THTR 1020 : Theatre Final Exam
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Class notes: directors, envision the play as reality, uniting ensemble, coaching actors, orchestrating action, functions of directors, actor training, physical, collaborators, auteur, mostly from film, performance text. Audience: analysis, given circumstances, characters, dialogue-helps with pace, ideas, action. Understand the order of the play (domino effect: production concept, vision of the play based on the text. Based around a theme: low concept. Not at odds of what"s in the script: ex: free man of color, high concept. Changes setting/style of show than what playwrights intended: ex: shakespeare. Pages 185-195: actor managers, in the 17th century through the 19th century in europe and. Class notes: neoclassicism, france 17th century, french academy, best writings get to the stage, believed in unities. Action (1 plot: decorum, people behaving according to their societal place, verisimilitude, unbelievable, corneille, wrote lay called le cid, period of stale greek drama, moliere, wrote comedies.
