THEA 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sanford Meisner, Moscow Art Theatre, David Mamet
18 Jun 2018
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1) About the test
a) First 70 questions are quotes
b) Second half is lecture notes and textbook
2) Chapter one
a) Theatre is different every time whereas tv is the same
a.i) It depends on the experiences of the different actors
b) Theatre parallels life
b.i) Life mirroring
b.ii) The actor is the human and the fictional character
c) Theatron comes from the greek word of seeing plays
d) Theatres started in dance circles, amphitheatre, garage
e) Greek word for actor is hypocrites
e.i) It means the answerer
e.ii) Actors react to the audience
f) Audiences
f.i) Audience is a part of the play
f.ii) You are connected to everyone around you
f.iii) Theater is a ritual experience to bring communities together
f.iv) Response to performance is immediate
3) Chapter 9
a) Stanford Meisner
a.i) Acting truthfully in an imaginary situation
a.ii) Acting is living truthfully in the given circumstances -KEVIN
b) The cherry orchard, the seagull, the three sister
b.i) Anton chekhov
c) Actors goal
c.i) Tell the character’s circumstances as truthfully and effectively as possible
c.ii) The magic IF
(c.ii.1) Its as if i was in this person’s situation not if i was this
person
(c.ii.2) Emotional recall is using personal emotions
(c.ii.3) Using similarities
d) External technique
d.i) The activity that the actor chooses, imitates or outwardly demonstrates a
character's behavior
d.ii) David Garrick approached it as mythical behavior
d.iii) Laurence olivier
e) Konstantin stanislavski
e.i) The method
(e.i.1) To work from the inside out
(e.i.2) Internal belief is believing you are the character then
portraying it
e.ii) Moscow art theater with checkoff
e.iii) Wrote how an actor prepares
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f) Actors tools
f.i) Body, voice, impulses
f.ii) catharsis - the purging of emotion
g) People to know
g.i) Lee Strasberg
(g.i.1) Acting teacher
g.ii) Sanford Meisner
(g.ii.1) Neighborhood playhouse theater
(g.ii.2) Group theatre
g.iii) David Mamet and William Macy
(g.iii.1) Practical aesthetics for acting techniques
(g.iii.2) Goal of practical aesthetics is to provide the actor with
tools to perform with the freedom to be involved
g.iv) Anne Bogart
(g.iv.1) Dance choreography
(g.iv.2) Six elements of space, time, shape, movement, story,
emotion
(g.iv.3) Influenced by mary overlee
(g.iv.4) Recent works pg 206
g.v) Cicely Berry
(g.v.1) Britain's royal shakespeare company
(g.v.2) Voice director
(g.v.3) Pg 212
h) Improvisation
h.i) Pg 207
h.ii) Spontaneous invention
h.iii) Rehearsal tool to create image
4) Chapter 10
a) Caroline Neuber
a.i) First female actor-manager
a.ii) All aspects of production
b) Georg II, Duke
b.i) Producer
c) Antre Antoine
c.i) Paris Theatre Libre
d) Konstantin Stanislavski
d.i) Moscow art theatre
d.ii) Book
e) 3 types of Directors
e.i) Treat actors and designers as servants
e.ii) Group process, takes feedback
e.iii) Laid back, gives premise and feeds off of actors
f) Elia kazan
f.i) Gave his friends up as communists to save himself
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Document Summary
About the test, first 70 questions are quotes, second half is lecture notes and textbook, chapter one, theatre is different every time whereas tv is the same a. i) It depends on the experiences of the different actors: theatre parallels life. The actor is the human and the fictional character b. i) b. ii: theatron comes from the greek word of seeing plays, theatres started in dance circles, amphitheatre, garage, greek word for actor is hypocrites e. i) e. ii) Actors react to the audience: audiences f. i) f. ii) f. iii) f. iv) Theater is a ritual experience to bring communities together. Response to performance is immediate: chapter 9, stanford meisner a. i) a. ii) Acting is living truthfully in the given circumstances -kevin: the cherry orchard, the seagull, the three sister b. i) Tell the character"s circumstances as truthfully and effectively as possible. Its as if i was in this person"s situation not if i was this person (c. ii. 2) (c. ii. 3)
