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Abydos passion play
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A "promenade" staging of the Osiris myth. Like Christian Passion plays, this story involves the death ad resurrection of the semi-divine Osiris.
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Medium
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The means by which an art form presents its materialTheatre: human speech and action
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Character
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Fictional personalities written by playwrights and performed by actors
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deus ex machina
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Literally, "god from the machine," also means a contrived ending
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Script
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The text to be performed; a blueprint for a live performance
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Collective mind
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Group think
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Bread and Puppet
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Audience members join performers for food after the show
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The Butchers
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"Naturalism": Director Andre Antoine hangs real beef carcasses onstage
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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In this musical by Ruper Holmes, the audence votes to determine plot points and character relationships.
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Paradise Now
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In this 1968 performance, the audence was invited onstage to get naked with the actors
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The Living Theatre
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One of the most acclaimed American companies of the 1960s. The Living Theatre were asked to perform overseas quite a bit, which is indicative of how much interest there was in their work.
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Costume
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Clothing appropriate to the event at hand
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Collective mind
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A crowd is a temporary society, and people will obey the perceived "rules" of the society even if it means going against their own individual inclinations/interests.
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"j’assiste à une
pièce"
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"I attend a play." This notion of the audence's role "assister" is an active one, not a passive one. Given the audience's ability to affect a performance, it is increasingly an expectation that they will take an active role in the performance.
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Suspension of disbelief
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The agreement that for the purposes of the play you will accept the imaginary world of the play as reality.
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