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Theater Final Flashcards

1
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Transitory

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Here one second, gone the next. What separates theater from the movies.

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“Art creates significant forms symbolic of human feeling.”

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-Suzanne Langer

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“Theater consists in this: in making live reps of reported happenings between human being, and doing so with a view to entertainment.”

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-Bertolt Brecht

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“Willing suspension of disbelief”

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We must pretend that we are in a forest, or in a castle instead of being in a theater.

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2 Types of theaters

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  1. Commercial theater (profit) New York City.

2. Non-profit theater.

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6
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Number of seats for a Broadway Play.

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500+ seats.

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Number of seats for an off Broadway Play.

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200-499 seats.

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Number of seats for an off-off Broadway Play.

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less than 199 seats.

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9
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Soliloquy.

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Monologue speech, alone on the stage.

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10
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Symbols.

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Something that represents or stands for something else.

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Professional non-profit Theater.

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Theater with no opportunity for investors to profit.

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12
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LORT

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League of Resident Theater is also known as:

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South Pacific Crew

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Written in 1940's.
Richard Rodgers- Composer
Oscar Hammerstein 2- Lyrics, book.
Joshua Logan- Helped with military details in book.
Bartlett Sher- Directed 2007 play.
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14
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Conventions.

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Unspoken rules of theater.

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Arena

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Type of theater with the audience all around the stage creating a very intimate but restricted performance.

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Thrust

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Very intimate stage that has the audience on three sides.

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17
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Proscenium

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Default stage with audience only able to view from one direction.

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Fly system

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Overhead system for the movement of scenery.

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19
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Flexible

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Stage that can be created any way the crew would like it to be.

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20
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Blackbox

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A big room used for creatively setting up a stage and audience seats.

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21
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South Pacific Story

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Nellie and Emile fall in love while dealing with the war and their difference. Lt. Cable and Liat fall in love but Lt. Cable dies.

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22
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“A play in a book is only the shadow of the play and not even a clear shadow of it… The printed script of a play is hardly more than an architects blueprints of a building.”

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Tennessee Williams quote.

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23
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Major Dramatic Action

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x struggles for y against z.

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Major Dramatic Question

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will x succeed for y?

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25
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Aristotle’s Six Elements

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Plot, Character, Thought, Diction, Music, Spectacle.

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26
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Story

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Narrative account of happenings.

27
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Plot

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Arrangement of the order of the scenes.

28
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Hamlet

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Written in 1600’s
Shakespeare- Writer
Setting- 1300’s Denmark

29
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Hamlet Character

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Prince of Denmark in Hamlet

30
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Claudius

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King of Denmark in Hamlet

31
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Gertrude

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Queen of Denmark in Hamlet

32
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Laertes

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Hamlet must defeat at the end of Hamlet

33
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Fortinbras

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Prince of Norway that takes control of Denmark in Hamlet

34
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A Doll’s House

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Henrik Ibsen- Writer
Written in 1879
Setting- The home of the Torvald family in a Norwegian town in 1879

35
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A Doll’s House story

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The feminist awakening of a good middle class wife and mother named Nora against her husbands fake love for her before and after he small mistake.

36
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A Streetcar Named Desire

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Written in the 1940’s

Tennessee Williams- Writer

37
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A Streetcar Named Desire Story

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Stella and Stanley are married and Blanche is Stella’s sister. Blanche comes to visit them but Stanley doesn’t like her so he attempts to get her out. Blanche goes cray cray and a doctor takes her away to an insane asylum.

38
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Death of a Salesman

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Arthur Miller- Writer

Written in the 1940’s

39
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Death of a Salesman Story

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Willy is a salesman with two sons, Biff and Happy. After some family drama, Willy kills himself in a car crash so insurance money will help Biff to start his own business. Instead of doing that, he follows Willy’s footsteps as a salesman.

40
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All My Sons

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Arthur Miller- Writer

Written in the 1940’s

41
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All My Sons Story

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Keller family is made up of Joe the father, Kate the mother, Larry the missing son, and Chris the son who took Larry’s girlfriend after he left. Steve Deever is in jail for selling the airforce cracked cylinders and Joe told him to do it. Larry sends a letter saying he will kill himself for his father’s guilt but Joe kills himself too.

42
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Avante-Gard

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Experimental theater.

Ubu Roi was the first of this type.

43
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Existentialism

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The usefulness of the universe.

Waiting for Gadot touched on it.

44
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Open Call

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Tryouts with prepared monologues.

45
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Callbacks

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After open calls with readings out of the script.

46
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Actor’s Equity Association

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Union formed in NYC in 1913 to fight the exploitation of actors.

47
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Denis Diderot

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18th century French philosopher that believed in order to move the audience most effectively, the actor himself should remain unmoved. Was against “feeling the part”

48
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Constantin Stanislavsky

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Believed the actor must find the “inner truth” of the character. The actors must not make contact with the audience.

49
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Director

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May or may not choose the play but must have a strong feel for it, must consider the style of the play and the way in which it is done.

50
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Proscenium Stage Layout

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upstage
up right up center up left
right center center left center
down right down center down left
curtain line
apron
51
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Wagon

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Any scenic unit on wheels.

52
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Unit Set

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One set for the entire play.

53
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Flat frames

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filled with images to create any type of scenery.

54
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Scrim

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Can be seen through with certain lighting conditions.

55
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Cyclorama

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Big screen in the back.

56
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Technical Director

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Responsible for building and installing the set as well as the installation of lighting.

57
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Clothing

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Indicate position, status, sex, occupation, and the attitude.

58
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Motivated Sounds

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Sounds in the script.

59
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Environmental Sounds

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Create the illusion of location.

60
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Mellodrama

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Good vs. evil with music played throughout the play like a movie.

61
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Faithful

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Very traditional.

62
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Translator

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Still honoring the dialogue, but not as traditional.

63
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Auter

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Taking a play’s idea as your own.

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