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Undergraduate 1
12/09/2012

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Postmodernism
Definition
reflects issues of power in art
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African American Theatre
Definition
Reflects the diversity of American culture and the contributions of a particular group to that culture
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Asian American Theatre
Definition
The long important heritage of the theatres of Asia
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Hispanic Theatre
Definition

Chicano theatre

Cuban American theatre

Puerto Rican or Nuyorican theatre

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Native American Theatre
Definition
No NA tradition; there were spiritual and social traditions that had theatrial elements
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Feminist Theatre
Definition
stressed consciousness-raising to make people aware of the secondary position women had often been forced to occupy in social and political structures
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Gay and Lesbian Theatre
Definition
Lesbian first was part of feminist theatre then came drag.
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Political Theatre
Definition
Concerns itself with political ideas, causes, and individuals.
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Tragedy
Definition
Assumes that the universe is indifferent to human concerns and often cruel and malevolent
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Traditional Tragedy
Definition

Tragic heros and heroines

Tragic circumstances

Tragic Irretrievability

Acceptance of Responsibility

Tragic Verse

Effect of Tragedy

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Modern Tragedy
Definition
Do not have Kings or Queens as central figures; written in prose
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Heroic Drama
Definition
A serious drama of any period that incorporates heroic or noble figures and other features of traditional tragedy; but differs from tagedy in having a happy ending
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Romanticism
Definition
A literay movement that took hold in Germany at the time and spread to France and much of Europe, celebrated spirit of hope, personal freedom, and natural instincts.
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Bourgeois or Domestic Drama
Definition
Plays often dealing with problems of middle and lower class families or home rather than great affairs of state
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Melodrama
Definition

Music Drama

applied to plays that had background music of the kind we hear in movies

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Comedy
Definition
Less concerned with important matters
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Slapstick
Definition
Two thin slats of wood held closely together was developed to make the sound of hitting someone even more fearsome.
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Comic Premise

Suspension of natural laws

Definition
Turns the accepted notion of things upside down and makes this upended notion the basis of a play
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Techniques of Comedy
Definition

Verbal Humor

Characterization

Comic situations

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Verbal Humor
Definition
Anything from a pun to the most sophisticated discourse
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Comedy of Character
Definition
The discrepancy or incongruity lies in the way characters see themselbes or pretends to be.
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Plot Complications
Definition
Coincidences and mistaken identity
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Farce
Definition
Thrives on exaggeration
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Burlesque
Definition
Relies on knockabout physical humor, as well as gross exaggerations and, vulgarity
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Satire
Definition
Uses wit, irony, and exaggeration to attack or expose evil and foolishness
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Domestic Comedy
Definition
The comic equivalent of domestic or bourgeois drama
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Comedy of Manners
Definition
Concerned with pointing up the foibles and peculiarities of the upper classes
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Comedy of Ideas
Definition
Uses comic techniques to debate intellectual propositions and to further someones own point of view
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Scene Designer
Definition
Creates the visual world in which a play unfolds
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Objectives of scene design

 

Definition

1. Creating an environment

2. set the mood and style of the production

3. to distinguish realistic from nonrealistic theatre

4. establish local and period

5. evolving a design concept

6. provide cental image or visual metaphor

7. cooridination

8. solving practical design problems

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Fly Loft
Definition
holds scenery out of the view of the audience
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Flat
Definition
Canvas stretched on wood to look like a solid wall
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Scrim
Definition
Gauzo or cloth screen allows light to pass through
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Elements of Design
Definition

line

mass and composition

texture

color

rhythm

movement

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Cues
Definition
lighting changes
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Blackout
Definition
all lights are shut off
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Fade
Definition
lights dim slowly
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sound designer
Definition
person responsible for arranging and orchestrating all the aural aspects of a production
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Opera
Definition
everything is sung
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Operetta
Definition
not entirely set to music
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musical comedy
Definition
features a light, comic story interspersed with popular music
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Shingeki

 

(Japan)

Definition
more realistic. influenced by western playwrites
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Avant-Guarde
Definition
Experimental
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African Theatres
Definition
Traditional performances connected to ceremonies and rituals
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Latin America
Definition
Realistic drama, experimental theatre, radical sociopolitical drama
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Off-Loop Theatre
Definition
Outside the downtown commercial section of chicago
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Contemporary American Theatre
Definition

Nontraditional/Alternative Theatre

Postmodernism

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Happenings
Definition
Unstructured events that occurred with a minimum of planning and organization
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Multimedia
Definition
Joining of theatre with other arts
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Performance Art
Definition
Media
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Environmental Theatre
Definition
Entire theatre space as a performance area.
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