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107 Cards in this Set
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Ground Plan
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A map of the playing area for a scene.
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Casting Call
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A tryout for auditions.
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Picturization
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Attention to visual symbolism
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Composition
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Beauty
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Rythm
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The result of repetition at regular intervals
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Balance
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On stage so one side isnt over populated or heavy
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Focus
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Enlarging, illuminating, indicating, elevating (standing while sit), isolating, framing (doorway)
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Pace
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Tempo (intensity and energy)
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Timing
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Ex-Comic timing is delivery or punchline
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French Scenes
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Rehearsals broken down into parts determined by when the main actor leaves or returns
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Scenes
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Between curtains or blackout
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Beats/Units
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Further broken down scene between initiation and end of an objective
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Technical Rehearsals
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Rehearsals done sometimes without the actors, staging and lighting for example
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Dress Rehearsals
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Costume elements incorporated and final dress rehearsal is actual play
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Properties
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Things used by the actors not part of the scenery (furniture, flags, swords)
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CAD
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Computer Assisted Design
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Technical Director
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Execution of designs and organize and manage technical production
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Silhouette
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mass and outline of the costume when worn
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Gel (lighting)
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filter that changed colors in front of normal lighting
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Light Plot
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plotting designers plan
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satyr play
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short comedy that followed tragedies
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Thespis
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wrote tragedies using one actor and chorus
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Aeschylus
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Introduced a second actor and change in the play. Heroes.
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Sophocles
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Third Actor added with changing costumes and painting. He wrote plays that explored the place of humans in the universal order.
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Euripides
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Not popular during his time. Realistic plays and examined human relationships.
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Great Dionysia
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Writing competition once a year. 3 males compete, total of 9 tragedies and 3 satyrs. Athens.
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Old Comedy
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Two partsw Rediculous idea followed by funny episodes about the idea.
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Orchestra
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area at the base of the audience
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Facade stage
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conventional form where actors perform in front of a neutral facade and the audience watches from 3 sides or less
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Skene
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originally tent or both behind the orchestra opposite the audience. Where actors changed and came in and left from.
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Eccyclema
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movable platform that rolled out to show offstage actions
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Mechane
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crane to let things fly
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Costumes
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showed characters traits:Ethnicity, gender, social role
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Athens Golden Age
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Ended when sparta conquered Athens and then Alex the great conquered all greece--Middle comedy was started, a more benign tone.
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Hellenistic
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Age of alexander for theatre. Culture from all areas. Two storied skene. Onkos, new masks, cothurnus, new high boots.
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New Comedy
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domestic tales of middle class life in a series of episodes
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Aristotle
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Imitates action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude. Takes the form of action, not narrative. Produces pity and fear and the catharsis of such emotions
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Aristotle Cont.
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Best protagonist was one who causes his own downfall. Spectacle is for the machinist, not poet. Plot is most important
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Mime
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Awesome.
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Humanism
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new concern for people and earthly lives
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Secularism
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Logical thought and normal life rather than heaven. Ex Astrology
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Sharing Company
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self governing units or theatres with members sharing expenses and profits
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Golden Age of England and Spain Plays
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An early point of Attack-play begin at beginning of story, several lines of action- different lines that merge into one as play goes on, A large number of incidents, Free use of time and place-years or days, An Unusually large number and range of Characters, A language in the plays that is varied
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Masques
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individual performances that were private
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Women Actors
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Spain allowed them, England did not
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Illusionism
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illusion of real life
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Italian Renaissancew
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Neoclassical ideal, italianate system, commedia dell'arte
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Neoclassicism
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New classicism- has 5 points
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Verisimilitude
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To be true in a sense. Fundamental, unchanging and general.
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Decorum
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Behave as they should for their sex, age, class etc
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Purity of Genres
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Tragedies and comedies not mixed.
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Three Unities
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Time, place, and action
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Five Act Play
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Standard for drama- 5 sections separated by choruses
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Twofold-Purpose
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To teach and please
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Vitruvius
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Was a major contributor in the italianate theatre. Specificially linear perspective
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Linear Perspective
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Three dimensions on a two dimensional surface. Greater depth then was really there.
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Italianate Staging
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Based on Serlio's scenography from the book Dell Architectura, and from Vitruvius teachings.
-Singe Point Perspective-same vanishing point -Wings-On sides of stage closing in toward vanishing point -Backdrop/shutter-pair of wings pushed together -Raked Stage-Lower in front, near audience, higher in back (upstage//downstage) -borders -movable machinery (chariot/pole system) |
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Cokmmedia dell'arte
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Professional playing aka
-Worked from one main scenario, actors improvised much. |
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machine plays
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plays written specifically to use the new scenery
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Jean Racine
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French playwright
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Moliere
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french playwright-wrote comedies
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Sentimentalism
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each individual is basically good. Opposite neoclassical(human existence is a struggle between good and evil)
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Angle perspective
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vanishing point to the side not center
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Possession of parts
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an actor who played a role in a company would have that role till he left
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Comedies of manners
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Witty dialogue and sophisticated sexual behavior reflected high artificial and mannered society
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Sentimental comedy
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more then just comedy
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domestic drama
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Replaced heroic and neoclassical tragedy
-serious drama |
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pantomimes
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combined commedia dellarte, farce, mythology and afterpieces
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Romanticism
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1750-1850
-higher education, revolution, new technologies, demographics changed, new markets, no more slaves in europe |
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Nature of Romanticism
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Rebellion, Art with a capital A(art was special), Nature,Anti Industrialism, Uniqueness``
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closet drama
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plays written to be read, not staged
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Richard Wagner
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Opera composer
-idea of unity and a classless audience space |
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Continental seating
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first classless seating
-like a fan, close to modern day theatres |
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Realism
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Art should show real life
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Box set
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no more wings, actual sides like a room missing a wall
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Naturalism
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trush resided in real and natural objects and materials
-objectivists |
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Saxe Meiningen
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-was a duke
-influencial in realism and naturalism staging and production |
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Andre Antoine
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amateur actor who started his own theatre, Theatre Libre
-interested in new pklays and faced censorship -started the independent theatre movement |
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Fourth wall staging
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by Andre Antoine
-made a room and then decided which wall to remove |
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Ibsen
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launched realism as a major movement
-A Doll's House |
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Shaw
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English realism comedic writer
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Chekhov
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The Seagull
-realism writer |
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Impressionalism
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style against realism that sought to capture fleeting movements of awareness that were believed to constitute the essense of existence
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expressionism
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focused on politcal and social Q's in a stage world close to nightwarek
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symbolism
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simple in staging and statementk
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Constructivism
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biomechanics-well trained actors
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absurdism and dadaism
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lifes meaningless and arts irrelevancy
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Alienation effect
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A Effect by Brecht
-alienated audience so they made own opinions |
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The New Stagecraft
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went with anti realism movement with simple but abstract settings
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Little theatres
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small audiences in america
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Commercialism
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1750-1960
-capitalism and wealth -theatres made profits |
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Actor managers
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main actor that manage the company and eventually led to director managers and producers
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Star system
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easier travel went more and distant places
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Sentimentality
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arousing of feeling out of proportion to cause "easy tears"
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Melodrama
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Good vs evil but good always won
-Music drama" -signiture music-the same music for an actor |
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Spectacle
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fires explosions etc
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gentlemanlty melodrama
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less crazy with spectacle and a simpler topic
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Uncle Toms Cabin
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most important melodrama
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Tennessee Williams
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Glass Menagerie, a streetcar named desire
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Arthur Miller
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american writer
- wrote All My Sons/Death of a Salesman |
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Oscar Wilde
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English write
-wrote The Importance of Being Earnest |
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integrated musicals
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west side story and gypsy Examples
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antiquarianism
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historical accuracy
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Group theatre
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non commerical theatre in NY
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Federal Theatre Project
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gave actors jobs who lost them in the depression
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Regional Theatre
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Theatre outside NY
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Off Broadway
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new talent and ideas
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