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-Organic Structure
-Wild forces of nature
-The unexplainable, gothic, mystical |
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-Storm and Stress
-Shocked Audience
-Violence and forbidden topics |
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-Just another room on the stage
-Introduced during the Romantic era |
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| Historical accurate costumes and scenery |
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•Introduced during this era
•Replaced candles in the 1820’s
•Volatile and dangerous
•Greater intensity of light
•Could be dimmed up and down |
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-Rebellion against romanticism and melodrama
-Further visual realization
1. Detailed scenery and costumes
2. Historical and contemporary
accuracy |
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- first fully realized realistic plays
-Norway
-Adaptation of melodrama and well made play
-A Doll's House (1879)
-Ghosts (1881) |
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-Developed realistic acting styles
-Moscow art theater's
Psychoanalysis, Representational style, illusion of spontaneity, focus on other actors, subtle realistic changes in voice and body, ensemble acting.
-Plays of Chekov |
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| Realistic Acting (Characteristics) |
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-Ensemble acting
-careful examination of character history and motivation
-Psychological evaluation
-Fourth wall: actors do not acknowledge presence of audience |
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| Director’s abilities and job responsibilities |
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-Provide leadership, inspiration
-unification to a production
-Textual interpretation
-Artistic conceptulization
-Coordination of visuals
-Actor coaching |
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| Director collaboration with Designer/Actor |
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-meetings before casting
-brainstorming- interpretation, ideas, images
- Director focuses and inspires
-Shapes work into unified concept |
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-Analysis, research, brainstorming, intuition, experiment.
- Interpretation leads to concrete choices in production |
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| Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience. |
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| Concept is achieved through |
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| scenery, costumes, lighting, rhythm, movement, composition |
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-Physical and vocal characteristics
-talent and range
-collaborative spirit
-ability to take direction |
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-prepared audition pieces (monologues)
-"cold" readings
-Interview
-Previous work |
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| read through, blocking rehearsals staging, development rehearsals, technical rehearsals, dress rehearsals |
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| workers who maintain and execute cues for props, costumes, sets, lighting, and sound during the run of the show |
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-During tech rehearsals the show is slowly transferred over to them
-Call cues
-Oversees running crews |
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| realistic acting; representing real life |
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| Presentational (Rhetorical) acting |
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| not an attempt to imitate real life |
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| the art or technique of dramatic composition and theatrical representation |
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| a technique that actors use in which an actor re-experiences a moment from his/her life to bring about similar emotions in a play |
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| actor’s recall of sights, sounds, touch and smells of specific past events |
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| Elements of Scene Development |
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•Designs that…
o Imitates real life
o Realistic details
o Historical accuracy
o Imaginary 4th wall |
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•Designs that…
o Suggest, distort, or abstract reality
o Deliberately incomplete
o Environment that is impossible in real life
o May rely on mood, color, shapes, visual symbols |
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| audience view of a set drawn to perspective |
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•4 variables
o Silhouette (or line) – outer shape of costume helps communicate time and place
o Color – culturally specific, emotional response and communicates character
o Texture – time of year, economic status
o Accent – finishing detail and accessories |
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| Elements of Costume design |
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| list of clothing items worn by each actor for each scene in the play |
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•Creating movement and mood with light
o Lights the action and actors on stage
o Molds the human face
o Provides primary and secondary focus
o Create, sustain and change mood |
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| shows where instruments will be hung in the theater |
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