THEA104 Lecture 1: THEA104 all lectures

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Theatre
• Course: THEA104
• Professor: allancarlsen

Document Summary

Intellectual clarification - it changed who you were and how you thought about things; discovering a truth: emotional purification - an emotional revelation where you feel clean afterwards, tragedies are usually associated with cathartic reactions. Big bang theory or fresh prince of bel-air: domestic (majority - friends, seinfeld, realistic situations with relatable people, ex. Fences : tragedy - cleansed, purged, exhilirated, cathartic, feel empathy and participate in other"s feelings, feel empathy for the characters, ex. Dramatic structure: introduction, inciting incident sets off the plot, rising action, needs to escalate, crisis. Should be as close as possible to: climax. Resolution should be close to climax, falling action should be kept to a minimum or things get boring. Typical story that moves from beginning to end: cinematic. *** (most important indicator: jean-paul sartre man is the sum total of his actions , the self, voice, breathing is most important, body, muscular control and memory, strength and endurance.