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10/03/2006

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Focus of Theatre
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Humans
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Tied down loose ends, god from a machine
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Deus ex machina
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The impulse towards theatre is universal. These things include thatrical elements such as dancing and impoersonating. Even the dearkest of cutlures particiate in it,
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Rituals
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Minimum space for Theatre
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1Actor, 1Space, 1Audience
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Polictis in relation to Theatre
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A staged event, example the balloons and streamers the families of the politicians on stage.
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Diffrence between Audience and Film and Audience and Theatre?
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the performer audience relationship
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Groups and Theatre
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Being together in an atmosphere of agroup chenges the way we act in that group. ex. people at a football game and the same people at church.
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being seperated from the audience. Such in a painting up close wont work as well unless you step away and look at the big picture.
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aesthetic Distance
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Playing a character or event outside of its proper time sequence, example, Peopel from the past speaking and active as if they lived today
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Anachonism
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Abrupt Movements from the Present to the past and back again
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Flashbacks
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Ralism and Non Realism denotes....
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diffrent ways of presenting reality
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Resembles observable reality. photographic truth, conforms ot our own observation golloe the pridtable logic.
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Realism
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Everything that does not conform to observations of surface reality. example, ghosts, petry instead or prose, abstracrt forms of scenary.
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Non Realistic
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Pantomine
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performers pretend to use objects not really there.
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Reanacments of materials gathered from actual events ex. court transcripts.
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Theatre of Fact
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Play about a a black family moving on up by Lorraine Hansberry
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A Raisin in the Sun
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Art does not occur in a ...
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vacum
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All Art is related to teh society in which it was produced.
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Art
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Three Stages of History of Theatre
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Greek, Elizabethan and Modern
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Theatre that is built jsut for theatre and shows diffrent show in diffrent nights, ex, Mona Charlie Brown Tuesday Ubu Roi
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Regional Repreatory
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Someone who observes theatre and then analyzes and comments on it. Usually works for a magazine or a journal and has written books and has tons of time to deicate to writing.
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Critic
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What is being attempted?
have the intentions been achieved?
Was the attempte Worthwile?
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Questions for Critical Criteria.
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Attepts to describe in clear detail what is happening in the paly or performance
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Descriptive
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Describes what happens in play by also offers adive or comments about how it should be done
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Prescriptive
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Usually works for telvision or nwspaper adn reports on what has occured at the theatre. Tell whats its about offer opinion but usually have no indeph experince into it.
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Reviewer
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Proscenium, arena, Thrust, Found and Black Box
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5 diffrent types of stages
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Typical stage, pocture Frame Stage
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Proscenium
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Cicle stage, Ubu roi was in, or like a concert
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Arena
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You find it, it can be anywhere you choose Stage
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Found or Created Stage
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Kinda of like an octagon very similar to picture frame stage that has three quarter seating U shaped
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Thrust Stage
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can be created out of any other type of stage really.
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Black Box
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Th auditorium itself is called
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The house or Front of the House
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the slant of an auditorium or stage floor is called the
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Rant
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Created by Giacomo Tortelli, they are side pieces to be movied in and out of the stage picture.
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Wings
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Plays in, lofts warehousees firestations chruches, basements, gyms,
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Non theatre bulidings
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making the play fit the space its being performed in. Ex faustaus and banquet seeing making the play run across the tables.
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Adapted spaces
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Perormed on the street, as street theatre, neighborhood theatre and guerrila theatre.
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Street Theatre
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action going on in several diffrenct sections of theatre
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multifocus theatre.
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The general action that motivates the play, used to determine the fundamental drama or conflict of acting
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Spine of the paly
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Extreme form of superrealism. Wants everything to be exactly as is. For instant a scene of a kitchen, the toaster works, everydown to the last detail is real.
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Naturlism
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Gives outward expression to inner feelings. example, im stressed, distraught how the theatre/movie shows that feeling is by having the entire room spin around, chaotic like and sweird sounds being distorted everywhere.
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expressionism
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Casting a person based on what type he or she is and also attaching a person to a certaian role.
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Type Casting
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Casting the most talented perosn regardless of race, or sex
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blind casting
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Reading auditon/text on the spot. or in a thearre just recieving it.
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Cold Read
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The first pewrformace an audience sees, still a rehersal however.
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Preview
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What do they resemble? Companies. Every good theatre is run like a business responsibilities of the commercial producer, responsible for hiring directors and stage crews, deal thing with union, renting space, insurance for theatre space. Supervising work
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Taken From Notes
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Nain character, central figure of a story
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Protagonist
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Tje opposition of the protagonist
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antagonist
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Suspends disbeif
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convetions
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The plot is taken from teh story and is essentioally the arrangement of events, order of the play, but the story is the backgroud
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diffrence betwen plot and story.
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Impediment put in a characters way
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obstacles
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outside forces or twist in the plot
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complications
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the final and most significant crises
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Climax
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catagory or type
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genre
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Intiated strict rehersals, visualyl created a unified direction
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Duke of Sax Minif
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Two parts of Greek Chorus
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Strophy and Antistropy
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Stock Caracters
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Camadia Dearte Tropp
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Teacher
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Dedascolus
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Folloed Medevil
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Renaissance
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meaning of tradegy
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Goat song
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Teh adydos Passion play
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done by Eguphons
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Means exist today
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Extant
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Imporivsed Goat Songs
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Ditheramps
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ist written dytherramp
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Aescylus
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Origina actor,stepped away from chorus dialouge
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Thespus
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Troup of actors, sheep
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Grex
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Leader of the sheep
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Grex Dominous
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