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Name a "rule" for an audience member attending the theater
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The 10 commandments of theatre
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Name 3 ways you can find out about plays
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websites, newspapers, brochures
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What is the difference between theatre and film?
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Film is a visual medium while theater is live and an oral medium
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What do we learn through art?
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colors
shapes how to yell empathy |
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Why is some degree of aesthetic distance necessary for an audience member?
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The distance allows the audience member to enjoy the story without fearing for themselves or actors/ actresses
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List 3 aspects of film that are employed to tell the story that theater can't use as well as film
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Theoretical perfection
Time manipulation Expansion of scenery |
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What is a positive effect of a group experience on plays and films?
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Connection to their community
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What are the specific qualities for film and theater going?
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Theater has immediacy and is transient which tells a story mostlly through language.
Film uses visual components to tell a story and is able to change the point of view, to move through time more easily, and show a level of perfection. |
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A healthy connection to a piece of art requires a balance of empathy and what?
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aesthetic distance
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Theater gets its power partly because each performance only happens once in a particular way. This is called____
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Transience
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What are 5 audience skills?
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Concentration
Perception Open-mindedness Imagination Emotional responsiveness |
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What does the audience bring with them?
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Expectations and personal background
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How are film and theatre similar?
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They share a group experience
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What is aesthetic distance and what are its effects on the audience?
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It is the relationship with characters in the piece, and it can be too much causing audience to be disconnected with the play, or causing empathy to the extent that we worry for actors or ourselves
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T/F: The audience has an effect on the actors
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True
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What can films manipulate easily that theater can not?
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Time
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If you don't have a lot of money, what are some things you can do to see a play?
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Usher
Walletwatcher "Pay what you can" nights |
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"A willing suspension of disbelief" explains the balance of ____ and ____ that gives us pleasure through art.
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Aesthetic distance, empathy
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Theatre has an "in your face" element where audiences share the moment with the actors. This is called ____.
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Immediacy
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Which skill is NOT required when attending a play?
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Well dressed
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What information should you already know before going to the theater?
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Directions to the theatre
Time show begins Price Where to park All of the above |
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What kind of art is not only important to its certain time period but continues to have importance for years to follow?
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Classic Art
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T/F: Taking pictures while the play is going on is okay as long as you turn the flash off
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False
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The world is out of balance. Ordinary characters and everyday problems. The world is off kilter and the way we respond to it is funny. Two societies or ideas pitted against each other in amusing conflict. Comedy reaffirms the order of things. We agree to whatever we thought should happen at the beginning of the story. It contains elements of surprise, incongruity, repetition, and the opposite of expected reactions. Comedy is often based on pain, but with a hopeful ending.
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COMEDY
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chic, trendy, upperclass characters’ mannerism or behavior satirized. Features witty, urbane language.
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comedy of manners (high comedy)
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about middle class people
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domestic comedy
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we laugh at the characters more bc of wat they do rather than what they say.
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low comedy
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uses irony to portray people or instituions as corrupt or ridiculous.
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satiric/political comedy
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makes fun of the original art while emulating it.
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parody
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uses dark humor to make light of the dark elements in human nature.
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black comedy
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depicts the foibles of lovers.
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romantic comedy
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has as its worldview that tragedy and comedy happen-in life as in art-simultaneously. Tragic and comedy elements are intertwined. Dark Comedies are an example. “Existence.. is both pathetic and comic in the same degree.”
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Tragicomedy
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a comic mode that often occurs in combination with other forms of comedy. Features unlikely, extravagant, improbable events, word play, sexual innuendo, physical humor, and a deliberate use of the absurd. The plot speeds up as it goes, culminating in chase scene. Happy ending; tolerant worldview; suggests that humans are irrational.
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FARCE
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The world is out of balance. Ordinary characters and everyday problems. The world is off kilter and the way we respond to it is funny. Two societies or ideas pitted against each other in amusing conflict. Comedy reaffirms the order of things. We agree to whatever we thought should happen at the beginning of the story. It contains elements of surprise, incongruity, repetition, and the opposite of expected reactions. Comedy is often based on pain, but with a hopeful ending.
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COMEDY
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chic, trendy, upperclass characters’ mannerism or behavior satirized. Features witty, urbane language.
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comedy of manners (high comedy)
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about middle class people
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domestic comedy
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we laugh at the characters more bc of wat they do rather than what they say.
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low comedy
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uses irony to portray people or instituions as corrupt or ridiculous.
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satiric/political comedy
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makes fun of the original art while emulating it.
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parody
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uses dark humor to make light of the dark elements in human nature.
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black comedy
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depicts the foibles of lovers.
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romantic comedy
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has as its worldview that tragedy and comedy happen-in life as in art-simultaneously. Tragic and comedy elements are intertwined. Dark Comedies are an example. “Existence.. is both pathetic and comic in the same degree.”
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Tragicomedy
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a comic mode that often occurs in combination with other forms of comedy. Features unlikely, extravagant, improbable events, word play, sexual innuendo, physical humor, and a deliberate use of the absurd. The plot speeds up as it goes, culminating in chase scene. Happy ending; tolerant worldview; suggests that humans are irrational.
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FARCE
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Misguided social ideas, rip away fakeness of society and just say what was really going on. GROSSSSSSS. Ghosts.Playwrights of social realism- Henrik Ibsen-did so with most precision and insightfulness. Had intelligent characters. They were literate, could describe clearly what was going on around them and what they felt.
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Henrik Ibsen
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very much influenced by karl marx. his theater was explicitily intented to help stir the revolution of the masses. was opposed to traditional theater. he felt that normal theater made world seem unchangeable. He thought the world was changeable and wanted to make theater help change the world. Wanted people to leave theater upset, wanting to change their lives, minds full of ideas. Brecht didn’t like empathetic response. Wanted maximum aesthetic distance. Put slides up to tell what was going to happen. Often kept the lights on during his plays. Wanted his audiences to think about why his characters were doing something. Often about capitalism. Victims of greed and injustice-characters weren’t meant to feel bad for them but to think about them. Remember that you are watching characters tell a story.
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Brecht
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Shows the most serious consequences of human action. The Hero’s experences are supposed to teach us some profound truth about his particular context or situation.
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Tragedy
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The characters in the play have usually been defeated and we feel sad. There are two kinds of conflict within this genre:
External conflict- between characters, between characters and environment Internal conflict- with themselves. Moral dilemas. |
Drama
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Contains heroes and villains and a “black and white” morality. Features exhilarating, exaggerated actions and emotions. Entertainment that appears to be serious but always ends with a victorious protagonist. Bad guys end up getting up getting their asses kicked. How good does the good guy have to be? is it a character quality or in your actions? We already know what’s going to happen. We go to them to be reassured. We get to see the good guy win.
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Melodrama
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thespians- first actor told story.
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Thespus
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was a second actor, or poet, and they came up with dialogue. His most famous plays on the oreseia theology
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Aeschylus
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was a third actor- each actor was to wear a different mask to play more characters. No more than 3 people on stage at a time. He wrote two plays, Oedipus and Antigone
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Sophocles
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wanted theater to have a social function
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the Greeks
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wanted it bloody and bawdy
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the Romans
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wanted it church-y
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Medieval folks
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had Shakespeare
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the Elizabethans
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had chicks onstage
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The Restoration
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gave us the excitement of melodramas
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the Industrial Revolution
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the _____ wanted to fix the world by telling us unpleasant truths
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Social Realists
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____ used aesthetic distance to change the world.
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Brecht
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The _____ took awhile to get going, had violent episodes involving Edwins and melodramas involving Toms
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Americans
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____ headed to Europe
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Ira Aldridge
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____brought Greece to America
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Eugene O'Neil
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____brought jobs to out-of-work actors
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Hallie Flanagan
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____brought locally produced professional theater to us all.
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Margo Jones
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opened the stage to women. King's mistress.
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Nell Gwynne
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playwright, wrote plays produced in theaters. best known playwright. She got in more trouble than male playwrights. They didn’t feel like it was ladylike for her to wright about such scandalous stuff.
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Alphra Behn
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led to the desire for introspection. world changed.
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the 1800s
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wrote some of the most theatrically exciting plays. Was british. wrote pigmallion, mrs. warren’s profession, my fair lady. was a reformer. believed in socialism. was somewhat influenced by karl marx. advocated changes in english language. all for phonetical spelling. wanted to simplify language. intent on making over world and improving its quality. His characters were usually very committed to their cause. Spoke well. Sometimes they were committed to Loser causes, someone has a better case/cause. Will nationalism tear europe apart? Most notable features of shaw plays were the female characters. She is a dynamic and assertive women, sets out to change her world. Had strong ideas. Mrs. Warren’s Profession- mother was a hoe bag slut prostitute. Hard news for daughter. Found out her money came from her mother being a hooker. Mom felt bad. Daughter cuts herself off from her mother. Mrs. Warren(mother) makes eloquent plea but daughter didn’t accept. Play was not well received. The play was closed by police issue after single performance.
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George Bernard Shaw
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had similar stage as Greeks, but made it into a building
-less intellectual than greek plays and bloodshed… brought criminals in and killed them onstage. -eventually let women on stage for sex scenes. -religion and theater split |
Roman theater
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made bible stories into plays
-we get numerology, astrology, civalry, the feudal system -dramatic stories reflect that there is a reality beyond wars, these plays could show you that reality -they would sing religious songs- change during the holiday. -the theatre had to move outside the church so they could have the devil in their plays -a cycle play tells the entire story of the bible, the audience move to different stations to see the cycle. |
Feudalism
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the earliest poet known in germany, shes the only dramatizer that left records after the fall of rome, wrote plays and legends.. influenced by terronce, one of the roman playwrithgts, took his style, her women characters were dignified and intellectual, since she included stage directions were wrote to be performed, shes the mother of women theatre
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Hrosvita
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1.High Action
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story that gets completed. No cliff hangers.
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2. Character
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must have nobility
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3. Emotion
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pity or fear. We feel connected.
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4. Theme
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Social morality. What does play mean?
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5. Diction/ language
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how it sounds. primarily the visual effects we see an an audience- the actors and the staging.
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6. Spectacle
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Hardest element to understand/predict from reading the text. Can embody idea, clarify character, and forward the plot, but should not produce the emotion. Nowadays it usually mean the special effects.
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