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| have an account written by Ikhernofret (a participant sometime between 1887 and 1849 BCE) detailing his participation in what seems like a “promenade” staging of the Osiris myth. |
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| Fictional personalities written by playwrights and performed by actors |
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| Anything in a play that is improbably tidy-an unlikely ending. "God from the machine." |
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| What is the medium for theatre? |
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| The text to be performed; a blueprint for a live performance. |
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| The means by which an art form presents its material. |
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| Clothing particular to the event at hand |
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| Long-term training and short-term practice for a specific event/game/play involved |
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| How is the medium of theatre different from the medium of film and TV? |
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| They're related, but theatre is immediate (no mediation between the sender and receiver). |
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| How is theatre a transitory art? |
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| It's never definitive (each performance is imperfect and therefore unique), there's a script, which is the text to be performed, and its always immediate and in motion. |
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| The pressure of the group forces people to conform and behave. |
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| Theatre where the audience joins the cast for food after the performance. |
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| How is the play "the butchers" an example of naturalism? |
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| "The Butchers" featured real meat carcasses on stage, giving the audience the impression that they were in a real meat locker. |
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| What is the significance of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood?" |
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| Because the play is based on an unfinished Charles Dickens story, the audience votes on the ending that the play will have. The music and plot change based on how the audience votes. |
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| What was significant about The Living Theatre's "Paradise Now"?" |
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| "The Living Theatre" encouraged audience members to join them on stage naked in their 1968 production of "Paradise Now." |
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| “J’assiste à une pièce” means "I will attend a play." What is the significance of this? |
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| When you attend the play, you're also "assisting" it in that the energy that the audience gives off can affect a performance. |
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| What is the willing suspension of disbelief? |
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| You're aware that what you're seeing is a performance, and therefore do not treat it as reality. |
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| An audience is full of people of similar interests. What kind of audience is this? |
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| An audience is full of people with various personality traits and interests. What kind of audience is this? |
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| A theater located in New York has more than 500 seats. What kind of theater is this? |
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| The Tony Awards are given for what kind of theatre? |
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| High-profile, for-profit companies produce which type of play? |
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| What are the two biggest expenses of Broadway theaters? |
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| Rent and paying the actors. |
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| Describe the average patron of a broadway show. |
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| A white, upper-middle class, college-eduacated female. |
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| A theatre in New York has less than 500 but more than 100 seats. What kind of theatre is this classified as? |
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| Which type of theater is for profit, but on a smaller scale than broadway? |
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| Originally created to experimental, this type of theater has now become institutionalized, also. |
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| The "Obies" are awarded by the Village Voice to which type of theater? |
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| A theater has less than 100 seats. What kind of theatre does this signify? |
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| A play is being performed in a garage or other found space. Which kind of theatre does this signify? |
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| A play is performed for profit, but has a much smaller budget. Which kind of theatre is this? |
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| This type of theatre is professional but not for profit. |
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| This type of theatre generally works off grants, such as the NEA. |
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| Why are long term contracts valuable for regional theaters? |
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| Job security is appealing to actors and could draw them away from theater hot-spots like New York in order to perform with regional theatres. |
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| A play begins with the stage and audience in one place. The players then move to another place and the audience follows. What kind of play is this? |
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| A play set in an airport is set in an actual airport. What is this an example of? |
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| This type of theatre occurs in front of an unsuspecting audience. The audience may never be aware that what they are seeing is staged. |
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| In what year was Blue Man Group founded? |
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| Explain the progression of Blue Man Group from their beginnings to where they are now. |
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| They started as a street theatre group, then went off-off broadway, then off-broadway, then opened up all over the world. |
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| What is a franchise show? |
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| A show with multiple productions running in different cities with different casts. |
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| Explain the progression of Blue Man Group from their beginnings to where they are now. |
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| They started as a street theatre group, then went off-off broadway, then off-broadway, then opened up all over the world. |
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| What is a franchise show? |
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| A show with multiple productions running in different cities with different casts. |
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| A person reviews live performances for a newspaper or periodical. They have little experience or education on the matter and work a strict deadline. What are they? |
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| A person writes longer articles in academic journals on little deadline. They provide in depth-analysis and require job qualifications. What are they? |
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| What is prescriptive criticism? |
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| Writing about a play on the basis of what you think it should do. |
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| What were the rules established by the French Academy? |
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| Plays could only tell one story, they had to take place in one day, and in one setting. They could also not feature any inappropriate activities. |
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| Who established the french academy? |
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| What is descriptive criticism? |
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| Writing about the play and what happens in it. |
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| Which style of criticism is most favored by critics? |
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| What did Aristotle say about theatre in "The Poetics" |
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| He said that theatre is an imitation of life and that he defended its value. |
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| What are the elements of Drama according to Aristotle? |
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Plot, Character, Theme, Diction, Music, Spectable (in the order)
Please contain the dogs making spoons. |
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| A theater features a stage space with a frame around the top. The stage is contained to being behind this wall. What kind of theatre is it? |
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| A space above the stage where set pieces can be raised and lowered to be concealed from the audience. |
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| In a proscenium theatre, it is the hypothetical fourth wall at the end of the stage. It has come to mean any point where someone from the play breaks the scene and interracts with the audience. |
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| What are the wings of a theatre? |
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| The offstage sides of the stage. |
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| A theatre features a stage in the middle of a circle of seats. What kind of stage is this? |
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| An arena or "circle-in-the-round" theatre. |
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| A theatre features a stage that is similar to proscenium, but instead juts out into the audience, so there is seating on three sides of the stage. What kind of theatre is this? |
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| What is a corral in theatre terms? |
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| A corral is a Spanish style of theatre with box seating above an open "pit" where spectators can stand. |
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| What is a converted space theatre? |
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| A theatre that has been established out of a non-theatrical building. |
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| What is significant about Theatre de Soleil's performance space? |
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| Theatre de Soleil performs in a converted munitions factory. |
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| What is site-specific theatre? |
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| Theatre that occurs in a specific location. For example, a show that occurs in a warehouse uses a warehouse as its theatre. |
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| A type of theatre that can be converted and moved around to fit the purposes of a show. |
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| Why is a blackbox theatre still a traditional theatre space? |
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| It is built for a theatre-it features a full lighting grid and is electrically rigged and set for a theatre. |
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| What is the Barong Dance? |
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| The barong dance is a dance where actors go into a trance and act out a religious battle between good and evil. This is a ritual that features actors. |
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| A child drives a toy car or wears a purse. What is this an example of? |
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| What is a feast of fools? |
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| The feast of fools was an event where the rich acted like the poor and the poor acted like the rich in medieval times. |
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| Why did the church support the feast of fools? |
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| It was a peaceful way for people to have fun and vent their frustrations. Better this than revolution! |
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| Pretending to be something else. This is an example of off-stage acting. It can also be illegal, for example, impersonating a police officer. |
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| What is the "performance of self?" |
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| Presenting ourselves to be identified with a group, or conversely stand out as an individual. Dressing "emo." |
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| The roles we play in society. |
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| What is the concept of doubling? |
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| Playing more than one role in a performance. |
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| Speaking loud enough so that everyone can hear. |
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| What is verse and why is it important? |
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| Many greek plays were written in verse. The actor needed to be able to read verse and still be convincing on stage. |
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| The performer must make their actions "big" enough so that their motions can be seen by people all the way in the back row. |
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| What are the demands of classical acting? |
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| Projection, Stylization, and Verse |
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| A tradition in the middle ages where each union would performa a biblical story pertaining to their industry. |
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| A series of sybmolic hand gestures |
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| In India, there are 8 primary expressions of classical acting, also known as what? |
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| A group of actors learned an overall "line of business" but made up the rest based on their characters. What type of theatre is this? |
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| What were some of the key points of the Stanislavsky method? |
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-More analytical than emotive
-Concrete, definite actions
-Objective and throughline
-Actions leading to emotions, not the other way around
-The inner truth
-"Method acting" |
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| What is the objective in terms of the Stanislavsky method? |
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| The over all goal of the character in the big picture of the play. |
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| A school that trains someone exclusively in the arts (no gen eds). |
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| A master of fine arts degree. This is necessary if you want to teach acting at the college level. |
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| Equity is the name for the union for actors and stage managers. |
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| Describe the audition process? |
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| The actor does a quick monolouge/song/dance. Using this, the director calls certian actors back, having them do specific parts of scenes. |
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| What are directors looking for in auditions? |
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| Personality, Directability, how the actor works with an ensemble. |
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| What is blocking and why is it helpful? |
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| Blocking is the process of setting up the physical motion of people on stage. This also helps the actors remember their lines. |
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| What is an actor-manager? |
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| A senior actor who generally was in charge of rehearsals and other directorial functions. |
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| What is the significance of the Meiningen players? |
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| They were the first group to use a director (George II-Duke of Saxe-Meiningen) |
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| What is an auteur director? |
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| A director who may rewrite the script of a play in order to make it suit their purposes. |
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| What is the significance of Heddatron? |
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| Heddatron was an adaptation of Isben's Hedda Gabler where half the roles are "played" by robots. |
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| Whats the difference between a tech rehearsal and a dress rehearsal? |
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| A tech rehearsal is the first rehearsal where all of the technical elements are in synch. The dress rehearsal has all of this but costumes also. |
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| Who is considered by our records to be the first female playwright? |
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| Schools where young boys would be trained to act like women, rather than women acting in theatre. |
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| Nell Gwyn was one of the fist female stars in British theatre, and despite her good looks she was noted for her talent. |
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| What is the significance of Alphra Behn? |
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| She was the first female to write plays professionally. |
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| What is the significance of Eve Ensler? |
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| Eve Ensler is a monologue artist famous for her "Vagina Monologues." |
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| What is the significance of Anne Bogart? |
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| Anne Bogart is one of the foremost thinkers on the craft of direction. Wrote the book "A Director Prepares." |
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| What is Julie Taymor most famous for directing? |
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| A play features exposition, a story picked up in the middle, and limited, scenes and characters. What structure is it following? |
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| A play features a series of short scenes that aren't nessecarily affected by each other. The story is also established within the context of the play. Which format does this follow? |
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| What is the significance of Woyzeck? |
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| Woyzeck is a play that has concrete scenes, but the scenes do not have to be in any particular order. Many different directors have chosen different orders with the scenes. |
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