Mock up
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a mock up is an object which is designed to emulate a prop or costume until performance time, at which point the actual prop or costume is used. so the actor can get practice.
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Sides
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after a call back, an actor picks up sides which contains exerts from the play
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audition hierarchy
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actor calls agent.
agent calls casting director. casting director talks to producer. producer talks to director. |
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grid
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where to hang the instruments. by instruments we mean lights. like, put the spot light at a-4 or something ridiculous
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mark
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specific, spatial (physical) spot that the actor needs to be at during a specific time
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line through
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no script. make sure that all the actors know their lines.
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speed through
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really fast line through
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stumble through
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we know that the actors dont know their lines, but we try to read through the entire play anyways
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run through
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best that the actors can do without calling line or anything
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run
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how long does the show run? it could run two hours . . . or the show runs for four weeks . ..
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go up
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forgetting a line
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line
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called during rehearsal
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the booth
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stage manager sits here.
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