Midterm
Theatre 102 with Oakes at State University of New York - Binghamton
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By: Drew Hardt
Created: 2011-03-07
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Moliere
Tartuffe and the misanthrope
Bertole Breche
THe caucasian chalk circle
Parallels between theatre and live
actors-humanity, simulation-reality, rehersal-learning, improvisation-spontanity, stage-world, audiences-society
Theatre comes form the greek word..
Theatron-"seeing place"
Greek word for actor...
hypokrites-"answerer"
Samuel Becket. this play is an example of
"Waiting for Godot"
modern tragicomedy
Elia Kazan directed...
"A Streetcar Named Desire"
Audience expectations
-Expect heatre to be related to real life
-Expect theatre to be framilliar
-Adhere to rules of decorum
-Collective Responce
Tragedy
Makes a statement about human fallibility- character faces misfortune by an exercise of their own free will
The Tragic Realization
Hero realizes he is suffering from his own flaws
Catharsis
Purging of emotions
Aristotle on tragedy
imitation of action concerning the fall of a man whose character is good and misfortune is brought upon him by some error
Sophocles
Oedipus the King
Euripiedes
Medea, The Bacchae
Checkov
The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters (Tragicomedy_
Tradicomedy
Mixture of tragedy, which went from good fortune to bad, and comedy, which reverse the order from bad fortune to good fortune
Modern tragicomedy
mixed moods in which the endings are neither exclusively tragic nor comic, sad or happy
quiet desperation-checkov
WAITING FOR GODOT
The Three Sisters theme
the value of surviving in the face of social and economic change
Sam Shepard playwright
Buried Child
Tony Kushner playwright and Director
Angels in America (modern tragicomedy)
Melodrama from geek and definition
melos-"music"
combination of music and drama in which the spoken word is used against a musical background.
describes a play without music but revolves around the consequnces of the actions of an unsympathetic character
characters divided along lines
Farce derivation
Latin for "stuffing" in clinary sense
Michael Frayns melodrama
Noises Off
Psychology of Farse
opportunity for the vicarious fulfillment of our unmentionable wishes without having to take responsibility for our actions
Bertolt Brecht
The Threepenny Opera-Epic theater
Life of Galileo
Epic Theatre
Episodic and narrative, sequence of incidents or events narrated without artifical restrictions as to time, place, formal plot
Social+Political topics can be debated
Brecht Plays character emerges...
from individuals social function and changes with that functions
Brechts theater, actor did not "become" the character as in stansilvaski method...
actors demonstrated the characters attitude while retaining freedom to comment
Brecht's alienation effect
Jarring of the audience out of its sympathetic feelings for what is happening onstage...opposed catharsis
Absurd
meaning irrational, senseless. Anything without a goal.
Eugene Ionesco
Playwright..."The Bald Soprano"
ACTING
living truthfully in the plays given circumstances
David Garrick
English actor in the 18th century. MIMICAL BEHAVIOR
actors tools
body, voice, impuse, emotion
Stanislavskis Method
work from the inside outward. "An Actor Prepares." Personal Truth. Live life onstage .
Psychotechnique
aspect of stanislavskis method. principes designed to help actor call on personal feelings and experiences.
The Magic "If"
If i were to be in (x's) situation, what would I do?
Uta Hagen
Blanch DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Stanford Meisner
Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre. Foundation technique-creation of truthful behavior within the circumstances of the play
"The reality of doing"-means of calling upon inner impulses and instinctive behavior
Mary Overlie and..
Anne Bogart. Director-teachers. "Six Viewpoints" an approach to dance/stage movements.
Andre Antoine
Produce-director. FOunded Theatre Libre. Displayed controversial plays.
Konstantin Stanislavski
Moscow Art theatre. Played Chekov.
Georg II
Single creative authority-forerunner to the director
Peter Brooke
International center for theater research in paris. Famous for blocking technique. Would display play for french schoolchildren without any words and if they couldn't tell what the play was about he would redo the play.
Directed The Mahabharata
Aristophanes
comedies
the comic vision
tragedy focuses on the individual while comedy on society-human flaws exaggerated so we can learn how to become better human beings
Aristotle wrote..
"The Poetics"
Playwrights techniques for ways of imitating behavior in a variety of dramatic forms. Brecht called...
Special Mirrors
modern melodrama
a play without music but with a serious action usually caused by the villainy of an unsympathetic character. Characters are divided upon the grounds of sympathetic or unsympathetic
Thepsis
first actor
Garrick worked...
from the inside out. Pioneered external technique
Mamet and Macey developed
Practical Aesthetics.
Atlantic Theater Company
"Practical Handbook for the Actor"
Improvisation
Useful in actor training and in rehearsals.
warm up exercises. Physical exercises, games, role-play
movement training
expressive signal of character and intentions
Epic theater
start at the very beginning
react intellectually rather than emotionally
change something in world-politically based
learning plays
living newspaper
long play made up of episodes-sing songs in between-comment on what we've seen
climactic theater
we read mos. builds to peak. a lot has already happened.
Baal-Brecht
amoral poet
CHECKOV directed...because he wanted to...
tragicomedy. write a play close to reality
checkov directed
the sea gull
cherry orchard
three sisters
tragedy starts off with....
Comedy starts off with..
the world in balance
the world in disarray, then put back together
About this deck
By: Drew Hardt
Created: 2011-03-07
Size: 60 flashcards
Views: 121
Created: 2011-03-07
Size: 60 flashcards
Views: 121
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