Theater Appreciation Final

• The top: Idea

• 2^nd Line: Character

• 3^rd Line: Dramatic Action

• 4^th Line: Given Circumstances (Facts)

• Meant to protect author and his/her heirs for a certain amount of time

• Owning rights to a work

• Right to royalties

• The author’s life + 50 years

• Exceptions have been made to last longer

  • Ex. Walt Disney Creations

• At some point the work loses its rights and falls into public domain

• The backer of the show

• In charge of money issues etc.

1. Lights

2. Costumes

3. Sounds

4. Sets

Responsible for all technical activities of production including rehearsal of understudies, prompt books, calling cues

• Rehearse the understudies

• Acts like a director in all ways but making changes to script

• Everything in one place

• Initially set up as such:

  • Right Side: script with space around

  • Left Side: Blank

• Left Side:

  • Blocking

  • Directors notes (specific director has said about acting on particular page

  • Light cues (levels, execution, etc.)

  • Sound cues (levels, execution, etc.)

  • Go cues (execution of cues written down)

  • Actors practice lines

• Theater focuses on use of imagination

• Shakespeare:

  • Elizabethan English- not old English

• Good ear for how people speak

  • Not necessarily correct grammar

• Play isn’t realized until performed/spoken aloud

• Developing order/outline

• Interactions between people

• When playwright feels for first time that story has beginning, middle, and end

• Actors sit in chairs

• Someone reads parenthetical notation (aka stage direction) as well

• Very little cost

• Profit

• Not-for-Profit

• Has investors/donors

  • Understood money will be returned (plus some)

• Open-ended run

• Commonly found in large cities with tourists

• In old days when wagons went town to town, theater companies collected money for show. The nut was taken off the wheels until show materialized

• Takes extra revenue and turns it back into company

• Relies on donations

• Has a set run

• Corporation: like a sponsorship, gains advertising

• Individual: Just people

• Government: taxes, budget

  • Can increase home/communitiy value greatly

• Foundation: Dead person’s namesake