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Catharsis

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Purging of the audiences emotions

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Aristotle mean by audience pity and fear

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Pity hero fear have is for yourself

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Essay that aristotle wrote discusses the unities and 6 elements of theatre is called?

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The Poetics

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Aristotle’s 3 unities and what they mean?

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Unity of place - takes place in one location
Unity of action- only one story no subplot no confusion
Unity of time - takes place within 24 hours

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6 Elements of Theatre according to Aristotle (from most important to least )

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1-Plot
2-Characters
3-thought theme message 
4- Diction (Word Choices)
5-music
6-Spectacle
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3 levels of comedies

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High Comedy - very educated sophisticated laugh what’s said
Low Comedy - physical comedy laugh at what people do (Beverly hill bullies)
Domestic Comedy- funny situations with normal people

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Tragicomedy

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Combination of sad and happy

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Melodrama

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Good vs evil action adventure

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Realism

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Complex characters natural dialog

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Passion plays

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Plays taught about religion performed during medieval theater

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Neoclassicism

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Restored Aristotle’s unities popular during restoration theatre

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Tragedy

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Involves death

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Serious drama

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Involves situation cause a flaw

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Farce

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Mistaken identities

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4th wall

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Imaginary wall between viewing and performing

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Greek Theater

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Taught about religion

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Chorus

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Group actors speak together

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Dithyrambs

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Chanting and dancing as part as religious celebration unstructured

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Greek playwrights

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Sophocles
Aristophanes
Aeschylus
Euripides

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Elizabethan theater

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Happened at end renaissance
Refers to England
Shakespeare wrote during this time late 1500s to early 1600s

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What it was like to attend a play during Shakespeare’s time

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Groundlings payed a penny 
Rich sat high 
Performed on a thrust stage
No Wonsan allowed on stage
Plays about variety of topics
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Arena stage

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Audience sits all way arround

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Thrust stage

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3 sided stage

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Raked stage

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Slanted stage

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Green room
Relaxation room where actors wait to go on
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Stage directions
⬆ R⬅ ➡L ⬇
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4 major areas of design
Costumes Sound Scenery Lighting
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Producer
Money finders for show hire director and designers
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Stage manager
Manage everything Control blocking Call Qs Oversees after director leaves
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Properties Master
Gather props small objects anything not nailed to stage
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Scenic Artists
Painters paint scenery
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First Hand
Runs costume shop
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Director (position created late 1800s) first director George duke of saxe
``` Gives blocking Instructions Explanations Provides research Inspiration ```
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Agents get payed
When find actor work
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Actors Equity Association
Stage actors union
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Character actor
Specializes in older unusual characters
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Stanislavski
Founder of modern acting theory
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Linear Format
Chronological order
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Non linear
Told out of order
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Royalties
Payment permission fee for playwright to do show
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Showboat
First Musical to have serious message
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Book writer
Writes spoken dialog
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Book Musical
Story driven musical
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Oklahoma
Launched golden age of musical
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Golden age of musical
Focused on everything equally as important not just about songs
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Theater began in
Greece
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Theater stopped during the dark ages
Cause religious reasons believed bad morals church outlawed it Brought back at end so church could use it to teach about religion
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Ronan theatre was about
Great battles and people killed on stage
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Opera - first real musical entertainment became popular in renaissance era
True opera- sung in foreign language Entirely sung Tragic ending Focus on vocal sound not on lyrics
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Ballad opera
Spoken with songs inserted 1700s
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Operetta
Can be spoken lines Lyrics emphasized Comedies Written in English language
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Vaudeville - variety shows and acts
Acrobatics Novelty acts Magicians Bands
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The first true American musical comedy 1866
The Black Crook
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Florenz Ziegfeld (producer)
Kept variety acts added Ziegfeld Follies beautiful designs with perfect scenery
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Stephen Sodgeim
Composer of modern musicals writes music define mood
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Modern musicals about
Spectacle - special visual effects | Not as family friendly
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Andrew Lloyd webber
Invented sung thee musical nothing spoken (cats)
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Women allowed on stage
During 1660 when charnel 2 came back
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Person in charge of special props items
Properties Artisan
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Ways obtain costumes
Buy Borrow Rent Create
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Technical director
Builds scenery
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What us meant by visibility to lighting Designer
Everything is seen
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What meant by focus to lighting designer
Means aim at
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What color to lighting designer
Moods
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What intensity to lighting designers
Brightness lights
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Theatre was banned second tone in history in what year by who
Oliver Cromwell 1642
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Noh and kabuki associated with
Japan
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Kathakali associated with
India
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Order theatrical periods
``` 1Greek theater 2 medieval 3 renaissance 4 restoration 5 romanticism 6 realism ```
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Post modern theatre
Talks about itself deals social issues

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