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communications
building live story telling conflict and resolution entertainment etc. |
What is theatre?
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table being set for western theatre
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beginning foundations started with greeks first and romans second with greeks, elizabethan renaissance and 20th C.--greatest
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Thespis
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first to use actors, one
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aeschylus
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2 actors
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Sophocles
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3 actors
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0 actors
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early greek theatre
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Dionysus
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god of fertility, wine, sexuality, and patron of theatre
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choral odes
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50 performers
male- thrashing circle to religious ceremonies |
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534 BC
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athens first dramatic festival once a year
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amphitheater
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outdoor theatre, "everything altogether"
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theatron
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"seeing place"- where audience sits to watch
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orchestra
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dancing circle
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thymele
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altar
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skene
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stage house
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proskene
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front of the stage
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parados
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chorus entrance
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eccyclema
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wheeled platform
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periaktos
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tri turned piece set
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mechana
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crane, dues ex-GOD
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corthurnus
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platform shoes
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dianora
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process of thought
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choregus
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producer
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didaskolos
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teacher or director
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hypocrits
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leading actor
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Dionysus
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who was the narrator in the first video?
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oedipus rex; tyrone gunthrie
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Who was narrator in the second video? who was it directed by?
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andre serban
and was medea in greek and latin |
who directed third video?
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amphitheatres sat 15, 17, 19 T
back row 75 yards acting declamatory unrealistic broad daylight masks (no makeup necessary) limited scenery 3 actors or less monolouges for clarity chorus 12 to 15 flute or percussion violence off stage |
how many did amiptheatres seat?
how far back was last row? costumes? scenery? how many actors? what type of plays? how many in chorus? music? violence? |
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aristotle (348-322 BC)
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greatest thinker or antiquity and master of those who know
wrote POETICS study of literary expression essay analyzing theatre purpose of theatre also astronomy, physics, rhetoric, ethics, politics, biology and botany |
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the purpose of theatre is to provide pleasure and the greatest pleasure in learning the truth
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according to aristotle, what was the purpose of theatre?
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