DRAM 116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rhapsode, Griot, Live Theatre Company
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Presents a story through a visual medium. To show the way people live (past present future) Helps us to understand ourselves and human nature: romeo & juliet first love. Everyday language is filled with the language of the theatre don"t (cid:1) be some dramatic , staging a house for sale, don"t make a scene , playing roles (cid:1) (cid:1) We play roles in life brother sister girlfriend student athlete etc. Objectives : what actors/audience expect, the reasons performances occur. Organization: how actors, audiences, actions, arenas, and internal arrangements of those elements are organized in relationship to one another. Consciousness : the degree to which actors and audiences are conscious of each other and their objectives (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Ritual community: repetitive pattern, specific outcome. Film/tv/media: camera is an integral part of the storytelling, for profit, complete control of audience view, hard to fool the camera, audience gathers in multiple places @ multiple times.
