TH 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eve Ensler, Interculturalism
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What is theat(er)(re): theatre is the action, theater is the building. Theatre existed everywhere: scribe and sardow perfected boulevard theatre in france in the 1700s. Melodrama more about the plot than anything else. English theatres started spelling it with the re ending to try to mimic french theatre. Greek: theatron means seeing place , theaomai means to behold , dran means to do (this is where drama comes from, all together this means an action is witnessed . Elements that make up theatre: performance, audience, script/ score (something to be rehearsed, space (to perform) Traditions and innovations: theatre is social, there is a system of values: The culture: every culture has developed theatre. Forces of theatre: globalization (technology, post modernism they are the voice to other / progressiveness. They are breaking rules to find new forms. They break traditions: multi-culturalism a specific culture is being celebrated, inter-culturalism mixing cultures to create new forms.