Theatre 101
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- The Audience completes the performance how?
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*interprets
*Theatre can't exist without audience, it then becomes a rehearsal - What is the purpose/goal of a production?
- To affect the audience in a specific way.
- The subject and medium of theatre are what?
- Human Beings
- What are the 4 points of STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS?
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1. EXPOSITION: back story
2. POINT OF ATTACK: asks major dramatic question
3. CLIMAX: answers the question
4. DENOUMENT: Conclusion - SUBTEXT
- underlying meaning
- Aristotles 6 elements
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1. PLOT
2. THOUGHT
3. DICTION
4. CHARACTER
5. SPECTACLE
6. SONG - Characteristics of a tragic hero?
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1. Extraordinary person (high rank, status)
2. High status enables fall from a lofty position
3. Tragic flaw - Difference between a modern tragedy and a classic tragedy?
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*Hero is not special; ordinary
*Written in prose vs. verse - MELODRAMA
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Action adventure
exxagerated events; frighten or suspense - What is the difference between talent and creativity?
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Talent = Natural
Creativity = Implies effort - Uta Hagen's 6 Questions
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CHARACTER ASKS HIMSELF:
1. "Who am I?"
2. "Where am I?"
3. "What time is it?"
4. "What do I want?"
5. "What is in my way?"
6. "How do I get what I want?" - Stanislavski's Training was
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Body: relaxation & movement
Voice: breathing & speaking
Mind: concentraion & discipline - Stanislavski's objective
- Always a verb
- Stanislavski's "Magic if..."
- Empathetic, if I was this character in this situation, what would I do?
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Why was a director needed?
When was a director "invented?" - To unify production elements, around the 1860's
- 3 steps in the directoral process
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1. Preparing production
2. Rehearse production
3. Finish production - Directors preparation of the production includes:
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1. READ THE SCRIPT
2. Research the playwright
3. Research historical period
4. Define the SPINE - SPINE
- General action that motivates the play. A verb. Must apply to all characters.
- What are the two directoral styles?
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1. Interpretive
2. Creative - An interpretive director...
- interprets the script and puts it on stage.
- A creative director...
- becomes the author of the production.
- Another name for a creative director is...
- "Auteur"
- STYLE
- Manner in which the spine is articulated.
- The DIRECTORAL CONCEPT does 3 things
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1. Embodies the spine and the style.
2. Defines point of view
3. Creates a unified experience for the audience - 6 Styles of Directing
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1. Discussional
2. Instructional
3. Coaching
4. Criticism
5. Experimental
6. Problem solving - DISCUSSIONAL DIRECTING
- forges agreements
- INSTRUCTIONAL DIRECTING
- Imparts previously envisioned specifics
- COACHING
- Induces a fusion of the actor and the role.
- CRITICAL DIRECTING
- Sets fresh objectives
- EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTING
- Spirit of total freedom
- PROBLEM SOLVING DIRECTING
- Accuratley diagnoses actual problems and instigates effective countermeasures
- Functions of Costumes
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Communicate:
historical period
individual character
identify groups/ relationships between characters
style = realism or not, etc. - 6 DESIGN ELEMENTS
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1. Line
2. Shape
3. Mass
4. Composition
5. Color
6. Texture - 6 STOCK SCENIC ELEMENTS
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1. Flats
2. Stair units
3. Platforms
4. Door & Window flats
5. Drops
6. Scrims - 2 types of COSTUMES
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1. Built
2. Pulled - Design elements that are unique to COSTUMES
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FABRIC (instead of mass, they look at texture)
SILHOUETTE or outline
ACCESSORIES - 2 types of lighting instruments
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1. Fresnell
2. Elipsoidal - Sound
- Motivated vs. enviromental
- Electricity in lighting allows us to
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1. Control lighting
2. Make it brighter
3. Make it safer
4. Computers allow greater control & flexibility - ELEMENTS OF LIGHTING
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1. Intensity
2. Direction
3. Color
4. Form (beam)
5. Movement