Student Guide Book for Explore Theatre

The guidebook is the unbound, printed narrative of the website available to students if desired and can be packaged with an access code.   This video rich, online resource facilitates multiple strategies of teaching and learning that can significantly enhance Introductory Theatre courses. Explore Theatre kindles theatre student desire for watching live performance while enhancing their ability to do so intelligently through a digital learning environment designed to encourage critical and constructive thinking about theatre. By building upon students’ experiences as digital audience members, Explore Theatre fosters greater understanding of the relationships between text, actor, and audience and builds bridges to live theatre and its history.

Table of Contents:
EXPLORE THEATRE: A BACKSTAGE PASS TABLE OF CONTENTS     Part I: The Event Chapter 1:      What Is Performance? Introduction Learning Objectives Characteristics All Performances Share Paradigm of Performance Purpose of Performance How Performances Differ Performance As Ritual Performance As Art Live and Mediated Theatrical Performances Performance of Self, Culture, History For Further Information             Suggested Films Glossary Key Concepts Instructor Resources Practice Test   Chapter 2:      The Text             Introduction Learning Objectives Reading and Analyzing a Play Aristotle’s Six Elements             Plot             Character             Thought, or Theme             Diction, or Language             Music and Spectacle             Genres                         Tragedy                         Comedy                         Melodrama                         Musical Theatre For Further Information             Suggested Films Glossary Key Concepts Appendix A: Questions for Analyzing Plays Appendix B: Analyzing Scripts (Film, TV, and Stage) Instructor Resources Practice Test     Chapter 4:      Who Decides What Is Good Performance?             Introduction Learning Objectives The Audience The Audience as Community The Audience in History             In Sacred and Religious Theatres             In Professional Theatres             In Democratic Theatres             In Non-Western Theatres The Critic The Theorist The Dramaturg Theatre as Business The Producer The Marketing Team The Agent For Further Information             Suggested Films Glossary Key Concepts Instructor Resources Practice Test   Chapter 5:      Where Can Performance Be Done?             Introduction Learning Objectives Theatre Configurations The Proscenium The Thrust The Arena The Flexible Space Other Spaces Producing Contexts Commercial: Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Tours Not-for-Profit: Off-Off-Broadway and Regional Theatre Amateur Theatre: Educational and Community Hybrids For Further Information             Suggested Films Glossary Key Concepts Instructor Resources Practice Test   Unit II: The People (Brief discussion of audience member as maker of meaning and how modern performances are constructed by performers and their audiences.)   Chapter 6:      Playwrights             Introduction Learning Objectives The Playwright in History Types of Playwrights Playwriting Methods and Processes Training and the Profession For Further Information Suggested Films Glossary Key Concepts Instructor Resources Practice Test   Chapter 7:      Directors             Introduction Learning Objectives What Is Directing?             Working with the Text             Working with the Designers             Working with the Actors             Coordinating the Production What Is Producing? Types of Directors Training and the Profession For Further Information Suggested Films Glossary Key Concepts Instructor Resources Practice Test   Chapter 8:      Scenic and Costume Designers             Introduction Learning Objectives Scenic Designers History Materials, Methods and Processes Related Aspects: Props Costume Designers History Materials, Methods and Processes Related Aspects: Masks, Makeup, Wigs, and Hair Training and the Profession For Further Information                  Suggested Films Glossary Key Concepts Instructor Resources Practice Test   Chapter 9:      Lighting Designers, Sound Designers, and Technical Production             Introduction Learning Objectives Lighting Designers History Materials, Methods and Processes Related Aspects: Assistants and Technicians Sound Designers History Materials, Methods and Processes Technical Production For Further Information             Suggested Films Glossary Key Concepts Instructor Resources Practice Test   Chapter 10:    Actors             Introduction Learning Objectives Acting Defined             From Presentational …                       … to Representational … to Realism Acting Methods                         Emotional Memory to Intercultural             Intercultural to Non-Western The Actor's Process                         The Audition                         The Rehearsal                         The Performance             Acting for the Stage vs. Acting for the Camera             The Profession            For Further Information             Suggested Films Glossary Key Concepts Instructor Resources Practice Test Unit III: The Types (Brief discussion of the major modes of performance.)   Chapter 11:    The Play             Introduction Learning Objectives Elements of the Play in Context         Classical and Medieval Antecedents Golden Ages Drama and the Advent of Illusionistic Stages Modern Drama A Script: Two Character Play For Further Information Suggested Films Glossary Key Concepts Instructor Resources Practice Test   Chapter 12:    Backstage at Two Character Play             Introduction Learning Objectives Rehearsals Technical and Dress Rehearsals Pre-Show and Preparation The Performance         The Program Part One             Part Two             Part Three The Run of the Show A Backstage Pass Glossary Key Concepts Appendix Instructor Resources Practice Test   Chapter 13:    Musical Theatre                         Introduction Learning Objectives                         Part One: The Broadway Musical                         Elements of the Musical                                     Music                                     Lyrics                                     Libretto                                     Dance Antecedents The Birth of the Modern Musical The Golden Age of Musical Theatre Beyond the Golden Age The British Invasion The Broadway Musical Today Part Two: Asian Music Theatre                         Sanskrit Theatre                         Beijing Opera                         Noh                         Kabuki             For Further Information             Suggested Films Glossary Key Concepts Appendix Instructor Resources Practice Test   Chapter 14:    The Cinematic Experience             Introduction Learning Objectives                         From Stage to HD Video                                     Adaptation (video)                                     Casting  (video)                                     Directing  (video)                         The Artists of Film                                     Producers and Directors  (video)                                     Actors  (video)                                     Lights (videos)                                     Costumes (video)                                     Crew  (video)                         The Film Finale (adaptation of Two Character Play)  (video)                         Theatre and Film Explored: A Documentary of Intersection (video)                         For Further Information                         Suggested Films Glossary Key Concepts Instructor Resources Practice Test Chapter 15:    Popular Entertainments             Introduction Learning Objectives Mime and Pantomime Roman Paratheatricals Tournaments Commedia Dell’arte Vaudeville Circus Puppetry Concerts Stand-Up Comedy Magicians and the Art of Illusion For Further Information Suggested Films Glossary Key Concepts Instructor Resources Practice Test