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25 Cards in this Set
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Traits shared by preformances |
Doers Something Done Watchers Performance sites Movement through time |
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Traits that cause differences in performances |
Purpose Relationship between doers and watchers Organizing principles Self awareness |
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Traits shared by arts |
It is artificial Stands alone Self-aware Produces aesthetic response |
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Traits causing differences among Arts |
Relationship w/ time and space Principles of organizations Idea of audience Mode of presentations |
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Characteristics of Theatre |
•Uses the actor •Live actors and live audience •Immediate and ephemeral •Depends on action to organize the theatrical event •Virtual world •Real performance space with artificial settings •proceeds at it's own pace through time •Not a thing but process •Life like but not life |
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Audience approval |
Applause Laughter Silence Curtain Call Standing ovation Encore |
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Audience disapproval |
Withhold applause Noise Protest |
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Culture |
Beliefs, values, and social behavior that a group shares |
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Aristotle's 6 parts of a play |
1. Plot 2. Character 3. Idea 4. Language 5. Music 6. Spectacle |
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Parts of play |
•Exposition- info about last events, usually at beginning •Point of attack •Action- discovery and reversal •Complication- conflict •Rising action •Crisis •Falling action, resolution, and denouncement |
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Causal Plot |
Linear. Incidents happen along a line of causality from beginning to end, build up to a climax |
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Episodic plot |
Incidents do not follow one another, usually ordered by the exploration of an idea |
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Protagonist |
Central figure in the main action |
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Confidant |
A character in whom the protagonist or another important character confides |
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Antagonist |
The character who opposes the protagonist |
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Raisonneur |
Authors character. One who speaks for the author directly given the author's moral or philosofical ideas |
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Foil |
One who sets off another character by contrast: comic where the other is serious, stupid where intelligent, shrewd where naive |
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Theory |
Systematic Internally consistent Sufficient Congruent |
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Modernism |
The industrial age, reason science, causality, hierarchy and authority, autonomous individuals, history as progressive, dualities opposites |
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Postmodernism |
The information age, meaninglessness, randomness and probability, dialogue, socially shaped people, history of nonlinear, differences rather than opposites |
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Reviewers |
He plays and then write about them for publication in magazines newspapers television radio and the web lack the time to process and reflect on what they have seen |
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Critic |
Examination of a play or a group of plays usually by applying theory |
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Agents |
Mediators between artists and professional theatre |
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Casting directors |
Work for the producing entity and find the most suitable actors for the production |
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Advertising versus public relations |
Public relations seeks free media coverage whereas advertising pays for its placement in media |
