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What isPerformance???
What is traditionaltheatre? Is this Theatre?
Performance ArtRichard Schechner
(editor of TDR: The Drama Reviewat NYUs
Tisch School of the Arts; first to define what
he was seeing; audience may or may notknow they are witnessing theatre; theatrical
in nature, but very free form
Allan Kaprowshappenings (60s-70s)
movement in U.S., loosely organized
performance art, Doorway Behavior (testedthe publics innate response to 2 approaching
a door at same time, found gender politics
played large role in who goes first
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Performance by definition
Choices made in Collaboration and
bound by Convention.
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In Other Words
Choices: script is a blueprint for a
production
Collaboration: multiple contributors work
toward a common goal
Convention: tradition/custom audience
accepts--(Example: fourth wall or willingsuspension of disbelief)
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Theatre vs. Other Arts
How is Theatre different from other
storytelling or performing arts?
It is a living art form
Ephemeral; transitory; an event in time
LIVE PRESENCE is key!!!
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Ingredients
1. Space
2. Performers
3. Audience
A man walks across this empty space, whilst
someone else is watching him and this is all that
is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged."Peter Brook (Wroe, Guardian Umlimited, May 12, 2007)
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A Brief
Theatrical History lesson
in 7 slides.
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Storytelling: Art & Function
All human societies
Early Theatrical artists compelled to act
them out
Script sources for Theatre
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Ritual: A Root of Theatre
Storytelling fed into ritual
Symbolic in nature
Interactively engaging
According to Stephanie Arnold
Ceremonial observationrepeated in a specific
way.Highly symbolic eventsdensely coded
meaning.
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Societal Examples of Theatrical
Typesof Gatherings Weddings
Funerals
Graduations
Football Games
Political Debates Religious Worship Services
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Origins of Theatre
Quick Reference: chart on page 12 (audio says
page 12but that was my goof! Sorry!)
TRAGEDY:
From Greek word tragoidia (goat song)
Stemmed from worship to Dionysus, Greek
god of wine and revelry
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ANCIENT TRAGEDY
3 sources for info:
31 plays
3 playwrights (Aeschylus,Sophocles, Euripides)
1 Theorist -- Aristotle
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AristotlesArs Poetica
Tragedy is an (1.)imitation
of an actionthat is serious,
complete, and of a certain
magnitude; in(2.) languageembellishedwith each kind
of artistic ornament [](3.)
in the form of action, not of
narrative; through pity andfear effecting the proper
(4.)purgationof these
emotions.
Translation
1.) mimesis, human actors
SHOW us the story
2.) poetry
3.) Stories acted out rather than
told
4.) Catharsisthe purging of
pity and fear
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Greek Theatrical Conventions
Violence offstage (ekklyklema)
Late point of attack; 24 hour time frame
Focused on ethical qualities
Historical and mythical subjects
Use of the mask Chorus
Functioned as group, served various literary
purposes
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Medieval Theatre
Purpose: for Catholic church to communicate
Christian teachings to the masses
Pageant Wagons: horse-drawn carts of
individual playletsparade
Community focused efforts
Episodic in structure