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| Something that is seen (Drama) |
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| Art Reflects or Mirros Life |
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Selectivity: Focuses on part of the picture. Achives clarity, order, beauty.
Medium: Important things to know.
Storytelling, performers and audience, and human experience |
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| Place of seeing (Theatre) |
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| Tangible crafts (see or touch) |
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Construction of costumes
make-up
set |
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| Intangible (can't touch or see) |
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Creativity,
Power
Harmony
Imagination
Organizational concepts |
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| How THEATRE is unique from other arts? |
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| Theatre is unique from other arts because is at live, always change, it has a relationship between actors and audience. Its a collaboration project. |
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| Art Reflects or Mirrror of life |
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| Through SELECTIVILY AND MEDIUM |
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Focuses on a part of the picture.
This help to achive clarity, order and beauty. |
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Human Experience
Storytelling
Performers and Audience |
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THE LIVE NATURE OF THEATRE
Each audience is unique
Exchange of energy between actors and audience.
Always shifting |
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| Token, sign or emblem that signifies something |
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Saying the one thing IS another-In order to describe it or point up its meaning more clearly.
"He's off the wall" |
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3 THINGS
Buiding
Company or troupe of players
Occupation |
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| An action or series of actions taken for the ultimate bnefit of someone else |
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| Memorization of direction, movement and language |
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| Dialogue or stage bussiness invented by the actor during the moment of live performance |
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| Actually being performed at the time |
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| Never the same. Always change something (lasting a day) |
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Action or Story
The basic unit of theatre
a piece of liteature
An event at the theatre |
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| To assume or act the character (put yourself into other people shoes) |
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How long
One act vs full lenght |
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A seriuos play with a topic of universal human import as a theme.
Protagonist is a central character.
Lead to suffer and death bu also gets self recognition of some error or sin |
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Plot requires happy ending
Shares many of same themes with tragedy
humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict |
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| a play representing events drawn wholly or partly from recorded history |
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| drama, such as a play, film, or television program, characterized by exaggerated emotions, stereotypical characters, and interpersonal conflicts |
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| A drama combining elements of tragedy and comedy |
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| a kind of drama in which disturbing or sinister subjects like death, disease, or warfare, are treated with bitter amusement, usually in a manner calculated to offend and shock. |
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| A light dramatic work in which highly improbable plot situations, exaggerated characters, and often slapstick elements are used for humorous effect. |
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| television or movie dramatization of events based on fact. |
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| Set to or accompanied by music |
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Central character
person of high rank or stature |
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| Opposes the action, creates conflict for the protagonist |
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| The offstage area that is hidden from the audience. Used for scenary storage, for actors preparing to make entrances, and for stage technicians running the show. |
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| A pice of FLAT scenary, often black velour but sometimes flat, which is placed horizontally above the set, usually to MASK the lighting instruments. Often used with side wings in which combination the scenary system is known as "wing and border" |
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| A production command center located in the HOUSE.Theatre designs prior to the 1980's placed the control booth at the back of the theater-completely enclosed. Designs now tend to favor a more open model. The control booth can be located in the center of the house, free from obstructions to aid the sound designers. |
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| The specific mechanichs of flying scenary, usually either rope pulleys or more commonly, a counterweight system. Electic motorized systems are sometimes used. |
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| The arch separating the audience area from the main stage area, in a theatre so designed. The term derives from the Roman playhouse, in which the proscenium (literally, pro skene or "in front of the stage") was facing the wall of the stage. Modern thrust and arena stages have no proscenium. |
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| An opening in the stage floor, normally covered, which can be used for special effects, such as having scenary or performers rise from below; or which permits the construction of a staircase, which ostensible leads to a lower floor or cellar. |
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Pre Play
Play Proper
Post Play |
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Audience gathers
Visual/aural transition |
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Exposition
Conflict
Climax
Denouement |
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Curtain Call
Audience leaves and discusses (criticizes) the play |
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| The section of plot at the start of a play which provides essential background information about the characters, their situation, and their relationships to each other. |
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| a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest. |
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| Final bows at the end of a performance. |
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| Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially opposition that motivates or shapes the action of the plot. |
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| The significant moment in the plot of a play, when things change, or reach a crisis point. |
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| the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel |
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| The point during a drama when the plotline reaches a conclusion, and conflict is resolved. |
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List of preparations and actions required of technical crews during the performance. In the US, the term plot refers to a plan.
2) The basic story thread running through a performance / play which gives the reason for the character's actions. |
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| One of the characters in a play. 2) A type of personality portrayed on the stage, as in "I need to get into character," or "Please, stay in character." |
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A theme is the main idea of an essay, paragraph, or a book. The idea about life is revealed in a work of literature. The message may be about life, society, or human nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and may be implied rather than stated explicitly. Along with plot, character, setting, and style, theme is considered one of the fundamental components of fiction. It is the universal statement or feels when you read a piece of writing.
The theme of a play is its message, its central concerns – in short, what it is about. One could say that the theme of Hamlet is revenge. The play Trifles has several themes. We could say that the theme of the play is about isolation and or gender differences – men’s perceptions of women’s work and women being marginalized. |
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| Mechanism by which situation becomes dramatic; allows us to see deeply into the characters; keep our attention |
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| Theatre as a social change and transformation |
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Presentation about how recruit from jail were unable to reconsider what they did and play other roles.
Help and motivate people and help them to make social actions. |
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| Playwright as event writing: action at the core of every play |
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externals of human behavior: dialogue and physical action
inner story and theme: psychology of characters, viewpoint of author |
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Extraordinary
Representative/quintessential
stereotypical/stock
minor characters
narrator charracters |
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| Qualities of an effective play |
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1.Credibility
2.Intrigue
3.Flow (through speech and staging)
4.Richness
Character
Speech
Idea
5.Gravity
6.Pertinence (themes should be topical or universal)
7.Compression
8.Celebration
9.Speak ability
10.Stage ability |
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Two notions of acting: Mimesis and embodiment
The actor’s instrument: voice, body
The actor’s approach
The actor’s routine |
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Physical: Voice and body
Psychological: imagination, past experiences, entellect and discipline |
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Analize script
Research character
Explore themes and ideas |
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2 Methods of acting
External (Sanford Meisner and others) |
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Relies on physical action
Kinesis stimulates emotion/response |
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2 methods of acting
Internal (Stanislavsky “method” FATHER OF MODERN ACTING) |
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Relies on imagination/memory
Emotion stimulates action
MAGIC IF |
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Start from the script
Relaxation
Concentration and observation
Being "in the moment"
Circle of attention
Magic if
Must know the specifics "Given circumstances as given by dramatist" |
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| "Given circumstances as given by dramatist" |
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ACTION ON STAGE
Who: Goals and objectives
what: Super objective
Where: Sense Memory
MAGIC IF
When: Emotional recall and psychological gesture |
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| style of speaking, accent |
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| anything presented to the sight or view, esp. something of a striking or impressive kind |
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| Mechanichs of storytelling-how it unfolds- The structural components of the play |
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| What happens and how happen. The sequence of events, the narrative. |
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