What are the 4 teaching styles
Random, abstract, concrete, sequential
What is the spaghetti style of teaching
Teachers toss facts theories and experiences and what sticks is what is important to the individual student
Oscars
Film
Grammy
Singers recording artists
Emmy
Tlelevision
Tony
Broadway
O.B
Off broadway
Director
Person hired to stage actors movements
Performer
Person hired to create and carry out a character on stage
Text (script)
The dialogue written in the script to say outloud
Subtext
Unwritten thoughts of a character on stage
Theater space
The acting area
Willing suspension of disbelief
Audience knows what they are seeing on stage is not real
Time/space art
Can only exist at a certain time with love performers
Melodrama
Plays which contain 2 dimensional characters where the plot is more important
situation comedys
plays that often have a small cast w simple conflicts
dramatic situations
conflict that presents obstacle for character
variety shows
performances featuring singers, dancers and limited comedy sketches
burlesqu
humorous theatrical entertainment, where striptease was chief attraction
vaudeville
humorous theatrical sketches, often early american variety touring shows
historical dramas
a play of a famous person and events with a dramatic/fictional plot
farce
absurd and exaggerated, often comic, play with ridiculous situations
slapstick
comedy that relies on ridiculous physical comedy
traditional theather
hat a country/culture accepts as its own style of drama
representational theater
attempts to create a reality with scenery, props and acting
avant garde theater
experiemntal theater
off loop theater
theaters away from the district in chicago
presentational theater
doesn't adhere to reality, uses more theatrical devices
off broadway theater
theaters away from the theater district in NY
aesthetic distance
audience awareness that a play is a work of art, not reality
auteur director
tries to present his own version of a script, not the playwrights
descriptive criticism
a critic describes to his readers what he saw in the production
prescriptive criticism
a critic tells readers what was wrong on stage and how to fix it
representational
realistic portrayal by actors whose characters do not break the imaginary fourth wall
presentational
a more stylized portrayal by actors where the performers sometimes talk directly to the audience
ensemble
a play and a cast which depends more on group interaction of performers rather than large individual roles
text
the actual words on a page that the actor speaks out loud
subtext
the unspoken words characters are thinking conveyed w facial expressions
magic if
the situation an actor imagines himself in to recreate a scene or emotion
emotional recall
past feelings of his own that na actor will try to remember to peroform
exposition
opening scenes of a play when info is given to audience
complication
normal situation is made complex by a series of obstacles
climax
the turning point
resolution
the results of the main characters actions
finale/denoument
the ending of the stories plot is either resolved or the disaster is displayed and comment don
Oedipus Rex (430BC)
a greek play by sophocles
Tartufffe
french comedy by moliere
A dolls house
a modern drama by henrik ibsen
mother courage
an epic drama by bertolt brecht
death of a salesam
arthur miller
a rasin in the sun
lorraine hansberry
fences
august willson
sotoba komachi
a japanese no drama
Way of the world
comedy of manners by WM Congreve
The cherry orchard
Russian Drama by anton chekov
A streetcar named desire
drama by tennessee william
waiting for godot
absurd drama by samuel becket
fefu and her friends
by maria irene fornes
James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander
The great white hope
Maggie smith and margaret tyzack
lettice and lovage
john lithgow and b.d Wong
Madame Butterfly
Robert Presky and Sam waterston
A walk in the woods
Annette Benning
Coastal disturbances
Robert klein, jane alexander, madeline Kahn
the sisters Rosensweig
Art Carny Anna Manhan
Lovers
Joan Allen and Peter Friedman
The heidi chronicles
Michele Lee, Linda Lavin and tony Roberts
The tale of the allergists wife
Joe Mantegna and Ron Silver
Speed the Plow
Philip bosco and Victor Garber
Lend me a tenor
Charles Dutton, Rocky carroll, and carll gordon and S epatha Merkerson
The piano lesson
James Early Jones and Courney Vance
Fences
Viola Davis, Brian Stokes Mitchell
King Hedley II
What are the five types of sounds
Motivated, reinforcement, reproduction, environmental, Mic Amplification