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Entertains it's audience
Challenges audience to confront uncomfortable truth
Provides a more focused version of reality than life experiences |
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| Horace's Function of Theatre |
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| Theatre's function is to teach and to please |
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| Casting actors of a different race, "colorblind casting" |
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Productions created by individuals who attempt to make a living in the theatre
Can be commercial or non-profit |
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Shows that are to turn a profit for investors
Traditionally musicals |
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| Theatre in which those involved do not rely on this as their income or livelihood |
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Productions that do not yield a profit for individuals or an organization
All money is put back into theatre, may be pro or amateur |
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| Amateur theatre in which shows are created by volunteers who generally are not part of an academic or professional community |
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Refers to theater houses in NY that are in the theatre district
Seats as many as 1800 patrons 8 shows a week |
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Dating from 1955, refers to the theaters not in the district that seat less than 500
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| Professional or semi-professional shows with low budgets, seat less than 100 |
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German Playwright, Father of epic theater
his writings centered around political themes, encouraged audiences to thing rather than become too involved in the story line
rejected the Catharic Model
Theater is to appeal to intellect of an audience and to incite them to social action |
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| Term used by Greek philosopher Aristotle to describe the audiences emotional release by plays end |
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emotional identification; refers to a sense of participation, an identification with a character
requires that you feel along with a character |
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literally the "distance of art"
psychological distance, sense of detachment, the recognition that what is happening on stage is not reality |
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literally the "distance of art"
psychological distance, sense of detachment, the recognition that what is happening on stage is not reality |
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Stage usually noted by arch which separates the audience from the actors, resembles a picture frame
Began being used during the Italian renaissance |
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one of the oldest theater arrangements
surrounded on three sides by audience
portable thrust stages known as booth stages |
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| the playing space is completely surrounded by the audience, requires minimal scenery, referred to as "theatre in the round" |
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| Historians believe that western theatre had its beginnings in the religious rituals associated with the Greek god Dionysus |
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| Trilogy of Greek Tragedies written by Aeschylus |
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| all the effort and people that go into making a play happen:playwright, producer, director, stage manager, house manager, box office manager... |
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| person who writes the plays |
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| the person ultimately responsible for overseeing all aspects of mounting a theatre production |
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| The person charged with overall interpretation of a dramatic work, who conducts the rehearsals, blocks the action and assists the actors in developing their characters. |
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| The member of the theatre crew who has overall charge of everything connected with the stage and backstage. This is the person who has responsibility for running the entire performance from opening curtain to final curtain call. |
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| The person charged with managing the auditorium and anything related to the audience. The house manager is also charged with supervising the ushers, opening and closing the house. |
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| responsible for all aspects of ticketing and accounting |
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| or experimental theatre, a simple, somewhat unadorned performance space, usually a large square room with black walls and a flat floor. |
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| Sides of the stage where backstage work may be going on, unseen by the audience |
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| the people watching a performance |
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| a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre, through which crowds can "spew out" at the end of a performance (think football stadiums) |
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| a cast in which the principal performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance in a dramatic production |
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| the artists strive to create a visual and performance reality on stage that tricks the audience into accepting the idea that what they are seeing is real |
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| The artists in presentational theatre try to challenge the natural passivity of the audience by creating a moment to moment reality, forcing the viewers to actively participate in the creation of the reality |
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| Contemporary analysis or review of a play or dramatic work |
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| A critic's analysis of a play, many time at the time of its first performance, is a "review |
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As the Greek theatres were so large, the chorus' actions had to be exaggerated and their voices clear so that everyone could see and hear them. To do this, they used techniques such as synchronization, echo, ripple, physical theatre and the use of masks to aid them
(think weird mask youtube video) |
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| Traps in the floor of the stage for quick exits and entrances |
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Only the front of a set piece or design of the stage
Actual Def:one side of the exterior of a building, especially the front, but also sometimes the sides and rear. The word comes from the French language, literally meaning "frontage" or "face". |
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