THTR 1020 Chapter : Theatre 1
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Life is implied: schechner basic code of events . Closet dramas- meant to be read, not acted. Imagination takes form of your point of view. Plays are alive: personalized, only exist in mind of audience members. Isolated in space and time: a place with no accidents, experience it as an entire, specific world passing through you, questions. Be aroused to meaning : ask what the play asks of you, what is the point, how is their intention known. The stage would never obeys the same rules as our, because in its own world nothing else is possible besides what is there . Objects as gateways- stands out, symbolic, changes the world of the play. Ignore character list, wait until you see them in the play: approach with your own point of view. A bare stage can become any location by using language or gesture our minds fill in the blanks .
