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Abydos
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thought of to be the first play ever in 1875 BCE in Egypt
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Festival of Dionysus
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a festival in honor of the god Dionysus where tragedies and comedies were performed
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Medium
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how an art presents its contact: in theater, it is human speech and action
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Media vs. immediate
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a) never fixed or definitive
b) a script = the text to be performed; a blueprint for a live performance. c) always immediate and in motion |
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character
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fictional personalities performed by actors
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costume
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usually time relevant clothing in a play worn by actors
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rehearsal
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where actors perform the play under the guidance of the director where mistakes are resolved
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script
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an outline for what actors are to say and act in a performance
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collective mind
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the audiences collective reactions to actions occurring onstage
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Bread and Puppet
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audience members join performers for food after show
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The Living Theatre (Paradise Now)
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In this 1968 performance the audience was invited onstage to get naked with the actors.
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The Butchers
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a play that used real beef carcasses instead of fake ones; naturalism
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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In this musical by Rupert Holmes, the audience votes to determine plot points and character relationships.
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“j’assiste à une pièce”
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"I attend a play" to be present or to take part in
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suspension of disbelief
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The agreement by the audience that they will accept what happens in the performance as reality
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Theatre at Epidaurus (Greece)
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stadium seating which showed how popular theatre was at the time
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Globe Theatre
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where many of Shakespeare's plays were performed; next to a bear bating pit; theatre not as important
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groundlings
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those who could not afford balcony seating at the Globe and had to stand on the ground to watch it
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homogenous audience
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general audience
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Broadway
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-high profile
-500+ seats -High production costs |
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Off-Broadway
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-Also for profit but smaller scale
-100-499 seats -used to be experimental but now mainstream |
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Off-Off Broadway
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-Less than 100 seats
-sometimes do experimental performances in "found" or adapted spaces -Still for profit but low budget |
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Regional Theatre
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-Professional but not for profit
-Grant Funding (NEA, Ford Foundation) -Long-term contracts for actors -Subsidies allow more daring choices |
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College/univ. theatre
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-usually decent facilities and reasonable prices
-Often free from commercial constraints -Varying degrees of talent, limited rehearsal time -good compromise between professional and high school/community theatre |
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Found/created spaces
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-any space not designed for thea.
-lofts, warehouses, parks, streets -Environmental Theatre ––Promenade Plays -plays where audiences are asked to get up and move around |
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Guerilla Theatre
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performance that takes place before unsuspecting audience
(Improv Everywhere) |
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Blue Man Group
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began as street theatre group, went to off-off broadway, now a franchise
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reviewer
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someone who judges a play and says whether or not it is good
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critic
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someone who observes theatre, analyzes it and comments on it
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protagonist
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hero of the story
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antagonist
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person against the hero
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real-time structure
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time frame of story=exact duration of performance
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linear structure
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time passes normally an moves forward
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episodic structure
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can move forward, laterally, and backward
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prescriptive criticism
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Writing about a play on the basis of what you think the play should do.
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descriptive criticism
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Writing about a play in an attempt to document/ describe what literally happens in it.
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Poetics
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a book that Aristotle wrote that defines theatre in a good way as "imitation"
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Barong Dance
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where actors are so involved, they actually think they become characters
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Mimicry
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monkey see monkey do
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Feast of Fools
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Medieval celebrations that allowed commoners to mock religious officials and rites
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impersonation
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just what it sounds like
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acting offstage: "performance of self"
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how one presents themself (goth, emo, hip hop)
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acting offstage: social roles
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parents, police,doctors
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doubling
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switching off performances for actors
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demands of classical acting
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projection, verse, stylization
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actors in Greece
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amateur actors, alotted to playwright / directors for the purposes of competition
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actors in Rome
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most actors slightly better than servants
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cycle plays
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actors in renaissance
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Professional actors have uneasy relationship with authorities
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Moliere
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-French playwright/actor
-died onstage -had to be buried secretly because no actor in France could be given a Christian burial |
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David Garrick
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-English actor-manager
-revived Shakespeare plays -advocated realism -theatre became middle-class phenomenon |
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Edwin Forrest
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-American actor
-First American star -his feud sparked the Astor Place Riot, NYC, 1849 -did research on his roles (lived with a Native American tribe, etc.) |
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Ira Aldridge
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-African-American actor who worked in Europe (became known as Shakespearian actor in Europe)
-married to Swedish countess -worked for first black theatre company in U.S. |
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Henry Irving
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-first actor to be knighted
-knighted in 1895 |
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bhavas
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classical acting is seen in terms of 8 (bhavas) or primary expressions
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mudras
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symbolic gestures of the hands and fingers
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Japanese kabuki
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you play one character type for your entire career
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Stanislavsky system
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a type of approach to acting to determine during performance how to control emotion
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objective
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the final goal a character wants to achieve
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throughline
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Commedia dell'arte (Italy)
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similar to Kabuki in that you learn one line of business and spend your career playing that character: know the role so well they can improvise
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line of business
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basic definition
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conservatory
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music school
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MFA
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Master of Fine Arts
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Actors' Equity
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the labor union representing American actors and stage managers in the theatre
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audition
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-monologue/song/dance
-often brief -director looks for general skills |
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cold reading
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reading from the script without looking at it beforehand
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blocking
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movement and positions onstage for actors while acting
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auteur-director
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keeps the director's idea intact no matter what
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Heddatron
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director's unique vision of a former play (auteur-director); robots
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Dollhouse
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Dir. Lee Breuer cast women over 6’ tall opposite men under 5’ tall.
(auteur-director) |
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copyright
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basic definition
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public domain
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basic definition
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Playwright
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-have to think about blocking
-characters developing through action and not description -physical, vocal demands of performers -timing and pacing |
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Dramaturg
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a researcher and a developer that helps with plays
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scenario
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an outline
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Flaminio Scala
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published a collection of scenarios (outlines); the scenario would have hung backstage during a performance
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Griot
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a storyteller in Niger who portrays all characters in a story
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The Laramie Project
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story of the Matthew Shepard incident in Laramie, Wyoming
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Docudramas: Living Newspapers
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modern events dramatized
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The Federal Theatre Project
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part of the New Deal that gave theatre to every state
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Solo Social Documentaries: Eve Ensler
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Vagina Monologues
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Jelly's Last Jam
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know general story
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Sizwe Banzi is Dead
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know general story
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Our Country's Good
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know general story
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Six Degrees of Separation
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know general story
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