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Praxis: Theatre (5641)

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Forgetting about the project in order to provides time to let ideas hatch

The designers produce drawings, models, etc., necessary to construct the designs

Takes place at each step of design process, as well as after the project is complete; an examination of methods and materials used to reach final design goal

Theatre Collaboration

Team-building, listening and the communication process, being reliable, having a good work ethic, sharing, creating a supportive environment, confidence-building

A. Emergency copy to replace purchased copy that is lost and not available for an imminent performance
B. Making a single copy of recordings of performances for evaluating rehearsal purposes
D. Copying for the purpose of scholarly research

Actors Connection

NYC's largest educational & networking studio for professional actors & NY acting schools

United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT)

membership organization which aims to advance the skills and knowledge of theatre, entertainment, and performing arts professionals involved in the areas of design, production, and technology.

International Thespian Society (ITS)

Education Theatre Association's student honorary organization that recognizes achievements of high/middle school theatre students

Education Theatre Association (EdTA)

professional association for theatre educators

American Alliance of Theatre Education (AATE)

promotes standards in theatre education

provides resume services, articles, audition monologues and links

Konstantin Stanislavksi

Father of Modern Acting; developed a highly influential method of actors training called the System
Co-founder of Moscow Arts Theatre

Jerzy Grotowski

Polish theatrical director & innovator of experimental theatre, the "theatre laboratory" and "poor theatre." Music by actors, avoided machinery, special effects, make-up, costume changes.

German-born American actress and drama teacher.
Training through improvisation techniques to later use in characters
Respect for Acting
Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?

American dramatist
Made improv popular
Developed exercises for actors to improve improvisation skills

American acting teacher & disciple of Stanislavski
Developed a school of acting based in emotional memory/recall

American acting teacher and disciple of Stanislavski who based her work on close attention to the text

Viewpoints,
Improv-ensemble building

Theatre artist, theorist, and creator of the "Theatre of the Oppressed"
Designs theatre events for the disenfranchised to encourage and support social change
Form Theatre

Eliminates distinction between audience and actors

Light-emitting diodes; alternative to traditional stage lighting instruments
high light output with lower power consumption

"ER" Sharp edge, highly controlled pool of light, can project a pattern (gobo)

Adjustable beam spreads, from spot to flood, soft edge, color washes

Color wash and back lighting, flare and very soft beam edge

narrow spotlight used to "follow" a performer, provides highlights to a performer

Digital Audio Workstation (D.A.W.)

electronic device or computer software application for recording, editing, and producing audio files

Computer-aided design (CAD)

use of computer systems to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design

MIDI Show Control (MSC) protocol

Extention of the international Music Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) standard that enables entertainment equipment to easily communicate with each other through the process of show control

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides

Most famous Greek Tragedians

Christopher Marlow

Famed blank verse, Tamburlane and The Jew of Malta, paved the way for Shakespeare
A poet and fiction writer

Theatre of the Absurd

Restoration Theater

Comedy of Manners
Charles II (1660) allowed 2 companies to perform in England
William Davenant in charge of Duke's Company
Thomas Killigrew in charge of King's Company
Notable playwrights of this type of comedy: William Wycherly, George Etherege, William Congreve
Themes: Comical nature of love and marriage

William Congreve

Way of the World, which represented various characters of society in Comedy of Manners (Restoration Theatre)

Commedia dell'arte

Improvisational comedy developed in Renaissance Italy
Involved stock characters
Farce, buffoonery, standard characters had tremendous influence on Western comedy

Michael Chekhov

Trained with Stanislavksi
Developed "the psychological gesture:" character can be successful by the creation of notable, telling gestures that sum up their feelings, designers, emotions

art of judging human character from facial features

Sanford Meisner

Member of Group Theatre
Think like the character, not like an actor
Get out of the head and act naturally
"live truthfully under imaginary circumstances,"
Repetition

Calderon De la Barca

wrote hundreds of autos sacramentales (sacramental tales) and secular "cloak and sward" plays that reflected values of Spanish Golden Age
Plays had more symbolism than Vega

Dramatist who turned moralities from the middle ages into modern productions by fleshing out the allegorical characters

French master of comedy
The Misanthrope, The School for Wives, Tartuffe, The Miser, The Imaginary Invalid, The Bourgeois Gentleman

Contemporary theatre company known for creating immersive productions, including audience movement (promenade) and nontraditional spaces

Experimental and avant-garde theatre director

Aristotle's "turning point"

Didactic dramas whose characters were allegorical and represented virtues and faults.

Theoretical perspective focusing on issues of power and voice

1900s scenic designer
Replaced flat scenery with 3D structures like steps, platforms, ramps
Light used for angles and dimension

Process Centered

Focus on Process, journey of understanding theatre

Product Centered

Focus on end result of theatre, highly structured

Deals only with special aspects of a set, no color
Often used as a preliminary to determine how actors will use the stage

Theatre of Cruelty

Traditionally the first actor, "chorus leader"
Stepped apart from chorus and began to engage in dialogue with them, involved in beginning of tragedy form

French dramatist, leading exponent of Theatre of the Absurd
Wrote Rhinoceros

Type of drama which was popularized by Ibsen
Situation faced by protagonist is present by the author as a representative instance of a contemporary social problem
Also used by George Benard Shaw

Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta (CMY)

Used to mix colors in moving lights

Two beams of different colors are focused onto the same area

Subtractive Color

Two colors of gels are placed in front of a lantern

Compact Iodide Daylight. Light with high intensity lamp that simulates the look of daylight

Point in a performance at which the plot is revealed of explained

Digital Light Curtain (DLC)

Remote-controlled batten with color changes

Compact Source Iodide (CSI)

Used in follow spots

Metal disc with slots that can be rotated in front of a lantern to give the effect of movement in the light

False Perspective

Design technique that makes the set appear larger than it really is

a psychoacoustic effect; 0-14 millisecond delay in sound from speakers, allowing audience to remain focused on the actors rather than distracted by the delayed sound

Brightest part of the beam; certain lanterns have controls to eliminate hot spots

International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees; the union for stage employees

George Farquhar

Wrote The Recruiting Officer, which was the earliest play in NYC
Witty and rauncy

"Free Theatre"
Put on productions of plays that had been banned elsewhere

Incorporated symbolism into most of his work. Wanted to reinvent commedia dell'arte
Used the Delsarte system

American playwright who wrote Madame Butterfly, The Girl of the GOlden West
Furthered Naturalism

Created Chinese Absurdist Theatre
Won Nobel Prise in 2000

Brought pastoral to England and created the form of Court Comedy

French writer of naturalism

Italian Renaissance
Entertainments performed between acts of operas and full-length plays

Pioneer of field of theatrical lighting

Tales of knights
Ballads with elaborate costumes and scenery
Lope de Vegas
Calderon de Barca

Traditional Japanese theatre of music, dance, poetry
Serene and peaceful mood
Based on Eastern religions (Hinduism & Buddhism)
Fixed Repertoire
William Butler Years adapted Noh for Western Auditiences in a series of short plays

Device in Greek drama in which chorus responds to a previous stanza of verse

Aristotle's Poetics

Exposition, complication, reversal, recognition, resolution

French Playwrights in the 17th century
Society, reason, and enlightenment

18th Century
Extravagant costumes, elaborate scenery, stories that involve high degree of melodrama, clearly defined genres of tragedy and comedy

High number of characters, several subplots that eventually merge

1750-1800s
Mankind's unfaltering trust in kindness of nature
Glorification of past civilizations
Abstraction and idealism

Express raw emotions, not to teach/entertain/duplicate reality
Highly exaggerated movements and voice techniques
Struggles of a spiritual nature with the protagonist as well as between social classes

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