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Professional Theatre: commercial
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-produced to make a profit for investors
-musicals and comedies make the most money |
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Professional Theatre: non-profit
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-$ goes to the production of future plays
-workers only receive fair compensation -professional or amateur |
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What two types of professional theatre are there?
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1) commercial
2) non-profit |
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Broadway
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-seats 500-1800
-professional -theatre houses in NY that are in the theatre district (41st-54th street) |
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Off-Broadway
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-not located in the theatre district
-seat 100-500 -professional |
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Off-Off- Broadway
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-professional OR semi-professional
-very low budgets -seat less than 100 |
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Empathy
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-emotional identification
-refers to sense of participation -an identification with a character |
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Aesthetic Distance
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-"the distance apart"
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Catharsis
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-emotional release
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Name the theatre spaces
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1) proscenium theatre
2) thrust stage 3) arena stage 4) black box theatre |
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Proscenium Theatre
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frames the stage (ex: Jones Theatre)
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Thrust Stage
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-one of the oldest formalized theatre architecture designs
-it has 3 parts of the audience that surround the stage |
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Arena Stage
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-audience on all sides of the stage (ex: sporting events)
-referred to as "theatre in the round" |
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Black Box Theatre
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-small and intimate
-most FLEXIBLE stage and audience configurations |
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Areas of Stage
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-farthest away from the audience is UPSTAGE
-closest to the audience if DOWNSTAGE -the left of the audience is really the RIGHT, and vise versa -(everything is opposite) |
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Components of a production
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-all of the THINGS that go into it
-idea/script, set, lights, costumes, props, performers |
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Production of Collaborators
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-all of the PEOPLE
-playwright, producer, director, scenic designer, costume designer, lighting designer, sound designer, stage manager |
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Front of House
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-house manager and box office manager
-job is to make sure people come back |
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Theatre Components
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-orchestra, skene (house behind/backstage), theatron, parados
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Liturgical Drama
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-tropes
-performed by clergy -in latia |
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Medieval Theatre
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-RELIGIOUS plays that were performed OUTDOORS were known as CYCLES
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Mystery Plays
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-with Jesus
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Miracle Plays
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-without Jesus
-Saints performed the miracles |
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Morality Plays
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plays about people's morals
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Conflict
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-two fones working against each other
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Protagonist
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-the good guy
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Antagonist
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-the bad guy
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Genre
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-classification of a drama related to the emotional response
-EX: tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, and melodrama |
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Dialogue
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-what the actors say
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Subplot
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-secondary lines of actions that are enter-twined with the main story/plot
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Prose
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-based on a similar language in every day speech
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Verse
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Rhyming
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Royalty
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-a fee paid for each performance
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Copyright
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-performance or publication requires the PERMISSION of the playwright
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Public Domain
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-no longer protected by copyright law
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Commedia Dell' Arte
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-mostly improv
-based off of familiar stories |
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Slapstick
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-actors and their use of a long flat paddle with a flap that literally made a loud slapping sound
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Neoclassicism
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-movement of art and literature in 16 CENTURY
-based on the study of ancient Greek and Roman art and literature |
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Verisimilitude
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-appearance of truth
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Raked Stage
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-floor at an angle
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Improv
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-when dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time
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Romanticism
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-rejected aspect of Neoclassicism
-celebrated natural world -valued intense emotion and individuality |
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Melodrama
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-conflict between good and bad characters
-fast paced action |
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Realism
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-depiction of everyday life on stage
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Antiquarianism
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-recreating authentic styles of dress, architecture, and interior design when producing plays
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Book Musical
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- musical play that tells a story and has spoken text as well as songs
-avant garde pushes boundaries |
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Expressionism
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-nonrealistic approach to production -the subjective experience of the character is depicted on stage
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Theatre of the Absurd
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-post World War 2 plays that are centered on characters who are strangers to each other and trapped in a violent meaningless world
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Director
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-person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
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Interpretation
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-intuitive response or subjective experience
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Dramaturg
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-a specialist in dramatic literature
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Stage Manager
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-makes sure things run smoothly backstage
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Blocking
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-planned actor movement usually recorded in a prompt book
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Audition
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-standard tool for casting a production
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Call Backs
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-a second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
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Concept
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-artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience
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Sense Memory
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-actors recall of sights, sounds, touch and smells from specific past events
-the actors tools include mind, body, voice |
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Subtext
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-actual meaning of dialogue behind the words spoken
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Representational VS Presentational
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representational- reality
presentational- "not real life" |
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Designer
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-control the environment of the theatre
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Ground Plan
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-drafting of the set as it would be seen from overhead
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Rendering
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-a picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
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Costume Plot
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-a chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor
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Orestia
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- a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylees
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Kabuki
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-classical Japanese form of theatre
-colorful, performance of female roles by men |
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Chorus
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-1 guy from chorus stepped forward, 3 actors on stage still with chorus
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Theatron
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"seeing place"
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Parados
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-chorus entrance and exit
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Orchestra
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-"dancing place"
-acting space |
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Hypokrites
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-Greek word for actor
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Bertolt Brecht
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-German playwright
-father of epic theatre |
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Aeschylus
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-wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
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Thepis
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-attributed to writing the first tragedies
-he also acted in them |
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Aristophanes
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-old comedy
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University Wits
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- a group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge who wrote and performed for the professional public theatres
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The Globe
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-built in London
-saw many of Shakespeare's Plays |
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Plato
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-found theatre disturbing and potentially dangerous
-Greek philosopher |
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Aristotle
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-Greek philosopher
-famous student Alexander the Great |
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Dionysus
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-Greek God
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Henriklbsen
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-the father of "modern theatre"
-Dared society to discuss social issues |
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Emile Zola
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-called for naturalism
-a "slice of life" |
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Eugene Scribe
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-"well made play"
-French playwright |
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Constantin Stanislavski
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-psychoanalysis, rep. style,
-focus on other actors |
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Platos attitude toward theatre
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thought a convincing actor could alter people's perceptions
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Purpose of theatre according to Horace
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-to teach and please
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Aristotle's 6 elements of a play
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1) plot
2) character 3) thought 4) language 5) music 6) spectacle |
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Casual Play Structure
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linear plot: events progress forward in time
casual plot: one event causes the next |
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Actors Job
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-to communicate
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Designer's Job
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-control the environment of the theatre
-communicate info -influence audience's emotional involvement |
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4 Variables of costume design
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-silhouette
-color -texture -accent |
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Rhetorical Tradition
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-presentational style prior to realism
-focus on audience rather than other actors -emphasis on vocal delivery -large gestures |
