THEA 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Richard Foreman, Sam Shepard, Factions Of Halo
16 Dec 2016
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Difference between in theater(audibly) an movies (visually) Theater as a ritual; group and individuals do over again (in greece it brought people together) Dionysus->roman name bacchus-> god of theatre, thyrsi->symbolizes semen (looks like a penis) raised by satyr (legs of goat, body of man) Parallels between theater and real life, actors=humanity, simulation=reality, rehearsal=discovery, stage=world, audiences=society. Three components of theater are actor space & audience. Samuel beckett-> waiting for godot (tragicomedy and absurdist) Audience experience is a collective response (thriller=scared, Midsummer(cid:495)s night dream (cid:523)directed by peter brooke written by comedy=laugh) Tragedy= oedipus the king, a streetcar named desire. Tragic realization=anagnorists follows a heros failed efforts. Tragic comedy went from good fortune to bad and bad to good. Modern tragicomedy-> mixed moods endings are not tragic nor. Modern american tragicomedy-> inherited from ibsen and shaw. Melodrama endings are clear cut and extreme expresses the truth of human condition as we perceive it an exploited situation not character development.
