- A Copy of a reality - Construct

- Require reaction (not static)

THT - W1 Flashcards by William Blanchet

Theatre as a work

Collaborative Work

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Director (time)

End of 19th Century

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Light (date)

End of 18-20th Century

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Illusion

A Copy of a reality
Construct

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Actors

Symbols of who we are

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Symbols of who we are

Actors

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Theatre (aim + intention)

Aims to show something
Meant to be performed

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Good Theater

Require reaction (not static)

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Magic of theatre

We ‘‘Viewer’’ transformed into something more

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Drama vs. Theatre

Text, Content, Perception, Interpretation

TEXT-
D = Read (Constructing imaginative worlds)
T = Performed

CONTENT-
D= Dialogue Stage Direction (at best)
T= Dialogue + Accessories

PERCEPTION
D= limited to appreciat. of printed words
T= influenced by the actual performance

INTERPRETATION
D= Reader’s interpretation
T= Professionals interpret text

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TEXT- Drama vs. Theatre

D = Read (Constructing imaginative worlds)
T = Performed

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CONTENT- Drama vs. Theatre

D= Dialogue Stage Direction (at best)
T= Dialogue + Accessories

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PERCEPTION - Drama vs. Theatre

D= limited to appreciat. of printed words
T= influenced by the actual performance

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INTERPRETATION - Drama vs. Theatre

D= Reader's interpretation
T= Professionals interpret text

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Interest of Theatre

NOT the story BUT
- HOW IT IS TOLD

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Tragedy & Comedy (VIEWS)

Simplicity vs. complexity
Order vs. disorder
Familiar vs. unfamiliar
Convergent vs. divergent thinking
Engagement vs. disengagement
Stubbornness vs. adaptability
Finality vs. reversibility
Spiritual vs. physical
Isolation vs. integration

Tragedy (Intention)

Noble
Release tension
Simplistic
Good/ Bad Obvious
Deals with Order
Familiar

Comedy (intention)

Question Order/ Disorder
Not feel as familiar
Divergent thinking

Narrative Performance (story)

Story always told within interaction

Conditions of Narrative Performance

Centrality of the spoken language
Economy of action
Absence of authorial consciousness
Interplay of characters

Origins of Western Theatre

Connected= Early Societies (hunting, fertility, rituals)
Transformation= Ritual Symbolic forms To non-ritual contexts
Symbolic Performance = object of interest

Greek Theatre (origin)

Institution
Athens
5th BCE
from Religious Rituals
Tespis (1st)
Greek Tragedy + Tragedians

Greek Theatre emerges AS+ WHERE

Institution
Athens
5th BCE

Greek Theatre (Origin lies in)

religious rituals

First Greek playwright ???

Thespis

First Greek playwright ???

First Greek Plays (type)

Greek Tragedy and the tragedians

Greek Theatre - 2 Types of plays

TRAGEDY - Mythological Heavens - Characters bigger than big (Gods+Heroes) - Major Characters goes like... Loss --- Illumination (new perspectives) COMEDY - Caricatures of living + fictional - Set in present time

Greek Theatre Tragedy (type)

- Set in mythological past and featured gods and heroes - Major character undergoes loss but achieves illumination or a new perspective

Greek Theatre (not tragedy type)

Satyr/Old Comedy/New Comedy - Caricatures of living as well as fictional persons - Set in the present (contemporary time)

- Caricatures of living as well as fictional persons - Set in the present (contemporary time)

Greek Comedy

- Set in mythological past (heavens) and featured gods and heroes - Major character undergoes loss but achieves illumination or a new perspective

Greek Tragedy

Greek Theories of Drama (2 principal)

- Plato’s Dialogues - Aristotle’s Poetics