Final Exam

Theatre 1100 with Brown at University of Missouri- Columbia

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By: Alex Zielinski
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Theatre: The Lively Art
Created: 2011-12-09
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Theatre

A building, an art form, a discipline -- requires an audience

Indigenous Performance

Includes chanting, drumming, and dance -- ritual spirits and masks and costumes

Abydos Passion Play

2500 B.C. -- Egypt along the nile river (First Recorded Performance)

City Dionysia

Athens 5th Century B.C. -- All day event -- Playwriting contest

Theatron

seeing place

Audientia

those who hear

Dran

to do

Television

TV shows reflect comic traditions, techniques, characters, and structures developed in theatre -- soap operas, crime shows, the Office documentaries

Film

Movies have been made out of plays and plays have been made out of movies

Audience

Performance- audience relationship -- empathy, distance, and convention

Broadway Theatre

Large, formal, frequently on a large stage

Residence Theatre

Smaller then broadway

Community Theatre

Created from spaces such as lofts, warehouses and former churches

Empathy

Audience members feel what the actors feel vicariously

Distance

Viewer must be separate from performance in order to experience its aesthetic qualities

Convention

A tacit agreement between the actors and the audience

Criticism

What is the playwright or production attempting to do? How well has it been done? Is it worth doing?

Descriptive Criticism

An attempt to describe as clearly and accurately as possible what is happening in a performance

Prescriptive Criticism

The critic not only describes what has been done but offers advice and sometimes even insists on what should be done

Playwright

Writes the script -- which is the starting point for a theatrical production -- Creating a treatment, working from an outline, and starting from scratch

Script

One of various copies of a written text of a play --gives readers stage directions, dialogue, and subtext (what is unspoken)

Aristotle

Greek Philosopher - 6 Elements of Drama - 3 Unities

Six Elements of Drama

Plot, Character, Theme, Language, Music, and Spectacle

The 3 Unities

Unity of Time, Unity of Place, and Unity of Action -- Real time, one setting, no sub-plots

Climactic (Classical) Plot Construction

Late "point of attack" -- Unity of time, place action

Episodic (Epic) Plot Construction

Early "point of attack" , Unities not always followed

Protagonist

for the action [HAAARy Potter]

Antagonist

against the action [Voldemort]

Author of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tenesse Williams

The Actor's Instrument

The body, the voice, and the mind

Physical Characterization

What traits are required, what traits should dominate

Movement Training

Eliminate points of tension, strength, flexibility, and balance

Voice as Music

pitch, volume, and quality

Voice as Language

articulation, inflection, and projection

Articulation

Production of sounds

Projection

Audibility

Emotional Recall

Searching one's own past, recalling emotion felt, and using that emotion

Auditions

1-2 Monologues and cold reading (material from script)

Rehearsals

Book reading, blocking, scene study, and dress rehearsal

Aeschylus

523-426 B.C.

Sophocles

496-406 B.C. -- Author of Oedipus the King

Euripides

480-406 B.C.

Old Comedy

Social, political, and cultural

New Comedy

Domestic situations, romance

Aristophanes

old comedy

Menander

new comedy

Rome

Arose as Greece declined

Ludi Romani

First Festival to incorporate theatre

The Dark Ages

Theatre banned 476-900 AD

The Middle Ages

Theatre Revived 900-1500 AD

Liturgical Drama

Performed in churches by priests

Vernacular

Religious separate from church

Mystery Plays

Biblical Events

Morality Plays

Religious Characters and themes

The Wakefield Cycle

Most famous medieval theatre

Hrotsvitha

First female playwright

First Musical theatre

The Black Crook

Vaudeville

Family

George M. Cohan

American writer and composer -- the first book musical

Show Boat

First musical with a cast with mixed ethnicity on Broadway

Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II

Musicals with social themes - Songs became popular on the Radio

Oklahoma, The King & I, The Sound of Music

Oklahoma!

First musical to integrate music and dancing into the plot

Andrew Lloyd Webber

British composer -- Cats, Phantom, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Joseph and the Technicolored Dream Coat

Stephen Sondheim

American composer and writer -- complex music and themes

West Side Story, Into the Woods, and Sweany Todd

William Shakespeare

1564-1616 -- Lived in London

Renaissance

Renaissance means 'rebirth' -- in Italy -- exploration and invention -- a return to classical ideals of ancient Greece and Rome

Elizabethan Theatre

Roles are played by men -- Elizabethan dress -- not much scenery -- blank verse (dramatic poetry) -- Shakespeare in Love

Public Playhouses

Performed 6 days per week -- Life of the play -- 10 performances -- company owned by its members -- Writers sold plays to companies for one-time fee

Producer

Deals with investors, agents, public relations, and hiring directors and designers

Comercial Theaters vs. Noncommercial Producers

In charge of everything (money, rights, agents, hiring, supervising, advertising, and budget) vs. has a board of directors to deal with all of the responsibilities

Stage Manager

Deals with performers and and the crew and works along side the designers and directors

Director

Guides and coordinates the artistic side of the production, responsible for style, pace, and visual appearance, casting

Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

1st modern director -- known for long rehearsal, stage picture, treat the actors as an ensemble

Movement

Pace (speed of the performance); blocking crosses, entrances, exits, relationships; gesture facial expression, body language; business small scale physical activities

Stage Picture

Forms images that convey situation, emotional content, character relationships

Sound and Voice

Vocal quality, resonance, tone, inflection, volume, tempo, rhythm, and dialect

Sanskrit

Indian Theatre -- Natyasastra

Natyasastra

An example of Sanskrit drama -- Indian Theatre

Xiqu

Chinese Theatre -- male and female performers -- incorporates music and dance -- elaborate costumes and makeup

The Pear Garden

Xiqu 8th century acting school

Noh

1300s Samuri Entertainment -- slow like martial arts -- all performers are male

Kabuki

Popular theatre form began in 1600s -- colorful makeup, sets, music, and dance

Zeami

wrote over 100 Noh plays

Emile Zola

1840-1902 -- french novelist and philosopher-- important founder of naturalism

Naturalism

philosophy -- emphasizes that humans are a part of nature -- short-lived movement -- precursor of realism

Realism

A dramatic style -- through the 5 senses -- contemporary subjects -- expose social ills so that causes can be corrected -- slice of life

The author of A Rasin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

Independent Theatre Movement

Throughout Europe plays had to be approved by a censor --- So there were performances done by a group for its members and were considered private performances and were not subject to censorship

Symbolism

Truth can only be hinted at through networks of symbols

The Blue Bird

Writen by Maurice Maeterlinck -- example of symbolism

Expressionism

Interior world of the mind is expressed through the exterior world

Surrealism

"sur" + "real" = "more than real"

The conscious mind must be subverted to reach truths

Antonin Artaud

Wrote Jet of Blood -- example of surrealism

Absurdism

Emerged in France -- Humans kong for meaning, but the universe is irrational -- themes of isolation and loneliness

Author of Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

Who wrote Reasons to be Pretty

Neil LaButte

Happenings

The space and audience are considered parts of the experience -- undermines professionalism and technique

Environmental Theatre

Use of a transformed or found space -- focus is flexible and variable

David Henry Hwang

Chinese-American Playwright

El Teatro Campesino

1965 - Zoot Suit -- Written by Luis Valdez

American Indian Religious Freedom Act

1972 -- Made it legal to perform ceremonies again -- Native American Theatre

Spiderwoman Theatre

Founded by 3 Native American sisters -- First all-female Native American group in the USA

Feminist Theatre

Women's rights theatre

Wendy Wasserstein

Wrote The Heidi Chronicles -- example of Feminist Theatre

The Boys in the Band

The first openly gay characters on Broadway -- Written by Mart Crowley -- 1968

Tony Kushner

Wrote Angels in America -- Example of Gay and Lesbian Theatre

Julie Taymor

Directed The Lion King

Postmodernism

Issues related to power -- questions the meaning of truth

Robert Wilson

Collaborated with Philip Glass on the play Einstein on the Beach

About this deck

By: Alex Zielinski
Textbook:

Theatre: The Lively Art
Created: 2011-12-09
Size: 110 flashcards
Views: 439

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