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Class:THEA 102 - Introduction To Theater
Subject:Theater
University:SUNY at Binghamton
Term:Fall 2010
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Dionysus Dionysus - the god of the grape harvest), winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy, and was also the driving force behind Greek theater.
Orchestra literally means a dancing circle; it was a raised stage
Tragedy goat-song
Skene First piece of background; it's a wall with a couple of doors in it that would stand for all of the different houses; eventually it was given a roof
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Cothurni the things worn on the bottom of shoes, by people usually portraying Greek gods
Pageant Wagon Mystery plays and Miracle plays (which are two different things) are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. These were the plays performed on the pageant wagons, which was a platform on wheels, something like our modern parade float, where plays such as. It is also referred to as a processional, or portable stage. It encouraged episodic, loosely knit play structures.
King James I of England Shakespeare wrote plays for him, that maintained a focus on the occult
Shakespeare's Company The Lord Chamberlain's Men --> The King's Men James Burbage built "The Theatre" and "The Globe." His son Richard Burbage was the lead actor in Shakespeare's acting company. William Shakespeare owned shares in his own acting company.
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The Globe Theater The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. There was a thrust stage in the Globe Theatre. A thrust stage is the kind that goes out into the audience.
Proscenium Theaters An ornamental facade, or the proscenium arch, frames the stage thus masking its inner workings.
Polish Laboratory Theatre The "Poor theatre" - The essentials of theatre consist of the actors and the audience and a bare space. He describes the essential concern as: "Finding the proper spectator-actor relationship for each type of performance and embodying the decision in the physical arrangements." The company became an institute for research into theatre art. Grotowski wanted to bring plays back to ritual, often he conducted showings outside. This returns us to the essentials.
The Living Theatre The Living Theatre is an American theatre company founded in 1947 and based in New York City. Julian Beck and Judith Malina were very involved with this. "The Brig" was a well known example of living theatre.
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Akropolis (1962) Grotowski adopted a written text written by Polish playwright Sanizlaw Wyspianski, where he shifted the action to Auschwitz. This play contrasted the Western ideal of human dignity with the degradation of a human death camp.
Environmental Theatre You would feel theatre--it's an attitude and an experience.
Bertold Brecht Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. He was very involved in epic theatre, and he wrote a play called mother courage (over 30 years) and Baal (about an amoral poet). He wrote in Jungle of the Cities. It is based on the Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. He wrote the threepenny opera. He wanted us to view plays with our mind, rather than with our heart--he wanted to invoke political change. He usually had a cowriter (Elizabeth Hauptmann, Kurt Weill). He wanted plays to be a living newspaper. The Caucasian Chalk Circle: based on the King Solomon story.
Point of Attack or the Inciting Incident After it happens, the events flow from this. It is the event that sparks all of the events which culminate in the play
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Crisis The event that makes the resolution of the play inevitable, and it leads us to our climax--it is the turning point of the action.
Climax In general, a climax is a point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series; i.e., a culmination. It is usually close to the end; and it is the highest point of the play, with the most action.
Resolution It restores the balance and satisfies the audiences expectations
Epic (Episodic) over a large period of time; structured in episodes. Time is expanded, and it shows with equal weight every event in the protagonist's life. Most of Shakespeare's romances were this kind of play. Berthold Brecht wrote epic plays, There are uaually songs between episodes. EX) Shakespeare: The Winter's tale, Pericles: Prince of Tyre It's a series of loosely knit scenes.
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Climactic Builds towards a climax, fewer characters, time is foreshortened. Macbeth is one of these plays Aristotle wrote the poetics, the very first book of dramatic criticism... the perfect climactic play took place in one day. We are supposed to empathize.
Sam Shepard Sam Shepard is an American playwright and an actor who wrote buried child
Wright old anglo saxon word for builder
Lillian Hellman Lillian Florence -Lily- Hellman, was linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes. She said of the theatre, "The manuscript, the words on the page, was what you started with, and what you have left. The production is of great importance, has given the play the only life it will know, but is gone, in the end, and the pages are the only wall against which to throw the future of measure the past.
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Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story (1958), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He was an absurdist playwright.
Caryl Churchill Caryl Churchill is an English dramatist known for her use of non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes, the abuses of power, and sexual politics. She wanted to spread political messages through her play.
The Alienation Effect Brecht's method of Jarring the audience out of its sympathetic feelings for what is happening on stage. He wanted to prevent the audience's empathetic "Suspension of disbelief"
Eugene Ionesco Eugne Ionesco was one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd. he defined absurd as, "Anything without a goal...when man is cut off from his religious or metaphysical roots, he is lost; all his struggles become futile, senseless, and oppressive." He wrote the Bald Soprano, and the Bald Primadonna.
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Drama's Elements Plot Character Language Meaning Music Spectacle
Plot arranged sequence of events or incidents usually having a beginning, middle and an end. These incidents spring from action of motive.
Character includes the physiological or psychological makeup of the persons in the play.
Language a spoken word, including symbols or signs.
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Meaning underlying idea, its general and particular truths about experience Today we frequently use the word theme or message when we discuss the play's meaning.
Spectacle indluded all visual and aural elements: music, properties, machines, and lighting effects
Time: Actual and Symbolic Symbolic time is integral to the play's structure, and may take place over years.
Action an element of drama. Action is to drama as soul is to the body.
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Situational Structure Situation shapes the play in absurdist dramas. The bald soprano is an example.
Postmodernism Postmodernism is most often considered a movement called for doubling, or placing contradictory experiences within the same frame of reference.
Theatre of Images A term coined by Bonnie Marranca, to describe the postmodern work of Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, and Lee Breuer.
Robert Wilson said, "Most theatre we see today is thought about int terms of the word and not the text...and that's not the case with my work. In my theatre, what we see is as important as what we hear. What we see does not have to relate to what we hear. They can be independent."
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Classical Exposition we are introduced to the characters immediately, and immediately informed of what is going on
Modern Exposition we learn about the characters throughout the span of the play
Simultaneous plot dramatic conventions that relate past and present events and behavior
Conventions of Time Dramatic vs. Actual - with the playwright's work, time can be slowed or accelerated, vs. the time that the audience is actually sitting in the theatre. Absurdist plays always return to the beginning.
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The Play-within-a-Play The caucasian chalk circle is almost like a play within a play in its entirety. Brecht is known for his play-within-a-play. In the modern theatre this has become a means for demonstrating life's theatricality.
Monologue Definition
Soliloquy Definition
Aside An aside is a dramatic device in which a character makes a brief remark to the audience.
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Anton Chekhov His use of sound and silence: sounds with silence, words with noise, physical activity with aural effects. In his plays, what people do is frequently more important than what they say. Sounds are juxtaposed to events in life.
Brecht's Gestic Language a matter of the actor's overall attitude towards what is going on around them, and what they are asked to do within the circumstances of the text. --> Visible in the caucasian chalk circle
The Cherry Orchard The Cherry Orchard ( or Vishniovy sad in Russian) is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It is about a family who has an orchard but doesn't want to sell it. Eventually somebody decides to do just that, and buys the house. The servant is forgotten and dies alone.
Brecht's Magic Realism Definition
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Adolphe Appia Adolphe Appia was a Swiss architect and theorist of stage lighting and dcor. He built the theoretical foundations of modern expressionistic and theatrical practices Artistic unity was his basic goal of theatrical production
Ming Cho Lee Ming Cho Lee is a Chinese-born American theatrical set designer.
Richard Pryor Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III was an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and MC.
Scenic Artist Forerunner to the modern set designer.
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 DionysusDionysus - the god of the grape harvest), winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy, and was also the driving force behind Greek theater.
 Orchestraliterally means a dancing circle; it was a raised stage
 Tragedygoat-song
 SkeneFirst piece of background; it's a wall with a couple of doors in it that would stand for all of the different houses; eventually it was given a roof
 Cothurnithe things worn on the bottom of shoes, by people usually portraying Greek gods
 Pageant WagonMystery plays and Miracle plays (which are two different things) are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. These were the plays performed on the pageant wagons, which was a platform on wheels, something like our modern parade float, where plays such as. It is also referred to as a processional, or portable stage. It encouraged episodic, loosely knit play structures.
 King James I of EnglandShakespeare wrote plays for him, that maintained a focus on the occult
 Shakespeare's CompanyThe Lord Chamberlain's Men --> The King's Men
James Burbage built "The Theatre" and "The Globe." His son Richard Burbage was the lead actor in Shakespeare's acting company. William Shakespeare owned shares in his own acting company.
 The Globe TheaterThe Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. There was a thrust stage in the Globe Theatre. A thrust stage is the kind that goes out into the audience.
 Proscenium TheatersAn ornamental facade, or the proscenium arch, frames the stage thus masking its inner workings.
 Polish Laboratory TheatreThe "Poor theatre" - The essentials of theatre consist of the actors and the audience and a bare space.
He describes the essential concern as: "Finding the proper spectator-actor relationship for each type of performance and embodying the decision in the physical arrangements."
The company became an institute for research into theatre art.
Grotowski wanted to bring plays back to ritual, often he conducted showings outside.
This returns us to the essentials.
 The Living TheatreThe Living Theatre is an American theatre company founded in 1947 and based in New York City. Julian Beck and Judith Malina were very involved with this. "The Brig" was a well known example of living theatre.
 Akropolis (1962)Grotowski adopted a written text written by Polish playwright Sanizlaw Wyspianski, where he shifted the action to Auschwitz. This play contrasted the Western ideal of human dignity with the degradation of a human death camp.
 Environmental TheatreYou would feel theatre--it's an attitude and an experience.
 Bertold BrechtBertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. He was very involved in epic theatre, and he wrote a play called mother courage (over 30 years) and Baal (about an amoral poet). He wrote in Jungle of the Cities. It is based on the Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. He wrote the threepenny opera. He wanted us to view plays with our mind, rather than with our heart--he wanted to invoke political change. He usually had a cowriter (Elizabeth Hauptmann, Kurt Weill). He wanted plays to be a living newspaper. The Caucasian Chalk Circle: based on the King Solomon story.
 Point of Attack or the Inciting IncidentAfter it happens, the events flow from this. It is the event that sparks all of the events which culminate in the play
 CrisisThe event that makes the resolution of the play inevitable, and it leads us to our climax--it is the turning point of the action.
 ClimaxIn general, a climax is a point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series; i.e., a culmination. It is usually close to the end; and it is the highest point of the play, with the most action.
 ResolutionIt restores the balance and satisfies the audiences expectations
 Epic (Episodic)over a large period of time; structured in episodes. Time is expanded, and it shows with equal weight every event in the protagonist's life. Most of Shakespeare's romances were this kind of play. Berthold Brecht wrote epic plays, There are uaually songs between episodes.
EX) Shakespeare: The Winter's tale, Pericles: Prince of Tyre
It's a series of loosely knit scenes.
 ClimacticBuilds towards a climax, fewer characters, time is foreshortened. Macbeth is one of these plays
Aristotle wrote the poetics, the very first book of dramatic criticism... the perfect climactic play took place in one day.
We are supposed to empathize.
 Sam ShepardSam Shepard is an American playwright and an actor who wrote buried child
 Wrightold anglo saxon word for builder
 Lillian HellmanLillian Florence -Lily- Hellman, was linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes. She said of the theatre, "The manuscript, the words on the page, was what you started with, and what you have left. The production is of great importance, has given the play the only life it will know, but is gone, in the end, and the pages are the only wall against which to throw the future of measure the past.
 Edward AlbeeEdward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story (1958), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He was an absurdist playwright.
 Caryl ChurchillCaryl Churchill is an English dramatist known for her use of non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes, the abuses of power, and sexual politics. She wanted to spread political messages through her play.
 The Alienation EffectBrecht's method of Jarring the audience out of its sympathetic feelings for what is happening on stage. He wanted to prevent the audience's empathetic "Suspension of disbelief"
 Eugene IonescoEugne Ionesco was one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd. he defined absurd as, "Anything without a goal...when man is cut off from his religious or metaphysical roots, he is lost; all his struggles become futile, senseless, and oppressive." He wrote the Bald Soprano, and the Bald Primadonna.
 Drama's ElementsPlot
Character
Language
Meaning
Music
Spectacle
 Plotarranged sequence of events or incidents usually having a beginning, middle and an end. These incidents spring from action of motive.
 Characterincludes the physiological or psychological makeup of the persons in the play.
 Languagea spoken word, including symbols or signs.
 Meaningunderlying idea, its general and particular truths about experience Today we frequently use the word theme or message when we discuss the play's meaning.
 Spectacleindluded all visual and aural elements: music, properties, machines, and lighting effects
 Time: Actual and SymbolicSymbolic time is integral to the play's structure, and may take place over years.
 Actionan element of drama. Action is to drama as soul is to the body.
 Situational StructureSituation shapes the play in absurdist dramas. The bald soprano is an example.
 PostmodernismPostmodernism is most often considered a movement called for doubling, or placing contradictory experiences within the same frame of reference.
 Theatre of ImagesA term coined by Bonnie Marranca, to describe the postmodern work of Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, and Lee Breuer.
 Robert Wilsonsaid, "Most theatre we see today is thought about int terms of the word and not the text...and that's not the case with my work. In my theatre, what we see is as important as what we hear. What we see does not have to relate to what we hear. They can be independent."
 Classical Expositionwe are introduced to the characters immediately, and immediately informed of what is going on
 Modern Expositionwe learn about the characters throughout the span of the play
 Simultaneous plotdramatic conventions that relate past and present events and behavior
 Conventions of TimeDramatic vs. Actual - with the playwright's work, time can be slowed or accelerated, vs. the time that the audience is actually sitting in the theatre. Absurdist plays always return to the beginning.
 The Play-within-a-PlayThe caucasian chalk circle is almost like a play within a play in its entirety. Brecht is known for his play-within-a-play. In the modern theatre this has become a means for demonstrating life's theatricality.
 MonologueDefinition
 SoliloquyDefinition
 AsideAn aside is a dramatic device in which a character makes a brief remark to the audience.
 Anton ChekhovHis use of sound and silence: sounds with silence, words with noise, physical activity with aural effects. In his plays, what people do is frequently more important than what they say. Sounds are juxtaposed to events in life.
 Brecht's Gestic Languagea matter of the actor's overall attitude towards what is going on around them, and what they are asked to do within the circumstances of the text. --> Visible in the caucasian chalk circle
 The Cherry OrchardThe Cherry Orchard ( or Vishniovy sad in Russian) is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It is about a family who has an orchard but doesn't want to sell it. Eventually somebody decides to do just that, and buys the house. The servant is forgotten and dies alone.
 Brecht's Magic RealismDefinition
 Adolphe Appia Adolphe Appia was a Swiss architect and theorist of stage lighting and dcor. He built the theoretical foundations of modern expressionistic and theatrical practices Artistic unity was his basic goal of theatrical production
 Ming Cho LeeMing Cho Lee is a Chinese-born American theatrical set designer.
 Richard PryorRichard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III was an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and MC.
 Scenic ArtistForerunner to the modern set designer.
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