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16 Cards in this Set
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What is a ritual?
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repeated behavior to achieve a desired result
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What is theater?
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a performance that places human experience before a group of people
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What 3 things make theater unique?
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-immediacy
-alive -doubleness |
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What are the essential parallels between:
actors simulation rehearsal audience |
---humanity
---reality ---spontaneity ---society |
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Name 3 different theater spaces.
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-prosecenium
-black box -thrust stage |
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What are the 3 essential components of theater?
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-audience
-actor -action |
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What are the 2 essential components of theater space?
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-audience
-actor |
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Define acting.
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believable behavior under given circumstances
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Describe the Greek/Asian style of acting.
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stressed formal movement and stylized gestures; both forms used masks and Asian actors often wore richly textured make up
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What was the acting style during the 18th and 19th centuries?
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it alternated between exaggerated and realistic acting
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What was the contemporary acting style?
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portraying characters' wants and needs through artistically truthful behavior that reflects a character's psychological and emotional life
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Constantin Stanislavski
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proposed that actors understand how men/women actually behave physically and psychologically in given circumstances; the actor's "truth"
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What is the magic "if"?
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actors learned to experience what their character experienced as if it was actually happening to them
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What are the duties/responsibilities of a director?
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-collaborates w/ playwright, actors, designers, and technicians to create "a vision of life" on stage
- controls artist responsible for unifying the production elements -helps actor find character's :inner life" and project this to audience |
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blocking
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actors' movement on stage given by the director
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"Places!" means...
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get to where you are supposed to be; by stage manager
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