The2000 Midterm Exam Review 9 45 10 45 Bring FSUid Terms 1 534 BCE theatre is born records 2 Abydos passion play performed as 2500 bce focus on major myths early African theatre subject come down on a tablet 3 Aesthetic distance allows the audience to separate themselves from events on stage and recognize this is not reality Children do not have this ability 4 Athens city state cultural strong Ancient Greece The Peloponnesian war made Athens fall 5 Bunraku theoretical convention Japanese bunraku theatre puppet theatre 6 Catharsis emotional purging process of watching events unfold during the plot 7 Chitlin circuit popular form of entertainment began in 1920s touring shows black theatre funny reality 8 Choregos the Greek tragedy director who pays for things 9 City Dionysian Thespis is first actor contest where it was won Festival for 7 days dedicated to spring and fertility 10 Colonialism Europeans came to Africa for resources slave trade in 1400s Europeans scramble to take land in Africa and divide the geographical areas 11 Color blind casting august Wilson does not look at race as apart of the picking theatre became destroyed roles 12 Content what story is being told 13 Form how the story is told 14 Deus ex machine 15 Didaskalos playwrights guide to performing the play and lead how things are supposed to occur 16 Ekkyklema Greek tragedy cart pile bodies on it after death 17 Gesamtkunstwerk means complete artwork 18 Griot story teller supposed to know history African performance tradition 19 Hamartia missing the mark part of character 6 elements of tragedy 20 Kabuki youngest theatre Asian theatre popular form stylized performances 21 Ludi Romani ludis a theatre festival repeated festival 11 times roman theatre 22 Mahabharata text from Indian culture it is an epic poem that play writers will use for inspiration provide a base for the works 23 Mimesis imitation mimicking 24 Minestrel shows performances based on stereotypes entertaining popular in north 25 National endowment for the arts NEA 26 Natyasastra science of theatre famous book inspired by Brahma sacred text 100 sons brought from heaven 27 Noh Japanese theatre oldest form art of walking Zeami wrote many of these plays teachings on style and the flower 28 Peking Beijing opera Chinese theatre music rhythm acrobatics people are doing flips and acrobatics masks have different meanings depending on color 29 Poetics a scientist who dissected theatre and found what interested people the intense action most 30 Rasa emotional flavor what is added think about basics needed for baking cookies what they add chocolate chips fruit changes them 31 Rendering start making designs into 3d models start turning sketches into more precise with colors and fabric swatches 32 Run crew supervise the technical aspects during rehearsals 33 Tech technical rehearsals integrating the acting and all the technical aspects lighting queues figure out what the kinks are and work them out before the performance opens 34 Theatrical convention the rules of the game Audience accepts conventions agreements about what words gestures images and actions mean Example color red passion love murder communism 35 Uncle toms cabin play based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe very popular largest running play 80 years early African American theatre 36 Willing suspension of disbelief audience agrees not to disbelieve what they see on stage while in the theatre People companies have 2 actors having dialogue 1 Aeschylus most honored major Greek tragic play writer made it possible to 2 African grove theatre around for 2 years in new york city run and owned by African American s 3 Livius Andronicus father of roman poetry 4 Aristotle poetics the original theatre scholar where it all started a scientist who dissected theatre and found out what people were mostly interested in 5 Amiri Baraka playwright poet political activist intellectual the revolutionary theatre smart aggressive want African Americans to step up 6 Bharata rasa emotional flavor person who involved in Indian theatre 7 Robert Brustein American theatrical critic argument with august Wilson debate about multiculturalism and color blind casting and its impact on American theatre 4 near us 8 Dionysus god of grape wine rituals 9 W E B DuBois said that African theatre must be 1 about us 2 by us 3 for us 10 East west players Asian American playwright contest mixed audience 75 of actors gone through this 11 Euripides used cannibalism and porn 12 Athol Fugard anyone who was not white got discriminated on from south Florida criticized for showing evil and not recovering 13 Shelly Garrett god father of black theatre playwright on the Chitlin circuit deal with race politics in a comical way 14 Lorraine Hansberry African American writer and activist a raisin in the sun brought Africans into theatre 15 Mei Lan Fang Beijing opera master historical character Famous for 2 reasons Bertolt Brecht major playwright Ww2 he suspended performances at war and this caused the end of Chinese government in ww2 16 Chikamatsu Monzaemon Shakespeare of japan makes Bunraku theatre what 17 Tyler Perry madea gun toting granny matriarchal of family wise women of it is household 18 Sophocles 3rd actor serve to provide Aristotle s poetics 19 Wole Soyinka combine European and African theme political prisoner influenced by political career Yoruba tribe 20 Julie Taymor helped design the lion king was the first women to receive the tony award she had a great way of designing theatre made costumes and all last 21 Thespis credit for first actor step out from chorus thespian actor 22 Ngugi wa Thion o reject European theme work was about political views wrote a play about government and got thrown in jail 23 Zeami grand daddy wrote teachings on style and flower flower metaphor Review Requirements of theatre o Audience liveness text actors Gem of the ocean what do the notches mean on solly s stick o The people he brought over from the underground railroad Gem of the ocean who wrote it o August Wilson Gem of the ocean where does it take place o Pennsylvania Pittsburg cycle How I learn to drive name two characters who are not played by the Greek chorus o Little bit uncle peck How I learn to drive how do they get nicknames o Named by genitals o Uncle peck How I learn to drive who does little bit see at the end of the play M Butterfly the difference between east and west o East is feminine welcoming west is masculine imperial power orientalism M Butterfly