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Theatre

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what makes up indian drama
dance, symbolic gestures and music
why roman theatre stopped
offended church
fixed characters
narrator and clown
stage house in ancient greece and size
ampitheatres, 15000-17000
kathakali
dance drama
dionysus
god of wine, fertility and revelry
ballad opera
burlesque opera
greek festival
city dionysia
neoclassical ideals
dramatic rules
thespian
stage performer
book musical
tell story
pierre corneille
tragedy, against neoclassical rules
elements in painted designs:
borders, ground rows, scene cutouts, rolled backdrops, act drops
english restoration influence
french and italian
natyasastra
criticism
shareholders
elite members of company that received % of troupe's earnings
wagon stages
portable stages
strindenberg
crazy realist
opera
text is secondary to music
biomechanics
body can be machine
sentimental comedy
reaffirmed middle class morality
roman festival
ludi romandi
what chorus did
helped audience react, gave background info, identifiable, balance from extreme characters, philosophical observations, conclusions, sang and danced
greek comedy
old comedy, SNL,
corrales
public theatres that showed secular plays
charegus
producer
off off broadway
produced wherever inexpensive space is available
intermezzi
short play between 2 longs ones
sanskrit drama
indiana drama
kabuki
exaggerated gestures
surviving roman playwrights
plautus, terence and seneca
makeup of opera houses
pit, boxes and galleries
jukebox/songbook
show created around artist
documentary drama
convince audience they're living history
parados
where chorus enters
environmental theatre
use whole theatre space
renaissance and time frame
rebirth, late 14 to early 17
comedy of humours
characters have one trait
chinese drama
skits, pantomime, juggling, singing and dancing
how seneca influenced reniaissance artists
speeches imitated, morality parallel, 5 episodes, onstage violence, magic, power obsession, technical
off broadway
alternative to commercial broadway
hirelings
actors contraced for set time
regisseur
dictator director
commedia dell'arte
comedy of professional artists
1660-1700
english restoration
futurism
idealized war and machine
concept musical
production built around idea
theatricalism
makes audience know they're watching show
playwrights who's work survived
aeschylus, sophocles and euripides
plautus
domestic, stock, farces
pagent master
producer
box set
flats used to create 3 sides of room
aeschylus:
second actor, chorus 12, lofty themes, trilogy
parabasis
choral section directed to audience
naturalism
slice of life
euripides
rebel, modernism, melodrama
mystery/circle plays
dramatized religious events
jean racine
tragedy
traditional chinese drama
no
every day language (middle ages)
vernacular drama
pastoral
short ribald comic pieces
# of tragedies produced in ancient greece
900
influences japanese drama
religion
moliere
known for comedies, slapstick
mansions
individual sonic units
dada
mirror madness of world
athens
birthplace of democracy
continental seating
exit only at ends
melodrama
song drama
macklin and garrick
singsong delivery
apprentices
young performers in training
sophocles
chorus 15, 3 actor, dramatic construction
playing area in ancient greece
orchestra
mulitmedia
theatre and media
famous ampitheatre
colosseum
happennings
happen anywhere at anytime
comedies of manners
mocked upper class
set changes
groove system, pole and chariot
peding
beijing opera
departures from realism
song, poetry, magic
unit set
single set that represents variety of locales
drame
serious but not tragedy
pear garden
chinese actor's training institute
liturgical drama and origin
small drama developed in church, middle ages
THE neoclassical ideals
verisimilitude, unities, no tragicomdey, teach morals, no onstage violence, no chorus, no supernatural, no soliloquy
expressionism
distorted reality
terence
literary, less farcical, wit
500-1500 CE
middle ages
hellenistic age
2 centuries after aristotle
well made play
cause and effect, foreshadowing
thespis
first stage performer
lape de vega
shakespeare of spain
tragic structure
opening (chorus) characters, song, characters-chorus, exit
seneca
influenced reniaissance artists
bunraku
puppet theatre
morality plays
teach moral lesson
bibienas
extended family of designers
comedias
full length secular plays
comedy of intrigue
romance and adventure
yuan drama
4 acts, lots of music, few characters and subplots, love, history, religion and crime
scaena
stage house
alojero
refreshment box
5th century BCE
golden age in ancient greece
theatron
where audience sat in ancient greece
realism
onstage is everyday life
master of plot construction
shakespeare
england renaissance
elizabethan
verisimilitude
true to life
first work of dramatic criticism
the poetics aristotle
platform stage
can be whatever they need it to be
colours of indian pillars
white, yellow, red and blue
setting in ancient greece
palace
existentialism
existence has little meaning
romanticism
made own rules
tiring house
used for changing costumes and storing props
epic theatre
instructs audience
aphra behn
woman playwright
elements of drama
plot, character, theme, language, music, spectacle
surrealism
subconscious is highest plane of reality
cazuela
gallery for unaccompanied women
dominus
head of troupe

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