Theater 210 Valle 2024

What are the four aspects to define when analyzing a play or scene for your character?

Goal, Other, Tactic, Expectation (GOTE)

What are the three benefits of stunt casting?

Increased ticket sales, larger more diverse audience, more young people going to shows

What are the three components of color?

Hue, saturation, lightness

What are the three signifiers of a Hero prop?

Highly detailed, main character or hero uses often, helps tell a story

What is histronic?

Affected performance with excessive gestures, vocal choices, and emotions

What is the Bougeoisi?

Category of theater that falls under mainstream theater and professional sports (middle class)

What is peripeteia?

Term that Greek tragedy refers to a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances

What is Velarium?

Sail cloth that acted as a canopy to provide shade for the patrons

What is catharasis?

Emotional release or purification that the audience experiences as a result of watching a tragedy

What is cultural conditioning?

Absorbing and interpreting the influences, norms, and messaging from our environment and translate them into what we believe to be acceptable

What are Aristotle's two types of drama?

Tragedy and comedy

What is Verbatim Theater?

Using actual words spoken by people interviewed about a topic often facing censorship

Who is Pope Innocent III/Papal Edict?

Religious figure issued what edict in 1210 that banned clergy from appearing on stage, marking a significant point in the history of church and theater relations

What is "Called to Song"?

Musical term that describes moments when characters express their deepest emotions or important plot points through song

What is "The Great White Way"?

Nickname for Broadway comes from the streets' many bright marquees and billboards promoting shows

What is verisimilitude?

Main goal of acting; creating a truthful representation of life on stage

Renowned performer and civil rights activist played Joe in "showboat" and famously sang "Ol' Man Sailor".

Paul Robeson

What is The Festival of Dionysus?

When the Greeks would celebrate plays

What is the MOCA?

Museum in LA that was painted by European artist representing the bodies that Bush wouldn't let see. Owner painted over it and got fired.

What is Vaudeville?

Variety entertainment popular in 20th century includes acts such as music, dance, comedy, and magic that was a precursor to the modern musical

What themes did showboat address that were uncommon in theater at the time?

Racism, inner-racial relationships, and struggles of African Americans

What English playwright wrote God of Vengeance?

Sholem Ash

What is God of Vengeance about?

Lesbian relationships and Jewish themes in early 20th century

Why is Sarah Kane important?

Exclaimed the idea that media seems more upset by representations of violence than violence itself; wrote a play about man with gouged eyes and women who is sexually assulated

What is censere?

Latin words meaning to express an opinion

What is ekkyklema?

Machine that would roll things out on Greek stage

What is Ob skene?

Off stage; refers to obscene

What is Lysistrata by Aristophanes?

Ancient greek comedy of women trying to end war by denying men sex

What is Jeremy Collier's Poetic Justice?

Showing that poetic justice is basically karma; without it theater is amoral

What is the Vision of the Golden Rump?

1737 anonymous play about Lord Chamberlain making fun of his butt

What did the Vision of the Golden Rump lead to?

Theatrical Licensing Act 1737

What is the Theatrical Licensing Act 1737?

Script must be shown to the board before performed; allowed us to have all the previous scripts

What is Cohen vs. California?

Someone got arrested for having word F word on their shirt; basically represents we have the right to have free speech

What are the limits to the first amendement?

Harming and Inciting something

What is the Hays Code?

Hollywood basically "self censored" themselves and created rules of conduct for scripts

Who created the Hollywood Production Code?

Father Daniel Lord

What did Father Daniel Lord ban from being performed?

Sex, making fun of religion, booze and drugs as fun, profanity, and disrespect towards the flag

What is the Laramie Project?

Most banned play in America; about 1998 murder of Matt Shepard and the communities response to his hate crime

What are the two models of diversion?

Classical and contemporary

What diversion does expenditures for recreation globally?

Contemporary diversion

What is butoh?

Making non-western art; egalitarian after WW2

What is Onnagata?

Men who specialize in female roles; women banned from performances since 1603

What is Kabuki?

Japanese theater; specifically only by men

Who is Bando?

Popular Japanese Kabuki performer

What is Tamar Gendler Theory?

Fiction play allows us to prepare how to keep us alive

What is important about Merce Cunningham?

Created dances that dancers have no linear development; decide who is the main focal point

What is John's Cage's 4'33?

4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence in theater to show anything can be art/music

What is Avant Garde?

French word; art ahead of it's time

What are media sensation seekers?

Have high novelty; media will typically target them so they purchase products

What is theater?

A impersonating B as C looks on; at least two people to perform somethinf

When does the Safe Distance Hypothesis occur?

Audience identifies with the characters with unresolved emotions; provides reassurance

What is Willing Suspension of Disbelief?

Audience desire to make things seem fake so they feel good and ignore what is truly happening

What is Presentational vs. Representational?

Presentational: actors don't act to 4th wall

Representational: play FOR the audience and break 4th wall

What is Adaptation vs. the Simulation Hypothesis?

Darwinian adaptation of evolution(self selecting form of theater) and Simulation Hypothesis is a "test drive" of life or death

What does hubris mean?

Pride/arrogance

What is orchestra?

Dancing space; circle in middle of theater stage

What is Hamartia?

"Great person" has a fall from power through a fatal flaw; tragedy

What is anagnorisis?

Reversal of fortune through recognition; simple/complex

When was the first democracy created?

508 B.C.E

Apollonian vs. Dionysian

Apollo: harmony, order, reason; Dionysus: Chaos and disorder

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Explained that humans have poor perception; shows that need to learn through reason and wisdom to live or you'll be stuck in the shadows

Who is Thespis?

First western actor; portrayed multiple people in one play

What is representation?

Playing for audience; how someone is shown to others

What is important about the audience?

People could only sit in certain sections; slaves were on wooden flors, women weren't allowed, and higher up/ rich were in closer spots

What is statue of Venus?

Statue that romans placed and got offerings; goddess of love and fertility

What is wetwang?

Burial site in England where woman gladiator was found; in fetal position and had trinkets/weapons

What are naumachias?

Naval battles that were performed; expensive and a form of gambling

What is important about Constantine?

Decline in drama because Christianity overtook; Baptism of Constantine

What is the Bellow Organ?

Water pumped organ

What is important about wealthy supporters?

Placed bets, gained social and political favors, and sponsored slaves (gladiators)

What is the Battle of Corinth 146BC?

Romans defeating Greeks and inhibiting their empire; collected artifacts and spread

What does gladius mean?

Sword

What is the goal of acting?

Believability

What was Stanislavski's method?

Wanted to create verisimilitude; where method acting came from; created visual and psychological appearances of truth in acting

What were the elements in Duke's method?

Authentic costumes/fabrics/props, strong colors, and no "lead" actors

Who is Duke Saxe Meiningen?

Considered first director; hosted famous plays everywhere from 1866-1890

What is freud?

Novelty and familiarity of how people enjoy things

What is entertainment and novelty?

Far end of spectrum for people; enjoying something that is new and exciting; typically associate with high attention seekers

High vs. Low Sensation Seekers

High: typically targeted by media and push bounderies to get entertainment

Low: don't take risks; fine with how things are

What is abramovie?

Audience is a part of performance and do what they want to a performer standing there

What was Rhythem O?

Abramovie performance where women stood there and people could use 72 items to decorate her. Someone chose loaded gun and placed it towards her head.

What are the homicide rates in Japan vs USA (per 100,000)?

US: 4.7 to Japan: 3; ultimately high homicide rate in US and lower expressed anger in Japan

What was object violence children?

Children were shown aggressive cartoons and then acted the same way towards possessions

When was the opening of the Colosseum?

80 AD

What is important about the opening of the Colossuem?

100 days of games; audience chose outcome of people fighting

What is important about the cost?

Free for anyone to attend; rich people would spend money to gain popularity

Why is showboat important?

First "book" musical and multiracial cast in broadway

What are the demographics/cost in theater?

Characters are chosen to try and represent demographics; slight increase in non-white audience members

What are the functions of libretto/books?

Tells clear stories, creates understandable characters, and creates moments that can be in song

How/why does vaudeville change?

Changed to libretto form to compete with Hollywood's new film industry

What is Called to dance?

Dance numbers in the middle of performances; expressing emotions

What is contemporary entertainment and violence?

Violence in games/entertainment linking with more violence in reality

What is circus maximus?

Roman outdoor area where gladiators battles and races occured

What is venatoria?

Wild beast fights

What was the edict of Milan?

Christianity was a legal religion of Rome

What were gladiatrix?

Women gladiators; fought little people

What was important about stage shape?

Semicircle shape (orchestra in half)

Why were spaces and performance styles spread?

Create simulation of roman culture; makes more presentational

What was Hamlet's advice to the players?

Honor the words or the writer; act truthfully and not over/underreacting

What are the reactions against realism?

Why would we want to look at something that is already in our lives; art should be imaging different realities.