What is Theatre an introduction of concepts and terms 3 essentials to be a theatre art object 1 Live 2 Audience 3 Conflict Glossary 1 Mimesis 2 Methexis a Act of imitation b Imitation is how we learn a Group sharing b Share an experience together 3 Ritual and Ceremony a Ritual b Ceremony 4 Aesthetic distance 5 4th wall 6 Catharsis 7 Verse and Prose a Verse i Repetitive series of events over and over again i Still repetitive but room for changes a The closer you are the more emotionally attached you will be Imaginary force field a b Actors pretend audience isn t there and you leave them alone a To purge emotion b Laugh until you cry just crying anger i Poetry ii First word of each line is capitalized b Prose i Not poetry ii How we talk in everyday life 8 Proscenium a All audience faces one direction b Currently most traditional 9 Proscenium arch a Architectural detail b Frames stage so you look through picture frame c Shows line between actors and spectators 10 Apron 11 Thrust a Stage space out past proscenium arch b Actors can come out closer to audience a Audience sits on 3 sides of stage b Usually smaller with fewer special effects a Audience surrounds the stage b Small aesthetic distance with few special effects a Any non traditional theatre space 12 Arena 13 Found 14 Trap a Trap door 15 Stage directions and Rake a Stage directions i When and where they move b Rake i Old were on inclined stage vs audience being inclined ii Down upstage left right actor s 16 Blocking and Staging a Setting movements through the space b All purposeful 17 Fly and Fly Space a Space above the stage 18 Wing and Wing Space a Sides of stage a Basic scenic unity 19 Flat 20 Drop 21 Zeitgeist a Content of the time b Especially cultural a Backdrops that hang in fly space Aristotle s Poetics What makes a good play a Not the same as the story b Plot is within the story 1 Plot 2 Character 3 Theme 4 Language 5 Design 6 Spectacle a There for specific reason and adds to the theme a Set costume sound lighting a Booms sparkles etc Italian Renaissance Theatre Technology becomes more modern 1 Carolinian Charles a 9th century b Learning and architecture c Paris 2 12th century a 1050 1250 b SW France c Art architecture traveling poets languages 3 Italian THE Renaissance a 1350 1600 b c Humanist point of view Increase in science math culture perspective i From suffering to enjoyment d Rediscovery of Greek and Roman works e Printing press 4 English 5 Spanish Commedia Dell Arte improvise groups of traveling actors slap stick comedies 1 2 Stock comedic characters a Mostly all the same 3 Multitude of languages a Needed physical comedy b Each city state had its own language Vitruvius theatre De Architectura in 1st century CE Teatro Olimpico oldest surviving theatre 1 Too much of a proscenium arch to be open 2 Could house 3 000 people 3 Fixed set background Teatro Farmese 1st proscenium arch 1 3 500 people 2 Space to flood for boats 1 Tragic 2 Comic a City with harsh edges a City with curved soft edges 3 Pastoral a Open hills 4 Serlio wanted to be able to change the scenes Bibiena Family Italian set designers 1657 1787 1 Perspective backdrops 3D 2 Small actors Sebastino Serlio developed theatre ground plan and backgrounds 3 Went to play to see and focus on backdrop Giacomo Torelli The Great Wizard 1 Started with Serlio s ideas 2 Perspective backdrop props puppets 3 Used Greeks a Periaktoi pyramid on a stick b Each side has a different scene c Someone had to come out on stage and turn it 4 Wanted to slide background in and out 5 Used pulley system to pull in and out of slats Elizabethan England English Renaissance 1 Late into Italian Renaissance mid 1300s 2 Previously in War of the Roses 1485 3 Henry Tudor Henry the 7th was kings Henry the 8th and Elizabeth the 1st 1 Henry a Formed church of England i Rise in nationalism ii Son Edward 1 Died young iii Daughters Mary and Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth a Mary her sister i Prohibited religious and political plays b Rise of secular dramas c Brought in Shakespeare and University Wits i New topics ii Trained at university level iii Shakespeare was untrained d Also bans political and religious theatre based on herself Elizabethan Drama 1 University educated writers a Studied Greek Roman philosophers b Performed classic plays 2 Popular audiences 3 Theatres built going to hear a play a b Wood and thatched roof c Globe theatre on the south bank d Open air midday e 1500 3000 people f Groundlings i Front row ii Standing g No 4th wall h Special effects i Argue on theatre i Audience and actors too close ii Interacted i Used as ways to get attention to start the play i Shows sins ii Shows and teaches consequences for sins 4 Greek Roman and medieval plays 5 Early point of attack in plays a Learn plot and info first 6 Organized chronologically a No flashbacks 7 All important events were shown on stage a Even violence was shown 8 Soliloquy a Not in any other periods b Hamlet as example 9 Short scene as basic structural unit 10 No set design and non illusionistic a Wore everyday clothes b Always mentioned setting in script 11 Major concern for developing action 12 Tone varies frequently a Alternate comedy and tragedy 13 Underlying point of view 14 Stair stepping climax 15 More investment and more profit 16 End in death or a wedding Iambic Pentameter 1 Line of verse ten syllables long 2 Alternate unstressed and stressed syllables a Easy to memorize b Natural rhythm i Close to a heartbeat c If iambic pentameter breaks line is important 3 Not supposed to read Shakespeare a Supposed to see and hear it Theatre of the Spanish Golden Age in the Spanish Renaissance after peace was declared in Spain Background 1 Moors in Spain 711 1492 CE a Non Dark Ages i Math science and learning flourished 2 Ferdinand and Isabella 1492 a Controlled all of the Spanish Peninsula 3 Reconquista and Inquisition 4 Richest country in Western Europe Religious Theatre 1 Helped Ferdinand and Isabella to establish themselves a Taught the people how to behave morally 2 Auto Sactramentales name of the theatre a Act of the sacraments 3 Festival of Corpus Christi a Still happens today b One month after Easter c Festival of the sacraments i Outdoor plays ii Each city had its own festival iii State sponsored iv Professional v Musicals and comedies over current events 4 Carros 5 Mid 1700s Secular Theatre a Outdoor wagons that plays took place on b 2 towers a Autos were banned for songs and comedies 1 Playwrights and performers a Secular and