THE 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Political Theatre, American Labor Union, Documentary Theatre
Document Summary
A (actor) preforms b (character) for c (audience) breakdown preconceived ideas of what people should look like (character descriptions) upstage move away from audience downstage move towards audience. People sitting around three sides of stage. People sitting on all sides of stage given circumstances the total set of environmental and situational conditions of the play which influence the action, including the plot, any facts, historical info, setting/time/place, (must be provided through stage. Directions) rhetoric the art if using language so as to persuade or influence others --> less influence on words, more so emotions. Prescribed limits of appropriate social behaviors within set situations history of actor training consists of mater/apprentice model (trial and error) Francois deslarte created the science of applied aesthetics: use of hand gesture, led body gestures to show emotion (big influence on silent films) Joined moscow art theatre (wanted to get rid of mechanical system); created the creative state of mind.
