Chapter 1: General Terms Flashcards

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What is the 3 elements of Theater?

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Actor
Script
Audience

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What is Art?

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Art makes order out of chaos
Man-made
“Artificial”

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3 conflicts of man

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Man vs. Man
Man vs. Nature
Man vs. Self

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Educational theater

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In a college setting

Where training of all aspects of theater are learned

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Told from 1 point of view

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The play writer

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Aesthetic distance

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The ability to get involved or removed from

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Empathy

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Feeling the relations of the character or situation as if it is your own

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Ephemeral

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Short lived, here and now it’s gone

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Complexity

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Using other forms of art to create art

Music, dance, poem etc.

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Is a sporting event theater??

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No because it does not have a pre determined outcome

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Point of attack

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Where the action is in the present although theater is thought of as happening right now even if it takes place in 1960

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Aristotle’s 6 parts of drama

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Plot 
Diction
Character
Music
Thought
Spectacle
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Plot

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What is going on, the story

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Character

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The actors

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Diction

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The language that sets the mood and rhythm

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Thought

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Play writers point of view, what you learn from the characters actions

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Spectacle

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Everything we see
Lighting
Costumes
Set
Etc.
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Music

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Everything we hear

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4 characteristics of character according to Aristotle

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Sociology
Physicality
Psychology
Morality

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Sociology

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Economic status, where you from, how you act

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Psychology

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Likes and dislikes

Responses

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Physicality

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The way you look
Age
Race
Size
Etc.
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Morality

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What do you want and what are you willing to do for it

Good vs. evil

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2 forms of drama

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Tragedy and comedy

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Tragedy
Normal people in an abnormal situation
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Comedy
Abnormal people in a normal situation | Continuation of life
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Types of stages
Proscenium Thrust Arena
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Thrust
Viewed on 2 or 3 sides of the stage
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Director
In charge of the artistic unity Vision of the show Oversee whole production
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Voice must be...
Audible and flexible Audible to be loud and clear Flexible to convey emotions to audience
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Scrim
Used for special effects | Like a curtain
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What is a producer
The person in charge of the money