Web-Theatre : director: dramatic literature

Christ as Drama, DramLit 2

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:08:06 GMT

I should say -- Tragedy. http://filmplus.org/thr/tragedy.html

The Existential starts there -- http://script.vtheatre.net/themes/existential.html

Again? Hamlet, Take 2.

STEPS:

Gods vs. Men

Man vs. God

Man against Self

Inner Conflict --

Fate, Fortune, Destiny?

New terminology
New Testament
New Hero : New Stories : New Ideas

The Big Concept we still live by...

Evolution of the Man-God theory

Man as a measure of all things.

Faces (compare with the ancient sculpture : images - 200x files)

and

see the difference?

Time to recall part II in the Poetics "Six Elements" -- Texture:

Language
Music
Spectacle

here comes ACTOR after the playwright-kings

the globe [pix] -- thoughts about new theatre architecture (new church)

controlled environment:

indoors (inside, hidden, mystery)

separation from nature

selected crown (theatre audience)

tickets! -- and professionals!

Commedia (http://filmplus.org/biomx/commedia.html) and Shakespeare

The New Globe (Postmodern as Museum)

... part 3 : from Modern to Postmodern

Picasso 1962 [ Part 3 ]

Beckett to Stoppard

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*see my web pages for better pix : hyper-linked to flickr/picasa (credits are there?)albums?

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Tom, Jim and Willy Loman

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:12:31 GMT

http://members.tripod.com/~afronord/thr/amdrama2.html Miller : Death of a Salesman

If not Tom, than Jim became this salesman.

And his children -- Glen Glengarry Ross by Mamet...

"...I believe that the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as kings were." Arthur Miller

1949, the year I was born.

2007 -- ?

Silence.

Why to write? What can we change?

This little American tragic hero died.

Beckett closed the book.

... I offered them to write about themselves (students). Write what?

R/G are Dead [in class] -- last?

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"Plastic Theatre" : Poetic Realism : The Glass Menagerie

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:44:46 GMT

http://shows.vtheatre.net/menagerie/0.html

http://shows.vtheatre.net/menagerie/images/Modigliani.jpg alt=Modigliani

Williams : "The Glass Menagerie" [ updates for 215 class ]

sounds/music -- in class assignment

Transition from Epic THR [ Brecht ]

3 X 3 = American Playwrights

Picasso? Tom?

Chekhov's tradition is obvious, but the European historical/aesthetic context ?

"Menagerie" -- American Dream as the Last Escape.

Montage/Collage [ movie ] influence

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set design [concept] exercises in class *

http://script.vtheatre.net/williams.html

two amdrama pages -- filmplus.org/plays +

anatoly.vtheatre.net pages

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:58:37 GMT

old (first) root theatre directory -- http://anatoly.vtheatre.net/1.html -- new subdirectory DRAMATURGY and http://anatoly.vtheatre.net/playwright/0.html PLAYWRIGHT

are to be used for http://script.vtheatre.net/215/4/intro.html DramLit 20th century writers.

Also, the idle http://script.vtheatre.net/413/0.html Playscript Analysis class i do not teach that often.

Part 5 in Dramatic Literature 215 has alternative scene writing assignment (instead of final paper).

See http://script.vtheatre.net/fest.html "Famous for 15" competition by Theatre UAF and SDA.

Names and titles starting from Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard :

no logo for Playscript Festival.

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Age of Realism

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:46:15 GMT

XIX century : history and historicity

http://script.vtheatre.net/themes/self.html

"love story" and family [ themes directory files ]

http://script.vtheatre.net/themes/woman.html

+ gender page. From Nora to Ms. Julie : female Hamlet? [ http://script.vtheatre.net/doc/ms-julie.html ]

Electric Light Revolution : Chamber Plays/Private vs. Public

Nietzsche against Marx and Darwin [ special topic ]

http://script.vtheatre.net/themes/existential.html

"Serious Thoughts" in a handbag of The Importance of Being Earnest : Identity and ID

Wilde's Aesthetic Theory : Art for Art's Sake

... continue with stage directions reading in class :

Ibsen :

ACT I

(SCENE.--A room furnished comfortably and tastefully, but not extravagantly. At the back, a door to the right leads to the entrance-hall, another to the left leads to Helmer's study. Between the doors stands a piano. In the middle of the left-hand wall is a door, and beyond it a window. Near the window are a round table, arm-chairs and a small sofa. In the right-hand wall, at the farther end, another door; and on the same side, nearer the footlights, a stove, two easy chairs and a rocking-chair; between the stove and the door, a small table. Engravings on the walls; a cabinet with china and other small objects; a small book-case with well-bound books. The floors are carpeted, and a fire burns in the stove. It is winter. [ ... ]

Exposition : Introduction of Plot, Character(s), Idea

http://filmplus.org/plays/ibsen.html

Europe After 1848 :

Changing of Stage/Theatre Chronotope -- keep track of "time-space" in drama

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WWWilde for Fri class : notes for myself

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:24:51 GMT

Realism -- http://script.vtheatre.net/realism.html and "Realism w/h Borders" use of this ubused definition.

"Everything rational is real" -- Hegel started it with Objective Idealism?

What/Who is real? Jack or Earnest?

Idea of Doubles : Oscar against Wilde. [ http://script.vtheatre.net/wilde.html ]

Simulacra : if Illusion is more real, than the "orinals", soon there is nothing left but "real illusions."

Celebrity Idea -- "Princess Di and The Importance of BEING..."

Mask and Face : playing role of yourself.

Theatre of One: Existential Grounds -- welcome to the last century.

Wtire out and post to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dramlit

for pages at http://shows.vtheatre.net/wwwilde/0.html

Oedipus 1

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:39:07 GMT

Oedipus:

http://shows.vtheatre.net/oedipus/chorus.html

Hero and Men

Gods and Man

Conflicts (main) list

Themes

Best monologues (my choice) -- assignment Compare with Hamlet

Notes at google.com calendar

http://script.vtheatre.net/215/2/1.html

Hamlet Lessons : First week

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:39:06 GMT

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I. Writing H.

II. directing (I, designer)

III. Acting

3 levels of Identification

Fri. -- II : I = Hamlet

Story vs. Plot : conflict INTERPRETATIONS at work : Many stories and ONE.

THEMES > idea(s) (Ready for Oedipus?) = Love, Betrayal, Truth...

Question of Old Hamlet : How nice is he?

Good, Bad and Ugly

Is Hamlet good looking? (H. and L. -- contrast/conflict)

MESSAGE : right/wrong

good/bad
When = POV
What is HOW

Week Two:

For Mon. -- ACTING Hamlet -- Reading Play 12:15 - 12:45 Reading :

My color, my shape, my taste... my prop (my secrets) -- "my truth" !

Select best lines -- "Star moment" (mono)

My friend, my enemy = me. (Inner conflict, i.e. DRAMA)

http://script.vtheatre.net/215/1/1.html

I.1-3

http://shows.vtheatre.net/oedipus/0.html

Review "Aristotle Reads Shakespeare"

What:	Lesson 4 Cast and Crew : Production Meeting vs. Rehearsal
When:	Friday, September 14, 2007 11:45 AM to 12:45 PM
Where:	Hamlet, son of Oedipus View Larger Map

Dramatic literature class #3

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:21:02 GMT

http://script.vtheatre.net/215/1/3.html

Before asking them (students) to write Hamlet story from (any) character's POV [ plot + character = story? ], I should continue with the 3 Little Pigs tale.

Story from the woolf's POV, one of the pigs, a stranger -- who is watching the story... the narrative?

Idea (Poetics) cannot be defined without getting the STORY, not just Plot (?).

* posting my notes not here, but to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dramlit ?

Home test (weekly) : first on http://vtheatre.net/200/structure.html

Mon. Oedipus -- take them through the show pages @ http://shows.vtheatre.net/oedipus/0.html

Last Act : Postmodern

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:52:01 GMT

"What is After the After"?

Mid XIX century > WWI > WWII > 1968 ...

Director's Theatre -- why?

Writer > Actor > Director > Spectator ?

1. Godot http://shows.vtheatre.net/godot

2. Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (transitional?) http://shows.vtheatre.net/wolf/0.html

3. Oleanna (Americana PM) http://pomo.vtheatre.net/oleanna.html

4. Reckless - http://shows.vtheatre.net/reckless/0.html

5. R/G are Dead (2008) http://shows.vtheatre.net/stoppard.html

Shows I directed.

Lessons I learned.

Today any true theatre is postmodern by default.

"3 Sisters" were postmodern in 1999, now as a web show ... Chekhov2.0

THR215 Class is a demonstration why and how dramatic literature came to Stoppard...

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