Question | Answer |
2 most important elements of theatre | actors & audience |
2 parts of angels in america | Millenium approaches Perestroika |
Angels in america is by... | Tony Kushner |
4 wastes of clothing | conspicuous consumptionconspicuous wasteconspicuous leisurevicarious consumption |
reasons to wear clothes | 1) utility,2) social power,3) seduction |
given circumstances of costume | 1) previous action,2) environmental facts -politics -religious -social -geographic,3) polar attitude (personal vs. political) |
costume design speaker | Martin Thaler |
Production concepts for cabaret | 1) images of hell,2) burlesque,3) present in technical way |
director of cabaret | greg ramos |
what is acting in quotes? | standing both inside and outside the character |
who was Bertolt Brecht? | director/playwrightgerman expressionistencouraged analysis rather than emotion |
who was Robert Wilson? | director, used total theatre (LARGE ELEMENTS) |
who was Eugene O'Neill | experimented with form.believed humans are decieving themselves with illusions |
"The Chairs" | by Eugene Ionesco,absurdism |
"Machinal" | sophie treadwell,expressionism |
"The Breasts of Tiresias" | Guillaume Apollinaire,surrealism |
"The Intruder" | Maurice Maeterlinck,symbolism: symbolic of the arrival of death |
"Pere Ubu" | Alfred Jerry,symbolism |
absurdism | there is no meaning in the universe or humanity |
expressionism | german, machines,light and dark,nightmare,distorted sets |
Dadaism | "art is shit and we shit in many colors"breaks all rules |
surrealism | dream-like, imaginative, subconsciousness |
symbolism | representational.behind all appearances are hidden truths and meanings |
5 parts of theatricalism | Surrealism, symbolism, dadaism, expressionism, absurdism |
European realists | Ibsen (a doll's house)Strindberg,Chekov |
American realists | Hellman (the children's hour)Williams,Miller |
Realism | tackles social and personal issues |
1850's-1950's realist movements | 1)Freud (psychoanalysis), 2) Darwin, 3) Marx (Socialism), 4) Mendel (geneticist), 5) Lincoln, 6) women's suffrage |
Actor's equity | 1930's movement for health benefits and pension for actors |
presentational acting | non-realistic, audience interaction |
representational acting | realistic |
acting guest speaker | Peter Tkatch |
external acting | using conscious choices about language |
internal acting | connect with characters emotionally |
pump/water represents | tears, connection to underworld, purifying, cleansing |
"givens" of set of euridice | elevator, string room, pump |
set of euridice | grand central station |
director of euridice | sarah carleton |
staging | arranging the actors to show their relationship by separation, elevation, etc. |
4 approaches to directing | work with actors/playwright, work with other materials, use text, direct own work. |
director | author of stage action. decides interpretation and style. |
lighting does 4 things... | draw attention to idea, set the mood, create 3D, allows us to see. |
lighting controls | intensity, direction, color, texture, movement. |
lighting speaker | john forbes |
lighting portrays | mood, focus, time of day, visibility. |
costume describes | psychology of character, time, place, social status. |
5 lighting tools | side light, follow spots, gels, stencils, backlighting |
scene design speaker | Jeff Modereger |
stage design began when? | rennaisance & baroque |
arena stage | surrounding stage |
thrust stage | audience on 3 sides. |
proscenium theatre | rectangular, stage at one end. |
Beijing opera | confuscious, family, myths & legends |
medieval theatre | catholic church, guilds, story, special effects |
elizabethan theatre | inherited from green & medieval, power struggles of kings. |
community aesthetics | nature of elements that construct the performance |
Meyerhold | murdered for unacceptable theatre styles |
internal rythym | conflict, rising tension, climax, resolution |
spectacle | acting style & blocking, special effects (least important) |
music | comment on character situations, or between scenes |
language | defines characters. shows authenticity |
character | actions, motives, history, vocab, & reactions |
plot | "spine" of play. action, events, outcomes, changes. |
aristotle's dramatic structure | plot, character, thought, language (text)music, spectacle (performance) |
greek theatre | 5th century BCE, |
Frances McDormand | movie actress |
Neil Marcus | overcame disability by acting |
Anna Smith | changed character through costume & language |
Bill Irwin | physical comedist, no speaking |
Asimali | storytelling to audience |
kabuki | (ongata) female impersonator |
bunraku | puppets |
communitas | sense of community |
3 things that theatre and ritual both do | tell story, explain whats going on, control environment |
ritual | breach, liminality, resolution |
theatrical conventions | contract that the audience will believe throuh masks, costumes, music, text, etc. |
what distinguishes drama from a novel? | action |
Caryl Churchill | crossgender/non-traditional casting and contemporary/historical characters |