Final Exam Review

Theatre Appreciation 211 with Mancuso at Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway

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Piano technique in A'int misbehavin

Stride

the song your feets too big is an example of?

making text come to life

why did someone think that ait misbehavin was a good idea?

show array of emotions by showcasing waller's work, tribute to waller's vision.

joe discher from shakespeare company entered with a speech about? asking us to what?

about france and england going to war, asking us to imagine

shakespeare was not meant to be ___ he was meant to be ____

read, heard or watched

rehearsal

actor re-hears all thats said and reacts in appropriate way

Shakepeare's play in what language?

earliest form of Modern english

word goodbye dervied from?

god be with you

shakepeare based in ___ and _____ __________, ___________.

language, really communicating, physicality

in shakepeares time men shook hands by grabbing arms, why?

avoid germs and check if he is carrying a weapon

but soft what light through yonder window breaks? example of what?

iambic pentameter, stressed and unstressed

shakepeare wrote in stressed and unstressed like the beat of what?

the human heart

past dated tickets policy

call theater on day of and try to get ticket for that day if you missed your show a different day. Only can be done on week nights and this is for major NYC shows: broadway and off broadway

what does a director do?

directors role defined not by what they do but rather what they are responsible for

languages director must speak

producer, designer, playwright, and actor

what is context and what can we do to get the context of a play?

helps us understand the who/ where/ what/ when and why.

1. do research beforehand

2. information at the theater- lobby, director notes

3. exposition

four things director is responsible for?

1. idea

2. mood

3. style

4. tempo

parenthetical phrase

assists the text,

1. blocking

2. setting

3. point of view

primary sources of parenthical phrases

1. playwright

2. director of 1st professional production

director is respoonsible for his/ her..

own interpretation of the text (spoken word) not what is in parenthesis

tempo

most intersting way to tell the story, changing rates or beats of dramatic action

idea

concept/ vision

core meaning of what a play has to say

mood

feeling, emotions generated fom clash of forces in dramatic action.

style

individualisation of artform, ex: sweet and twenty

scrim

sheet that depending on lighting can appear opaque or transparent. this way used in 2 man kidnapping rule. used to transition scenes

benchmark

comparing times of performances. ex: Heidi Chronicles, when get close to play running like you like it, TIME it! in Heidi Chronicles the director failed with tempo.

3 building blocks of IDEA

1. given circumstances- facts that the text gives

2. dramatic action-

3. characters - individual notions of each

Shakespeare's Hamlet

2 guards are nervous about the appearence of Hamlet's ghost. They feel worried.

mime

collaborative art, needs an audience

tableau vivance

vivid pic, people who resembled statues

panta mime in rome

live sex acts, violence, everything was real, even murder, pornographic acts, eventually banned from Rome. this caused mimes to become mobile= street mimes and their audiences followed them.

silver dollar sallon

child thought he was a sherif, went to a bar, flirted with a girl and her boyfriend died by a ricoshed bullet, everyone was happy and celebrated. he gets on a toy horse and rode off.

click

mime 1. see wall, 2. touch it, 3. fixed point, move body towards and away from it

i regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being:

oscar wilde

when you come into the theater you have to be willing to say, were all here to undergo a communion to find out what the hell is going on in this world. if youre not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that"

david mamet

i want to give the audience a hint of a scene. no more than that. give them too much and they wont contribute anything themselves. give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. thats what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

orson welles

musical theater

combines music, songs, spoken dialogue, and dance

american operetta

influenced by euro works

first musical

black crook

book musical

broadway musical ex: showboat, oklahoma!

parts of a musical

music- tune

lyrics- words to tune

script- like a play, tells characters where they are going

there must be a _____ ____ in a musical.

compelling need

elements of a musical

seed

story

spirit

sound and look

point of view

collaboraiton

libretto book- dialogue between the songs

music

lyrics

directors

musical director

broadway today

71% of shows currently on broadway are musicals

musicals we have seen:

aint misbehavin

nutcracker and I

why do you think musical is american art form?

originality

"i believe that in a great city or even in a small city or a village a great theater is the outward and visable sign of an inward and probable culture"

sir laurence olivier

after the director leaves opening night the ___ ____ takes over the technical parts, rehearsals understudys, prompt book.

stage manager

prompt book

one pg of script, blank og next to script, directors notes, tech rehearsal, standby sound cue

playwright

dont need to be a good writer, wright= an artisan maker in that field, knowing rhythum of a language!! just presents what is happening, doesnt need to describe it. end result is the spoken word.

prose

endgame of reaching a reader, offer everything. end result is written word.

ways to write a play:

1. ensemble technique: group effort, "chorus line" most successful technique.

2. solitary method- doing it on your own

solitary method, Phase 1

Phase 1

Step 1- inspiration/ metaphor, ex: playwright from Rutgers, inspired by cashier who was raped- play called "Extremities"

Step 2- characters begin to emerge ex: victim, perpetrator, people in victims life

Step 3- Plot- sequence of dramatic actions (where beg, mid, and end show themselves)

**Step 4- wirte the dialogue

Step 5- completion of the first draft

Phase 2 and 3

Phase 2- reaching out for feedback, continuing re-writes and 1st staged reading (first time playwright hears his/ her play) dont have to listen to all the feedback.

Phase 3- fully realized production, theater willing to play your play

whats difference between light fading out on woman first or second?

first- she has been defeated

second- she has won! last image we see. there was an after image of her because she was wearing white and lights off.

what does playwright do?

hard to make a living, allows for free time to have another job.

enhancement money

playwright acknowledges cost of play and donates money towards prodction to enhance project and budget.

realism

benchmark for judging theater

melodrama

heightened realism with song, good vs. evil, pre- dated realism

where did realism come from?

2 russian artisits looked at melodrama and knew there was more... they created theater that would represent "life" happening on stage. 2 artists: constantine stanfloski and vladamir danchanko.

they created Moscow art theater, which still exists today

the method

actor system of training, method actor- self indulgent, not fully crafted, not easy to work with, tempermental, held in high regard but criticized as well

stanafloski emotion memory problems:

1. your experiences are finite, maybe never experienced some things

2. because it really happened to you. hard to repeat this for each production.

emotion memory vs. emotional prep

Meisner emotional prep- use imagination, infinite

emotion memory- use real life

piece meal publications

why we misinterpret stanfloskis work, taking one of his books and interpreting it fully without looking at all parts.

translation

bringing it to english, errors in this can fog image of story

standard

views change throughout time, so can change throughout series of books. stanfloski eventually backed away fom "emotion memory"

moscow art theater known for

1. development of realism

2. take on detailed research of world of characters and play

open end

keep running as long as people buy tickets

commerical theater

have open ended theater, typiclly in large cities

closed end

have set running time frame

how can a play run for 10 years and lose money?

1. capitalization- money that gets you to first production

2. weekly nut cost of running show/ week

show hovers around weekly nut and does not ever cover capitalization. when dips below weekly nut they shut down production.

regional theater

donations given, not capitlization

4 categories of donors

1. corporation

2. individuals

3. government

4. foundations

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