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World Drama 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Archetype | a typical character, an action, or a situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature (universal symbol) |
| Myth | serves as a fundamental type or principle in the worldview of a people, delineates the psychology, customs, ideals of a society |
| Essentialism | a platonic idea of “essence”. The concept that there is an essential property or essence that is true of everything and exists before that thing |
| Nihilism | philosophical position suggesting that existence is without objective meaning |
| Metatheatre | a term describing aspects of the play that draw attention to its nature as drama or theatre |
| Dialectical theatre | epic theatre- brecht changed name |
| Ontology | branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of Being (becoming, existence, reality) |
| Modernism | umbrella term for the artistic forms that come after dramatic drift |
| Estrangement effect | the goal is to make the audience always aware that they are watching an enactment of life, not real life itself |
| Existentialism | a modern philosophical movement stressing the importance of personal experience, responsibility, and the demands they make on the individual, who is seen as a free agent in a deterministic and seemingly meaningless universe |
| Scrim | piece of gauze cloth that appears opaque when lights hit it from the front, transparent when light comes behind |
| Diachronic time | time as it passes from minute to minute in a linear way |
| Dialectic | talking, dialogue |
| Theatre of the absurd | rejects realism, emphasis on the absurd nature of the world |
| Epic Theatre | emphasizes the political nature of theatre/art; popularized by Brecht |
| Synchronic time | time comprised of bits of past/present/future; operates vertically, all moments merging |
| Liminal | use of space |
| Gestus | mode of acting, physical gestures as embodiment AND social status |
| Didactic | criticism of social, political, economic, moral injustices of the contemporary world |
| Absurdity | the search for answers and meaning in an inherently answerless and meaningless world. Human existence is meaningless because human acts have no external (objective) justification |
| Tragicomedy | subject of despair (in the face of an uncomprehending and incomprehensible world) and the will to survive in spite of that despair, coupled with “black comedy” |
| Fourth wall | onstage = existentially different from “being” in audience |
| Episodic | containing or consisting of a series of loosely connected parts or events. |
| Expressionism | a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world |
| Being-in-itself | non-conscious choice, non action, refusal to take responsibility for one’s actions |
| Being-for-itself | conscious choice, action, human’s have a responsibility to exercise freedom, to act, to create essence |
| Bad faith | a lie to oneself, trying to escape the terrifying freedom by relinquishing personal agency to outside forces / agents (ideals, authority figures, etc.) |
| Marxism | the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis for the theory and practice of communism |
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