Theatre Midterm 2
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- What is the significance of "The Poetics"?
- The first written manual stating the elements of tragedy
- The Six Elements of Tragedy:
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1. Character
2. Plot
3. Thought/Theme
4. Language/Diction
5. Music/Rhythm
6. Spectacle/Special Effects - What is Plot?
- "the structure of the incidents" DIFFERENT THAN THE STORY. deliberate choices made by playwright. A good plot should be "whole, have beg, mid, end, contain only necessary and probable elements"
- A RECOGNITION && REVERSAL:
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-the hero learns something
-the exact opposite happens than what the hero expects - Tragic Characters Are:
- Royalty, of high moral character but NOT perfect!
- What is "Hamartia"?
- A tragic flaw
- Theme:
- the "idea"
- Diction/Language
- "modes of utterance" the tone
- Music
- song, or rhythm, pacing of play
- Spectacle
- visual elements (aristotle says this takes away from the actors)
- What is GENRE?
- categories or "types" of dramas
- Types of Dramas include:
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- tragedy
- comedy
- tragicomedy
- melodrama
- realism
- domestic drama
- the well-made play
- musical theatre - Tragedy developed during which time periods?
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Ancient Greece: 5th century BCE
Ancient Rome: 240 BCE - 410 AD - Comedy originated where, and what are the 3 types?
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In ancient Greece
-Old Comedy 490-404 BCE
-Middle Comedy 404-336 BCE
-New Comedy 336 BCE- current - What is a typical new comedy like?
- Domestic situations, revolving around love, financial, family relationships. a misunderstanding or concealed information.
- What is a typical new comedy plot?
- boy meets girls, boy can't have girl, older man stands in way, obstacle solved, young lovers unite!
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NEW COMEDY CHARACTER TYPES:
Young Lover: - ADULESCENCE
- Young unobtainable woman:
- MERETRIX
- Old Man
- SENEX
- The Pimp:
- LENO
- Braggart Soldier:
- MAICUS GLORIOSUS
- The Servant
- PARASITE
- What era did the tragicomedy derive from?
- Elizabethan Era (1558-1603)
- The Well-Made Play
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Eugene Scribe, 1761-1861
Tightly crafted plot
Relies on Suspense and Intrigue
THE END: DENUEMENT (everything ties together) - The Exposition:
- Secret gradually revealed to audience
- Obligatory Scene:
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hero confronts antagonist, misunderstanding unravels
"SCENE A FAIRE" - REALISM IS:
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NEW! late 19th century
influenced by developments in the social sciences - The Creative Team is Made up Of...
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- the playwrights
- producer
- director
- performers
- designers
- specialized consultants - The major tasks of the Producer:
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-budget
-publicity
-selection of season, script, etc - Commercial Theatre VS Regional Theatre
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Commercial- FOR PROFIT
Regional- NON PROFIT - The Director is in Charge of:
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Auditions
Rehersal
Design Approval - The Performers:
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Actors
Dancers
Vocalists - The Design Team:
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Scene
Costumes
Lighting
Sound - Specialized Consultants:
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Dramaturg (pre-production)
Vocal and/or acting coaches
Movement coaches
Fight choreographer - What is a "movement"?
- when a previously marginalized group begins to exert significant creative and economic control
- What is culture?
- shared values, standards, and patterns of behavior of a particular group of people
- What is pop culture?
- Fads and fashions that dominate mainstream media for a limited time
- What is enculturation?
- The process by which we learn our own culture
- What is a legitimate actor?
- A live performance, room for mistakes, gain feedback
- Verfremdungseffekt
- "alienation", aesthetic distance, making the familiar strange
- Who is Bert Williams?
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First Black American to perform lead role on broadway
(the Ziegfeld Follies) - Who is George Walker?
- (of Williams && Walker) important black manager
- WILLIAMS && WALKER
- arguably one of the most succesful vaudeville teams, wrote and produced several productions
- Aida Overton Walker
- choreographed "The Cakewalk"
- "In Dahomey"
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First full-length black musical comedy
Music by Will Marion Cook
lyrics by Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Alex Rogers - King Shotaway
- 1823, First play on record to be written and produced by black author
- Raisin in the Sun
- First production by black female author
- LORT
- League of Resident Theatre
- LORT Key Points:
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-black artists must support small, struggling black theatre
-lort gets important grant $ thru diversity initiatives - Playwrights' Tasks
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-establish purpose of play
-develop play's structure
-create dramatic characters - MIMESIS
- imitation of an action
- Cause and Effect
- something happens that makes something happen (remember Pirates and the Aztec gold that caused the Pirates to come to British city)
- Conflict
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the opposition of characters or forces
**culturally specific - Formulatic Plot VS Nonformulatic Plot:
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Form: specific, recognizable blueprint (ie tragedy, the well-made play)
Non: experimental, avant-garde forms - What does Aristotle believe is the "ideal play"?
- Oedipus