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traditional tragedy
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-universe is indifferent to human suffering or malevolent causing it
-main characters are upper class -characters confront and defy fate |
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Aristotle's Poetics
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tragedy=suffering+pity+fear
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hamartia
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the main character's mistake that triggers the rest of the story
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melodrama
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-oversimplified morals
-sensationalist scenes (visual spectacle for audience) -can end happily or tragically |
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sensation scenes
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visual spectacle for an uneducated audience
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modern tragedy
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-characters no longer have to be upper class
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"Tragedy and the Common Man"
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Arthur Miller's tragedy where the tragic character fights for his dignity against circumstances bigger than himself.
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slapstick comedy
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term used for physical comedy, used to simulate beating on stage
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comedy: given social order
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-certain characteristics/behaviors are "normal,""typical,""average," or "correct."
-The comic character goes outside of these boundaries |
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pun
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ambiguity between similar-sounding words
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malapropism
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-mistaking a word for something similar, producing an absurd statement
-unlike pun, end phrase doesn't make sense |
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farce
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-physical comedy
-filming entrances or exits -misunderstandings -romantic/sexual -Example "Noises Off" |
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parody
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-makes fun of specific person or thing
-subject needs to be familiar -usually good natured |
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satire
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-more general than parody
-lasts longer because more general -Moliere best satire writer in theatre |
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dark comedy
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-combines fear, suffering, death with comic elements
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set model
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-gives director and construction crew an idea of what they're working with
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properties
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props, handheld items or furniture used during the play
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counterweight system
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used for flying actors or props around the stage
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flats
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simulate walls
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"built" costume
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a costume assembled specifically for the current play
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"pulled" costume
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taken from storage-been used before
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"rented" costume
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costly, but a useful option when you need several/many of the same costume piece
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fittings
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self-explanatory
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gas lighting
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introduced in London, 1803
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light plot
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how the lights are laid out onstage
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gel
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gives light color
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cues
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instructions in the script for when lights turn on
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Kathakali
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"modern" dance drama
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"Bollywood"
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has reduced theatre activity
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Al-Kasaba theatre
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theatre in palestine
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Habimah and Cameri
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theatres in Tel Aviv.
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Wole Soyinka
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Nigerian playwright, Nobel Prize 1986
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De la Guarda
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Argentina
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Augusto Boal
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Brazilian director and theorist; forum theatre, invisible theatre
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Theatre de Soleil
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Ariane Mnouchkine
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Avignon Festival
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every July in France; thousands of plays perform
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Peter Brook
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former RSC director; founded International Center for Theatre in Paris
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Royal Shakespeare Company
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Stratford, England
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Hrosvitha of Gandersheim
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935-973 Germany; the first woman dramatist we can name
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Nell Gwyn
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English girl
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corral
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where women were kept from men
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Aphra Behn
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first woman to write plays in England; most famous work The Rover
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Eve Ensler
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Vagina Monologues
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Julie Taymor
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the Lion King, Spiderman
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Performance Art
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solo documentary; Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
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Fires in the Mirror, Twilight Los Angeles
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Wooster Group
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Avant-Garde theatre
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Postmodernism
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-Post WW2
-1960s -Globalization |
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Pastiche
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Plays that refer to, adapt, or borrow freely from well-known works
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Robert LePage
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director and founder of Ex Machina
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Angels in America
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“identity politics”: plays talking about definition, limits of “cultural” experience
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My Visit to Al-Qaeda
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Lawrence Wright, talked to members of Al-Qaeda
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Antonin Artaud
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Theatre of Cruelty: physical, spiritual
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George C. Wolfe
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Jelly's Last Jam
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Athol Fugard
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Sizwe Bansi is Dead
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Timberlake Wertenbaker
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Our Country's Good
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John Guare
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Six Degrees of Separation
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David Mamet
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Oleanna
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Pavel Kohout
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Fire in the Basement
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Luigi Pirandello
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Six Characters in Search...
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Susan-Lori Parks
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Topdog/Underdog
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Monteverdi
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L'Orfeo
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Helen Edmonson
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Coram Boy
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Sybil Peterson/David Shire/Richard Maltby
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Baby
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