Audition Notes and Photos of BOTYBR Still Coming!

Light Night Feb 10 meet Arts Theatre at 5.00 pm for Costume, Parade starts at 6.00, Pizza at 8.30, finish 9.00 pm (no parade in costume....no pizza!)

Buttons Feb 16 & 17 matinee & evening - Arts Theatre - rehearsal schedule coming !!!


What you do and the way that you do it!
What you say and the way that you say it!

Do it for the audience, not just for yourself!
 
 

Last Update
 26.01.2012

About NYT

Inclusive Company

Auditions

Most recent Show Link:
Back on the Yellow Brick Road

 Archive-loads of shows

College Street
Arts Award

Contact:
NYT Director
College Street Centre
Nottingham UK
NG1 5AQ

(0115) 947-6202

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Key Words:
Seven Cs
Control
Concentration Convention
Consistency Commitment
Consideration
Co-operation

Notes for follow up:

ARISTOPHANES-satirical, political comedy
MENANDER- Situation comedy with fixed character types
ROMAN COMEDY (Plautus & Terence)-developed Menandrine comedy and made it much more domestic
COMMEDIA DEL' ARTE-'improvised' sequence of comedy sketches based on a catalogue of recognisable character types (and masks)
STOCK CHARACTERS - A range of exaggerated character types still used in sit.com.s today.
ANAGNORISIS- the moment of realisation/
"awakening"
CATHARSIS- the feeling of both fear and pity evoked in the audience by a good tragedy; according to AristotleCLIMAX- the high point of tension
TRAGEDY- word comes from Gk. 'tragos' -a goat. The goat was sacrificed to the god Dionysus whilst the story was sung - a goat song.
COMEDY- word comes from Gk. 'komos' - a wild celebratory revel, dance, song, story, booze-up to Dionysus.
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STOCK CHARACTERS: (Stereotypes)
- Senex Iratus: Grumpy Old Man
- Miles Gloriosus: Braggart Soldier
- 'Shrewish' Wife
- Clever, witty, laddish 'servant'
- Clumsy, foolish, sometimes smelly servant
- innocent young female
- more knowing, manipulative young female

Transformation

Devising/Scripting/
Making Drama
- exposition
- denouement
- plot
- structure
- character
-climax
-catastrophe
-deus ex machina
-"the willing suspension of disbelief" (Coleridge)
Masks
-clocking
Staging signals - proximity of actors to the audience and each other (cf. John Webster)

WELL DONE TO ALL who performed in the one acts, particularly those who stepped into the breach at the last minute - very professional and an excellent skill to develop...learning lines!
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Open AUDITION for Youth Show at the Arts Theatre directed by ex-NYT Leon Wilmans & partner, Georgia, of Coruscate Theatre.
Show dates are May 14-19.

NYT Inclusive group celebrate the anniversary of the death of W.S.Gilbert with a look into the Topsy-Turvy world of Bab, Babs and Molière!

Diary Dates

1419 group
6pm - 9pm

Next General Meeting
31 Jan
7 Feb
14 Feb
21 Feb
28 Feb
6 Mar
13 Mar
20 Mar
27 Mar

Next Show:
Panto- february

Light Night Feb 10th

Love what you do;
Learn how to do it!

 

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7 Feb
14 Feb
21 Feb
28 Feb
6 Mar
13 Mar
20 Mar
27 Mar M
Next Show:
Here's a How-De-Do! or Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes!
CSt Studio