THTR 1001 Lecture : Theatre Notes
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Genre: a combination of dramatic structure and conventions that repeat, a system of classi cation, it sets up expectations. Economic and institutional: organizes the way we consume media, help industry produce and market products (through standardization of the product ) and distribute them. Artistic function of genres: genres unconsciously instructs us as spectators as a was something is intended to be intended. Andre antione and the teatra libre: rejecting realism- expressionism (1920s), absurdism (1940s), theatre of cruelty (1930s) The details that are left in a essential to the story they want to tell: you usually have to read a play more than once. Read for context rst, then read for plot, theme, and visualization: think of the play as a self contained word, a play exists in its own reality. Shape the play into its own planet: a play script is not a at piece of literature -removes the soul. Aristotitelian plot terms: deus ex machina, peripetia, anagorises, catharsis.
