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Unit 2 Flashcards

1
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What are the 4 multiple realities (tenets) of theatre?

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Real Life
Design team and director
“Theatre is life without the boring parts”
Plays need an audience to work

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Presentational

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non-realistic experience where the audience is reminded that they are in a play

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Representational (Naturalism)

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audiences are immersed in the world of the play and forget they are watching a play in a theatre

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4
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What concept was incorporated into early origins of western theatre?

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Plays were connected to religious festivals

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Where were plays performed in early origins of western theatre?

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Performed in amphitheaters without scenery

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What role did plays have in early origins of western theatre?

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Used as a cathartic device (emotional release) for their society

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What is catharsis?

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Greek word for purification, cleansing, clarification and means to purge emotions

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When were women permitted to perform in England?

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Banned until 1642 (Restoration Era) when King Charles the II permitted it

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Where was one of the first interactive performances with the audience?

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Mid 1500s in London by travelling actors meeting in pubs and coffee houses.

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10
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What arch frames the stage?

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Proscenium Arch (Burruss)

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What are the 4 types of stages?

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Thrust Stage
Theatre in Round
Black Box Theatres
Immersive Theatre

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Thrust Stage

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  • stage extends into the audience
  • Studio Theatre in Squires
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Theatre in Round

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intimate productions

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Black box theatres

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  • room is black
  • appearance of anyplace
    -make audience feel that they are in the location of the performance
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Immersive Theatre

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-no stage
- completely breaks 4th wall
-staged in houses, apartments, or public spaces
-Sleep no more

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16
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William Shakespeare (1564)

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  • Plays set in history or far away countries to disguise his political commentary
  • ex. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible (from 1953)
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17
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Vaclav Havel (1936-2011)

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-Became Czech president in 1989
-great example of using theatre and art as a political force

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18
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What is the Savoy in London, 1881 an example of?

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Realism coincided with the use of electric lighting onstage

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19
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How were theaters lit before electric light?

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Calcium oxide (quicklime)

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Naturalism

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Movement in European drama and theatre that developed in late 19th and 20th centuries

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21
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Henrik Ibsen(1828-1906)

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  • Norwegian playwright who wrote naturalistic plays about isolation in human relationships
  • Freud learned Norwegian to read Ibsen in the original
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22
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Anton Chekov (1860-1904)

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  • Russian playwright who blended naturalism with symbolism
  • His plot are not the focal point, but what is revealed about the characters through internal drama
23
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Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863-1938)

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Developed The Method
- Actors that used the Method were called Method Actors

24
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Who created the Group Theater in NYC in 1931?

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  • Lee Strasberg
  • Harold Clurman
  • Cheryl Crawford
    After seeing the Moscow Art Theatre
25
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Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)

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-Russian and Soviet theater director, actor, and producer
- combined extreme physical movement w symbolism

26
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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

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-German playwright
- Associated with alienation effect
- reintroduced breaking the 4th wall and directly address audience (like Greek chorus in western theatre)

27
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Alienation effect

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Reminders of the artificiality of the theatrical performance
- to distance audience from emotional involvement in play

28
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Arthur Miller (1915-2005)

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  • Wrote the crucible
  • influenced by William Shakespeare
29
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Commedia dell’arte (kuh-may-de-uh de-lar-te)

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A style of highly physical theatre
- performers wore leather masks and performed outdoors
- early development was in 1555-1610 in Renaissance Italy
- associated with comedic improvisation and highly physical techniques

30
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Commedia dell’Arte

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featured stock characters, who word distinctive masks

31
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Who are the 6 stock characters of Commedia dell’arte

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  1. Capitano- The Captain
  2. Dottore- The doctor
  3. Zanni- The trickster
  4. Arlecchino- The Harlequin
  5. Pantalone- The Miser
  6. The young lovers
32
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Theater of Absurd

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Label created in 1960s to explain French-language experimental theatre

33
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The Myth of Sisyphus

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-Written by Albert Camus
- Rolling up the boulder hill only to have it roll down multiple times
- absurdism and existentialism

34
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Existentialism

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Humans are self-determining and engaged in a struggle to find/make meaning in an inherently meaningless and random world
“Existence precedes essence”

35
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Origins of Absurdism

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Technology: invention of new weapons and more advanced photography allowed the public to see the illumining horrors of war

36
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Loneliness

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Inadequacy of Language
- inability to rely on language
- often characters’ actions disagree with their lines

37
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Tragicomedy

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Heightened physicality and broad comedy, often similar to vaudeville

38
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Inability to take action

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-Dialogue that contradicts action take
- characters trapped
- ritual that is meaningless

39
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Most absurdist playwrights

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Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994)

40
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Lower pitch

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Longer, thicker string

41
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Which holes expelled the most air?

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F shaped holes

42
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What does the string vibrate onto?

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The bridge
- which transmits this vibration down to the instrument’s top

43
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How fast does sound travel?

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1,000 ft/sec

44
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Who is Michael Ermann?

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He is a guest lecturer who is a registered architect and full professor at Virginia Tech.

45
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What bass sounds go through walls and car doors?

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Low (long wave) bass sounds go through walls and car doors more than high pitches

46
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Reverb

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The acoustic environment that surrounds a sound

47
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What affects sound of a reverberant space?

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  • space (length, width, and height)
  • construction of the space (walls hard or soft, carpet on floors)
  • diffusion (what the sound bounces off)
48
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Echo

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A sound or series of sounds caused by a reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener

49
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What causes sound?

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Vibration

50
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Frequency

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number of vibrations/sec (hertz)

51
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Pitch

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Determined by frequency
- directly proportional to frequency

52
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Anechoic chamber

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room designed to completely absorb reflections of sound/ electromagnetic waves

53
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Tools used to build medieval churches

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  • Pickaxe
  • Hammer
    -Chisel
  • saw plane
  • brace and bit
  • sledge hammer
  • auger
    -mathematical dividers
  • squares and templates
54
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Dendrochronology

A

technique used to date and locate the origin of wood
-wood of violins etc…

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