• Ritual and religious beliefs
• same with korean theatre
• Myths made through unexplainable theories
• Odyssey
• Epic theatre
• Origin of theatre was made through aristotle
• greek philosophy
• human beings are instinctively imitative
• people are born to imitate
• Enjoy seeing/imitating others
• humans want to know why we act as we do
• Children imitate adults through instinct
• Drama appeared 3000 bc in Egypt (speculation)
• Party God
• Myths about Dionysus
• Harmony with forces made through theatre
• 14th century bc was when they had these festivals
• dances - 'Dithyrambs'
• 534 BC
• contest of theatre
• started with tragedy, then went to comedy
• Only recorded actor was thespus
• Won the first contest at the festival
• thespians - actors
• Chorus is the unifying force of the act
• 5 writers that were the key playwrites
• aristopheles
• mynander
• sopholes
• euripides
• 
  
• Esculus - earliest dramatist whos play survived
• 79 plays made yet only 7 remain
• 'Persians' - play
• most of these plays were made upon Gods
• mythology
• mythological stories of the Gods
• Introduced the second actor
• face-to-face conflict
• Oresteiai
• one of the great examples of dramatic literature
• dealt with Justice
• Sophecles
• 496-406 bc
• one of the greatest of the greek dramatists
• 100 plays made but only 7 exist
• Antigony
• concerned with human relationships
• Breeks believed that spirites would never cross the boundary to rest if they weren't buried properly
• Chorus with one person
• chorus like a narrator
• based on a greek chorus
• Euripides
• Meidas - play
• was a skeptic about Gods and stories
• examined his characters
• Trojan women - killed children
• The Trojan Women - play
• Coregoy
• wealthy citizens that payed for the chorus
• sponsors
• Coregus
• appointed to each dramatist
• individual who worked with everybody 
• responsible for everything
• except for the speaking itself and the actor
• The medieval theatre was sponsored by the craft guilds
• iron workers (like donating wagons)
• Choregus had to make sure that the playwrite had 3 tragedies and a comedy
• The dancing place (performance area)
• Skene
• where actors would prepare (like a backstage)
• side buildings (paraskenia)
• Paradoi - where the chorus comes in between the stage and the audience
• Duasseks Machinne
• crane-like device
• lower and lift the gods
• Characteristics of a greek actor
• loud voice
• versitile
• different masks
• how to use a mask
• dance
• singing
• they wore huge heels and tunics
• abstract motions
• no small gestures
• big motions
• Characteristics of a Greek Chorus
• unifying force
• Commentary of action on a play
• engage in dialogue
• express opinions
• give advice
• established an ethical framework in a play
• set up a standard
• react to situations
• adding dramaticness
• add colour
• rhythmical functions
• rhythm to the play
• Elements of Tragedy
• fate trumps anything
• kills his own father and has children with his mother
• fate told him to do so
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Love of Three Oranges

The way in-which that the play is not modernised

• Written in a very modern tone (in that, it is not written in a shakespearian tone)
• Commedia seems to kill the feeling of it being and old play/story through the use of modernised humor and 'goofy' moments.
• The stylistic abnormalities of commedia proves to invoke a sense of randomness into the story, as there are obvious (humoros) elements that the readers/audience should be able to point out towards. 
• The way that the play carries itself through in a faster pace makes it seem delve towards the more conventional aspects of a modernised play.
• It is a known fact that most of the films and scripts that are made in today's world, seem to use more body language and physicality, rather than using the power of words to convey messages.
• I personally believe that this is a bad thing.
• Commedia helps induce this tone of having more physical movements than actual speech, by having the characters jumping and showing their character's traits through the use of movement.

Mask that I would want to Create

A mask that I would want to create right now would have the characteristics of a wolf, or a lion. I'm fixated on nature and the interaction between animals, but i'm mostly interested in the canine family. The way that they hunt in packs and fight other packs of dogs for food makes life seem so interesting. There's that un-detectable line of communication that they have with the world around them. I think that  a masked theatre performance dealing with speech through movement would be such a cool idea.

Commedia Del'arte

• Everybody was on the same level, when behind 'the mask'
• "Give a hypocrite a mask to wear, and he will be rendered incapable of further lying"
• 16th century
• masters of improvisation rooted in physical training
• One stock character per actor (archetypes)
• improvise around scenarios embellis basic plot outlines with physical routine known as LAZZI
• Virutoso linguistic digressions (verbal riffs of standup comedians)
• "A model for improvisatory and movement orientated performance."
• Actor centered theatre (acrobatics, body training, improvisation ensemble, and staging techniques)
• Street psychology
• Through comedy, we can glimpse tragedy (Charlie Chaplin)
• buster keaton, laurel and hardy, marx brothers
• Le jeu of Lecoq
• Driving force is not what to play but how it should be played.

• Four principles for commedia actors
• stillness 
• awareness
• communication with the audeince
• ability to express feelings and thought through body
• Never touch the mask
• makes it look unreal
• Present an illusion
• Qualities of Commedia Del'arte
• Willingness to work as a team
• seize the moment of opportunity
• ability to act with truth and sincerity  Grantham
• Pantalone
• middle aged man
• greedy
• miserly/protective of money
• husband deceived from a young wife
• competes with his son
• overly protective father guarding his young daughter from suitors
• like a chicken
• Dottore - pig
• elderly gentleman
• law professor
• sometimes a rival with pantalone
• lacks common sense
• good with double talk and jargon
• stutterer like priest in princess bride
• thinks out loud
• big
• studies a lot yet knows so little
• Arlecchino/Harlequin
• clever
• perceiver
• illiterate
• good schemer
• he is a Zanni
• curious of things
• agile
• stupid but has grace
• not really evil, but mischievous
• shape shifter
• never thinks about consequences
• Zanni
• proto clowns
• like animals
• always sleepy or hungry
• pre verbal
• Innamorati/innamoratae
• less creature-like
• beautifully dressed young lovers
• speak refined language
• no mask/ lead with chest, parody of ballet, use breath and points of lightness
• always in-love
• high status
• Capitano
• peacock
• bloodhound/mastiff
• boastful, woardly spaniard who brags of battles he never fought
• Pulcinella
• hump-backed
• doltish male character
• Pedrolino
• 'perrot'
• awkward
• simple
• tense
• effeminate
• devil wears prada stanley tucci
• cuckolded
• Scaramuccia
• mustached servant
• sometimes clever
• sometimes cruel
• Senora - no mask
• bossy
• bawdy
• offers herself in exchange for money/high status
• vain
• proud
• goes after men
• forever 29 years old
• Fontesca/columbina/clarice-fox
• serving maid
• clever
• high spirited flirt
• often moving
• maid of the innamoratae
• corresponded with alecchino
• ballet-like movement
• carried a basket and sometimes a tambourine
• Working with the mask
• cheat up (put head up)
• use physical characteristics of the mask
• (if you have a big nose do it with a lot of rooster)
• make the mask come alive
• don't touch the mask
• highlights the fact that it is not real
• don't be subtle
• Scapino
• rasclaly
• confused by everything
• falls in love for the fun of it
• flippant about love
• never deeply evolved
• obeys every impulse that he feels
• forgets a lot
• has a hate towards men
• Barghella
• cunning
• corrupt
• fear/maniupulation
• knows weak points
• exploits
• never a victim
• like a boss of the Zanni
• Lazzi
• conversations
• little comic interludes
• moments of humor grabbed between scenes/during scenes
• something foolish/witty/metaphorical in word or action
• stage tricks
• comic stage business
• comic routines planned or unplanned that could be performed in any one of dozens on plays.
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BTB

"A significant number of young people today, when they enter the workforce, will never have been exposed to the valuable skills that come with arts education and specifically the theater experience -- thinking on one's feet; effectively communicating; practicing and rehearsing; writing; and collaborating as a team. This is a missed opportunity. " - Huffington Post

The quote above makes me feel special, as a student, and also as an individual. It helps me appreciate the Theatre course that I'm taking even more, knowing that there are people out there who haven't ever been a part of ... tbc