THEA 1206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Proscenium
14 Feb 2017
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Six types of theater spaces (midterm: proscenium (1 side, arena (4 sides, found space (infinite sides, thrust (3 sides, traverse (2 sides, black box (any of these) Capacity to share another being"s emotions and feelings. The more empathy you feel, the less objective you tend to be. The gap between a viewer"s conscious reality and the fictional reality presented in a work of art. The more distance there is, the more objective you tend to be. Plato one of the foundational philosophers in western civilization: wrote the republic, tell stories, but don"t pretend to be something you are not (paraphrased) Aristotle student of plato: wrote poetics to rebuke plato"s view of theatre, suggested the six elements of well-developed drama, the 6 elements of drama (most important to least important, plot, character, thought, diction, rhythm, spectacle. The arrangement of events or incidents on the stage.
