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Theatre 101
Basic Terms in Theatre
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Undergraduate 1
05/01/2013

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Freytag’s Pyramid
Definition
Given Circumstances/Ground Situation/Initial Stasis, Intrusion/Inciting Incident, Rising Action,
Climax, Falling Action/Denouement, Final Stasis.
Term
Dramatic Action/Spine
Definition
From stasis to stasis what is the change expressed as a sentence
Term
Production Concept
Definition
Includes the dramatic action, and/or major theme(s), but also a concrete image upon which a
designer could base his/her design.
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Premodern
Definition
Stable subject and stable viewing. Logical, cause/effect order of the physical/moral world. Singular
style. Unity of vision. Reason, responsibility, guilt, punishment. Absolute order
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Modern
Definition
Stable subject, but problematic viewing. Multiplicity of voices. Disrupted unity. Challenges the
assumption of an ordered world. Questions responsibility, reason, and guilt. Morally relative.
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Postmodern
Definition
Neither the subject nor the viewing is stable. Cynicism and blankness. Evaporation of all meaning.
Amalgamation of styles. Dissolving high/low culture barriers. Recycling of historic material. Selfreferential.
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Semiotics
Definition
The study of signs and symbols. Signifier/Signified. Icon, Index, Symbol
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Gender Theory
Definition
The study of how gender is performed and constructed. Socially Constructed. Performed under
duress. Binary system. Based upon arbitrary signifiers.
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Critical Race Theory
Definition
The study and critique of how racial power is reproduced and propagated in our culture as
well as how race is both performed and constructed.
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Neomarxism
Definition
The study and critique of late-period capitalism
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