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The informer: a pretender to the role of a team member who gains teams trust, is allowed backstage, but then joins the audience and discloses information on the performance. Example: spies, traitors. The shill: this role is an opposite of the informer; the shill pretends to be a member of the audience but is a member of the performing team. His ...
Dramaturge. A dramaturge or dramaturg (from Ancient Greek δραματουργός dramatourgós) is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults authors, and does public ...
Dramaturgy is the study of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. The term first appears in the eponymous work Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767–69) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Lessing composed this collection of essays on the principles of drama while working as the world's first dramaturge at the ...
Dramatis personae (Latin: 'persons of the drama') are the main characters in a dramatic work written in a list. [not verified in body] Such lists are commonly employed in various forms of theatre, and also on screen. [not verified in body] Typically, off-stage characters are not considered part of the dramatis personae. [not verified in body ...
Stanislavski's system. A diagram of Stanislavski 's system, based on his "Plan of Experiencing" (1935), showing the inner (left) and outer (right) aspects of a role uniting in the pursuit of a character's overall "supertask" (top) in the drama. [1]
The Karpman drama triangle is a social model of human interaction proposed by San Francisco psychiatrist Stephen B. Karpman in 1968. The triangle maps a type of destructive interaction that can occur among people in conflict. [1] The drama triangle model is a tool used in psychotherapy, specifically transactional analysis.
Documentary theatre is theatre that uses pre-existing documentary material (such as newspapers, government reports, interviews, journals, and correspondences) as source material for stories about real events and people, frequently without altering the text in performance. The genre typically includes or is referred to as verbatim theatre ...
For example, at Valenciennes in 1547, more than 100 roles were assigned to 72 actors. [40] Plays were staged on pageant wagon stages, which were platforms mounted on wheels used to move scenery. Often providing their own costumes, amateur performers in England were exclusively male, but other countries had female performers.