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What are the most common looked factors if contextual influences?
Social Factors
Cultural Factors
Historical Factors
Political Factors
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What do each of the factors mean?
S-what we know about people at the time of writing;
C- what we know about the way people lived and behaved at the time of writing;
H- events that coincided with the time of writing;
P- political and legal events/changes that may have impacted upon the wor
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What is context?
The world in which a play exists and how this has influenced it.
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What do we often consider in terms of context?
When the play was written, what was or has been happening in the world which may have influenced the play or the writing of it.
When the play was produced.
What we know about the writer/director and events in their life which may have impacted their work.
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What is Naturalism?
Theatre that attempts to create an illusion of reality through a range of dramatic and theatrical strategies.
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Name a key practitioner for Naturalism
Stanislavski
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What is Verbatim Theater?
Documented theatre in which plays are constructed from the precise words spoken by people interviewed about a particular event or topic.
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Name one key practitioner for Verbatim
Mark Wheeler
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What is Physical Theatre?
Theatre which relies on the performers' physical motion rather than, or combined with, text to convey storytelling and character emotions
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Name one key practitioner for Physical Theatre
Frantic Assembly
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What are the three theatrical work key points?
Repertoire
Production
Performance
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What do each of the theatrical points mean?
Repertoire: A stock of plays that a performer or company knows or has written.
Production: A play or other theatrical work that has been brought to life on stage (produced) by a director and company of actors.
Performance: The individual sharing of a the
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What is purpose?
(what the practitioner is trying to achieve and make the audience think/feel) of a theatrical work can often be categorised
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What categories are there in terms of purposes?
Educate
Inform
Entertain
Raise Awareness
Provoke
Challenge Viewpoint
Celebrate
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What is a theatre practitioner?
A person who is/has been actively engaged in the production, direction, performance and or practice of theatre.
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What is Style?
The distinctive way in which the practitioner stages the work, i.e., how their ideas are shown/expressed on stage;
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What is Practice?
The application of the practitioner's ideas, as opposed to their theories (this may be their rehearsal practice and specifically how they approach rehearsing with actors, or it may be more about their practice when staging work;
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What is Intentions?
The purpose of their work, i.e., what they are trying to achieve and make the audience think/feel. We often try to consider a practitioner’s creative intentions. These are often communicated through the themes/issues in the work.
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S-what we know about people at the time of writing;
C- what we know about the way people lived and behaved at the time of writing;
H- events that coincided with the time of writing;
P- political and legal events/changes that may have impacted upon the wor

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