1. Chapter One--THEATRE (BRIEF EDITION) by Robert Cohen
WHAT IS THE THEATRE?
Chapter One--THEATRE (BRIEF EDITION) by Robert Cohen

2. THEATRE from the Greek theatron meaning “seeing place”

3. DRAMA from the Greek dran meaning “to do”

4. --the verbal aspects of theatre --a process (to be dramatic)
DRAMA is
--a text
--the verbal aspects of theatre
--a process (to be dramatic)

5. THEATRE is hardware

6. A theatre building  National Theatre of Romania
National Theatre of Great Britain 

7. Where films are shown

8. “theatre of operations”
A metaphor
“theatre of operations”
“operating theatre”

9. A space
Karl C. Bruder Theatre Emporia State University

10. Theatre is WORK
Sports, games and theatre have always been related and some plays combine both as in the example above, the musical version of ROCKY, originally produced in Hamburg, Germany and later on Broadway.

11. The occupation of theatre

12. A company, or troupe of players

13. Producing

14. Directing
Trevor Nunn
Julie Taymor
Peter Hall

15. Acting

16. Designing

17. Crews
Construction crew Dressers House management Ushers Stage management Stagehands Electricians

18. The art of making play into work OR creativity into ART
ART is…ennobling, entertaining, educative It requires IMPERSONATION Performance requires an audience THEATRE is live and in the moment

19. For an audience

20. REPRESENTATIONAL
“willing suspension of disbelief”

21. PRESENTATIONAL
Highly theatrical

22. Stand-up is presentational

23. Film is representational

26. Actors on the Theatre Theatre is about authenticity. It’s
in front of you; you
feel it. It’s so hard
to feel stuff any more from film…
It can get very
remote.
Meryl Streep

27. Actors on the Theatre
There is only so long you can go from film to film. Theatre is a more raw experience. For an actor a live audience is creative inspiration.
Jude Law

28. Actors on the theatre One of the glorious things about the
theatre is that it cannot be preserved.
You cannot look at it again; it’s live…
Cinema is dead. You can laugh, you
can cry, you can shout at the screen
and the movie will carry on. But an
audience in the theatre, whether it
knows it or not, is affecting the
performance…That’s the stream of
life at its best, isn’t it?
Ian McKellan

29. Daniel Radcliffe
I love the stage, and I love being on stage, and the rush and the fear and all of that…

30. What is a play?
That question will be addressed in a separate chapter…