The World On Stage (part 2) Notes

NOTES:
The World on Stage (2nd half)

o Everything onstage was put there for a reason and can be explained
o You can link this to everything being a ‘sign’
o Theatre can be simple “things are what they seem to be”
o Art has the objective to make things unfamiliar
o Humans stray away from reality
o The word sign is embedded into many other words such as; signifier and significant, these can support one another in their meanings
o Can reduce plays to just symbolism, such as Macbeth and you are left with signs of daggers and blood
o But they play goes beyond that and farther than it has to in order to explain the significance of the play and characters
o Everything embodied onstage is art
o How would theatre be described?
o The word theatre derived from the word “theatron” which means to see
o How can this derivative be applied to what we know about theatre?
o It is brought up that the actor is there onstage instead of us
o Furniture has an interesting meaning onstage and it is left up to the audience to decipher that
o The actor takes us into another world

-Miranda Blackman