THE 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tilda Swinton, Feedback, Live Theatre Company
8 Jan 2017
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Basic elements: all a theatre needs is boundaries by the audience and performer, actor, audience and space. Mechanical arts: skilled activates accomplished by manual labor. Useful arts: replaced by industrial arts, machine age. Liberal arts: philosophy, history, language, math, science, not specialized. Fine arts: sculpture, painting, music poetry, beautiful for their own words, no practical function. Aesthetics: branch of philosophy that deals with beauty and taste. Plato: called art an imitation of nature, theatre is imitation of human nature. A chorus who told stories about a fertility god named dionysus. Now the chorus reflects people where the play took place. Aristotle: first dramatic critic, described components of a good tragedy, has a beginning, middle and end, theatre needs a pretense of self, theatre needs a pretense of self. A presentation of character: theater is highly collaborative, live performance is immediate and relentless. Forces you to reflect on events immediately. This is why its ephemeral: dynamic between the actor and audience.
