[THEA 1206] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (28 pages long)
29 Mar 2017
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Live performance (cid:498)the empty space(cid:499) by peter brook. 3 things made something a live performance: 1. an empty space, 2. someone in it, 3. someone watching rules of live performance for theater. It"s a one-time experience (it will never be the same than that performance, even if it"s the exact same cast and performance, it will never feel the same for the performers or the audience) Audience: active participation: two-way responsibility of communication and effort, recognition of the original 3d philosophy of entertainment. Can reinforce social norms through objectivity art . Is for humans (even an animal can be entertained but it wouldn"t understand art) Didactic, as it pertains to the human condition theater. Theater as entertainment comes in the form of plays, musicals, and performance pieces. Theater as art follows above art rules: it"s challenging, investigative, critical, an examination of the human condition, for the better.
