DRAM 1101 Study Guide - Final Guide: High-Concept, Political Theatre, Tragic Hero
5 Nov 2018
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Can occur on amateur and professional levels. Analyze structure, meaning, and significance of play. Examples of styles: realism, non realism, names of directors. Core concept: how director will highlight certain things in. High concept: twist to original, unique/new insight. All plays deal w/ three major areas. Angels in america spotlights aids epidemic, not realistic, magical-realism. In the next room, vibrator play, dead man"s cell phone. Literary manager: in charge for a season, works w/ artistic director, gives feedback on multiple scripts, home theatre company. New play dramaturgy: working in service to playwright as they are making a new play. Familiar w/ movements and forms of stylized theatre. Departures from realism (symbolism, french avantgarde, intellectual comedy,expressionism, meta theatre, theatre of cruelty, theatre of alienation. Meta theatre 6 characters in search of an author parendella"s. Different adaptations-how it has been conceptualized (videos) Pittsburg cycle 9/10 plays are set in pittsburg, focus on specific decades. Plot, characters, themes, influence on civil rights movement.
