THE-2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bunraku, Cultural Diversity, Melting Pot
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Why is theater important/matter: helping audiences and readers to experience a position other than their own. Develop experience and empathy: embrace identities and express themselves, offers a mirror of culture, potential for education and social change. Larame project- gay killed: think critically and collaboratively. How would you define theater at this moment: 2. How do audience members negotiate the theatrical event: 4. Question #1: very intimate and personal, think about what are the elements, how is theater unique from different froms of art, what isn"t theater. Question #2: aristotle: original theater scholar. Poetics is so important it is still being used today. Believed that all human beings have mimetic impulse/ mimesis. Humans have an innate desire to imitate called mimetic impulse because of this, theater is universal. When human beings tell stories they don"t just want to tell stories they want to imitate them and be a part of it.
