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Chapter One-- THEATRE (BRIEF EDITION )

WHAT IS THE THEATRE?. Chapter One-- THEATRE (BRIEF EDITION ). by Robert Cohen. THEATRE from the Greek theatron meaning “seeing place” . DRAMA from the Greek dran meaning “to do”. DRAMA is . a text the verbal aspects of theatre a process (to be dramatic). THEATRE is hardware.

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Chapter One-- THEATRE (BRIEF EDITION )

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  1. WHAT IS THE THEATRE? Chapter One--THEATRE (BRIEF EDITION) by Robert Cohen

  2. THEATRE from the Greek theatron meaning “seeing place”

  3. DRAMA from the Greek dran meaning “to do”

  4. DRAMA is a text the verbal aspects of theatre a process (to be dramatic)

  5. THEATRE is hardware

  6. -a theatre building

  7. Where films are shown

  8. a metaphor “theatre of operations” “operating theatre”

  9. A space

  10. A company, or troupe of players

  11. The occupation of theatre

  12. Producing

  13. Directing

  14. Acting

  15. Designing

  16. Crews • Construction crew • Dressers • House management • Ushers • Stage management • Stagehands • Electricians • Dressers

  17. The art of making play into work OR creativity into ART ART is... ennobling, entertaining, educative requires IMPERSONATION Performance requires an audience THEATRE is live and in the moment

  18. For an audience

  19. REPRESENTATIONAL “willing suspension of disbelief”

  20. PRESENTATIONAL Highly theatrical

  21. Stand-up is presentational

  22. Film is representational

  23. Actors on the Theatre Theatre is about authenticity. It’s in front of you; you feel it. It’s so hard to feel stuff any more from film… It can get very remote. Meryl Streep

  24. Actors on the Theatre There is only so long you can go from film to film. Theatre is a more raw experience. For an actor a live audience is creative inspiration. Jude Law

  25. Actors on the theatre One of the glorious things about the theatre is that it cannot be preserved. You cannot look at it again; it’s live… Cinema is dead. You can laugh, you can cry, you can shout at the screen and the movie will carry on. But an audience in the theatre, whether it knows it or not, is affecting the performance…That’s the stream of life at its best, isn’t it? Ian McKellan

  26. What is a play? That question will be addressed in a separate chapter…

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