Theatre Final

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character

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the second in Aristotle ranking of the six elements of theatre, described as the agent for the action, fictional being in a playwrights script

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spectacle

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sixth and last ranked if aristitles elements of theatre, including all visual aspects of a production. from scenery to movement of actors

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melodrama

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genre of play that provides entertainment that has the appearance of being serious but ends with the protagonist

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farce

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play that makes you laugh a lot and leaves you feeling liberated by the wildly anarchic and improbable things that happen

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thearicalism

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theatrical style in which the artist strives to imitate objective reality as it is traditionally presented in the theatre; based on the belief that we all self conscious creatures who act our lives

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expessionism

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theatrical style in which artist strives to imitate subjective reality as it is expressed in nightmares and in which the visual world is distorted and abstracted to demonstrate how the central character feel about it

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linear plot structure

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description of plot of a play that progress without flash backs to jumble the chronology, the action progress along a line

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contextual plot structure

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ARRABGMENT AND SEQUEENCE IF SCENES IN A PLAY THAT IS DETERMINED bt their relationships to central theme instead of by a chronological or and cause and effect logiv

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proscenium

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frame like structure arch around the stage; most common kind of theatre, named for the arc separation between the stage and auditorium

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thrust

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theatrewithout proscenarchi in which the stage thrust forward so the audience isseated on three sides

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arena

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theatre with seats surrounding a stage that is circular, oval, square

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black box

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empty space that is painted black and that may be adapted whatever play is in it

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found space

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the name of performance space that is not intended for that use

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wagon

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rolling used to move scenery onto stage

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flat

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a standard piece of theatrical scenery with a wood frame, usually covered in canvas

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blocking

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the pattern if movement of actors in the stage , development in rehearsals under the directors supervision

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design objectives

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time and place, type of environment, character

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super objective

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term in stanislavsky system of acting that describes the main objective of a character in a play

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goals

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what is the actors foal of the play or scene, what the actor asks himself

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obstacle

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term in Stanislavsky system of acting that describes what the character must overcome to achieve the objective

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tactics

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how the actor will go about acting a certain scene based on the circumstances of that scene

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given circumstances

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apart of acting, questions a actor ask him or herself

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magic if

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behaving as if all these things are real

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in the moment

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getting invloved in the play or scene as if it was real

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emotional recall

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a tool of the Stanislavsky system of acting by which an actor remembers how he or she has felt in a similar situation in real life and substitutes that feeling for the characters emotional state during the performance

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director

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in charge of choosing the script, researching the play, casting roles,being spiritual leader

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coaching

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the advice, instruction and encouragement a director gives an actor

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cue to cue

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first and most important part of wet tech, rehearsing the timing of each individual cue, skipping everything in between, repeating until right

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technical rehearsal

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over the weekend before show opens, two phases, wet and dry

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directors process

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staging, coaching, structuring the dynamics, standing in for the audiences, orchestrating the final rehearsals

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stage manger

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the person in charge of all rehearsals and performances

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Konstantin Stanislavski

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invented the Stanislavsky, it is the dominate system of character analysis used by actors today and it has a particular vocabulary