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What is the Happy idea? |
Farfetched idea/notion which a play is based on |
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Prologue |
sets the mood and presents the happy idea |
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parados/exodos |
entrance/exit of the chorus |
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Agon |
the formal debate of the happy idea b/w main characters
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meter |
chorus/rhyming |
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kOMOS |
drink party where all parties come together |
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Theatron |
Theatre, greek word for "seeing place" |
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4 types of theatres |
Outdoor Ampitheater Proscenium Blackbox OR Theatre-in-the-round Thrust |
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What is the proscenium arch |
Creates pictureframes or painting, frames a show |
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Where is the down stage in the proscenium theater? |
Towards the audience/ranked stages |
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When NOT in a proscienium theatre when do we know where down stage is? Left and right? |
Where audience is, right and left determined by actors left and right hands |
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who sits in the tech booth? who runs the show? |
Stage manager Calling the show means giving instructions to lights/curtains/etc. |
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Fly and Trap System |
Raises curtain/piece of set/scenery |
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What is blocking/staging |
tell an actor where to go on stages, standing and dancing |
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Open and Closed in Terms of Actors? |
Open=face the audience Closed=Back to audience |
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What are voms? |
vomatorium (to spew forth people) also came from back in the day where people used to vomit in the voms |
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What is the ghost light? The lore behind it? |
The lgith always left on in the theater, always left on for 1.Safety reasons 2. So that the "spirits" of the characters that actors portray don't get restless/that it keeps them company |
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What are the Wings? |
Where the actors wait, exit/entrances for the actors |
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The house? |
The area in which the audience in seated/where the actors are not performing or backstage area |
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The pit? |
Where the orchestra plays |
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What play by shakespeare do we not say in theatre |
macbeth |
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What are catwalks? |
Where the shows stagecrew operates the spotlights usually high above the stage |
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Paradigm |
set way of thinking |
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What historical events led to realism? When was the birth of realism? |
1.Industrial revolution 2.Marxist revolution 3.Scientific revolution
Birth was in the 1868 |
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First actor? What word do we get from him? |
Thespus, thespian=lover of theatre/the arts |
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Konstantine Travoski? |
Jesus of realism in theatre new rules/laws of theatre=human relevant emotions organic behavior
concentration,muscle memory,objective,imagination,naivity,emotional memory |
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What was the Moscow Art theatre? |
performing group Travoski gathered to act w/ his plays, realism spreads |
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Lee Strasburg? Why improtant? The method?
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learned the method from travosky, started new group theater, created own schools of theatre art, modern acting understand character |
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New Group Theatre? |
taught modern acting created by lee strasburg |
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Two definitions of acting? |
1.Living truthfully in an imaginary circumstance 2.Give voice to dead people |
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What is the actors instrument? Greatest obstacle by the actor? |
Themself/body/discipline to emotions/spirit/pysche
FEAR |
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Elements of acting/part of the Stanislavski system discussed in class/practiced in young theatre? |
1.Practice/Rehersal 2.Audition & Callback 3.Rehersal
20 years to be a good actor |
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What is Genre? |
Grouping of Art w similar characteristics Category of works |
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Characteristics of Greek actors? |
Gesture, All Males, Loud voices, masks, weak emotions |
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God of Freedom/Fertility? |
Dionysus |
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Building blocks of theatre? |
Actor stepping out to be an actor |
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How big were greek audiences? |
Thousands |
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What does theatron mean? |
Seeing Place |
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Orchestra mean? |
Dancing place |
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Major Greek Festival in Athens called? |
Dionysa (Festival to Dionysus) |
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Hiw did City Dionysia test boundaries |
government given to hands of people=democracy was born |
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Who was the king in Antigone? |
King Creon |
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How did the chorus emerge? What does it represent? Function? |
Rituals in dionysia
Greater community/Audience/How the audience should feel/act/opinion
IT sets the mood/conscience of the audience/musicality &dynamics act as a character themselves/provide expososition |
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Challenge of translation? |
difficult bc culture needs to honor culture, also poetic language is lost |
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Artistotle's definition of tragedy or harmartia? |
purifies audience/emotional cleansing hamartia=tragic flaw (hubris is an example/excessive pride) |
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What is catharsis |
emotional cleansing
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Who was the author of Oedipus Rex? |
Sophlecles |
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Advntages/Challenges to wearing a mask in theatre |
Adv: use masks to suit character, become characters Chall: no facial expressions, must be loud/voice, face is gone is back turned |
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Golden Age of Greece? |
When Gov was put into the hands of the people. 5th century BC |
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Differences between Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes? |
Aes: 1 or 2 actors, very chorical, grand language Soph: individual focus, chorus support, human support Euri: innovator, everyday speech/characters |
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Tragic mistake by Oedipus? |
He promises to avenge the killer of the previous king only to ultimately fulfill the prophecy he so desperetly tried to avoid by unknowingly marrying his mother and killing his father, the previous king. |
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Who wrote Medea? |
Euripedes |
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What word do we get from Komodia? What is the meaning of this greek word? |
Comedy; it meant celebration/gossip/scandal/impersination |
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What was the Pelopenesian war and its consequence? |
27 year war between athens and sparta, Athens lost its powerful navy and people |
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Who wrote Lysastrata? |
Aristophanes |
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What was the happy idea in Lysistrata? |
If women ban sex, the men will have to stop the war. |
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What is the phallus? What is its importance? |
important, sexual notes motivates saying place of free speech |
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Why is Homer important to the evolution of greek theatre? What is western tradition? |
Brought story to theatre Created works, Odessy/Illiad-->characters in story on stage |
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What is a dithyramb? |
Carols sung to honor Dionysus |
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What god is central to greek theatre's beginning? |
Dionysus |
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City Dionysia? What is Satyr play? |
Festival in March to honor Dionysus, performs competitions of dithyrambs, eventually performed plays
Satyr=adult humor play |
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What were three major greek playrights? Name a signifigant contribution of each |
Euripides-Medea Sophocles-Oedipus Rex Aeschylus -The Persians |
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Three Major ideas of greek tragedy? Structure? |
Death nature of human suffering catharsis=emotional cleansing Character must go thru tragic flaw/cleansing |
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What is the skene? The theatron? |
skene=background/scenery theatron=seeing place/orhcestra |
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11 characteristics of comedy |
suspension of reality/natural law safety the unexpected the comic premise/farfetched notion play on words (puns/double entendre/malipropism) physical visual characters verbal sexual improvised props plot implications |
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Types of comedy |
Parody (exhaggeration of person/style/stereotyping) Dark Comedy (cringe factor) Satire (ridicule/sarcasm) Farce (slapstick/physical comedy/outrageous situations) |
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4 Types of directing |
1.Traditionalist-story telling clear/audience what expect/no surprises/tells story w/ emotional punch delivers
2.Aurteur-Concept supersedes all other considerations including the text, will re-write to force concept into show
3.Post-modern/conceptualist-places new/novel demands on directors/experiential/on actors/new ways of expression
4. Conceptualist= new approach to a work, apply to modern audience/changing periods/location/style/etc. |
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Process of a show |
1.Script 2.Reading the play/rereading 3. research 4. decide on approach 5. research 6.analysis 7.creative team 8.casting 9.rehersal 10.read thru 11.table work 12.staging 13, 14,15. working cleaning, run thrus 16. Tech rehearsal (week before show opens) 17. dress rehearsal 18. opening 19. the run |
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What did aristotle write that helped define plays |
Poetics, asking questions what is a play 6 things : plot, character, diction, music, spectacle, theme 3 things in theater: audience, actor, story |
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What is a director's job? Their hats they wear? Their trools? |
to tell a story | unifies production elements in a cohesive work of art
wears hats: parent, cheerleader, psychologist, manager, organizer, historian, boss, costumer
Imagination/Intuition |
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What question was asked that arguably started the history of Theater? |
What does it mean to tell a story? |
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What is the glue that holds a show together? |
Lighting |
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What is a director |
Person responsible for bringing together elements in a cohesive work of art |
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Why are greeks so important to the development of Western civilization and culture? |
They were the first to put their trust in human reasoning. |
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What are six elements of a drama (Aristotle)? |
Character Plot Music Idea/Theme Language Plot |
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What are given circumstances |
Who, What, Where, When, Why (of a play or show given by playwright) |
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What is exposition |
background info necessary to understand the story |
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What is the inciting event |
What begins or starts the world/makes the telling of the story possible |
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What is the galvenizing event? |
The event that changes/starts the plot and series of events |
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What is the galvanizing event in Hedda gabler? |
The mention of Lovbyrd coming back into town/him competing for the same position as Tesman |
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What is plot? What is an event? |
Plot is a particular series of events And event is a scene or bit of the story within the plot |
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What is a complication? |
Anything that ratches the state or complicates the plot |
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What are three (four technically) types of conflict? |
Man vs. Man Man vs. Nature Man vs. Society (Man vs. Self) |
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Define stasis |
The normal status quo in a story/normal functioning of the world |
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What is the Major Dramatic Question/Spine of the play? |
The question that the audience asks |
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What the the major dramatic question of Hedda gabler? |
Is Hedda really a giant jerk on purpose or is there a reason/redeeming quality for her behavior? |
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What is special about musical theater? |
Its uniquely an American art form It involves singing/dancing |
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What three types of theatre or influences helped Musicals emerge? |
Operettas Vaudville Burlesque |
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What is the longest running Musical? |
Phantom of the Opera |
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What is the first rock musical? |
Hair |
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What is Zeightgheist? |
The mood or spirit of the times/era What shaped or shapes the time |
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What is a Triple Threat |
An Actor who can Sing, Dance, and Act |
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What is the difference between a book or concept musical? |
Book=tells a story Concept=revolves around a theme or concept |
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Who was a major figure in Broadway? |
George M. Cohan |
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Who was responsible for the plays of the golden age of theatre? |
Rogers and Hammerstein |
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Name a play Rogers and Hammerstein wrote |
Sound of Music Cinderella Oklahoma |
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What was the first book musical? |
Oklahoma |
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When was the golden age of Musical theatre? |
1940s |
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Who founded Mega Musicals? |
Andrew Weber |
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What is Realism? |
Realism involves regular life of realistic people/commoners Slice of Life |
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When did Realism start? |
1890s |
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Who was the father of Prose? |
Henrick Ibson |
