Guest Lectures
According to director and designer, Nick O'Leary, this type of design can convey information, integrate video and media, provide atmosphere and mood, accommodates a limited budget, and amplify performances with live feed.
What is projection?
John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower, reexamines this classic American play, originally written by Arthur Miller as an allegory for the anti-Communist Red Scare era in American history, in a post #metoo context.
What is The Crucible?
Beginning with the use of candles to light indoor, private theaters in Renaissance London, this short period of time became necessary to allow for wicks to be trimmed.
What is intermission (or interval)?
This style of theatre is often pinpointed as the originator of the avant-garde, and attempts to duplicate observable reality as accurately as possible through the use of real objects and believable sets.
What is Realism?
This area of theatrical production, at its most essential, provides visibility and reveals shapes and forms onstage.
What is lighting design?
According to guest lecturer An-lin Dauber, this kind of design communicates "in world" character information like personality, social class, and occupation.
What is costume?
What is Antikoni?
This line from Romeo and Juliet is an example of this kind of design, or lack thereof, in Elizabethan theatre:
JULIET
Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face
Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight!
What is lighting?
This style seeks to disrupt the psychological immersion of Realism by reminding audiences of theatrical illusion and spectacle.
What is theatricality?
This area of design can be created live or through recorded media, often mixing the two through amplification of live vocal production, or underscoring with music.
Although Nick O'Leary is primarily a director, he created the projection design for this recent UW production.
What is Everybody?
Angels in America, which features an interconnected web of relationships impacted by the AIDS crisis, is primarily set in this American city and year.
What is New York City in 1985?
This mid-20th century American political movement was largely activated by what dance scholar Susan Leigh Foster calls "choreographies of protest," such as the march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The incorporation of projection and live camera feeds in contemporary theatrical production troubles the binary between liveness and this concept, which describes the use of technologies like the camera to interrupt the ephemeral theatrical experience.
What is mediation?
This area of production often reveals more subtle information like time period, socio economic status, and age.
What is costume design?
Although An-lin Dauber is primarily a costume designer and teaches costume in the UW school of drama, she designed this for UW's production of Everybody.
What is set?
In the final scene of John Proctor is the Villain, Raelynn and Shelby perform a rebellious final project that involves an interpretive dance to this 2017 pop song.
What is "Green Light" by Lorde?
This design, often overlooked, can be considered the oldest theatre technology, as exemplified by architect Vitrivius's placement of resonating bronze vases underneath the graduated seating structures in ancient Roman theaters.
This concept, coined by dance scholar Susan Leigh Foster, describes ways in which large groups performing movements in unison is a powerful strategy for political resistance and revolution.
What are choreographies of protest?
This area of design often produces a complex collage of moving media and popular culture layered atop the actor's performance.
What is projection?
Unlike set design, which can be decided upon early in the production process, costume design necessarily adapts and changes after this process occurs.
What is casting?
This character, who appears in ghost-form in Angels in America, is based on a historical figure who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by prosecutor Roy Cohn and controversially executed in 1953.
Who is Ethel Rosenberg?
This type of Italian theatre scenery, popular from the Renaissance through the 19th century, incorporates a series of painted flats sized from small to large and is lit from the front to give the illusion of depth on stage.
What is forced perspective scenery?
Augusto Boal, who believed theatre could inspire social change, famously wrote in this 1974 book, “It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.”
What is Theatre of the Oppressed?
All areas of production involve this theatrical practice, which describes (among other things) the creative research required to produce a cohesive theatrical world.