theatre midterm 1
Terms
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- class focus
- production, performance, writing, consumption
- theatre synthesis
- theatre is a synthesis of many parts
- theatre and collaboration
- theatre is created through a process of collaboration between many artists
- literature
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study play
forever fixed - theatre
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never the same
designed for stage - play
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blueprints for performance
only in a performance is the potentail realized - theatre vs film and tv
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interaction
direction - hallmarks of theatre
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interchange of audience and performers
each performance is different - professional theater
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broadway-profit
regional-non profit - theatre organization-administration
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profit
non-profit - creative staff
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playwright
director
stage manager
technical director
design staff
dance choreographers
fight directors
music composers - auditions and casting
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audition
callbacks
focused auditions-actors are whittled down - before beginning rehearsals
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designs finalized
building sets
hanging lights
recording sound and music
costumes begin - technical director oversees
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master carpenter
master electrician
painters - rehearsals
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director
assistant directors
SM
ASM - rehearsal periods
- can last 4 weeks with previews
- technical rehersals
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end of 31/2 weeks rehersals begin
first time actors work on stage - up and running
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more people are necessary once show runs
frount of the house staff led by staff manager - running of show
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once a show is running SM and ASM run show
musical requires director and orchestra - criticism
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conduit between audience and producers
news items-elementary level
critic presents impressions-first impression
assessing productions value
critic doesnt have vested interest in success of production - function of art
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entertainment
edification
exaltation - genres
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comedy
tragedy - tragedy
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about members of the ruling class
elevated language
focused on tragic hero - comedy
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middle or working class
language everyday speech
ends in marriage - aristotle (384-322 BCE)
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wrote poetics
drama into 6 parts
plot, character, thought, diction, music, spectacle - catharsis
- purgation
- Horace
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Art of Poetry
idea of decorum
limited whats on stage, defined characters
king shall be king, king shall not be a theif - The renaissance
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verisimilitude-neoclassical drama
reality
morality
universality - reality
- action, time and place
- morality
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teach and please
comedy-ridicule behavior that should be avioded
tragedy-horrifyin results of errors and misdeeds - universality
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drama reduced to 2 basic types comedy and tragedy
decorum - melodramatic form
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simple powerful stories
unequivocal moral tone
understood by everyone
additional entertainment
lots of spectacal - rise of tragicomedy
- late 18th century
- 19th century tragicomedy
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-melodrama
-drama - melodrama
- order to the world
- ries of melodrama
- rose with working class and urbanization drama
- drama
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rose in conjuctions with melodrama
serios subject with working class and increased urbanization - ibsen
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henrik ibsen forefront of writing drama
father of realism