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| 1. Everything develops from common ancestory. 2. "Survival of the Fittest" |
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| Implications of Darwin's Theories (5) |
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| 1. Hereditary/ Environment. 2. Connot be hel responsible. 3. Progress. 4. Not separate from nature. 5.Change is the norm. |
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| 1. Agression and Sexuality are the basic human instincts 2. without intervention humans would satisfy their own instincts 3. Need for socialization 4. Right and wrong are not absolute. |
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| an interior, subconcious censor or judge |
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| Shared Charecteristics of Realism and Naturalism |
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| 1. Scientific. 2.Morality= Truth 3.Contemporary subjects 4. Social Conditions |
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| a segment of reality transferred to the stage |
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| Late 19th Century. Unified all production elements. |
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| 1813-1883 Master Theatre. |
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| Georg II, Duke of Sac-Meiningen |
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| 1826-1914 First Director. |
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| 1. Opposed realism. 2. Set dramas to music. 3. Theatre was an idealized experience. 4. Democratic Seating pattern 5. Darkens auditorium 6. Strong Unity of Production |
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| All elements of production filtered through a single conciousness to achieve a unified artistic effect. |
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| 1. Complete control 2. Long Rehersals 3.Crowd Scenes 4. Complicated Blocking |
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| Late 1880's Exploited the private vs. public viewing to show uncensored (Moscow Art Theatre) |
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| Stanislavsky's Method (6 Things) |
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| 1. Observes human behavior. 2. Trained body and voice. 3. Psyhcological Realism through extreme identification. 4. Limit thoughts and feeling to 'self' and not the audience. 5. Magic if. 6.Moment by moment |
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| 1885-1940 A rejection of the belief that art should represent human behavior and the physical world |
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| 1885 First artistic movement fo reject representationalism. |
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| Symbolism + Truth (4 Things) |
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| 1. Beyond objective examination. 2. Cannot be discovered through the 5 senses. 3. can only be intuited. 4.can only be hinted at through symbols |
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| Symbolist Convention (6 Things) |
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| 1.Non-realistic subjects. 2. Mood and Atmosphere. 3. Minimal scenery that lacked detail. 4.Vague and mysterious. 5. Text chanted. 6. Unnatural gestures |
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| Gauze curtain hung between audience and stage |
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| Movements began to occur simultaneously. Absolute to relative values. |
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| Artistic unity in theatre as a fundamental but difficult to achieve because of conflicting elements. |
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| Agrippa's Convention (3 Things) |
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| 1. 3 dimensional scenic structure. 2. Steps, platforms, and rams. 3.Lighting from various directions and angles. 3a) changes moment to moment. 3b) changes mood and emotion. 3c) unified all other elements through intensity, color, direction, movement. |
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| 1.Theatre is autonomous art. 2.Master artist fuses all elements. 3.Simplicity. |
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| 1.Each production is a new challenge. 2.Production should serve the script.3. Eclecticism is dominant directorial approach. |
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| 1909 Glorified the speed and energy of the machine age. |
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| Compresses essence of full-length play into 1 or 2 movements |
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| 1916 Dramatic movement, started in a rejection of the values that provoked WW1, sought to replace logic with chance and illogic. |
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| Created by placing words in a hat and drawing them out at random. |
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| Composed of non-verbal sound. |
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| 1910 Materialsm and Industrialism perverted the human spirit, sought to achiece the "regeneration of man" |
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| Exspressionistic Convention (3 Things) |
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| 1. Emphasis on text. 2. Human spirit distorted by false values.3. Distorted world: Leaning walls, green sky. |
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| The Post-war Era (2 Things) |
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| 1929-39 1. 2/3rds of theatres close 1a. Sound Films 1b. Movies cheaper 1c. Depression. 2. Audiances prefer realism. |
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| The Federal Theatre Project |
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| 1935-1939 A program created by the American Government,Works Progress, to provide jobs in various fields. |
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| 1931-1941 Pushed the Stanislavsky system in the US. |
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| 1920's Bertolt Brecht. Movement that,opposed capitalism and advocated for socialism or communism. Wanted the viewer to watch critically. |
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| didistancing spectators from stage events so that they may view them critically. |
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| 1. Lighiting in full view. 2. Fragmented Scenery. 3. Actors present not act. 4. Sang directly to the audience. 5.Commented on the action of the play. 6.Theatre is not a synthesis of all of the arts. |
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| Emphasized importance of the unconcious. Truths as buried deep within the psyche. Promoted dreams, automatic writing, and stream of conciousness. |
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| Chief figure associated with the Theatre of Cruelty. Believedthat theatre could free people from destructive impulses. |
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| Theatre that forced the audience, against its wishes, to confront itself. A new language of theatre. |
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| Conventions of The Theatre of Cruelty (3 Things) |
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| 1. Avoided pros. In favour of large spaces. 2. Audience in the middle of the action Eliminate scenery entirely. 3. Human voice for text and for non-textual emotional and atmospheric effects. |
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| acting area at one end eith all the spectators facing it. |
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| acting area surrounded on all 2 to 3 sides of the audience. |
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| acting area surrounded on all 4 sides by the audience |
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| relationship between acting and audience areas as variable and flexible |
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| exstention of acting platform slightly beyond pros. Arch into the auditorium. |
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| overhead system for movement of scenery |
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| Conventions of The Pros. Arch.(3 Things) |
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| 1.Clear Division of stage and audience. 2 Seen from front only. 3.Seats on one level or raked, may include balconies. |
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| Conventions of the Thrust (4 Things) |
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| 1. Spectators closer to the action. 2.Discourages realism because of sightlines. 3. Fly systems rare. 4. Scenic elements shifted by hand. |
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| Conventions of the Arena Stage (3 Things) |
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| 1. No platform. 2.Restricted scenery. 3. Scene changes made in full view or in semi-darkness. |
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| Conventions of Flexible Space |
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| 1. No defined rules. Arangment changes from production to production and even during production. 2.referred to as a black box theatre. 3. Indoor or outdoor, small or large. |
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| Work areas for theatrical personnel. 1. Scene Shop. 2. Property Room. 3.Costume Shop. 4. Costume Storage. 5. Buisness office. |
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| Aural Production Design (2 Things) |
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| 1. Sound Design. 2. Actors Voices. |
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| 1. Line 2. Shape. 3. Color. 4.Space. 5. Texture. 6. Ornamentation |
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| Working on a play over time with multiple opportunities for rehearsed readings or performances. |
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| 18th Century playwright and critic. First Dramaturg. |
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| Part of dramaturgy. Finding, developing, shaping scripts |
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| working with directors on specific productions of plays. |
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| A broad definition by which stories are group according to their prominent feature(s) |
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| Stages noble charecters, elevated and serious action, illicits pity and fear, ends tragically, hero's pride and tragic flaw. |
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| basically humorous play using laughter to entertain, to render a serious problem less serious or to offer a critique of societal norms. |
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| emphasizes the humorous qualities of a given situation |
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| type of situation comedy that emphaiszes broad and exaggerated physical action. Commedia! |
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| a tool of farce. From Commedia, a tool used to make the sounds of a beating. |
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| comedy driven by the eccentricities of its major character. |
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| focuses on the thought rather than the character or situation. Tends to critique society. Aristophane. |
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| explores the behavior of a particular segment of society |
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| when the tragic and comic tendencies are equally mixed. |
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| a dramatization based around an actual event. Usually contains facts and quotes from actual sources. |
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| Style and Genre origionating in the bloody and gruesome melodrams of sadistic and grisly stage violence produced by the Theatre du Grand-Guignol, 1879-1960's Paris. |
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| Methods of execution, the means of doing things, the mechanics of writing and staging. The established aesthetic features of any part of the process of making and performing works of drama and theatre. |
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| a particular use of language: poetry, prose, dialects, slang |
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| periods and geographical regions: Changes of fashion, architecture, furniture, clothes. |
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| character types and social manners: economic status, cultural and moral values, a particular social dynamic. |
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| modes of artistic exspression and material design: Music, painting, dance, cultural or moral values, a particular social dynamic. |
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| Acting style: realist, neorealist, melodramatic, Brechtian, physical theatre, pantomime, improvisation, street performance, circus. |
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