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19 Cards in this Set
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Who is essential to theater?
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Audience, Actor, Director, Produces, Playwright
Designers (4) -Costume -Set -Lights -Sound Stage Crew, Casting Director, Stage Manager |
Who watches the show?
Who's in the show? Who envisions the show? Who sells the show? Who develops the play? Who designs the aspects of the play? Who is responsible for casting? Who is responsible for the stage? |
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Theater can happen with ___ actor and ___ audience member.
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One, one.
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Theater is about ____.
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The relationship and agreement between the actor and the audience. A contract.
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The audience member agrees to ____.
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suspend disbelief, to sit there and allow what is obviously not true, to unfold.
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The actor agrees to ____.
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make it believable/compelling. Make the audince "want to keep watching."
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What is theatre?
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It's an action, not a location.
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Tests the "where" of theater.
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Who is an influence on the actor?
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The Director, the Playwright, Designers (Costume, Set, Lights, Sound), and the Producers
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Four groups of people.
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Who is the Critic?
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The first person we often come in contact with because we have not gone to the theatre yet.
It is better to be informed. |
We are thinking of investing our time, money, and resources and we want a clue as to what we're getting into.
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Why does theatre even happen?
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1. Entertain - Escape (to get away from)
2. Educate 3. Enlighten It gives us an opportunity to step out of the everyday. |
Three things are fundamental impulses that are fed/satisfied by theatre.
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Definition of Theatre
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Theatre is an event that requires an actor/audience relationship/agreement in a momentary suspension of disbelief of an imaginary circumstance.
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Definition of a Play.
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The story or the PHYSICAL SCRIPT.
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Definition of a Production.
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That particular manifestation of the script, the thing we are seeing right here in front of us, that this group of artists has come together to create.
Each production varies greatly. |
Version of a play.
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What causes an Actor to keep standing there, continuously being beaten?
i.e. Auditioning and not getting the part. |
- It feels right to do it.
- The conversation of art in our lives and what it gives us takes us out of the everyday "What have I done?" versus "Yes." - It could take us out of where we are and make us deal with life - Madness is exciting. :3 |
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Who said the following?
"This is the true joy in life. The being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a might one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I rejoice life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of spendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." |
George Bernard Shaw
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Meanings:
- I choose my own destiny. - As opposed to blaming the world, being a force of nature. - Life is not insignificant; it's an opportunity. GBS |
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Where is the following quote from?
"Damn it! I love you too much not to say it. You've got everything - youth, brains - but the one thing you lack is madness. And without madness a man can never cut the rope and be free. |
Zorba by Nikos Kanzanzakis
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Z by NK
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The Successful Actor has two certain attributes that make them so. What are they?
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Talent and Chutzpah
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Natural ability and nerve. Think yiddish!
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The Actor's Union is called what?
How many of their members are unemployed? |
Actor's Equity, 80%
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Why can becoming equity backfire?
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Because you get hired at a standard salary.
Think about it. If everyone is get paid a certain rate, and it's pretty low, you're going to be paid that much as well. |
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What's the difference between a personal manager and an agent?
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An agent can help you get a job (although, to get an agent, you need to be in a show to begin with). A personal manager helps take care of the actor.
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