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| Soemthing is seen ; Something is done |
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| producing, directing, Acting, designing, building,crewing,stage managing, house managing |
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| supervising entire production and promotional efforts |
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| controling and developing the artistic product and providing it with unified vision- coordinating all its componets and supervising all rehersals. |
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| when actors perform their roles of characters in the play |
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| map out visual and audio elements of a production, including scenery, props, costumes and wigs,makeup,lighting,sound, programs,advertising |
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| carpenters, costumes,wig makers,electricians,makeup artists, recording and sound engineers,painters. They design the show into reality by constructing and finishing in detail the hardware of the show |
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| techs execute in proper sequence and with carefully rehearsed timing the light and sound cues and the shifting of the scenery. They also oversee the placement of props and change of costume |
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| responsibility for running a play-during perfromance and after |
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| responsibility for admitting, seating, and providing for the general comfort of audience |
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| external exit on or off the stage |
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| audience is seated all the way around |
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| no fixed playing space, no fixed seating |
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| fixed house lettered(will Theatre) |
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| what seperates actors from the audience-line in the middle of arch(imaginary line) |
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| playing space infront of the arch |
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| space cant be seen by audience to the left and right of the playing space |
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| getting yourself from one wing to another where you cant be seen |
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| space above the prosenium,bigger than heigh & width of arch |
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| about the thickness of a screen, you would use this with light |
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| background device used to cover the back and sometimes the sides of the stage and used with special lighting to create the illusion of sky, open space, or great distance |
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| Audience on an angle( for visability purpose) |
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| the actor acknowledges the presence of the audience |
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| actor never acknowledges the presence of the audience |
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| breaking an invisible wall, acknowledging audience(direct) by walking in audience and talking to them |
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| things done in theater because of the format of space |
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| How does Impersonation Separate Theatre from other art forms? |
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| Impersonation is the single most important aspect of theater; it's the foundation. It is the way the character acts, hiding their actual self. It can be like a mask covering yourself for others to see you in a different way |
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| What are the two modes of performance and how do they differ? |
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Presentational Performance
Representational performance |
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| Presentational Performance |
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| the basic stand up comedy or night club mode. They directly and continuously acknowledge the audience. |
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| Representational performance |
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| is more fundamental drama. The audience watches behavior that seems to be staged, like they werent watching. |
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| Be able to explain Samuel Taylor Coleridge's willing suspension of disbelief |
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridg's phrase means to be familiar with the magic of theater. The audience participates with empathy, with feeling toward what happens to the characters. |
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| How would Patrik Stewart respond if his live theater career were terminated?*** |
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| Difference between the two notions of acting |
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The first notion is that acting is something the actor "presents" to the audience through vocal skills in phrasing and projection, through imitating different characters and their individual styles. Talents can include: dance,juggling,fencing,comic improvisation, and oral interpretation.- Sometimes this type of acting is called "presentational", "external", or "technical"
The second notion of acting is that it emanates from somewhere inside the actor. By studying the role closely and entering through her or his own imagination the world of the play, the actor works to honestly and effectively "live the life of the character" within the play's situation. To do this the actor must really "feel" the emotions of the character portrayed and even feel that she or he during the moments of the performence |
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| What are the basic tents of the Stanislavsky method of acting |
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| characters zadcha(character objection) and physical emotional actions |
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| what is the actor studio and aht is the lee sterababeg method? |
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The actor studio is the most infulential acting school in NYC.
Sterababerg was the inspiration for the school. |
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| What is the difference between blocking and business? |
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Blocking is the assigned movements & staging
Business is the activity and improv that is directed |
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| Explain Samuel Taylor Coolridge willing suspension of disbelief. |
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| his disbelief is the audience- "believing" in the play they are letting themseleves forget that the characters are actors. |
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| How would Patrick Stuart react if his live career were terminated? |
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| He would be devastated its like a fountain that he must return to. |
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a french term that means "kind"
its used to define a certain category of a play |
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| a serious play with universal human import as its theme |
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| popularly a funny play classically a play that ends happily |
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| traditionally the centeral character, person of high rank or stature. undergoes a decline of fortune, which leads to suffering and death |
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| a scene or staged event in a play not specifically tied to the plot- short moral play, usually comic, that could be presented at a court banquet and other activites. |
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| mystery aka pageant plays |
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| most common term reffering to medieveal plays developed from liturgical drama that treated biblical stories and themes. staged outside the church often about the corpus of christ |
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| allegorical medieval play form in which the characters represent abstractions(good deeds, death and so on) Moral instruction |
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| observe of tragic comedy. often comic but finally diturbing play that ends darkly-leaves impression of an unresolved universe |
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| outwardly serious but are embellished with spectacular staging, falmboyant dialogue and highly suspenseful plotting |
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| highly comic,light hearted, gleefull drama. usually about a mistaken identity or discoverd lover. has alot of broad physical stunts and pratfalls |
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| a dramatic style that began in the late 1800;s and has become extremley popular.- has an entire chapter in text book |
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| play that begins as a tragedy but includes comic elements and ends happily |
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| Difference between the plot and theme is ? |
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theme- is the plays overall statement, its the topicc,central idea.
Plot- is the actual story of the play |
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| 3 major groupings of a performance |
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| part of the play that throws characters into relief and premits th audience to see deeply into the human personality. |
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| bad person whos against protaginist |
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| means director which means teacher |
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| person resposible for assembling the ingredients of a play |
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| most critical decision of a director |
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| can be continued in time but doesnt have to be |
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| discontinious cannot be continued |
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| wrote sexual perversity in chicago and american buffalo. |
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| wrote the producers formally choreographer |
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| genre that is about key events in a persons life, usualy of a king or a person thats head of state. |
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| where the audience gathers before a performance |
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| gets you in the door, no seat |
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| between lobby and the house, a hallway |
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