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invisible theatre
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actor perform in situations where the audience doesn't know it's seeing a prepared work.
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performance art
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write stage, perform by the same person. staging can take place anywhere. include guerrila, invisible theatre.
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moscow art theatre
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one of the most famous theatre run by stanislavsky
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constantin stanislavsky
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director who tend to play up the serious aspect fo the play.
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stanislavsky "system"
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most dominant acting technique
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anton chekhov
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playwright who uses everyday matter. part of realism movement where there's no villain, heros, no simple morals, anti climatic.
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robert la Page
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director and founder of the Ex Machina in quebec and stratford festival
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location of RSC and royal nation theatre
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england
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location of theatre de soleil and the founder
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france, by Ariane Mnouchkine
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Augusto Boal
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director of brazil (south america)
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tadashi suzuki
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avant garde director and theorists
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kathakali
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"modern" dance drama in India.
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bollywood
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amateur
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Al-kasaba
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palestine
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wole soyinka
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nigerian playwright (africa)
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Christopher Marlowe
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shakespeare's contemporary, served for King Edward II.
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Tony Kushner's play
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angels in America
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Holly Hughes
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World without ends, a play about gay and laesbian
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miss saigon
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controversy about a white character cast for an asian role
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david henry hwang
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asian american theatre
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Actos
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7-10 min small acts. actor wear sign around the neck to tell what/who the person plays.
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teatro Campesino theatre
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play the life of chicano in America
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the founder of Teatro Campesino
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Luis VAldez
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susan-Lori parks
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Top/Underdog. got Mccarthy fund
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Juke box musical
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the concept of taking well known collection of songs and mad e it into a musical
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Edwin Forrest
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a white american who made to look like a black actor.
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stephen sondheim
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a triple threat- composer, librettist, lyricist.
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showboat
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the first "book musical" has script, composer, and lyric
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minstrel show
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white dress up as black/color their skin to poke fun at other play
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opera
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play entirely sung
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vaudeville
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a variety show
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"straight theatre"
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theatre without song and dance (unique to US and eruope)
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melodrama
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larger than life acts where actions are more salient than words
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richard rodgers and Hammerstein II.
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contributor to the "Golden age" of the American Musical
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"practical light"
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any light controlled by an actor on stage
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cues
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a list of how often the light changes
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"gel"
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inserted to change the color of the light
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light plot
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show location of intruments and focus areas
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dimmers
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control panels which allow intensity to be changed smoothly. sometiems control by the computer
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gas lighting
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introduced in London in 1803.
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angust wilson
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Fences. provides a view of the "black experience in teh 20th century"
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ent'acte
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between acts, method to keep the audience entertained while the stage scenery changes
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procemium
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an arch that separate the stage environment from the auditorium
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Giacomo Torelli
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developed Chariot and pole system. (scene changes become mechanized.)
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perspective scenery
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2D scenery that looks 3D from far away.
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dark comedy
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combine fears , death with comic elements
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satire
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make fun sof something general
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parody
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make fun of specific person or thing
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farce
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physical comedy where the timing of entrances and exists are crucial
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happy ideas
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a crazy idea in the play that jump start the plot
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malapropism
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misuse of words that are very similar to the actual word
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pun
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play on words that sounds the same
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slap stick
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an actual device used to stimulate the sound of slapping but don't hurt
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aristotle's quote about comedy
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"painless deformity
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Komos
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origin word for comedy
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modern tragedy
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tragedy of "common man" not just heros
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domestic and bourgeois drama
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like modern tragedy but can have happy as well as serious sendings.
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sensation scene
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visual spectacle for an uneducated audience
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melodrama
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hero, heroine, villain, over simplified morals
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harmartia
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tragic character must make a mistake
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hero drama
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hero's death is seen as triumph, it doesn't have to end as badly as tragedy
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traditional tragedy
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character usually of high status, universe is indifferent or malevolent (ill will) to others
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aristotle's poem described tragedy as:
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fear, pity and suffering
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commedia dell'art
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Italy: character learn "line of business"
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deus ex machine
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unexpected, contrived ending
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harold pinter's play
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birthday party
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sam shepard
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true west
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caryl churchill
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top girl. focused on society exploitation of weak, traditional vs. comtemporay work, historiczation/anachronism( something occur at a time when it doesn't exist)
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august wilson
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fences
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athol fugard
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master harold
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"fourth wall"
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imaginary barrier created by the procemium theatre
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