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102 Cards in this Set
- Front
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theatron
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seeing place
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dran
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to do
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audience
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those who hear
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crewing
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stage hands
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house managing
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ushers programs tickets
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producer
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in charge of money contacts and finds a place
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director
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directs a vision
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stage manager
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calls cues
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theatre/sports
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scripted and rehearsed with a specific outcome
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mask
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physical and symbolic seperation hiding the performer and displays the character
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representational
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no interaction with audience
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presentational
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breaking the fourth wall like comics magicians and child performers
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willing suspension of disbelief
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believe the story knowing its just characters
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Coleridge
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willing suspension of disbelief
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Empathy
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to recognize and share feelings
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Catharsis
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purging of the emotion
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Action
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a series of these create a play
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Conflict
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gives the actions meanings
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Genre
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type of play
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History plays
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historical plays English Royal History
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dark comedy
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doesn't aim to leave you laughing Virgina Wolfe
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Farce
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laugh until you cry ends happily
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plot vs story
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structure of events action reaction vs. narrative of what's seen to happen
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aristotle's elements
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plot character theme diction music spectacle
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Characters
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protagonist and antagonist
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Theme
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the message
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Diction
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accents and the way they talked
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Music
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intermission and before play
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Convention
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agreement between audience and actor where there is an understanding while watching the play ex. accepting the red scarf as blood
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Spectacle
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costumes sets lights make up
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exposition
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the background info
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climax
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the point of the highest tension where the conflict reaches the peak and then is resolved
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denouement
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after the climax the loose ends are tied up
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curtain call
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the end where the actors bow
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inciting incident
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the moment that "starts" the play
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antagonist
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obstacle
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protagonist
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main character
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thespian
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actors from thespis who was the first actor
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objective
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goal
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subtext
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characters unspoken and undescribed goals
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emotional memory
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the emotions remembered
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Lee Strasberg
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known as the Method
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tactics
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how we get our goal
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obstacle
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the things that get in the way of our goal
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The Actor's Studio
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a non profit organization for actors directors and playwrights
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Method Acting
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American acting style from The System
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Stanislavsky
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father of acting modern theory known for The System
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zadacha
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objective what the character wants
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imagination
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idk
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blocking
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bigger movements ex. walk across stage
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cold reading
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the first reading
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cattle call
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lots of actors audition
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AEA
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Actors Equity Association
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SAG
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Screen Actors Guild
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AFTRA
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America Federal Tv and Radio Actors
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Detroit area theatres
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Meadow Brook Theatre, Michigan Shakespeare, Performance Network, Mosaic Youth Theatre, Planet Ant, Purple Rose Theatre
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The Method
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American acting style from The System
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Tragicomedy
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including tragedy and comedy
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Melodrama
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music underscoring them good vs evil like soap operas purely emotional response
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Michael Shurtleff's Guideposts
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relationship, conflict, moment before, location
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moment before
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what happened before now
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Playwright
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only isolated person they wright the play
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Arthur Miller
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playwright used marolyn manroe went to UofM
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Lanford Wilson
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American playwright considered one of the founders of off off broadway
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August Wilson
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10 play cycle 20th century black bottom 7 guitars
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Wendy Wasserstein
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Yale grad womens playwright isn't it romantic
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Neil Simon
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Barefoot TV writer
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Tennessee Williams
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Street Car, Cat on Roof, The Glass
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Edward Albee
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The Zoo Story, Who's Afraid of the Virgina Woolf? Three Tall Women
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Dialogue
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what is said by the actors
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Physical Action
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what the actors do
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Continuous structure
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linear from point to point
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linear chronology
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point to point continuous
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intrigue
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keeping of attention
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credibility
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believable
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Christopher Marlowe
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great playwright who gets killed
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Richard Burbage
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allowed the play to be held in his theatre
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The Rose
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the theatre
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The curtain
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the theatre
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Queen Elizabeth
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the one who the plays were for
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Nell Gwynn
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first women appearance on stage 1665
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Ned Allyn
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Ben Aflac
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John Webster
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plays with mice
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groundlings
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first seats
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Admiral's Men
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Ned Allyn
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Chamberlain's Men
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who Shakespeare worked for
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Twelfth Night
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Shakespeare like twelve days of christmas
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billing
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a list of movie credits
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understudy
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the person who is the back up
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prologue
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before the play
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Nell Gwynn
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first women appearance on stage 1665
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Ned Allyn
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Ben Aflac
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John Webster
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plays with mice
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groundlings
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first seats
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Admiral's Men
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Ned Allyn
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Chamberlain's Men
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who Shakespeare worked for
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Twelfth Night
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Shakespeare like twelve days of christmas
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billing
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a list of movie credits
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understudy
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the person who is the back up
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prologue
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before the play
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epilogue
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after the play
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Horace
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in order to move the audience you must be moved yourself (representational) utile dulce sweet instruction
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