THEA 1206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Classical Unities, Iambic Pentameter, Verisimilitude

• School: Baylor University
• Department: Theater Arts
• Course: THEA 1206
• Professor: Adam Flores

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Our two spectrums: art - entertainment, empathy - artistic distance. Three things need for theatre peter brook: empty space, person in action, an audience present. Audience is located on 1 side of the stage. Picture frame, movie theatre, church: thrust stage. Audience on 3 sides of the stage. Audience on all sides of the stage. Elements of a story aristotle: plot, character, theme, language, music, spectate- (cid:862)the wo(cid:449) fa(cid:272)to(cid:396)(cid:863) (cid:862)fu(cid:374) fa(cid:272)to(cid:396)(cid:863) Inciting incident: rising action, climax, falling action. How it would look in real life. Pleasure from others misfortune: situational comedy. (cid:862) it co(cid:373)s(cid:863) the situation is humorous. Ofte(cid:374) ti(cid:373)es to a(cid:448)oid (cid:862)t(cid:396)ou(cid:271)le(cid:863: farce. Ron burgundy / borat: comedy of idea. Daily show, colbert report: comedy of manners. Started as making fun of the rich. (cid:862)life is a t(cid:396)agedy (cid:449)he(cid:374) see(cid:374) i(cid:374) (cid:272)lose up, (cid:271)ut a (cid:272)o(cid:373)edy i(cid:374) a lo(cid:374)g shot(cid:863) Distinctions of musical performances: greek chorus. Often farcical: show boat 1927.