Theater midterm
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- How does aristotle define "acting"
- imitation of action
- What are aristotle's 6 parts of tragedy
- Plot, character, thought, diction, music, spectacle
- Hamartia
- tragic character flaw that cannot be helped and does not mean that a character is necessarily inherently evil
- Katharsis
- emotional purging that would ideally overcome an audience after watching a tragedy
- Perpetia
- Reversal that helps lead to katharsis
- Deus ex Machina
- Help of a god/machine to resolve things. Not good because it is an improbable possibility
- Protagonist
- Character who resolves the action; answers the MDQ
- Antagonist
- Opposes the protagonist
- Tritagonist
- 3rd actor that advances or complicates the conflict
- Tetragonist
- 4th actor that is usually passive and acted upon by others
- Inciting incidence
- an occurance that may take place before the play begins and forces the MDQ to surface
- Point of Attack
- Point in the play in which the audience discovers the MDQ
- Major Dramatic Question
- major question that the audience expects to get answered. Draws the audience in
- Complication
- an event or action that temporarily prevents the resolution of the MDQ
- Climax
- The point at which the MDQ is answered
- Resolution
- Answering of the MDQ
- Denouement
- The period after the climax during which secondary questions are answered
- Disovery
- When the character or the audience finds out information that is essential to the development of the plot
- Reversal
- A major and unexpected change in the fortunes of a character
- Affective Memory
- Recalling an emotion from memory to create the stimulus which drive the action. Important in Strasberg's method
- Peripetia
- Reversal that helps lead to katharsis
- Inciting incident
- make take place before the play begins, sets up a condition for the MDQ to surface
- Point of Attatck
- The point of a play in which the audience discovers the MDQ
- Discovery
- When an important character of the audience learns something new that is essential to the development of the plot
- Sensory Imaging
- recalling sensory feeling in order to portray an action
- Magic if
- that actor imagining himself/herself in the characters position
- What are the types of bad acting according to aristotle
- Intuitive, Representational, Mechanical, Conventional
- What is the problem with intuitive acting
- it is unreliable, sometimes cannot be repeated
- What is intuitive acting
- acting that happens right on the spot, empowering the unconscious
- Representational acting
- Pressing the "save" button
- Mechanical Acting
- Based on deeply embedded procedeure
- Conventional acting
- based on theatrical convention, imitation of life, or imitation of another actor
- "True Art of Acting"
- Actor is affected in the moment by a stimulus which results in an action that is portrayed to an audience which evokes emotion on the part of the audience
- Aristotle and Action
- Action brings about moral choices
- Stanislavski and Action
- Action is a stimulus that results in a reaction. How does a character act in order to attain a goal
- Given circumstances
- all of the circumstances that are given to an actor to take into account when he/she creates his or her role
- Indicating v. Acting/Doing
- Conventional/mechanical = indicating. Acting/Doing is what comes from the subconscious
- Beat
- A piece of action that has a beginning and and end and contains an objective of some sort
- Alignment of objectives
- Making sure that the actors objectives match the character's objectives. Finding character motivation for what the director tells you to do
- Meisner Technique
- Repetition that helps fuel the unconscious