Here are my notes from the first week of Encountering Theatre, have a look into the mind of a theatre student
Contents of Subject:
- Going to be discussing theatre and reading theatre
- Discovering context in theatre
- Where is the show taking place?
- The difference in theatre from all sides
- What is the audience comprised off?
- What type of building do you enter when going to the theatre?
- What do you make of the performance?
Performances this Year
- Underground rail road game - Soho theatre
- Twelfth Night - Young Vic
- Chekhov’s first play By Dead Centre - Battersea Arts Centre
- Fat Blokes By Scottee - Southbank centre
- Hadestown -National Theatre
Work to do
- Look at website http://tobikyere.com
- Research Tobi Kyere
Important Words
- Semiotic Approach: Reading Signs - Reading the stage as if it was a text
- Embodiment -To contain within your body
Important names
- Jan Svankmajer
Genre Depth
- Tragedy
- Comedy
- ‘the canon’
- New Writing
- Solo Performance/monologue
- Verbatim Theatre
- Devised Theatre
- Live Art (Live art development agency LADA)
- Musicals
- Cabaret and Drag
- Immersive Theatre
- Community Theatre
- Physical Theatre and Dance
- Participatory art
- Stand-up Comedy
- Performance Documentation (Photographs, objects, remainders)
- Sport
- Performance activism and street protest
Places to go
- Guardian Stage
- Exuent Magazine
- Ubuweb
- Hemispheric Institute
- LADA
- The Stage
- Blog Example: Synonyms for Churlish
Postcards from the Gods
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