Theatre 100 Final Exam Review Drake Union tour Remember the major rooms and theatres we toured Lecture #9: Sarah Ruhl & contemporary theatre Brecht- Epic theatre • Alienate audience to THINK‚ not FEEL • Use history to comment on present • Remind audience they are in theatre: open stagecraft‚ musical numbers‚ puppets‚ narrators‚ film Samuel Beckett & Absurdism • Characters in bizarre situations • Circular/static blots- things often repeat • Sparse language- talking past each other
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Points Awarded 90.00 Points Missed 0.00 Percentage 100% 1. What is a theatre critic? A) someone who has a very limited knowledge of the theatre B) someone who never likes anything C) someone who does not appreciate theatre as an art form D) someone who observes theatre and then analyzes and comments on it Points Earned: 2.0/2.0 Correct Answer(s): D 2. Which of the following is NOT an appropriate space for an off-off Broadway production? A) church B) warehouse C) basement
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times‚ made from silks and linens transporting you to the 1600�s‚ recreating the Globe�s theatre original productions. Staging was used effectively during this performance and continuously broke the fourth wall but not for the same effect as Brecht would have intended‚ instead to engage the audience. The theatre had a proscenium arch‚ end-on stage but interestingly the director had chosen to use thrust staging where the audience where placed on all three sides of the stage. This was created
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Roland Barthes The Death of the Author In his story Sarrasine‚ Balzac‚ speaking of a castrato disguised as a woman‚ writes this sentence: "It was Woman‚ with her sudden fears‚ her irrational whims‚ her instinctive fears‚ her unprovoked bravado‚ her daring and her delicious delicacy of feeling" Who is speaking in this way? Is it the story’s hero‚ concerned to ignore the castrato concealed beneath the woman? Is it the man Balzac‚ endowed by his personal experience with a philosophy of Woman? Is it
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Peter Shaffer’s Equus is neither great theatre nor bad psychology‚ but it has elements of both. It is an exhilarating play: a remarkable blend of delayed exposition and theatrical effect‚ of melodrama and circus‚ which has inspired huge ticket sales and adoring critical reviews. And it is that increasingly rare serious drama which capitalizes on lurid events while maintaining a devotion to ‘‘ideas.’’ Yet‚ in spite of its wide popular acclaim‚ Equus is difficult to sort out even when all the clues
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------------------------------------------------- Ballad From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For other uses‚ see Ballad (disambiguation). A ballad is a form of verse‚ often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas‚Australia and North Africa. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheetbroadsides. The form
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Progress Without People. Toronto: Between the Lines. _____________ (1997) Religion of Technology. New York: Oxford Books. Robins‚ Kevin and Frank Webster (1999) Times of the Technoculture. London and New York: Routledge. Silberman‚ M . (2000)‚ Bertolt Brecht on Film and Radio. London: M etheun. Simpson‚ Lorenzo C. (1995) Technology‚ Time‚ and the Conversations of M odernity. New York and London: Routledge. Slouka‚ M ark (1995) War of the Worlds. New York: Harper and Row. Stoll‚ Clifford (1995) Silicon
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Role – Margaret Section 1: -700 Max Stafford-Clark is one of the most influential directors to embrace British Theatre in the past 40 years. Nearly every play Max has directed is political‚ including themes such as Marxism (like Brecht)‚ socialism‚ feminism‚ poverty and many more political themes. Max says he chooses to direct plays like this because “I am socially curious‚ and I take theatre as tool of investigating society” from his book Letter’s to George‚ which alone with Taking
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REPUBLIC OF YEMEN MOTTO : الله، الوَطَن، الثَورة، الوَحدة (Arabic) "Allāh‚ al-Waṭan‚ aṯ-Ṯhawrah‚ al-Waḥdah" "God‚ Country‚ Revolution‚ Unity" CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: Sana’a PRESIDENT: Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi PRIME MINISTER: Mohammed Basindawa GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) 2012 estimate: - Total $58.202 billion - Per capita $2‚249 GDP (Nominal) 2012 estimate: - Total $36.700 billion - Per capita $1‚418 Currency: Yemeni rial (YER) GEOGRAPHY AND LOCATION
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Chione Lawton Professor Shrantz 2322 British Literature 8th Period 20 November‚ 2014 Annotated Bibliography Beowulf Acocella‚ Joan. "Slaying Monsters." The New Yorker 2 June 2014: 70. Literature Resource Center . Web. 18 Nov. 2014. This critical essay‚ written by Joan Acocella‚ an American journalist and book critic for New York‚ who has written many books regarding dance‚ literature‚ and psychology‚ though mentioning heavily the perfection that is Tolkien’s ‘Beowulf’ and the contemplation of as to why
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