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THE2000 Final Exam
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hispanic | a cultural history related to Spain |
| Latinx | a person of Latin-American or Spanish Speaking |
| Chicano | a Mexican American |
| Christian missionaries and theatre | introduced passion plays and converted people using theatre |
| why Cubans immigrated in the 19th century | Independence and antislavery movements; cuban writers had to flee |
| why Cubans immigrated in the 20th century | Communist takeover of Cuba |
| Luis Valdez | Agitprop theatre "agitation"&'propaganda"; wanted to write plays to support the farmers union movement |
| César Chávez | co founder of the United Farm workers led strike of California grape pickers and national boycott advocate for farmers workers right tried to form a union |
| El Teatro Campesino | The farm workers theatre founded in 1965 |
| source of discrimination against theatre | hadith record of traditions/saying of prophet Muhammed theatre was banned; art had to be decorative instead of representative |
| shadow puppets | imported from east two holes in them 2 dimensional |
| ta’ziyeh (know subject matter) | theatre in the Middle East. stories surrounding battle of Karbala Persian passion plays |
| Sunni vs Shia (major difference) | sunni election by Arab tradition; Shia by birth relatives to Muhammad |
| Battle of Karbala | death of hussein; includes ta'ziyeh |
| Hrotsvitha | German nun; 1st known female playwright |
| the three waves of feminism | 1st wave- suffrage, property rights 2nd wave- legal, sexual, workplace, reproductive 3rd wave- contradiction, diversity, debate |
| liberal vs radical feminism | equality between sexes (humanity supersedes biology) v. dramatic social change to gain equality (patriarchy must be transformed) |
| patriarchy | A system where power is secured in the hands of adult men priveledge leads to domination and oppression |
| the male gaze | projects its fantasy on to the female form which is styled accordingly; objectification of woman |
| all female theatre collectives | 1970s; woman telling woman stories |
| Influence of Shinto/Buddhism | shinto- everything has a spirit specifically natural objects (wood, origami) shrines dedicated to diving personality Buddhism- how to find enlightenment embraces karma and reincarnation |
| kami/oni | kami- divine personalities oni- evil spirits |
| kagura | (dance performance) sun goddess (amaterasu) locked herself in a cave because her brothers were bullying her therefore hiding away the son. The godess of revelry did a strip tease like dance to lure her out the cave then the brothers locked up entrance |
| noh | religious performance really slow priest enters a shrine |
| bunraku | puppet theatre mainly Japanese suicide stories |
| kabuki | drama w/ singing and dancing banned from women so men played female roles make-up shows, personality |
| butoh | an avant-garde dance form and theatre of protest, also developed in the turbulent 1960s and is known for the white body paint donned by the performers as well as slow and hypnotic movement. |
| The Mahabharata and Ramayana | 2 ancient Indian poems dramatized in Indian theatre. 200,000+ lines long (thought that Vyasa authored it some believe that many scholars penned the epic. Ramayana, authored by Valmiki, told in 24,000 verses and is dated between 200 BCE and 200 CE |
| kathikali | dramatizes devotion to god Vishnu. dancers are all male and perform the physically demanding, martial arts–inspired choreography after many years of rigorous training that includes strenuous exercises for strength and flexibility and body massage |
| Bollywood | Bollywood draws on many tra- ditional Indian performance forms for inspiration, largely aiming to ap- peal to a broad-base family audience with melodramatic musical films that feature dance, music, and often romance |
| griot | West African storyteller and living archive Griots accompanied kings and were transferred as “presents” from one king to his successor. also performs songs passed down through the oral tradition with musical ac- companiment, such as the kora or komsa |
| egungun | a ritual performance involving dance, mas- querade, drumming, and improvisation that honors the ancestors and encourages the living to meet high ethical standards. become possessed with the spirits of ancestors spiritually cleanse the community. |
| Rabinal Achi | Mayan performance that originated in the fif- teenth century, masked actors represent the dead, performing communion with ancestors and allowing the audience to make con- tact with the deceased. |
| Working definition of theatre | A performs b for c actor performs a character for an audience |
| Stanislavski’s “method of physical actions” | if an actor pursued an action, the emotional life connected to that action would follow the actor would decide what his character wanted in the play overall (the super- objective) and then what he wanted in each scene (objective) |
| How director’s create focus | |
| Primary function of stage design | The set expresses the dramatic world as a kinetic space through which the ac- tors move under the watchful eyes of the audience, who can frame the scene for themselves by taking in small details as well as the big picture. |
| How lighting designers mix light | gels |
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