The Audience (chapter 2) Flashcards
What are the 3 categories of art?
- The literary arts include novels, short stories, and poetry.
- The visual arts include painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography. T
- The performing arts are theatre, dance, opera, and music.
What are the characteristics of art?
- One characteristic of all art—visual, literary, or performing—traditionally has been that
it is selective.
As the three categories suggest, different art forms usually focus on certain elements and eliminate others.
- Another characteristic of art is its relationship to time or space
-Spatial arts :Art forms that exist in space and are created to last over time
-Temporal arts :Art forms that exist for only a specific period of time.
What are the characteristics of performing arts?
- They require interpreters as well as creators. A playwright writes a play, but actors and actresses perform it.
- Another quality shared by the performing arts is that they require an audience.
- The movement through time
A performance can be recorded on film or tape, but the event itself must be “live,” that is, it must occur in one place at one time with both performers and audience present.
What are the major elements of theatre?
● Audience
● Performers
● Script or text
● Director
● Theatre space
● Design aspects:
What is text?
Text Any type of theatrical activity presented onstage: for example, all performances created or improvised by performers or directors rather than a
playwright.
Frequently, the term text is all-inclusive, and it is sometimes used in place of script.
Theartre is a collaborative art. True or false?
True.
What are takes?
Most of us are aware that in creating a film most scenes are filmed a number of times.
These repetitions are called “takes,” and there may be four, five, or even twenty
takes before the director feels that a scene is “right.”
How does an audience affect the performers?
They are buoyed up by a responsive audience and discouraged by an unresponsive one. Sometimes, if an audience is not reacting, they might try harder than ever to make contact.
How does the audience becomes involved in a theatre event?
The answer lies in the power of the imagination.
As audience members, we do not participate physically in a theatre performance. Rather, we participate vicariously, through the mind and the heart
Define the willing suspension of disbelief.
Willing suspension of disbelief is The audience’s desire to believe in the
reality of what is happening onstage.
Define aesthetic distance.
Aesthetic distance The separation of audience member from the performance or art work to experience its aesthetic
qualities.
How has the audience’s mental and emotional participation manifested itself in a negative way?
Negatively, it has taken the form of censorship—which indicates that those in authority fear the effect theatre can have on audiences.
What is immersive or participatory theatre?
In immersive theatre, the audience plays an active role in some way, often moving through a performance space, sometimes even choosing where they go within that space and what they see and do.
Define public access theatre.
Public access theatre are Theatres that have free admission with requests for
donations.
Define theatre decorum.
Theatre (audience) decorum: The specific
rules of behavior audience members are expected to observe when attending
the theatre.
