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My turtle Pancho

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3.1415926

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Ancient Greek Titan; personification of memory

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Mnemosyne

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Quote by Pablo Picasso

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“Art is the lie that reveals the truth”

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Example of plastic art

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Painting, sculpture, architecture

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Example of temporal art

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Theatre, dance, music

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Philosophy on nature and expression of beauty

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Aesthetics

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“I can take any ___ ___ and call it a ___ ____ . A man walks across this ____ ____ whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an ___ __ ____ to be engaged” -Peter Brooke

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Empty Space
Bare Stage
Empty Space
Act of Theatre

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Greek for Theatre and meaning

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Theatron

“Watch/see a place”

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Greek for Drama and meaning

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Dran

“To take action, to do, to make”

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Explores the human condition

Even with puppets and animals

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Live theatre

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Musicals, comedies, dramas, dance
Intended to be entertaining
Usually reinforces ideals of audience

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Commercial theatre

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A type of political theatre that audience is invited to participate in protest and call for social change
Also known as agitation propaganda

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Agitprop theatre

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Most common theatre configuration where audience is on one side of the stage and the stage looks like a picture frame

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Proscenium

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Theatre configuration where the stage thrusts out to the audience, and there is seating on three sides

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Thrust stage

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Stage configuration with audience on all four sides
“Theatre in the round”
Stadium configuration

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Arena stage

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Stage directions

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Up right. | Up center. | Up left
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R center  |   Center.   | L center
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Down R. |  D center.  | down L
             Audience
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Shakespeare wrote in ____ & ____

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Prose and verse

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Regular line has 10 syllables and 5 feet
Unstressed-stressed
“de DUM de DUM de DUM de DUM de DUM”

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Iambic Pentameter

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“I went and sat and drank some milk with Joe”

Valuable words on second syllable

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Iambic pentameter

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Line written like a novel

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Prose

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8 syllables and 4 feet

Pre-Shakespeare rhyming/ singing

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Iambic tetrameter

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Opposite of Iambic
Stressed/ unstressed
“DOUble DOUble TOIL and TROUble”

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Trochaic tetrameter

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Stressed/ unstressed

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Trochee

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2-syllable foot, stressed-stressed

when the BLOOD CREEPS and the NERVE PRICKS

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Spondee

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2-syllable foot, unstressed-unstressed

when the BLOOD CREEPS and the NERVE PRICKS

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Pyrrhic

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Extra syllable at the end of an iambic line that is always unstressed

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Feminine ending

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Omission of a vowel, consonant or syllable to create euphony

In formalized language, called a contraction

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Elision

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Shakespeare’s birth

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1564

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Shakespeare probably wrote this many plays

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38

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Queen Elizabeth’s birth

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1533

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First Folio published how many years after Shakespeare’s death?

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7

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31
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The worship of Shakespeare

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Bardolatey

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32
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Number of Shakespeare’s plays extant

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16

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33
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All women originally played by _____ because theatre was not considered a proper place for women

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Young boys

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34
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Plays in Ancient Greece emerged from ritualistic choral song and dance called ______ in worship of _______

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The Dithyramb

Dionysus

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35
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Dionysus was the god of

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Wine (intoxication, ecstasy, madness)

36
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Theatre festival held in honor of Dionysus

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City Dionysia

37
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What does tragedy mean?

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Goat song

38
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Purging of emotion

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Catharsis

39
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Comic, raucous, overtly sexual play performed in animal skins

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Satyr play

40
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Attendant of Dionysus who was part goat and part human

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Satyr

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First democracy

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Ancient Athens

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Who could vote in ancient Athens?

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Citizens (men who owned land, fought in army)

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Who could not vote in ancient Athens?

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Children, women, slaves, foreigners

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15-50 singers, dancers, actors speaking in unison

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Chorus

45
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Meaning of protagonist

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Proto (first)

Agonist (fighter, struggler)

46
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War that happened 500 years prior to Ancient Greek plays

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Trojan War

47
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4 major playwrights from period with extant plays

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Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes

48
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Only ___ Greek plays exist from estimated 900+

What happened to the rest?

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33

Burned in the fire of the ancient library in Alexandria

49
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Written by Euripides when he was 74

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The Bacchae

50
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Three unities of Ancient Greek plays

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Unity of action
Unity of place
Unity of time

51
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Theatre which comments on the nature of theatre

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Metatheatre

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First 25% of play that shows the ordinary world of the protagonist

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Act I

53
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Stagnation (no progress), not a good place to be, during Act I

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Stasis = Death

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At 10% point in play, something wonderful/ terrible happens

Catalyst/ opportunity

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Inciting incident

55
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The first half of Act II
Rising action, progress
Seen in commercials

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“Fun and Games”

56
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What happens at 50% into the play

Often whiff of death

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Midpoint

Point of no return

57
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Second half of Act II

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“Bad guys close in”

First ticking clock

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Some kind of time restraint for protagonist, often during second half of Act II

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Ticking clock

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Just before 75% point

Another whiff of death (mentor dies)

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All is lost

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Self pity and confusion

Alone, staring vacantly, on bus/taxi, looking out a window

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The darkest hour

61
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Ties up loose ends and return to ordinary world

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Resolution

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Goals of theatre for social change

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> raise consciousness
inspire action
bring change

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Space separating audience from action

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Fourth wall

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Primary historical exemplar of theatre for social change

German playwright that used “epic theatre”

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Bertolt Brecht

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Viewer forced into critical frame of mind through theatrical techniques

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The Alienation Effect

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Conflicting ideas, styles, music

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Juxtaposition

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First director

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George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

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Psychologically complex characters, honest acting, believable staging, natural-looking sets, complex lighting

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Realism

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The modern director

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> creates production concept
casts/ rehearses/ coaches actors
stages the show
coordinates the other collaborative artists

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“The only theatre worth saving is a theatre _____ ______ cannot touch” -Robert Edmone Jones

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Motion pictures

71
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Meaning of Avant Garde

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“Advanced guard”

First to go into battle

72
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Reaction to Impressionism
Not what appears to the eye at a particular moment
Subjective reaction to reality

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Expressionalism

73
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Studied Asian religion, mysticism, and ancient culture

May have suffered from schizophrenia

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Antonin Artaud

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Based on writings of Antonin Artaud

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Theatre of Cruelty

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Confuses and antagonizes audience with no clear, organizing principles to the writing or staging
Andy Kaufman, Joaquin Pheonix

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Dadaism and surrealism

76
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Attempted to compress action

Filippo Marinetti

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Futurism

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Influenced by devastation of WWII

Humans face cold, hostile universe and existence is futile

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Absurdism

78
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Developed systematic approach to acting

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Stanislavski

79
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Concerned with the inner life of the character

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Psychological realism

80
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Everything you learn or infer from a play

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Given circumstances

81
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What a character is fighting for in a scene, will change if achieved

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Scene objective

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Moment to moment objectives a character must achieve to complete a scene objective

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Beat objective

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Gets in the way of objectives

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Obstacle

84
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What a character does to achieve objectives

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Tactic

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Action not directly related to objective but can show character

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Activity

86
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Thoughts in characters own words

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Subtext

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Thoughts while silent or listening

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Internal monologue

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