Theatre

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Performance

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Cultural or Ritual Performance
Performance Art
Theatre: Subset of performance

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Text

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Oral Text
Anything that can be looked at, examined or deconstruct for meaning

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Frame

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The way of organizing, understand and interpreting experience
Theatrical frames: Carry certain assumptions, very structured and intentional, invisible wall between performer and audience

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Aesthetics

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Pleasing to the senses
Smell, touch, happy, loving, etc.

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Performances

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A process and a product
Constitutive: Creates identity and culture

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Epistemic

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comes from epistemology- a way of knowing, knowing the world through your body

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Origins of theater

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Derived from religious and cultural ritual. Track time, teaching tool, this is who we are, and where we come from.

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Oral history

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Stories passed down through time by words. 3 types:
Memises: Imitation, mirrored way of the word
Poeisis: Process of making, creates something new identity
Kinesis: Fluid, movement, act as an intervention on acts

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Audience and Performance

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What lesson can be brought from play and apply to the world you live in.

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Audience Participation

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Levels occur on a continuum, behavior bound by cultural and historical conventions. Conventions create relationship between audience, performer, text and event.

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Levels of Participation

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Reciever: Inactive: Movie
Respodent Active: Claps and Gasps
Coproducer Interactive: Creating performance together, experimental
Producer Proactive: Audience and performance line is blurred

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Criticism Readings

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Location is important
Use of metaphor
Opinion based on evidence

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Role of the Critic

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Observe and analyze the role of a play elements of drama. Concerned with 3 basic areas
Understanding
Effective
Overall world

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Realism

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"Real Life" as opposed to theatrical event. Elements:
No acknowledge of audience
Vernacular Language: Common Language
Realist Sets

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Origin of Realism

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Focus on middle- class and poor characters in dramatic plays
Developed out of societal interest in limiting circumstance: History, Social Position, Relationship

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Anton Chekov

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Characters focused on self
Lack of obvious buildup and tension in plots
Objects and actions

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Konstantin Stanislavsky

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Focused on subtlely and introspection
Approach: Method Acting- idea that actor should rely primarily on the characters and drawing from real life experiences (inside- out)

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Raisin in the Sun Themes

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American Dream- Meritocracy
Walter Lee and Black Masculinity
Feminism and the Matriarch
Family

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Directing

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Newest job (19th century and Worldwide 20th century)

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Model of Directional Approaches

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Partnership Model: Director works closely with playwright and actors
Visionary Model: Primary creative artist, reshapping the text/play
Theater Collective Model: Associated with experimental theater groups
Playwright as Director Model

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Director's Responsibilities

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Play Selection: Director's interest, interest of perceived audience
Conceptualization: Core concept- The director's determination of ideas emotion that need to be brought out
Metaphor: Visual style of play that director implements, must be recognizable but open to interpretation
Casting: Casting is 90% of directing, Type Casting: Selecting actors because they fit certain characterization, Colorbling
Implementation: Experimentation, staging,
Stage Pictures: Changes
Blocking: Characters entrances and exists, interaction with props
Focus: Where audiences put attention
Pacing: The rhythm has a good pace
Coordination: Maintain a creatively conductive atmosphere, stay on schedule
Coordination

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Non- Realism

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Theatricalism: Theatre in images
Qualities:
Seen from character's subjectivity
Poetic or extravagant language
Change in actor/ audience relationship
Mechanism of production visible

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Expressionism

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Deals with abstraction of form
Grounded in German Expressionism
A.K.A: Theater of the Shirek"

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Bertolt Brecht (American Expressionism)

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Developed Epic Theater: Creates a new perspective on human history, the goal is to promote political dialogue for the purpose of social betterment.

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Theater of the Absurd

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Human's searching for meaning in life. Theater based on Greek mythology. Obsession with pointlessness.

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Total Theater

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Theater that transcends plot and languages to become a total work of art.
Developed from fusion between music and dance.

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Angels in America Themes

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A gay fantasia on National Themes. How? Realism, fantasy, expressionism, absurdism, epic theater

1. Sickness and Infection
2. Religion and the Apocalypses
3. Contradiction and Closeted Identities
4. Change, transformation and salvation

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What is heteronormativity?

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Perspective that hold heterosexuality as the norm and maintains strict genders prescription and identifications

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Queer Aesthetics

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Historically non- realist
Camp: so over the top, truth is revealed before anything happens
Innuendo/ Double- Meaning

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Doubt

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Doubt as a parable (a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson)
1. Gossip
2. Opening Scene: Doubt and uncertainty
3. Cleanliness

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Doubt's themes

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1. Certainty...or not
2. Religious vs. Secular
3. Innocence vs. Power

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Wilson

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Can't have other have authority over cultural and spiritual products. Influenced by the 4 Bs: Blues
1. Amiri Barak (All art -> Politcal) Playwright
2. Jorges Lub Broger: (Novelist) Play could be specific to time and culture and still resonate
3. Ramare Berden: ( Painter) Richness and fullness of every day life without compromising to sentimentality

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Brustein

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Theater works best as a unifying rather than segregation them. Explore human soul and soul has no race. "Speak truth to power" rather than seek power. Viewed Wilson as seeking racial separatism.

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Colorblind Theory

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Adopts the position of race neutrality or race equality
1. Supporters: There should be no privileging of races
2. Critics: E-Races racism. Fail to recognize the Races practices

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Whiteness Theory

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Tenet that holds whiteness as:
Neutral, pure, innocence
Key to whiteness (as privileged) functions to be invisible