THE 2000- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 62 pages long!)
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A (actor) preforms b (character) for c (audience) breakdown preconceived ideas of what people should look like (character descriptions) upstage move away from audience downstage move towards audience. People sitting on all sides of stage given circumstances the total set of environmental and situational conditions of the play which influence the action, including the plot, any facts, historical info, setting/time/place, (must be provided through stage. Directions) rhetoric the art if using language so as to persuade or influence others --> less influence on words, more so emotions. Prescribed limits of appropriate social behaviors within set situations history of actor training consists of mater/apprentice model (trial and error) Actors are invited back to preform cold readings from script onbook. Script not in hand typecasting leading man leading woman young lovers. Created persona of jim crow in 1828. A traveling circus like production of uncle tom"s cabin. Pickaninny uncivilized; energetic; disheveled poor child (topsy in utc)
