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    12. How are the Internet and interactive performances changing what we understand by performance and ‘live’ audience-performer relations? The development and improvement of the Internet has revolutionised the way of communication and greatly changed how information is shared. It is now an essential means of communication, and can be used for most of the daily activities: sending messages, online shopping, reading news, and even watching performances. Producers and performers have been experiencing

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    Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright, theatre critic, and director. He created and developed epic theatre with the belief that theatre is not solely for entertainment but also tools for politics and social activism. Previous theatre performances offered a form of escapism. The audience would become emotionally invested in the performance. In contrast to the suspension of disbelief, Brecht never wanted the audience to fall into the performance. He wanted the audience to make judgments on the argument

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    It was because the Sanskrit theatre was acting-oriented that it made minimum use of dramatic properties. With massive use of prose recitations, chorus, verses and songs the Sanskrit theatre gave greater flexibility to the dramatic speech and provide a multi-level organization of communication between characters. Another form of communication used in the Sanskrit plays is announcements or conversation from the backstage which is known as nepathaya or the use of oracles called akashwanis through which

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    religious performances while secular performances are often based on folk idioms and beliefs. The religious performances are often very polished performances because of the religious subject matter and it needs much attention in the performance while on the other hand the secular performance contains some dialogues in the form of double layered meaning and a little bit of vulgarity on stage by nata or vidushika. In the matter of adopting the dramatic techniques, religious performances adopt most

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    Theatre Chapter Summary

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    chapter one describes to us readers what theatre is. The word originates from Greece, and means “seeing place.” The author then describes the difference between the “hardware” definition and the “software” definition. Hardware describes the building where the play is taking place, where films are shown, and where wars and surgeries happen. The software definition describes the cast, owners, managers, and technicians. The author gives the example of the Guthrie Theatre saying “we are referring not merely

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    Theatre and live performance can serve so many purposes and one of them is to globally entertain the audience and to shape the society through the lessons learnt from a performance or play. Theatre exists because we are mimetic and communal beings, we seek order, finally we enjoy and need entertainment. Theatre as a form of entertainment is extremely popular all over the world, and it has been designed to hold audience’s attention for a long time, it has been the primary form of public entertainment

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    Friends of the Broadway Executive Overview This packet contains one radio and one television ad for The Friends of the Broadway. The series of ads is effective overall because it presents The Broadway theatre as benefiting the people who use it. Instead of asking for volunteers or monetary donations, the ads show what is in it for the audience member. The first ad is a radio advertisement to promote renting out the Broadway for events. It presents the information in a problem solution format. It

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    CONTRIBUTION TO THEATRE Introduction Vsevolod Emielevich Meyerhold, considered one of 20th century greatest theatrical innovators, was born on February 10, 1874 in the Russian town of Penza. He was originally born into a Lutheran German-Jewish family with the name Karl Theodore Kasmir Meyergold. In 1895 he took the name Vsevolod Emievich Meyerhold after converting to the Russian Orthourdox Church. Meyerhold studied Law at Moscow University for two terms. He became fascinated with the art of theatre and as

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    participation in theatre began at an early age, it was just after he finished his doctorate at Columbia that he was asked to return to Brazil to work with the Arena Theatre in São Paulo. His work at the Arena Theatre led to his experimentation with new forms of theatre that would have an extraordinary impact on traditional practice. Birth of the Spect-Actor Prior to his experimentation, and following tradition, audiences were invited to discuss a play at the end of the performance. In so doing,

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    The Display of Theatre There are signs that read, “NOTICE Recording, Taping, Photographing Strictly Prohibited”. This prevents the use of cameras once inside the theatre for safety and commercial reasons. Lights, audience, and action. In theatre, people were the cameras before its invention. Theatre has been around for centuries and adapted to society, from Oedipus the King, Romeo and Juliet, and The Glass Menagerie. Each play was told in different time periods: Ancient Greek, Renaissance, and modern

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