4 Modes of Performace
The act of existing
what is Being
a specific sequence - NOT a story
What is plot
often italicized in a script, this is the moment that happens just before the lights come up.
Ancient Greece
What is where theatre began?
The third of three questions for critical evaluation
What is: What is the impact/so what?
What is doing?
One way to process information; how the audience receives the information
What is language?
The moment that gets the play going.
What is the inciting incident?
Thespis
Who was the first actor?
Everything you see
What is a spectacle
What is Showing
What is 330 BC?
the literary equivalent of rising action, things that make it harder to achieve the goal
Chorus
what is the ensemble that started with the ancient greeks
The role the actor plays - they do not know the actor exists
What is Character
What a critic does
What is "explaining showing doing"
Instruments, spoken word, sung word/notes, inflections, sound effects
What is everything you hear, or music/song
The height of the play
What is the crisis?
Festival of Dionysis
What is the festival that hosted a playwriting competition to honor the Greek god of wine and fertility
The first of three questions for critical evaluation or criticism
what is: What are the Intentions? (what are they doing)
The philosophical issue of magnitude too big to talk about in every day conversation, thus making the event of the play necessary
What is theme?
the end of the play
What is the resolution or denoument?
amphitheatre
What is the original spaces that plays were produced in.
The second of three questions for critical evaluation