THTR 210- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 55 pages long!)
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Drama- a word used to describe plays, collective or singular key terms for describing drama: script. dramatic text, play-text. Theatre: live performances for audience, which may or may not take place in purpose built theaters. C the conventions associated with a particular cultural practice from what happens on stage (the show) to what happens before, during, and after the performance. Performance a broad term for the different ways humans represent themselves in embodied ways performative activity. There are many theories on the origin of theatre: ritual: prescribed actions, passed down through generations, usually with a efficacious function (meaning they effect change in the natural or spiritual world, theatre: possible extension of ritual. 508 bce greece forms what is commonly known as first western democracy. Athens is a major political and cultural power but not the only city state, The festival of dionysus: god of wine, fertility, and revelry.
