DRAM 1101 Chapter Summary: Performance
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Elements that build a theatrical event: audience, actors, script, director, theatre space, design elements. Cope with challenges (therapeutic- roleplaying, strategies, escape) Highly interpretive act: i saw this vs they saw this . Think critically about the world around us. Connect with past -> elevate us (think about where we are and where we are going) Enacts stories about human beings in front of other human beings. Organize actors, playwright, and audiences into specific relationships, all of whom share a consciousness about their activities. Theatrical paradigm helps us understand non-theatrical activities in real life. Characteristics all performance shares: actor: a person who does something, action: a thing done, arena: a place where the thing is done, arrangement: how the thing itself is spatially and temporally arranged. Objectives: what actors and audiences expect/reasons performances occur. Organization: how actors, audiences, actions, arenas, and internal arrangements of elements organized in relationship to one another.
