Mid-term Flashcards by Jordan Granger

Rituals

Efficacy

Unconscious guidelines

Symbolic time

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Entertainment

Fun
Only for present
Criticism
Theatre

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Spectrums

Amusement and art
Entertainment and efficacy
Empathy and aesthetic distance

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Theatron

Seeing place

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Proscenium stage

FRAME
realism
Distance

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Thrust (classical)

3/4 round
Audience on 3 sides
Classics, storytelling

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Arena stage

Tribal ancient rituals
No elaborate scenery
Intimate

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Traverse

Audience on 2 sides 
Runway and Harry Potter 
Lot of space 
Want audience to see everything 
Good conflict

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Found space

Non-traditional
Not built as performance space
Bar, tent, living room

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Black box

Newest
Economically and aestheticly popular
Flexible and moveable

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Empathy

Feeling

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Aesthetic distance

Thinking and analyzing

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18th century Japan

Banned popular plays about lovers commuting suicide

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Off-off-Broadway

Described plays that happened outside traditional theatre places

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Dionysus

Greek god of theatre, wine, fertility

Celebrations led to theatre

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Bloody bloody Andrew Jackson

Humor and rock music for popularity of historic figure

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Plato

Theatre is potentially dangerous to public

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Drama and therapy

Creating theatre has beneficial effect

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Cat on a hot tin roof

No traditional casting of African Americans

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Aristotle

Student of Plato

Liked theatre, unlike him

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Six elements of theatre

Spectacle 
Rhythm
Language 
Thought 
Character
Plot

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Plot

Mythos

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Thought

Dianoia

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Character

Ethos

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Language

Lexis | Diction

Rhythm

Melos | Music

Spectacle

Opsio

Persona

Ancient Rome, mask worn Now, social role

Front of house

Theatre operations that deal directly with audience

Sweeney Todd

"Stunning amalgamation of humor horror and melodrama

Representational

made to look and function realistically

Presentational

Suggests world for the play without authentically showing it

Director

Picks out costumes with costume designer

Taste

Personal preference

Freitag's plot diagram

Denouement

"New norm"/ world order

Exposition

Show normal nothing fancy

High art

Fine and fancy

Low art

Pop culture

Tragedy

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides

Comedy

Aristophanes

Tragedy

``` Classic (good vs. evil) Complex (reversal of fortune) Pathetic (motivated by passion) Ethic (moral) Simple Modern (tragic view of life) ```

Comedy Renews in end of play

Idea ("smart", if/then) Character (from persona) Manners (make fun of social) Farse (low comedy) Situational (people aren't funny, situation is) Sketch (SNL) Cringe (embarrassing, schadenfreude {harm-joy})

Tragic comedy

More empathy Serious work with happy ending Blurs lines Focus on character

Dark (Black) comedy

Audience experiences laughter and discomfort | Horrible bosses

Melodrama

Empathy Exaggerated plot and character Polar molarization (good vs. evil) Titanic

Linear plot

Events progress forward and sequentially

Metatheatre

Play within a play

Levels of characterization

Physical, biological, social, ethical, psychological

Ruined

Challenges human ethical choices in disturbing way

Arthur miller

Wrote "tragedy and the common man"

Convention

Agreement between actors and audience that we don't think think about them.

We have more than ______ percent of Greek plays produced in classical period

Orchestra

Dancing place

Theatron

Seeing place

Skene

Scenery

Parados

Area for entering and exiting

Kabuki

Most popular form of Classical Japanese theatre

Shakespeare's company

Lord chamberlains men

Neoclassical theatre relied on

Time, place, and action

David Douglass

Built first permanent theatre structure in U.S.

Communitas

Spirit of community

Stages of rituals

Initiation Liminality Re-integration

First actor

Thespis

Second actor

Aeschylus

Third actor

Sophocles

Deus ex machina

Mechane (crane) Ekkyklema (trap door) Problems magically solved @end

Terence and Plautus

Took Greek theatre made by Menander

Medieval drama

Liturgical (church) | Vernacular (street)

Hrotsvitha of gandersheim

First female play write

Commedia dell'arte

Comedy of professionals Troupes Stock characters

Lazzi

Little comedic things Slipping on banana peel Every character has

Enamorate

Lovers

Vecchi

``` Older gen Blocks lovers Father or rival Il capitano Il dottore Pantalone ```

Zanni

Servants Help lovers Arleachino Colombina

English Renaissance

``` Elizabethan era Golden era Playhouses Flags Shakespeare Kings men troupe Iambic pentameter ```

Peter brook's def of theatre

Empty space Performer Spectator