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Lighting designer

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Creates mood through lights

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Psychological Realism

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Characters are believable

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Playwright

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Wright- A person who constructs things; creates something people are going to use

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Dramatist guild

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Playwrights own their work. Film/television are for hire and producers own the scripts

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Romanticism

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This genre is the predecessor to realism

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Realism

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Portrays ordinary people in ordinary circumstances

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Irretrievable action

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Creates forward action in the play and can’t be taken back

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Intellectual comedy

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George Bernard shaw

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Gordon Craig

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Directors are captain of the ship

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MAT

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Moscow Art Theater

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Machinal

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Expressionistic- humans as machines- Sophie Treadwell

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Bertolt Brecht

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Ran Berliner ensemble and directed plays in Germany Didactic theatre

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August Streinberg

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A dream play-absurdist
Australian
Misss Julie- realism

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Henrik Ibsen

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Dolls House, realism

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Direct address to the audience

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Presentational

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Theatre

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Art?

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Play

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Show???

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Play

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Something

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Director

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Oversees the look or vision of a production

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Broadway

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Biggest market for theatre

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Protagonist

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Hero goat moving forward

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Antagonist

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Opposing force goat pushing back

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Action

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Conflict, transactional, changes the story

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Conflict

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Protagonist vs antagonist

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Subtext
20th century invention what's happening underneath the words. Chekhov and Stanislavsky
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Anton Chekhov
Nothing happens but worlds change, subtext
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Melodrama
Hero is changed by action of story- what's mostly seen on TV and movies
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Theatrical conventions
What an audience buys/believes
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Vision
Inspiration, must be clear to all collaborators so you support the central concept
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Duke of Saxe-meiningen
Late 1870s "first modern director" created a cohesive whole
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Konstantinos Stanislavsky
Moscow Art Theatre, changed how actors develop characters
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Stage manager
To help connect the director vision to the technical and actors
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Eugene o'neil
Expressionism and "The Hairy Ape"
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Theatre of alienation
EPIC THEATRE! Demystify theatre techniques actors demonstrate character not inhabit them, open to audience occasionally ex Mother Courage
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Martin Esslin
Coined term "theatre of the absurd"critic and essayist
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The Bald Soprano
Written by Eugene Ionesco
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Waiting for godot
Written by Samuel Beckett absurdist theatre
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Proscenium Arch
A big picture Frame dividing acting space from audience (our classroom is one)
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Upstage
Away from audience
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Downstage
Toward audience
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Flies or fly rail
The counterweight system that moves the bars above the stage up and down. Where black curtains are hung and the lighting instruments are
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Apron
Stage floor in front of proscenium
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Black box stage
Simple unadorned performance space. Large square room with black walls and flat floor
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Arena theater
A central stage surrounded by audience on all sides, often raised to improve sight lines
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Company
Musical by Stephen Sondheim starring Raul Esparza watched it on YouTube in class
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Sean Walbeck
Guest Lecturer
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PAC
Performing Arts Center
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Script
The lines and play in form for all of the production to use when producing a play
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Rehearsal
Exploration of the character
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Scenic Designer
Develops scenery and backdrop
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Costume designer
Makes costumes

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