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the emotions brought out when an audience watches a play
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catharsis
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early form of political theater
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agit-prop
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hymns sung and danced to praise Dionysus
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dithyrambs
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the ability to identify with the character
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empathy
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riot because of bad blood betwee actors Edwin Forrest and William Macready
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Astor Place Riots
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lengthy speech through which and audience reveals his state of mind
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soliloquies
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verfremdungseffekt
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translated "alienation effect"
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used by Brecht as to separate the audience emotionally from the dramatic action
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alienation effect
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Brazilian theatre practitioner
Theatre of Oppressed |
Augusto Boal
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the time when the director walks through the technical aspects of the production with the designers and staff is....
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paper tech
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Blocking refers to...
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a pattern of how actors move on stage
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Lee Bruer's 2003 Dollhouse is an example of what style of directing?
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High-concept
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In the Middle Ages,_____ were the closest thing we have to a director
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pageant masters
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directors hold_____ to cast actors for a show
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auditions
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the actor-______ was an early precursor to the modern director
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manager
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During technical rehearsals, emphasis is on _____
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the lighting, sound, and set changes
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the brief, immediate response to a theatrical event that appears in newspapers
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review
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Martin Esslin famously referred to Waiting for Godot and theatre of Beckett, Genet, and Ionesco as
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Absurd
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Zeami Motokiyo wrote about this type of theatre to pass on the secrets of its performance to future generations
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Noh
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Who does the dramaturg work with?
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playwrights, directors, and designers
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Lynn Thompson took legal action against the estate of Jonathon Larson over authorship of this show
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Rent
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Practitioners who do much of what dramaturgs do but also read, evaluate and suggest plays
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Literary Manager
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Artaud is known for the development of this type of theatre which assaulted the senses of the audience
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Theatre of Cruelty
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The program of a Broadway production, designed for the audience, is contained within....
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playbill
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The title of a full length play should always be.....
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Underlined or Italicized
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many dramaturgs in the US hold positions as
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literary managers
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shadow puppet tradition
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wayang kulit
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includes all the events that happen or are mentioned in the text
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story
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the ordering or structuring of the events that actually take place on stage
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plot
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the place in the story where the action begins
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point of attack
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beginning of the play which reveals events that happened before the play
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exposition
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point of highest emotional intensity
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climax
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"unknotting"
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denouement
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god from the machine
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deus ex machina
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developed epic theater
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Piscator
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what is epic theater?
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proletarian theatre directed toward social change through pioneering new approaches to the stage
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when a play is composed of a series of scenes that don't follow a continuous story
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serial structure
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characters that embody the essence of particular human traits that enable them to speak across cultures and centuries
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archetypal character
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characters defined by externals--class, occupation, marital status
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stock characters
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a character that is defined by the inside and not simply the external
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psychological character
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painted panels on the side of the stage
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flats
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retiring house
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skene
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most common stage where the whole audience is front of the stage
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proscenium or picture frame stage
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raised extension of the stage
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apron
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empty spaces that can be masked to hide actors
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wings
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high ceilings behind the arch
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fly spaces or loft
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stages setup for outdoor performances
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platform stages
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stages on wheels
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booth stages
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he attempted to recreated the Globe Theater
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Sam Wanamaker
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stage where the audience is in front of and on the right and left of the stage
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thrust stage
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Japanese modified thrust stage
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noh stage
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theater in which several playing areas are set up
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multifocus theatre
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stage almost like a parade of stages
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processional stage
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theatre involving wooden masks
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Noh theatre
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type of theater where a change in costume indicates a change in temperament
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kabuki
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where are half-masks found
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commedia dell'arte
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