THEA-2100 Midterm: Midterm
Document Summary
Document describing how/why theatre gives us pleasure. He believed nothing gives us more pleasure than learning the truth. Forward format of greek, elizabethan and asian theatre traditions. Useful in experimental, environmental and academic staging. Theatre can be performed anywhere - any location. Unity of place - play takes place in 1 location - onstage. Lysistrata project in 2003, 59 countries participated. Readings of plays to protest modern issues. Held together by common language - latin. Held together by common faith - christianity. Different names for the plays of the middle ages. Set up in a square and moved to different places. Wagon with dressing room below and acting area above. Melodrama - damsel in distress, simplistic moral world. First to remove mask and speak to masked characters. Any further dramatization of mass would be unholy. Includes new things such as acting notes, staging, conflict. Presented mass in middle ages in different languages other than latin.
