THEATRE 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Political Satire, Ragtime, August Wilson
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Theatre is a dramatic action, a pretense performed for an audience. Theatre takes place in a perpetual pretense tense. On the stage it is always now, not the past. World of the play- we must make the assumption that in the world of the play there are no accidents. Nothing occurs by chance" not even in chance. In that case nothing in the play is without significance. Aristotle-the poetics-work of dramatic criticism, broke drama into essential parts. Kwame kwei-armah- theater is a palace of thought. Simon stephens- politics of the play lie in the choices. Political gesture of portraying the middle class in a dramatic fashion. Scheherazade- marries a prince that kills his brides morning after marriage. She tells story all night every night to avoid death. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you -zora neale hurston. Acting is living truthfully under imaginary circumstances - sanford meisner.