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19.03.2010

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Most recent Show Link:
Dancing at Lughnasa

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

(0115) 947-6202

Diary Dates

1419 group
7pm - 9pm

Next General Meeting
23 Mar
30 Mar
10+11 Apr Auditions
Next Show:

Ceci un théåtre de jeunesse, pas d'un extrait social.

No matter how you
say it:
-Engagement-Faites-le, ne le truquez pas
-Verpflichtung-Bilden Sie es, fälschen Sie es nicht
-Impegno-Faccialo, nonlo simuli
-Comisio'n-Ha'galo, no lo falsifique
-Verplichting-merk vervalst het, het niet
The message is still the same:
-Commitment:-
Make it, don't fake it!

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 Aristotle

-The Wonderful Drama of Punch and Judy -Papernose Woodensconce, esq.
-Comberbach Soul-Cakers Play-Trad. Cheshire Hallowe'en Play

inclusive group
6pm - 9pm

Next General Meeting
23 Mar
30 Mar
Next Show:
May- Strictly Come Shakespeare

1013 group
5 pm - 7 pm

Next General Meeting
23 Mar
30 Mar
10+11 Apr Auditions
Next Show:

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

Stock Characters:
-Senex Iratus
-Miles Gloriosus
-Shrewish Wife
-Clever & Foolish Servants

Transformation

Stereotypes

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)CLIMAX- the high point of tension
CATHARSIS- the feeling of both fear and pity evoked in the audience by a good tragedy
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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Script work
-The Golden Boy-
Clifford Odets
-The Dark at the Top of the Stair-
William Inge
-Summer and Smoke- Tennessee Williams
-Bar Mitzvah Boy- Jack Rosenthal
-The Witch of Edmonton-Dekker,Ford & Rowley
-Green Forms-Alan Bennett
-The Beaux Stratagem-George Farquhar
-Tick Tock-Jill Hyem
See what you can find out about these playwrights and plays.
...and songs!
-Let's Call the Whole Thing Off-G&I Gershwin