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| physical or psychological separation or detachment of audience from dramatic action (to perceive and appreciate a work of art from a certain separation) |
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| experience that the audience has and creates in their mind |
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| actors, directors, playwrights, and designers experience onstage |
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| to do or perform any action |
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| to gaze upon a performed action |
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| making real life more dramatic than it is |
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| a literary and historical expert on a production's design team who advises directors, design team, cast, crew and audience on various aspects of the production |
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| describing the artists and performance with little judgement |
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| describes what's been done and offers advice on how it should be done |
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| allows us to conceive of people and events we have never seen or experienced and to transcend our physical circumstances to the point where we forget who we are, where we are, or what time it is |
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| announcing that one thing is another in order to describe it or point up its meaning more clearly |
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| detail oriented and deep thinking |
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| don't have to think about it and is easily processed |
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| performative events/activities |
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| anything that includes an audience |
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| theatre addressing political issues about society |
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| recent phenomenon in world theatre that raises question and challenges the authority of modernism |
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| tells briefly what a theatre event is about, explaining its type and plot and sometimes offers opinion on whether the show is worthwhile |
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| an underlying idea or framework on which a plot/storyline is built upon; outline of contemporary events |
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| a spectator that becomes a part of the performance having no initial training |
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| willing suspension of disbelief |
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| separating the reality of art from the reality of everyday life, where the mind is prepared to go along unreservedly with the reality of everyday life |
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| stage is directly in the center of the audience, circle theatre |
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| can configure the audience seating and stage any way adapting to an infinite variety of configurations |
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| where seating is in front of a flat stage capable of hiding scenery |
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| a transparent glass wall through which the audience looks at the other three walls of a room |
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| 3/4 seating for audience, where stage emerges into seating |
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| anywhere that's not a theatre |
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| to do or perform any action |
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| selection and arrangement of scenes. shows how it happened |
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| full account of an even or series of events. tells what happened |
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| overall meaning of play and the ideas expressed |
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| theatrical elements of the play |
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| plot moves in a sequential order either forward or backward, with a definite end and beginning |
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| plot repeatedly comes back to a certain point in the play causing a circular effect before defining the final moment |
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| no central structure to the plot, where things are out of order and misplaced |
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| a mini show in an overall show that has its own main idea, but still falls within the overall theme of the entire show |
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| a result of conflicts, obstacles and complications in a play when events and opposing forces are at a crucial moment |
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| the high point in the development of a dramatic plot where the fate of all characters is determined |
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| impediments put in a character's way |
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| outside forces or new twists in the plot introduced at an opportune moment |
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| introductory speech delivered to the audience by one of the actors/actresses before a play begins |
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| speech by one of the performers to the audience after the conclusion of the play |
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| placing an element outside of its proper time sequence |
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| abrupt movements from present to past and back again |
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| when a solitary character speaks alone to the |
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| main character's opponent |
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| generally represents a royal man or woman at their best or worst at some extreme of human behavior |
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| typical or ordinary, but are significant because they embody an entire group; quintessential character |
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| exemplify one particular characteristic to the exclusion of virtually everything else; known by station in life; found in commedia dell'arte |
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| save day be reinforcing values of our system |
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| save everyone by manipulation system with indirect/direct help |
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| die or lose status by breaking norms of system, but leave safe characters behind to carry on |
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| saves his/her own day by beating/breaking norms of system |
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| saves his/her own day by defeating/destroying system |
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| no one saves the day or wins, and everyone loses |
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| climatic dramatic structures |
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| plot begins quite late in story, where all roads of past converge at one crucial intersection at the climax |
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| episodic dramatic structures |
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| play begins relatively early in story and does not compress the action but expands it |
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| realistic dynamics of drama |
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| denotes a special application of what we consider "genuine" or "real" |
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| nonrealistic dynamics of drama |
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| includes everything that does not conform to our reality |
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| various categories or type of drama |
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| strives for fright or horror; a work which exaggerates the plot and characters to appeal the emotion |
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| wit, irony and exaggeration to attract or expose evil and foolishness |
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| thrives on exaggeration, broad physical humor and stereotyped characters |
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| characters are representation, strives to objectify action, doesn't build emotional relationship with characters |
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| person in costume representing the idea that the character is real |
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| expressing what's inside of the head and expresses life |
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| close to metaphor; putting things on stage you couldn't really put on stage such as death |
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| deconstructs or constructs life and challenges the authority of modernism |
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| Crafton-Preyer Auditorium |
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| William Inge Memorial Theatre |
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| 1) Entertain and Educate 2) dramatize real life 3) share artistic expressions 4) raise questions about human conditions |
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| Purposes and uses of theatre |
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| respond to performance; describe and connect images |
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| pay attention to artistic details; interpret how artists achieved metaphoric expressions of human conditions |
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| infer artists' intentions; evaluate how well intentions were achieved; was production worth doing? |
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| observations of surface reality |
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| when plays and movies look realistic because of the details of the sets and costumes |
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