THTR 1020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Industrial Revolution, The Communist Manifesto, Aeschylus
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In class: what"s in your wallet? and intro to codes and conventions. Watching something to release your emotions in order to cleanse yourself. Shakespeare -- theater demonstrates what humanity is. Samuel taylor coleridge belief saying that participation is the audience as the final collaborator: mimesis. Generating meaning: theatre generates meaning through action, active participation as an audience is vital not only in theater but in everything in life, breaking conventions generates meaning. Conventions and codes how we understand theatre"s meaning: conventions are an unspoken agreement between actor and audience concerning a fictional reality. As long as this covenant is unbroken, other fictions can be built upon it . The audience believes or leans a convention for the duration of the play. These conventions don"t work in real life. E. g. darkness in black comedy, or asides (when an actor breaks away and talks to him/herself or the audience) in hamlet. Asides are also called breaking the 4th wall.
