DRAMA101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Paralanguage
14 Sep 2016
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Schechner"s performative genres (play, games, sports, theatre, ritual) Theatrical culture: theatrical culture refers to the specific environment of means and relations of production in which theatre is made, performed, and received within a given culture and a given society. These means and relations vary from time to time, from place to place, and from function to function. In the past the rich sat higher up in the theatre and the peasants were below. Today the closer to the stage, the more expensive your ticket is. Throughout the years, theatre culture has evolved to be more polite and a nicer more proper event. Who is acting/performing? (development of adding women as actors in the most recent times) The dialogue between play, performance, and audience and the larger discourse in which all three participate (triangle of communication between playwright, performer, and audience) All three texts have a communal reference, every department have a basic communal understanding of the meaning of the play.
