Quiz 1 Flashcards
1
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Why take a theater class?
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- Performance and Oratory: public speaking and story telling
- History: better to understand a civilization through knowledge of their entertainment
- Technical trade skills: Electronics, textiles, carpentry, sound engine, plumbing, etc.
- Socialization and Community building: not a passive art; multi-functional and multicultural
2
Q
Why continue a theater when there is TV and cinema?
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- Tradition: practicing forms of theater for 3000+ years
- Not exclusive: participants and viewers (viewers can become the participants)
- Not safe: no screen to separate you from the action
- Connection to the audience: you care more during a live performance
3
Q
What does theater rely on?
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Empathy
4
Q
Theater is entertainment, but also…
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- Used to demonstrate: social issues, injustices, taboo, who we are (good and bad)
- Used to inform us (Tragedy): Tragos-Oide
- Used to propel and inspire us
- Used to escape
5
Q
Tragos Oide
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Goat Song - sacrificial stories so that people can become better
6
Q
How to succeed in theater
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- Lower your defenses
- Be present
- Have an open mind
- Always challenge yourself to go beyond what is asked
7
Q
The core of theatrical analysis
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- What did you like?
- What did you dislike?
- Why? (justification)
8
Q
Justification
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The reason behind thought and action
9
Q
Objectivity
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Observations made based on empirical data (facts)
10
Q
Subjectivity
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Observation based on personal experience, emotion, and opinion
11
Q
What is the criteria for your analysis?
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- Bias
- Theater experience (first time?)
- Perspective (audience, actor, writer, director, technician, etc.)
- Expectations
12
Q
Who was Aristotle?
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Author, philosopher, and biologist
13
Q
When was Poetics written?
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330 B.C.
14
Q
Why did he write Poetics?
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To outline the structure of a story
15
Q
Aristotle’s ancient analysis
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- Plot
- Character
- Thought
- Diction
- Song
- Spectacle
