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Acting
- Development of communication of characters in formal or informal productions or improvisations
- Sensory elements: Movement, sound, and spectacle
- Expressive qualities: Mood, emotions, ideas, dynamics
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Structure
- Involves interaction of all elements
- Includes design, rhythm, design, climax, conflict balance, and sequence
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Intent
Involves objective, purpose, theme, or basic idea of a work of drama
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Worth
- Value of judgement
- Includes knowledge, insight, wisdom, or feeling imparted by a work
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Effectiveness
- Involves degree to which a dramatic work succeeds
- Includes the evaluation of work's success such as entertaining, informing, inspiring
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Technical Support Tools
- Costumes
- Set
- Lights
- Props
- Make up
- Sound
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Drama
Reenactment of life situations for entertainment and human understanding
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Thrust Stage
- Extends into audence's seating area
- Audience surrounds on all 3 sides
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Improvisation
Act of movement without planning
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Jazz Singer
First talking film starring Al Jolson
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Pastoral Play
- Give courtiers a chance to indulge a taste for dressing up as peasants, singing, and dancing
- Italian Renaissance
- Attempt to recapture the Greek Satyr Play
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Exposition
Play writing device of providing info to the audience
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Creative Drama
Students improvise scenes for their own growth and edification, not that of an audience
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Dénoument
The portion of action that immediately follows the climax of the play
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Arena Staging
- Physical confrontation of audience and actor which the audiece surround the playing area
- "Theatre in the Round"
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Aristotelian Theatre
- Traditional theatre thought to be espoused by Aristotle
- Simple, unity, not mix of comedy and tragedy
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Block (verb)
To decide upon the gross movements of actors upon the stage
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Stock Company
- Resident company which actors were hired according to lines of work
- Large numbers of plays were prepared in short time
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Connotative Meaning
- Symbols that are vague in term of strict definition, but rich in poetic meaning.
- Emotional rather than intellectual
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Melodrama
Between drama and tragedy, very serious but is saved in the end
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Conventions
- Temporary "rules" of the performance.
- Specific to particular cultures, styles of theatre, and even individual productions
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Restoration Comedy
- Characteristic comedy of the English Restoration period
- Known for glittering language, salicious plot, and debauched characters
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Proscenium Staging
Form of physical configuration between actor and audience encouraged by the proscenium arch
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Satyr Play
Greek drama coesxisting with tragedy
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Inciting Incident
Throws the world of the play into disequilibrium (destroying stasis)
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Vomitoria
Tunnels that allowed the audience to exit the theatre with ease
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Proscenium Arch
An opening in the wall between the stagehouse and the auditorium
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Neoclassic Drama
Renaissance writers attempt to recapture the Glory of theatre in ancient Greece and Rome
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