Transcript PowerPoint Presentation - Intro to Intro to Theatre

THTR 101 T/TH 3:30 – 5:00
G 324
Presentation
 Performances
 Readings, lecture notes, weekly activities
 Midterm and Final
 Short reading quizzes
 Reports
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Peter Brooks, a theatrical director, once
stated,
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“I can take an empty space and call it a
bare stage. A man walks across this
empty space while someone else is
watching him, and this is all that is
needed for an act of theatre to be
engaged”.
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How is theatre a way of seeing?
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How do audiences respond to it?
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What special qualities set it apart?
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Let’s Discuss
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Define immediacy.
Theatre is set apart from media how?
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Give me specific examples.
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What makes theatre alive?
Find the parallels between theatre and life.
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Theatre as a double for life
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Theatre as Fiction
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Theatron – Greek word meaning a seeing place
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3 Basic Components of a theatre
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Thespis – noted as first actor
Audience is live and collective
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Audience Expectations
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Expect the play to be related to life
Expect something familiar
Experience collective response
Observe rules of decorum
Be central to the event
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Professional, for Profit: Broadway, some tours of
Broadway shows
 Professional, Not-for-Profit: Off-Broadway,
Regional Theatres, many tours, some Off-offBroadway
 Semi-Professional : Off-off-Broadway, smaller
regional theatres, most ethnic, identity-based
and children’s theatre
 Educational theatre
 Community theatre
 Performance
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Read Chapter Two pages 21-37
(to Eastern Theatre)
Research and read about rituals being the
start of theatre.