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THT - W1 Flashcards

1
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Theatre as a work

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Collaborative Work

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Director (time)

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End of 19th Century

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Light (date)

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End of 18-20th Century

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Illusion

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  • A Copy of a reality
  • Construct
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5
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Actors

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Symbols of who we are

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Symbols of who we are

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Actors

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Theatre (aim + intention)

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  • Aims to show something
  • Meant to be performed
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Good Theater

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  • Require reaction (not static)
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Magic of theatre

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We ‘‘Viewer’’ transformed into something more

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Drama vs. Theatre

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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

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D = Read (Constructing imaginative worlds)
T = Performed
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CONTENT- Drama vs. Theatre

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D= Dialogue Stage Direction (at best)
T= Dialogue + Accessories
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PERCEPTION - Drama vs. Theatre

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D= limited to appreciat. of printed words
T= influenced by the actual performance
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INTERPRETATION - Drama vs. Theatre

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D= Reader's interpretation
T= Professionals interpret text
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15
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Interest of Theatre

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NOT the story BUT
- HOW IT IS TOLD

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Tragedy & Comedy (VIEWS)

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  • 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
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Tragedy (Intention)

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  • Noble
  • Release tension
  • Simplistic
  • Good/ Bad Obvious
  • Deals with Order
  • Familiar
18
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Comedy (intention)

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  • Question Order/ Disorder
  • Not feel as familiar
  • Divergent thinking
19
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  • Narrative Performance (story)
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  • Story always told within interaction
20
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Conditions of Narrative Performance

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  • Centrality of the spoken language
  • Economy of action
  • Absence of authorial consciousness
  • Interplay of characters
21
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Origins of Western Theatre

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  • Connected= Early Societies (hunting, fertility, rituals)
  • Transformation= Ritual Symbolic forms To non-ritual contexts
  • Symbolic Performance = object of interest
22
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Greek Theatre (origin)

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  • Institution
  • Athens
  • 5th BCE
  • from Religious Rituals
  • Tespis (1st)
  • Greek Tragedy + Tragedians
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Greek Theatre emerges AS+ WHERE

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  • Institution
  • Athens
  • 5th BCE
24
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Greek Theatre (Origin lies in)

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religious rituals

25
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First Greek playwright ???

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Thespis

26
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Thespis

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First Greek playwright ???

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First Greek Plays (type)

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Greek Tragedy and the tragedians

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Greek Theatre - 2 Types of plays

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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
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Greek Theatre Tragedy (type)

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  • Set in mythological past and featured gods and heroes
  • Major character undergoes loss but achieves illumination or a new perspective
30
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Greek Theatre (not tragedy type)

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Satyr/Old Comedy/New Comedy

  • Caricatures of living as well as fictional persons
  • Set in the present (contemporary time)
31
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  • Caricatures of living as well as fictional persons
  • Set in the present (contemporary time)
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Greek Comedy

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

33
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Greek Theories of Drama (2 principal)

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  • Plato’s Dialogues - Aristotle’s Poetics

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