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A ceremony, often religious, that expresses community values or beliefs.
Example: Kachina cycle of the Hopi |
Dramatic/Community Ritual
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Developed in associated with religious festivals
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Greek theatre & Medieval Cycles
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A religious event
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Kachina Cycle of the Hopi
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closely connected to the religious and political life of the community
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Greek Theatre
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Elements of dramatic construction & performance accepted by theatre practitioners & audience members in a given community that facilitate the presentation of plays
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Theatrical Conventions
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Death Cart
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Ekkyklema
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Productions were community efforts which communicated the stories of the Bible to a largely illiterate public
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Medieval Mystery Cyles
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The artistic expression formulated over many years that has precise meaning for a particular community
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Community Aesthetics
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Tells a story through a sequence of connected parts or episodes (symmetry, special effects).
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Episodic format
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Secular (nonreligious) forms of theatre produced by professional theatre practitioners
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Beijing Opera and Elizabethan Theatre
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Plays focused on the complexity of human motivation
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Elizabethan Theatre
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According to Cassidy this playwright’s works and performances are often misinterpreted as lofty, proper, and solely for the upper class
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Shakespeare
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The combination of expressive choices made by the playwright, director, designers, and actors that construct the world of the play
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Style
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Theatre that seeks to give the appearance of everyday life
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Realism
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An imaginary wall enclosing the space of the stage; a convention of realism. The actors perform as though the audience is not there.
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4th Wall
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Realism that is heightened through symbols, the selection of details, and eloquent language
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Poetic Realism
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An internal approach to acting used in the U.S. that was influenced by the work of Konstantin Stanislavsky
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Method Acting
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Everyday speech
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Vernacular
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Norwegian playwright who wrote about very contemporary subjects.
Wrote A Doll's House |
Henrik Isben
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Swedish playwright who wrote about love-hate relationships among couples.
Wrote Miss Julie. |
August Strindberg
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Russian playwright who used little action and worked with Konstantin Stanislavsky.
Wrote The Cherry Orchard |
Anton Chekhov
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American playwright who wrote about the morality of characters and details of their lives.
Wrote The Children's hour |
Lillian Hellman
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American playwright who used poetic realism
Wrote A Streetcar named desire |
Tennessee Williams
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American playwright who used poetic realism.
Wrote Death of Salesman |
Arther Miller
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Exchange between cultures
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Acculturation
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Participating in a different culture's customs and tradtions. Adopting them as your own
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Assimilation
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Performer dressed in black (with a hood) who changes props & scenery and helps actors with onstage costume changes. Convention of Kabuki theatre
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Kuroko
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Works of this playwright reflect her own life experiences
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Wakako Yamauchi
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L.A. based theatre formed to provide opportunities for Asian American theatre practitioners
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East West Players
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Color-blind casting
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Nontraditional casting
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Relying on generalizations or stereotypical notions of a character's appearance when choosing actors
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Type Casting
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The arrangement of characters on stage to communicate character relationships
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Stage Pictures
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Using or creating a text to support their own vision
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Auteur directors
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Jerzy Grotowski’s kind of theatre, which uses only materials necessary to extend the the expression of the actor
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Poor theatre
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Goal to lift the audience into an otherworldly experience
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Ping Chong
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A style of play writing or theatrical production that makes bold use of the resources of theatre. Nonrealism
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Theatricalism
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Creates a complete realistic illusion
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Representational Realism
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Makes obvious use of the theater's resources
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Presentational Theatricalism
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Critique of capitalism arguing that it disempowers the worker by alienating them from the products and benefits of their labor
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Marxism
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Developed his theory of Epic Theatre
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Bertolt Brecht
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Goal is to strategically & periodically disrupt the audience's emotional connection to engage them critically. Not simply alienation
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V-Effect
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This style features common people as characters, stories about everyday life, and maintains the 4th wall
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Realism
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This playwright and director adapted poems into a play we have read
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Mary Zimmerman
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This production used music, commonly broke the forth wall, and its characters played multiple roles
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Threepenny Opera
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When the cast reads the play aloud, usually as the first thing done in the rehearsal process
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Read Through
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This play Uses both fictional characters and representation of real people
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Angels in America
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Example of men in tights video clip
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Theatricalism
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Outside in
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External Acting approach
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Bertolt Brecht’s theatre is in this style, but not all theatre in this style follow Brecht’s ideas
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Theatricalism
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We talked about this play as featuring examples of assimilation and acculturation
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And the Soul Shall Dance
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looked at 3 examples of this play for example of directing
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Hamlet
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Began as a student production
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Metamorphoses
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When an actor's gender, sex, race, and/or ethnicity is not that of the character
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Cross-gender Castings and/or nontraditional casting
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claim space, identity, and the right to represent ones’ self and ones’ history. resistance and advocacy
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Political Project
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humor as a mode of survival in a hostile world. incongruity, theatricality, and exaggeration.
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Camp
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based on psychological investigation of the character and actor identification with the character.
Stan the Man uses this approach |
Internal Acting Approach (inside-out)
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beings with text and movement
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External Acting Approach (outside-in)
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distinct gender roles
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Pas de Deux
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