Chapter 1: General Terms Flashcards
What is the 3 elements of Theater?
Actor
Script
Audience
What is Art?
Art makes order out of chaos
Man-made
“Artificial”
3 conflicts of man
Man vs. Man
Man vs. Nature
Man vs. Self
Educational theater
In a college setting
Where training of all aspects of theater are learned
Told from 1 point of view
The play writer
Aesthetic distance
The ability to get involved or removed from
Empathy
Feeling the relations of the character or situation as if it is your own
Ephemeral
Short lived, here and now it’s gone
Complexity
Using other forms of art to create art
Music, dance, poem etc.
Is a sporting event theater??
No because it does not have a pre determined outcome
Point of attack
Where the action is in the present although theater is thought of as happening right now even if it takes place in 1960
Aristotle’s 6 parts of drama
Plot Diction Character Music Thought Spectacle
Plot
What is going on, the story
Character
The actors
Diction
The language that sets the mood and rhythm
Thought
Play writers point of view, what you learn from the characters actions
Spectacle
Everything we see Lighting Costumes Set Etc.
Music
Everything we hear
4 characteristics of character according to Aristotle
Sociology
Physicality
Psychology
Morality
Sociology
Economic status, where you from, how you act
Psychology
Likes and dislikes
Responses
Physicality
The way you look Age Race Size Etc.
Morality
What do you want and what are you willing to do for it
Good vs. evil
2 forms of drama
Tragedy and comedy
Tragedy
Normal people in an abnormal situation
Comedy
Abnormal people in a normal situation
Continuation of life
Types of stages
Proscenium
Thrust
Arena
Thrust
Viewed on 2 or 3 sides of the stage
Director
In charge of the artistic unity
Vision of the show
Oversee whole production
Voice must be…
Audible and flexible
Audible to be loud and clear
Flexible to convey emotions to audience
Scrim
Used for special effects
Like a curtain
What is a producer
The person in charge of the money
