Theatre Styles and conventions

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Epic Theatre Description

A theatrical style that emphasises the audience's critical engagement with the performance in order to provoke thought and social change.

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Epic Theatre conventions

  • direct address

  • placards

  • episodic structure (non-linear)

  • unnamed characters (Eg. the bus driver, the waiter, etc)

  • alienation

  • historification

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Poor theatre

A theatrical movement that rejects elaborate staging and focuses on the actor's performance and the audience's imagination. Often utilizes minimal props and set design to convey the story.

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conventions of Poor Theatre

  • Minimalistic sets

  • Little to no props

  • If used, props will change from one to another; focus on implication rather than literal purpose

  • audience participation.

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Commedia D'Arte description

A form of theatre characterized by masked characters, stock situations, and a focus on physical comedy and dialogue. often represented in circus

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Commedia D'Arte conventions

  • stock characters

  • Slapstick

  • circus like

  • Mask

  • exaggerated movement

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