Theater Art Terms
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- Hamartia
- TRAGIC FLAW
- Dithyramb
- Big frenzy chorus of men worshipping the god Dionysus.
- Meanad
- Women version of dithyramb. Crazy, druken group of women worshipping in ecstasy.
- Aeschylus
- HUGE CHORUS (oldest version)
- Sophocles
- 15 person chorus
- Euripides
- 10 person chrous (more realistic characters)
- Late Point Of Attack
- The present moment is where story begins (you don\'t get previous info about what happened before to lead up to the opening moment).
- Exposition
- Prologue.
- Episodes
- Events.
- Inciting incident
- Ex: Life is terrible but then SUDDENLY Cinderella gets an invitation to the ball!
- Climax
- Things reach peak of emotional/physical excitment (Ex:Clock strikes midnight in Cinderella).
- Dike
- Force/Balance of the world.
- Crisis
- Decision that the protagonist makes at end. (Ex: Cinderella decides to go to the ball)
- Prologue
- Where the story started (before show info).
- Parados
- Entrance of the chorus.
- Stasimon
- ODE TO GOD (Worship).
- Komos
- story of tragedy/lament.
- Exodus
- Leaving the stage, EXIT.
- Mythos
- PLOT.
- Ethos
- CHARACTER.
- Skene
- Backstage.
- Thymele
- Alter onstage to Gods.
- Korthonos
- Boots that made actors bigger in order to be more visible on stage.
- Hubrus
- OUTRAGEOUS ARROGANCE and pride.
- Anagnorisis
- The character realizing his error after committing trickery or act of arrogance.
- Agora
- Outdoor to outside (EXIT).
- Orchestra
- The stage.
- Chorus
- Represents the COMMUNITY.
- Peripetia
- FATE. (No matter what, it\'s going to happen anyway)
- Parabasis
- Playwrite pint of view.
- Magic \"If\"
- Can\'t judge our characters or else you can\'t play them truthfully. So what \"if\" we could get inside their head. \"If\" I was oppressed like that, \"if\" I lived like that
- Constantine Stanislavski
- -First \"acting teacher.\" -Forces characters/actors to do script analysis. - Created the system steps - Modern Russian guy
- Aristotle
- - Wrote the CLIMAX dialogue (Problem --> Tension --> CLIMAX--> Solution
- Greek Tragic Conventions
- -Protagonist -Antagonist -Hamartia -Hubris -Perpetia -Anagnorismos -Climax -Chorus -Metabasis
- Endowment
- What you must mental ENDOW as an actor. Ex: Pretend you have ice cream on stage even though it\'s a potato, make audience believe it is ice cream by the way you describe and interact with it. Ex 2: Being attracted to someone you\'re not.
- Super Objective
- The main reason why the main character does things. EX : Hamlet wants revenge, everything else he does are sub-objectives.
- Amphitheater
- a round building, typically unroofed, with a central space for the presentation of dramatic or sporting events. Tiers of seats for spectators surround the central space.
- Satyr Play
- Poking fun at highly valued things.
- Greek Concept of Beauty
- -Youth -Muscular/ Athletic Bodies -Nature (and be in balance with it) -Valued the human body -Realistic depictions of the human body - Pure form
- Role of Individual in Athenian Society
- The value of the individual depends on their contribution to the polis. COMMUNITY IS EVERYTHING.
- Polis
- City-State of ancient Greece.
- Catharsis
- The notion of “release†through drama ( sense 1) derives from Aristotle\'s Poetics. in relation to the drama it generally refers to an emotional result that derives from strong feelings such as great sorrow, fear, pity, laughter, or any other extreme change in emotion; this result has traditionally been variously described as either a purification or a purging of such emotions
- Catastrophe
- DISASTER, TRAGEDY
- Choregos
- an honorary title for a wealthy Athenian citizen who assumed the public duty of financing and paying the expenses of the preparation of the chorus and other aspects of dramatic production that were not covered by the state.[1] The prizes for drama at the Athenian festival competitions were awarded jointly to the playwright and the chorêgos.
- Aristophanes
- Greek comic playwright.
- Lysistrata
- one of the few surviving plays written by the master of Old Comedy, Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman\'s extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace, a strategy however that inflames the battle between the sexes.
- Dionysus
- a Greek god, son of Zeus and Semele. He was originally a god of the fertility of nature, associated with wild and ecstatic religious rites; in later traditions he is a god of wine who loosens inhibitions and inspires creativity in music and poetry.
- Phallus
- Large flaps that represented erect penises, for comic plays or satyr plays that is.
- City Dionysia
- was the urban part of the festival, possibly established during the tyranny of Pisistratus in the 6th century BC. This festival was held about three months after the rural Dionysia.
- Ekkyklema
- was a wheeled platform rolled out through a skene in ancient Greek theatre. It was used to bring interior scenes out into the sight of the audience.
- Paradoi
- Greek theatres also had entrances for the actors and chorus members
- Apollo
- He is associated with music, poetic inspiration, archery, prophecy, medicine, pastoral life, and in later poetry with the sun;
- _AGORA_
- (in ancient Greece) a public open space used for assemblies and markets.
- 1Agora
- (in ancient Greece) a public open space used for assemblies and markets.
- 1perpetia
- a sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances or situation especially in a literary work