TAR 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Real Face, Dramaturge, Sigmund Freud
12 Aug 2018
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Objective: to identify a definition of theatre that applies the basic concepts of mimesis, persona, empathy, catharsis, and aesthetic distance. To understand and successfully identify the basic process of bringing a play to production; key personnel involved in that action; characteristics of standard theatre spaces, stages; and the basic qualities of theatre environments. Theatre scholar tracy c. davis wrote: whereas literature is a private act of the imagination (for writer and reader), theatre happens in the present tense before the eyes of an audience. Answer: in order to be theatre, it must have witnesses. British director peter brook defined theatre this way in his 1968 book, the empty space: i can take an empty space and call it a bare stage. A man (person) walks across the empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.
