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Shite |
main actor in Noh, Spirits, masks |
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Waki |
supporting actor in Noh, living, no masks |
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Kyogen |
short comedic plays in between Noh plays |
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Kabuki |
more popular than Noh, commerical, facepaint, revolving stage, shouting |
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Zeami |
Kanami's son |
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Kanami |
perfects Noh |
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Bunraku |
Chinese puppet theatre |
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Time taken for Bunraku school |
2 years |
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Time taken to master each limb of puppet |
10 years |
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Hanamichi |
an extra stage section used in Japanese kabuki theater, runs, left of center, from the back of the theater, through the audience, to connect with the main stage.
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Noh VS Kabuki |
1. Noh wore masks for emotio, Kabuki uses face paint 2. Noh is older 3. Kabuki is more popular 4. Kabuki shouts while Noh is more somber |
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Noh |
Masks, very little stage props, less commerical |
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4 ideals of Romanticism |
1. Artist as Genius 2. Longing to transcend the physical world 3.Truth In Nature 4. Beauty inside the grotesque |
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Melodrama |
Good and Evil, Poetic Justice, Last minute rescues, Happy ending, |
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Realism |
created by Ibsen, conversational dialouge, normal people, rebellion against romanticism and Melodrama, Ghosts |
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Naturalism |
founded by Zola, "Slice of Life", plot but no structure |
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Synthesthesia |
In symbolism, when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color
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Expressionism |
Created by O'Neill, the Hairy Ape, anxiety and mental breakdown of main character |
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Dada |
Anti-Art Movement |
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Responsibilities of a Producer |
Is in charge of: getting audience/show together, all financial aspects of show, collaborate with artists and public |
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Producing in a Non Profit |
Artistic and Managing director focus on continuity of organization, not a specific show |
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Artistic director VS Managing Director in Non Profit |
Artistic is responsible for artistic life of theatre, Managing is in charge of finances |
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Effects on types of plays produced |
1. Proven box office draws are favored 2. narrowing of material 3. small casts for plays 4. TV and film actors hired |
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Ways of Theatre Funding |
NEA, Corporate sponsors, Subsidation |
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6 Stage Management Duties |
1. Calls rehearsals 2. Assemble prompt book 3. Work with director 4. Maintain artist's intentions 5. Discipline of rehearsal performance 6. Keep Records |
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NOT stage managers duties |
Cant handle contratcs, order food, or sign closing notice |
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Augusto Boal |
Brazillian theatre theorist |
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Augusto Boal's techniques |
Simotaneous Dramaturgy, Invisible theatre, breaking of oppression, forum theatre |
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Luis Valdez |
founder of the farmworkers theatre company, the voice of UFWCC (united farm workers organizing committee) |
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El Teatro |
destabalized the actor/audience boundary |
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Los Vendidos meaning |
"The Sell Outs" stereotypes as method of social subversion |
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Who founded the UFWU? |
Ceaser Chavez |
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El Teatro Campesino
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"farmworkers theatre" |
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Book Musical |
Utilizes a script that is built narritavely |
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Revue Musical |
Format built around production numbers, or "follies" |
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Dance Play |
Where dance is the main mode of storytelling |
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Jukebox Musical |
Built from an existing group of songs |
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Spectacle |
Musical enterainting production |
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Who collaborates in a musical |
Compser, Lyricist, Director |
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Origins of Musical Theatre |
Music since Aristotle days, ballad operas, British operettas, Minstrel shows |
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Three act Structure of Minstrel Shows |
Act One: Interlocutor, grand song, jokes Act Two: The Ollio, song and sketches using the entirety of a playing scene Act Three: Extended sketch with musical number |
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Burlesque |
A variety show, typically with stripteases and humor |
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Vaudeville |
variety show with songs, acts, dances, and skecthes |
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Tony Pastor |
Father of Vaudeville |
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The First American Musical |
The Black Crook |
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Tin Pan Alley |
Harold Allen, Center of song publishing in NYC |
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Show Boat |
beginning of the american musical form |
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The Golden Age |
Book musicals are the standard |
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Oklahoma! |
Integrates music and dance into the plot |
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Carousel |
Riddled with gender issues |
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Frank Loesser |
Comedy writer of golden age, Guys and Dolls |
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West Side Story |
Leanord Bernstein and Stephen Soundheim dream team |
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Fiddler on the Roof |
Symbolic End to the Golden Age |
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Concept Musical |
Ideas over narritive, non-linear story telling, role of dance is changed dramatically |
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Who directed Cabaret |
Hal Prince |
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First conceptual musical |
Company |
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Pippin |
music written by Stephen Stewards |
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Pre-Romanticism |
Storm and Stress, taboo topics, against neo-classsicism |
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Auguest Von Schlegel |
Lead Theorist of Romanticism |
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Contributions of Romanticism |
Box Set, local color, antiquarianism |
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The Well-Made Play formula |
focused on arrangement of incidents, building scenes to a climax, suspense, devices driving action |
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Hagoromo Plot |
A fisherman is walking with his companions at night when he finds the Hagoromo, the magical feather-mantle of a tennin (an aerial spirit) hanging on a bough. The tennin sees him taking it and demands its return—she cannot return to Heaven without it. The fisherman argues with her, and finally promises to return it, if she will show him her dance or part of it. She accepts his offer. The Chorus explains the dance as symbolic of the daily changes of the moon. The words about "three, five, and fifteen" refer to the number of nights in the moon's changes. In the finale, the tennin disappears like a mountain slowly hidden in mist
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