DRM100Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Erwin Piscator, Integrated Circuit Layout Design Protection, Heredity

• School: UTSG
• Department: Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
• Course: DRM100Y1
• Professor: Noam Lior

Document Summary

Skene (or scene) originally just a wall but eventually was painted big doors that lead behind stage. Logeion proskenion (place in front of the wall where we talk) a raised stage/platform. Orchestra (lower pit) the chorus stays in the orchestra, altar is in the center to dionysus. Parados two long avenues used for entrances and exits. Audience composed of primarily citizens, may have been male-only. Actors wear full-head masks, to switch characters easily. Stories from myth and legend characters are rulers, gods, heroes. The festival of dionysa is like the olympics of play writing wealthy citizens pay for training and costumes of the chorus. Deals with characters of a higher type . Arouses pity and fear in order to achieve catharsis (purging) Dionysus is the god of wine and theatre. Son of zeus and semele (daughter of cadmus) Masculine figure with long hair and beautiful features. This play plays with comedy and tragedy.