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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

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Relaxation room where actors wait to go on

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Stage directions

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⬆
R⬅ ➡L
⬇

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4 major areas of design

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Costumes
Sound
Scenery
Lighting

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Producer

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Money finders for show hire director and designers

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Stage manager

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Manage everything
Control blocking
Call Qs
Oversees after director leaves

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Properties Master

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Gather props small objects anything not nailed to stage

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Scenic Artists

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Painters paint scenery

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First Hand

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Runs costume shop

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Director (position created late 1800s) first director George duke of saxe

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Gives blocking 
Instructions 
Explanations 
Provides research 
Inspiration
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Agents get payed

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When find actor work

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Actors Equity Association

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Stage actors union

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Character actor

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Specializes in older unusual characters

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Stanislavski

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Founder of modern acting theory

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Linear Format

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Chronological order

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Non linear

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Told out of order

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Royalties

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Payment permission fee for playwright to do show

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Showboat

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First Musical to have serious message

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Book writer

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Writes spoken dialog

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Book Musical

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Story driven musical

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Oklahoma

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Launched golden age of musical

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Golden age of musical

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Focused on everything equally as important not just about songs

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Theater began in

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Greece

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Theater stopped during the dark ages

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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

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Great battles and people killed on stage

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Opera - first real musical entertainment became popular in renaissance era

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True opera- sung in foreign language
Entirely sung
Tragic ending
Focus on vocal sound not on lyrics

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Ballad opera

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Spoken with songs inserted 1700s

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Operetta

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Can be spoken lines
Lyrics emphasized
Comedies
Written in English language

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Vaudeville - variety shows and acts

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Acrobatics
Novelty acts
Magicians
Bands

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The first true American musical comedy 1866

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The Black Crook

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Florenz Ziegfeld (producer)

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Kept variety acts added Ziegfeld Follies beautiful designs with perfect scenery

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Stephen Sodgeim

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Composer of modern musicals writes music define mood

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Modern musicals about

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Spectacle - special visual effects

Not as family friendly

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Andrew Lloyd webber

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Invented sung thee musical nothing spoken (cats)

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Women allowed on stage

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During 1660 when charnel 2 came back

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Person in charge of special props items

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Properties Artisan

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Ways obtain costumes

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Buy
Borrow
Rent
Create

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Technical director

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Builds scenery

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What us meant by visibility to lighting Designer

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Everything is seen

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What meant by focus to lighting designer

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Means aim at

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What color to lighting designer

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Moods

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What intensity to lighting designers

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Brightness lights

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Theatre was banned second tone in history in what year by who

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Oliver Cromwell 1642

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Noh and kabuki associated with

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Japan

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Kathakali associated with

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India

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Order theatrical periods

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1Greek theater
2 medieval 
3 renaissance 
4 restoration 
5 romanticism 
6 realism
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Post modern theatre

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Talks about itself deals social issues

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