RES DAY OF LEARNING

1. attended an event
2. demonstrating some form of reflection (watching/participating)
3. what you’ve learned what this means to you
4. attend one or more events
5. self reflection
6. demonstrate that you’re thinking

proscenium stage

• fly and trap
• audience in front
• mounted stage
• proscenium arch
• apron (area in front)
• sometimes scenery angled back for depth and vanishing point
• audience facing the stage
• in balconies
• originates in Renaissance
• most common stage

thrust stage

• surrounded by audience on 3 sides
• tech is much trickier
• tech is less often used and traditionally doesn’t have
• vomitories - straight through between audience or under audience
• classical greek theatre is the first idea of thrust

arena stage

• theatre in the round
• stage with audience on all sides
• most focus on props, costume
• little furniture, large objects, scenery
• probably oldest actor/audience configuration

black box

• empty black box that can be configured in any way
• tech is often very flexible
• speakers distributed throughout
• originates in 20th century germany
• converted factories/lofts

site specific staging

• when the theatre environment is connected to the performance
• can mean a play written to be performed in a specific place or a place that relates to that play
• specific connection between stageplay and placing
• became popular in 2nd half of 20th century

street theatre

• performances in public places that isn’t a purposely built theatre
• orgiinates in middle ages when plays were performed in town sqaures
• huge resurgance in the past 50 years
• audience members might not know they are going to theatre - guerilla theatre
• audience members choose their own perspective, might be free to come and go
• often very visual, spectical, music, not super text reliant, less narrative
• often used for political performances or for very avant garde edgy performances
• flash mobs