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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

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20th century invention what’s happening underneath the words. Chekhov and Stanislavsky

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Anton Chekhov

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Nothing happens but worlds change, subtext

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Melodrama

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Hero is changed by action of story- what’s mostly seen on TV and movies

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Theatrical conventions

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What an audience buys/believes

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Vision

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Inspiration, must be clear to all collaborators so you support the central concept

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Duke of Saxe-meiningen

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Late 1870s “first modern director” created a cohesive whole

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Konstantinos Stanislavsky

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Moscow Art Theatre, changed how actors develop characters

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Stage manager

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To help connect the director vision to the technical and actors

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Eugene o’neil

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Expressionism and “The Hairy Ape”

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Theatre of alienation

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EPIC THEATRE! Demystify theatre techniques actors demonstrate character not inhabit them, open to audience occasionally ex Mother Courage

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Martin Esslin

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Coined term “theatre of the absurd”critic and essayist

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The Bald Soprano

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Written by Eugene Ionesco

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Waiting for godot

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Written by Samuel Beckett absurdist theatre

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Proscenium Arch

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A big picture Frame dividing acting space from audience (our classroom is one)

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Upstage

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Away from audience

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Downstage

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Toward audience

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Flies or fly rail

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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

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Stage floor in front of proscenium

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Black box stage

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Simple unadorned performance space. Large square room with black walls and flat floor

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Arena theater

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A central stage surrounded by audience on all sides, often raised to improve sight lines

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Company

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Musical by Stephen Sondheim starring Raul Esparza watched it on YouTube in class

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Sean Walbeck

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Guest Lecturer

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PAC

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Performing Arts Center

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Script

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The lines and play in form for all of the production to use when producing a play

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Rehearsal

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Exploration of the character

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Scenic Designer

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Develops scenery and backdrop

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Costume designer

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Makes costumes

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