intro to theatre final 2
Terms
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- invisible theatre
- actor perform in situations where the audience doesn't know it's seeing a prepared work.
- performance art
- write stage, perform by the same person. staging can take place anywhere. include guerrila, invisible theatre.
- moscow art theatre
- one of the most famous theatre run by stanislavsky
- constantin stanislavsky
- director who tend to play up the serious aspect fo the play.
- stanislavsky "system"
- most dominant acting technique
- anton chekhov
- playwright who uses everyday matter. part of realism movement where there's no villain, heros, no simple morals, anti climatic.
- robert la Page
- director and founder of the Ex Machina in quebec and stratford festival
- location of RSC and royal nation theatre
- england
- location of theatre de soleil and the founder
- france, by Ariane Mnouchkine
- Augusto Boal
- director of brazil (south america)
- tadashi suzuki
- avant garde director and theorists
- kathakali
- "modern" dance drama in India.
- bollywood
- amateur
- Al-kasaba
- palestine
- wole soyinka
- nigerian playwright (africa)
- Christopher Marlowe
- shakespeare's contemporary, served for King Edward II.
- Tony Kushner's play
- angels in America
- Holly Hughes
- World without ends, a play about gay and laesbian
- miss saigon
- controversy about a white character cast for an asian role
- david henry hwang
- asian american theatre
- Actos
- 7-10 min small acts. actor wear sign around the neck to tell what/who the person plays.
- teatro Campesino theatre
- play the life of chicano in America
- the founder of Teatro Campesino
- Luis VAldez
- susan-Lori parks
- Top/Underdog. got Mccarthy fund
- Juke box musical
- the concept of taking well known collection of songs and mad e it into a musical
- Edwin Forrest
- a white american who made to look like a black actor.
- stephen sondheim
- a triple threat- composer, librettist, lyricist.
- showboat
- the first "book musical" has script, composer, and lyric
- minstrel show
- white dress up as black/color their skin to poke fun at other play
- opera
- play entirely sung
- vaudeville
- a variety show
- "straight theatre"
- theatre without song and dance (unique to US and eruope)
- melodrama
- hero, heroine, villain, over simplified morals
- richard rodgers and Hammerstein II.
- contributor to the "Golden age" of the American Musical
- "practical light"
- any light controlled by an actor on stage
- cues
- a list of how often the light changes
- "gel"
- inserted to change the color of the light
- light plot
- show location of intruments and focus areas
- dimmers
- control panels which allow intensity to be changed smoothly. sometiems control by the computer
- gas lighting
- introduced in London in 1803.
- angust wilson
- Fences. provides a view of the "black experience in teh 20th century"
- ent'acte
- between acts, method to keep the audience entertained while the stage scenery changes
- procemium
- an arch that separate the stage environment from the auditorium
- Giacomo Torelli
- developed Chariot and pole system. (scene changes become mechanized.)
- perspective scenery
- 2D scenery that looks 3D from far away.
- dark comedy
- combine fears , death with comic elements
- satire
- make fun sof something general
- parody
- make fun of specific person or thing
- farce
- physical comedy where the timing of entrances and exists are crucial
- happy ideas
- a crazy idea in the play that jump start the plot
- malapropism
- misuse of words that are very similar to the actual word
- pun
- play on words that sounds the same
- slap stick
- an actual device used to stimulate the sound of slapping but don't hurt
- aristotle's quote about comedy
- "painless deformity
- Komos
- origin word for comedy
- modern tragedy
- tragedy of "common man" not just heros
- domestic and bourgeois drama
- like modern tragedy but can have happy as well as serious sendings.
- sensation scene
- visual spectacle for an uneducated audience
- harmartia
- tragic character must make a mistake
- hero drama
- hero's death is seen as triumph, it doesn't have to end as badly as tragedy
- traditional tragedy
- character usually of high status, universe is indifferent or malevolent (ill will) to others
- aristotle's poem described tragedy as:
- fear, pity and suffering
- commedia dell'art
- Italy: character learn "line of business"
- deus ex machine
- unexpected, contrived ending
- harold pinter's play
- birthday party
- sam shepard
- true west
- caryl churchill
- top girl. focused on society exploitation of weak, traditional vs. comtemporay work, historiczation/anachronism( something occur at a time when it doesn't exist)
- august wilson
- fences
- athol fugard
- master harold
- "fourth wall"
- imaginary barrier created by the procemium theatre