FINAL Flashcards

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Acting

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an artistic craft that depicts humanity and characters in the context of its time, and environment. people pretending to do or be something to tell watchers a story.

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Projection

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abe throw their voice into the audience so it reaches everywhere but is still believable

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Credibility

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The quality of being trusted or believed in, the quality of being convincing

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objective

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a thing aimed at: what the character wants. Stanislavski believed that each scene, the actor need to know the motive in order to carry the action

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Actions

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outwards signals, as a result of a psychological objective

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Super objective

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The throughline of action; the culmination of individual objective

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Magic IF

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the ability to imagine oneself in a set of imaginary circumstances, and envision the circumstances of facing that situation in terms of action. creates a more complex phycological world for a character when an actor knows little about the role

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Imagination

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the faculty of forming new ideas, images, or concepts of external objects not present to the scene.

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Suspension of Disbelief

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Willingness to suspend one’s critical faculties to believe something surreal. Samuel C. “poetic faith”. The sacrifice of realism for the enjoyable.

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Henik Ibsen R

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Founder of Modern Realistic Drama; tacked everyday taboo subjects that questioned standards of society.

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Anton Chekov R

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Russian writer who moved away from melodramatic elements like suicide…blended tragedy and comedy. 12 characters who were fickle. Thought in pauses.

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August Strindberg R

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personalized and intensified Ibsen’s social drama. neuroses and anxieties in 20th century…naturalism: two people who hate each other, not long character backgrounds

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Bertolt Brech

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Epic Threatre. spectator identify emotionally with characters, and moved to self reflection. Episodic structure.

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Antonin Artaud

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theatre return to magical and ritual; totem and gesture. “Theatre of cruelty”. SENSORY

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Samuel Beckett

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tragicomic outlook on human existences, with humour. minimalist. Theatre of the Absrud.his works deal with despair and the will to survive
in spite of that despair, in the face of an uncomprehending and incomprehensible world.

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