Unit 1
Close reading of the script to understand its meanings
What is Script Analysis?
This stock character has the lowest status among all characters.
Who is Zanni?
Playback Theatre and Image Theatre are examples of this type of theatre.
What is Applied Theatre?
A theatre that requires a group of people create a new performance without an existing script.
What is Devised Theatre?
The host of forum theatre.
Who is Joker?
Location, time period, character relationships, conflicts...
What are Given Circumstances?
Repeated jokes used in Commedia Dell'arte
What are Lazzi?
Their goal is to find new solutions of the scene to change the world.
Who are Spect-actors?
What is a stimulus?
The hat summarizes all the viewpoints.
What is Blue Hat?
The process of crafting precise movement and positioning of actors.
What is Blocking?
They have fixed social status, personalities, plot functions, masks, and physicality.
What are stock characters of Commedia Dell'arte?
Their goal is to hold other people back, to provide real-life challenges
Who are the Actors in Forum Theatre?
Facts, feelings, cautions, creativity...etc.
What are the 6 Thinking Hats?
He walks like a stereotypical hero - big movements, chest puffed out, shoulders square, marching steps.
Who is IL Capitano?
Analyze dialogues --> Set Design --> Blocking
What are the steps from script to staged performance?
This term is used to call the old, merchant-type characters.
What is Vecchi?
No magical solution is allowed.
What is the rule for solution in Forum theatre?
The highest point of conflict
What is Climax?
He said "the meaning of an image is the image itself. Image is a language".
Who is Augusto Boal?
The person who writes the play.
Who is Playwright?
He has the highest status of the servants. He is normally portrayed as a store owner, innkeeper, or a valet. He is witty, humorous, and deceitful.
Who is Brighella?
A look of happiness instead of a thumb up gesture.
What is sinaletic?
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
What is the Classic Plot Structure?
This character's plot function is being the "Catalyst for Conflict".
Who is the Witch?