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38 Cards in this Set
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class focus
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production, performance, writing, consumption
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theatre synthesis
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theatre is a synthesis of many parts
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theatre and collaboration
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theatre is created through a process of collaboration between many artists
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literature
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study play
forever fixed |
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theatre
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never the same
designed for stage |
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play
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blueprints for performance
only in a performance is the potentail realized |
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theatre vs film and tv
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interaction
direction |
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hallmarks of theatre
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interchange of audience and performers
each performance is different |
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professional theater
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broadway-profit
regional-non profit |
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theatre organization-administration
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profit
non-profit |
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creative staff
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playwright
director stage manager technical director design staff dance choreographers fight directors music composers |
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auditions and casting
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audition
callbacks focused auditions-actors are whittled down |
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before beginning rehearsals
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designs finalized
building sets hanging lights recording sound and music costumes begin |
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technical director oversees
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master carpenter
master electrician painters |
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rehearsals
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director
assistant directors SM ASM |
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rehearsal periods
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can last 4 weeks with previews
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technical rehersals
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end of 31/2 weeks rehersals begin
first time actors work on stage |
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up and running
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more people are necessary once show runs
frount of the house staff led by staff manager |
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running of show
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once a show is running SM and ASM run show
musical requires director and orchestra |
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criticism
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conduit between audience and producers
news items-elementary level critic presents impressions-first impression assessing productions value critic doesnt have vested interest in success of production |
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function of art
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entertainment
edification exaltation |
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genres
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comedy
tragedy |
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tragedy
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about members of the ruling class
elevated language focused on tragic hero |
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comedy
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middle or working class
language everyday speech ends in marriage |
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aristotle (384-322 BCE)
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wrote poetics
drama into 6 parts plot, character, thought, diction, music, spectacle |
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catharsis
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purgation
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Horace
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Art of Poetry
idea of decorum limited whats on stage, defined characters king shall be king, king shall not be a theif |
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The renaissance
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verisimilitude-neoclassical drama
reality morality universality |
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reality
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action, time and place
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morality
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teach and please
comedy-ridicule behavior that should be avioded tragedy-horrifyin results of errors and misdeeds |
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universality
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drama reduced to 2 basic types comedy and tragedy
decorum |
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melodramatic form
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simple powerful stories
unequivocal moral tone understood by everyone additional entertainment lots of spectacal |
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rise of tragicomedy
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late 18th century
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19th century tragicomedy
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-melodrama
-drama |
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melodrama
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order to the world
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ries of melodrama
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rose with working class and urbanization drama
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drama
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rose in conjuctions with melodrama
serios subject with working class and increased urbanization |
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ibsen
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henrik ibsen forefront of writing drama
father of realism |
