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24 Cards in this Set
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Aesthetic Distance
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Audience observes art with detachment
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Agit Prop
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Political theatre that is used to persuade
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Alienation Effect
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Audience's Emotional Distance
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Aside
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Short comments that audience only hears
inner thoughts |
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Black Box Theatre
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Performance Space (Normally Black) allows rearrangement of seats and play area
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Catharsis
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purging of aggresive natures through art
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Climax
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point of highest emotional intensity
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Conventions
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Rules of theatre and communication tools
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Conventions
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Rules of Theatre and Communication Tools
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Critic
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someone who reviews a play
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Empathy
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amount audience identifies emotionally with character
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Exposition
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Events before play began
Background Info |
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Genres
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Categories of drama
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House
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Audiences or area of audience
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Model
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Minature 3D design of set
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Monologue
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passage from play for a solo actor
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Pageant Wagon
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In middle ages, carried scenery to performance
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Plot
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structure of events that take place
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Producer
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Roles:
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Representional
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Play aims toward real life
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Presentational
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Play aims toward artificial life
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Scrim
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translucent cloth that creates effects
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Soliloquy
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lengthy solo speech
reveals state of mind |
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Verisimilitude
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concept that theatre should present an idealized reality
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