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| reasons for going to the theater |
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| entertainment, inform/educate, raise awareness, inspire |
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| differences between theater/tv and film |
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| theater takes place only when the performers are the presence of an audience. Films can show outdoor shots-ie-shots from helicopters. Film can cut from one scene to another. Most significant is performance-audience relationship (being in the presence of the performer) |
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| (greek) 1. five act format 2. daytime performance 3. outside performance 4. use of masks |
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| 6 parts of the play according to aristotle |
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| 1. plot 2. character 3. thought (reason for doing the play) 4. diction (how the words are said, poetic? prose?) 5. music (melody) 6. spectacle (visual elements ie scenery) |
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| elements of the plot for a story play |
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| 1. exposition- beginning. introduces story/ characters/history/background. 2. point of attack- inciting incident/complication(problem that needs to be solved by others.) 3. Rising action and resolve (happens many times) 4. Ultimate crisis (climax) 5.Denovement (summary and resolution) |
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| climatic structure Vs. eposodic structure |
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climatic=story play
episodic- 1. point of attack/complication 2.rising action 3.resolvement 4.ultiimate crisis 5.denovement |
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the leading character/hero/leading person in a movement.
oedipus rex=oedipus
death of a salesman=willy |
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a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary.
oedipus rex=gods/fate
death of a salesman=willy loman |
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| guide audience through a play...something that represents something else by association |
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| something is compared to something completely different in order to suggest a resemblence |
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| find a connection/feel with a scharacter |
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| first man to do lines by himself at a competition |
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| god of spring/rebirth associated with fertility associated with drinking |
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| has tragic heros/heroines which are usually extraordinary people (kings/queens/generals). main characters are usually caught in a series of tragic circumstances. these circumstances are irretrievable and there is no turning back. hero accepts responsibility for his/her actions and agrees to suffer forever. the language of traditional tragedy is verse/poetry |
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| do not have kings or queens or central figures. Written in prose. ask why do men and women suffer? why does violence and injustice exist? what is the meaning of our lives? |
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| "music/song drama" exaggerated theater, sometimes appears laughable. usually stives from fright/horror/speaks to the paranoia in all of us-someone is pursuing us or disaster is about to overtake us. we identify strongly with characters. shows us good guys against bad guys. |
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| bourgeois-refers to people in the middle or lower middle classes rather then the aristocracy. Domestic deals with problems of the family rather than problems of the state. |
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| prophet of thebes aware of the truths of O's life |
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| protagonist, wants to start liquor store with friends |
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| in love with beneatha.. wants to go to africa |
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| courts beneatha, she does not like his submission to white culture |
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| offers deal to move to white neighborhood |
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| walters liquer store friend |
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| walters liquor store friend |
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| neigbor that warns about moving into white neighborhood |
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| willys next door neighbor |
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