PPT-The Play and The Theatre Week 4 [Part 1 ] Introduction to Theatre

The Play and The Theatre Week 4 Part 1 Introduction to Theatre College of the Desert First Critique Due 91719 A Dolls House Our Town Critiques are expected to be AT LEAST FIVE 5 full doublespaced typewritten pages. Types of stages. Parts of a theatre stage. Stage directions. Drama types . Parts of a script. Blocking . Types of stages. Proscenium stage. Arena Stage. Thrust stage. Parts of a proscenium stage. Parts of proscenium stage. Structuralism & Semiotics. “Is this a dagger I see before me?”. (...I don’t know?!. Give me a sign...) . Approaching theory: . C. hoosing . to emphasise . a concept in a new way, is . much . & Styles. What is a Theatre Practitioner?. A Director, a Dramatist or an Actor but often and mainly their occupation consists of a combination of these traditionally-separated roles. Creates Theatrical Performances. at. Westfield High School. Fall Play. October 30 & 31. A Nightmare on Union Street. A collection of scary short plays. Call-out meeting . is September 1 period 6 in LGI. (Directors announced, auditions explained etc.). Anton Chekhov. By: . Linda Bashinskaya. Pamela Whitcomb. Anton Chekhov. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a famous play writer born in Taganrog, Russia on January 29, 1860. Chekhov attended a school for Greek boys before his father moved their family to Moscow due to bankruptcy. After grammar school, Chekhov enrolled into Medical school and later became a doctor. His experience in this field explains a lot of the tragic characters in his plays. While attending medical school, Chekhov wrote and publish comic stories which he used to support his family, in little time his gained him wide fame. He regularly contributed to St. Petersburg papers and even wrote 2 full novels. His novel, “The Shooting Party” even got translated into English. In 1888 Chekhov was awarded with the Pushkin Prize. The failure of “The Wood Demon” was a drawback for . Week 15. [Part 1]. Introduction to Theatre. College of the Desert. Realism. Realism in the last half of the 19th-century began as an experiment to make theater more useful to society. . The . mainstream theatre from 1859 to 1900 was still bound up in melodramas, spectacle plays (disasters, etc.), comic operas, and vaudevilles. Chapter 8. Modern and Postmodern. Previous ages include –. Classical (Greece and Rome). Medieval (Mystery and Morality Plays). Renaissance (The Elizabethan Age in England). The Royal Theatre (The Court Theatre of Spain and France). (Primitive Societies & the Ancient Greeks). Theatre of Primitive Societies. Dance ceremonies . (initiation, war, story, religious). Tribal traditions . Religious dances. performed by shamans in front of temples. By Robert Cohen. Chapter 2 . Definition. A play is, essentially, what happens in theatre. It is not a thing but an event.. The play is the theatre’s . dran. (something done).. A play, unlike a drama, is ACTION, not words in a book.. performance. Defining theatre…. Think!-Pair!-Share! Turn to your shoulder partner and come up with a working definition: . What is . theatre. ?. Theatre is…. Live. performance art- in the present moment. Architecture. Greek Theatre. Origins. -historians believe that the first theatre started from the ceremonies Greeks attended in honor of Dionysus, the . God . of fertility/wine.. . -eventually, theatre attendance became a popular form of entertainment.. WITH SPECIFIC AGENDA. PRE -1994. South . african. theatre . WITH SPECIFIC AGENDA. Workshop Theatre. Protest Theatre. Workers Theatre. Community Theatre. Educational Theatre. Satirical Revue. 1. Workshop Theatre . What is the relationship between a society, a culture or a historical time period and its Theatre?. In what ways can Theatre reflect life?. What are some ways to tell from which historical time period a play originates?. By: Elizabeth Comtois. Ms. . Munley’s. 2. nd. Period. European Theatre in The . middle . ages. After . the fall of the Roman Empire, small nomadic bands traveled around performing wherever there was an audience. They consisted of storytellers, jesters, jugglers and many other performers. .