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Explore Theatre: A Backstage Pass Michael M. O’Hara & Judith A. Sebesta PowerPoints prepared by the authors This multimedia product and its contents are protected under copyright law. The following are prohibited by law: •any public performance or display, including transmission of any image over a network; •preparation of any derivative work, including the extraction, in whole or in part, of any images; •any rental, lease, or lending of the program. Copyright © 2012 Ball State University, All Rights Reserved Chapter 1 What is Theatre? Copyright © 2012 Ball State University, All Rights Reserved How do these lessons work? • • • • • Pedagogical design for the class. The syllabus? Required Texts? Required Shows? Web access issues? Copyright © 2012 Ball State University, All Rights Reserved Today’s Mechanics in Theatre • Today’s theatre is a collaborative team of 10 to 200+ individuals. They include: • Author(s): text/script • director/choreographer/conductor • designers (scenery, lights, costumes, sound) • actors • technicians • audiences Copyright © 2012 Ball State University, All Rights Reserved Performance Mechanics are Typically “Invisible” • • • • Why? What is the essence of being “entertained?” Enthralled, enraptured, overwhelmed, swept away, transported, transformed, etc. What’s common to such experiences? Copyright © 2012 Ball State University, All Rights Reserved “Theatre” Experiences • • • • • • Different for different contexts How do you prepare for different contexts? Movie with friends? Movie with date? Television by yourself? Television with friends? Copyright © 2012 Ball State University, All Rights Reserved More Formal Theatrical Contexts • • • • • How would you change your preparation for: NYC, Broadway? Regional theatre? University? Community? Copyright © 2012 Ball State University, All Rights Reserved Definitions of Theatre? • • • • Living actors enacting a text before a live audience. "An actor, two planks, and a passion." "Actor, audience, action." "Perpetual present tense.” Copyright © 2012 Ball State University, All Rights Reserved Why ... • … does Theatre continue in face of other performative media? • imaginative engagement • fluid/adaptive v. static/recorded media • communal impulse • enact mysterious/meta issues • liveness Copyright © 2012 Ball State University, All Rights Reserved Summary • Theatre is a complex art that is collaborative, imaginative, ephemeral, and communal. Copyright © 2012 Ball State University, All Rights Reserved