CO 1503 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Movable Seating, Proscenium, Telling Stories
Document Summary
Proscenium: the audience is positioned in front of a stage, most common and youngest stage since 18th century, allows for a presentational style of action and spectacle design, details have to be bigger because of theatrical distance. Black box: flexible space theatre, audience platforms can be configured in any way to suit the creation of multiple spaces, comes with movable seating and platform. Found space: find a space and do theatre in it, benefits include different experience for audience and throws them off. Spectacle: heightened reality, skewed but relatable. Music: vocal or instrumental, creates moods and expectations. Character: protagonist- we want them to succeed, antagonist- working against protagonist. Idea behind the story/event: the (cid:862)why(cid:863, provides cultural importance to society. Diction: vocal transmission of words to audience. Origins of theatre--how it came about & theories. Oral tradition: telling stories verbally to teach morals and history, different ways to tell a story.
