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29 Cards in this Set
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How do we appreciate theatre |
Respect and understand it |
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Why is theatre a living art |
Has to be alive in front of you |
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How does theatre encompass other arts |
Plays include fashion movies settings and all others |
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Theatre v film |
Film has camera theatre is live in front of you |
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Purpose of theatre |
Entertain, educate, express |
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Exist for theatre to happen |
Actors audience idea location |
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Actor and audience |
Exchange of energy |
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Willing suspension of disbelief |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge believe what play is telling us |
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Aesthetic distance |
Ability to separate art from reality |
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Critic |
Have opinions |
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Descriptive criticism |
Describing the play exactly how it is |
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Prescriptive criticism |
Suggestion on how to make the production better |
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Plot |
Sequence of events |
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Character |
People who carry out plot |
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Theme |
Main idea of play |
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Diction |
Meaning of the words(subtext) |
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Music |
Everything you hear |
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Spectacle |
Everything you see |
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Sankrit(India) |
Court drama royalty highly ritualistic no tragedy |
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Folk drama |
Families of actors general public vernacular |
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China Beijing opera |
Music dance mime not western opera |
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Noh (Japan) |
Masks highly formal no women art of walking |
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Bunraku(Japan) |
Puppet theater family oreiented 3 puppet masters |
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Kabuki(Japan) |
High pitch ladies shamanistic onnagata |
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Thrust |
Three sides of stage |
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Arena |
All four sides |
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Proscenium |
1 side proscenium arch |
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Black box |
Empty black square room stage can be manipulated |
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Found space |
Anywhere theatre can happen that’s not a stage |
