THTR 1020 Study Guide - Final Guide: Moscow Art Theatre, Stage Lighting, Anton Chekhov
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Costumes power to shape idenity: a major part of theatrical role-play. Costumers need to consider directors concept, actors" physical acions. Performers must be able to act with ease and conidence. Meeing the pracical need of the producion. Direcing the audience"s atenion to paricular parts of the body. Changing our impressions of the body"s natural proporions. Drawing our eyes in a paricular direcion. Texture diferent fabrics catch stage light in diferent ways thick textures absorb light, smooth relects it texture can inluence a garments movement textures can help deine characters social emoional physical states. Colors combine with or stand out from the backgrounds. Light: not what we see, but what we see by. Lighing creates emoional atmosphere, uniies visual elements onstage. 19th century: gas lighing and the gas table. Reinforce the central image or the theme of the play. On or of: the most fundamental and controllable level. Simple changes in intensity can produce new efects.
