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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
Pyrrhic
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Extra syllable at the end of an iambic line that is always unstressed
Feminine ending
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Omission of a vowel, consonant or syllable to create euphony | In formalized language, called a contraction
Elision
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Shakespeare's birth
1564
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Shakespeare probably wrote this many plays
38
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Queen Elizabeth's birth
1533
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First Folio published how many years after Shakespeare's death?
7
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The worship of Shakespeare
Bardolatey
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Number of Shakespeare's plays extant
16
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All women originally played by _____ because theatre was not considered a proper place for women
Young boys
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Plays in Ancient Greece emerged from ritualistic choral song and dance called ______ in worship of _______
The Dithyramb | Dionysus
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Dionysus was the god of
Wine (intoxication, ecstasy, madness)
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Theatre festival held in honor of Dionysus
City Dionysia
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What does tragedy mean?
Goat song
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Purging of emotion
Catharsis
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Comic, raucous, overtly sexual play performed in animal skins
Satyr play
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Attendant of Dionysus who was part goat and part human
Satyr
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First democracy
Ancient Athens
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Who could vote in ancient Athens?
Citizens (men who owned land, fought in army)
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Who could not vote in ancient Athens?
Children, women, slaves, foreigners
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15-50 singers, dancers, actors speaking in unison
Chorus
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Meaning of protagonist
Proto (first) | Agonist (fighter, struggler)
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War that happened 500 years prior to Ancient Greek plays
Trojan War
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4 major playwrights from period with extant plays
Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Aristophanes
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Only ___ Greek plays exist from estimated 900+ | What happened to the rest?
33 | Burned in the fire of the ancient library in Alexandria
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Written by Euripides when he was 74
The Bacchae
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Three unities of Ancient Greek plays
Unity of action Unity of place Unity of time
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Theatre which comments on the nature of theatre
Metatheatre
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First 25% of play that shows the ordinary world of the protagonist
Act I
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Stagnation (no progress), not a good place to be, during Act I
Stasis = Death
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At 10% point in play, something wonderful/ terrible happens | Catalyst/ opportunity
Inciting incident
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The first half of Act II Rising action, progress Seen in commercials
"Fun and Games"
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What happens at 50% into the play | Often whiff of death
Midpoint | Point of no return
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Second half of Act II
"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
Ticking clock
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Just before 75% point | Another whiff of death (mentor dies)
All is lost
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Self pity and confusion | Alone, staring vacantly, on bus/taxi, looking out a window
The darkest hour
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Ties up loose ends and return to ordinary world
Resolution
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Goals of theatre for social change
>raise consciousness >inspire action >bring change
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Space separating audience from action
Fourth wall
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Primary historical exemplar of theatre for social change | German playwright that used "epic theatre"
Bertolt Brecht
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Viewer forced into critical frame of mind through theatrical techniques
The Alienation Effect
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Conflicting ideas, styles, music
Juxtaposition
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First director
George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
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Psychologically complex characters, honest acting, believable staging, natural-looking sets, complex lighting
Realism
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The modern director
> 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
Motion pictures
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Meaning of Avant Garde
"Advanced guard" | First to go into battle
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Reaction to Impressionism Not what appears to the eye at a particular moment Subjective reaction to reality
Expressionalism
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Studied Asian religion, mysticism, and ancient culture | May have suffered from schizophrenia
Antonin Artaud
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Based on writings of Antonin Artaud
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
Dadaism and surrealism
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Attempted to compress action | Filippo Marinetti
Futurism
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Influenced by devastation of WWII | Humans face cold, hostile universe and existence is futile
Absurdism
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Developed systematic approach to acting
Stanislavski
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Concerned with the inner life of the character
Psychological realism
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Everything you learn or infer from a play
Given circumstances
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What a character is fighting for in a scene, will change if achieved
Scene objective
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Moment to moment objectives a character must achieve to complete a scene objective
Beat objective
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Gets in the way of objectives
Obstacle
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What a character does to achieve objectives
Tactic
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Action not directly related to objective but can show character
Activity
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Thoughts in characters own words
Subtext
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Thoughts while silent or listening
Internal monologue

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