Theater 100

What are the three revolutions?

○ Industrial Revolution ○ Scientific Revolution ○ Marxist Revolution

Theater with seating on one side?

Proscenium theater

3 ways to talk about climax

○ Protagonist experiences a polar shift of attitude, high stakes, and answers the MDQ

What is realism?

Slice of real life on stage

What is acting?

○ Ability to live truthfully in the imaginary circumstances

A term for actors to move on stage

Staging/blocking

Paradigm shifts?

world before the 3 revolutions and world after

6 elements of drama

Plot, character, music, spectacle, language, theme/idea

whos Calling the show

stage manager

What is genre?

To categorize things according to similarities

Writer of raisin in the sun

Lorraine hansberry

Paradigm shift during the 1800s

Putting faith in ourselves, intellect & reason

Greatest russian playwright

Anton Chekhov

Golden age of greece

5th century BC

3 things a producer does

Pay artists ○ Handle safety and security ○ Venue of the area ○ rights/royalties

First actor

Thespis - thespian

Years of acting

20 years

Two functions of ghost light

Safety and security ○ Welcome back, or keep away

First step of the creative process

Read the script

Galvanizing event:

○ Answers the MDQ, engaged in the story

Full definition of script analysis

The artistic essential habitual analytical endeavor engaged in by everybody in order to discover and create keywords in a transcendent unity ○ Breaking a play into its parts

5 elements of Stanislavski's systems

Concentration ○ Imagination ○ Muscle memory ○ Childhood memory ○ Partner ensemble

What is the director

The person responsible for coordinating all of the elements into a cohesive work of art, most important is to tell the story

A word that is bad luck in the theater

Macbeth

What is the Stanislavski system

A set of rules or laws designed to bring about organic behavior

Complication..

Changes the direction of plot, raises the stakes

Father of prose playwright

○ Henrik Ibsen

3-sided theater

Thrust

Transcendent unity:

You and the script become one

Prose

speaking in ordinary form

Meter

a rhythmical pattern in language

Verse

has meter, rhyme

Blank verse

has meter, no rhyme