THEA 100 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - William Shakespeare, Ancient Greece, Time
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Conventions: how different conventions make you feel, convention: a rule of conduct or behavior, ex) hand shake, can be a greeting but can come from something else in the past. Dramatic structure: conflict: plays are about days when something of critical importance happens. All dramatic action involves conflict: character v. self, character v. character, character v. society, character v. fate/nature/god. Identifying the central conflict is crucial to understanding a play: protagonist: the central character in the play. The one who the playwright wants us to follow, and who changes the most during the play: can"t be a character that dies early on (ex. This will be a new development in the world of the play. It is often the final confrontation between the protagonist and antagonist, when one of them wins and the other loses. The actor: the actor is the heart and soul of theatre. Imagination exercises: relaxation, concentration, warm-ups, rehearsal experiments, additional stanislavski tools.
