THE-2000 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Aristotle, Tony Award, The Glass Menagerie
THE-2000
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
What is Theatre?
Theatre a e a for of art usigs ords ad atios ME a a for idiiduals to epress
theseles Draa that takes plae o stage Eperieig hat it is like to e aother perso i
aother orld stortellig ith a sparkle
Theatre is whatever it means to you
How do pros and scholars define it?
Aristotle- original theatre scholar
Aristotles Poetics (335 BC), scientific approach to theatre
How theatre started, why people had reason to do dramatic things
Figured Humans have innate mimetic desire and tell stories by acting out
Mimesis- imitation
People want to show off
Due to this, the is universal
Childhood games and roleplaying are basic examples
Basic level has:
Actor or performer(s)
Audience
Text- some sort of plan or plot, not necessarily rigid or set in stone, an ending is known
Lieess- can be changed and affected, audience can affect show, actors response and decisions can
make relationship
Other performances:
ie basketball, no set ending, simply someone will win
Juggler, No development or variation, no interaction
Wedding- No actors
Baptism- No connection to audience, no reciprocal interaction
Film- No living factor
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Theatre v. Drama
Drama:
The text
Reading experience
Personal/individual
Fixed
Metaphor: Skeleton
Theatre:
Whole Production
Sensory experience
Communal
Interpretive
Metaphor: “keleto, ski, usle…
Messier, but much more interesting than drama
Theatre unique
Theatre is ephemeral, short lived every performance. Depends on change, no two productions the same
Collaborative: Director, designer, actors, stage hands, stage manager, etc.without, now show
Hybrid form of art:
Richard Wagner: Gesamtkunstwerk (Complete art work) Argued The was highest art form
Said theatre involved art, lit, music, visual, statues, color, light, dance, movement
Means the can be very strong combining all these strengths, but also vulnerable to all of their
weaknesses
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Document Summary
Aristotles poetics (335 bc), scientific approach to theatre. How theatre started, why people had reason to do dramatic things. Figured humans have innate mimetic desire and tell stories by acting out. Text- some sort of plan or plot, not necessarily rigid or set in stone, an ending is known (cid:862)li(cid:448)e(cid:374)ess(cid:863)- can be changed and affected, audience can affect show, actors response and decisions can make relationship. Other performances: ie basketball, no set ending, simply someone will win. Baptism- no connection to audience, no reciprocal interaction. Depends on change, no two productions the same. Collaborative: director, designer, actors, stage hands, stage manager, etc. without, now show. Richard wagner: gesamtkunstwerk (complete art work) argued the was highest art form. Said theatre involved art, lit, music, visual, statues, color, light, dance, movement. Means the can be very strong combining all these strengths, but also vulnerable to all of their weaknesses.
