THTR 1020 Chapter : Codes And Conventions
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Theater 1020: codes and conventions 2/22/2016 5:30:00 pm. Ideology- the abstract social ideas, values or belief systems that underpin our understanding of reality. Codes to look for: verbal language (including how language sounds, is arranged and organized, bodily codes (contact, proximity, physical orientation, appearance, facial expression, commodity codes. Reading a play (codes continued: blueprints for action theatrical worlds, life is implied, schechner basic code of events , stage directions. The protagonist: carries the action, often experiences the greatest change-dynamic, identifying that character helps you understand the play overall . The stage world never obeys the same rules as ours because in its world, nothing else is possible besides what is there. Be someone is aroused to meaning. fuchs: let yourself be affected and changed, aroused to meaning- excited, searching for it, cultivating curiosity. 2/22/2016 5:30:00 pm: founded provincetown playhouse with her husband george cram. Cook: wrote many of the plays they produced, won a pulitzer prize for alison"s house.
