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OPC of Woyzeck - Coggle Diagram
OPC of Woyzeck
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Electric lights -> could be directed more, adjustable intensity, changing lights scene to scene
The three main lighting positions -> footlights, wing lights, and some on bars above the stage
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Two main types of lighting -> general illumination (washes created mainly with footlights), specific illumination (more creative use of light e.g. possibly spotlights, strange angles)
Carbon arc lamps -> used to create spotlights, intense beams
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- candle arbors for illumination
- candles left on - a small distinction between audience and actors
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- electric lights meant they could blow out the candles -> first time audience seated in the dark with the stage lit by electric lights = audience more immersed and lost in the play (no longer distracted by other audience members)
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It was intense, violent, expressing tormented emotions and was a mixture of presentational and representational.
Albert Steinruck first played Woyzeck, a German silent film actor so acting style would have been exaggerated, but also expressionist - 'a visual pleasure'
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Episodic
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- Sounds were divided into the categories of "roars, hissing, murmuring, screeching, noises obtained by beating a surface and noises of animals and people"
-The Cabinet of Dr Caligari: the dissonance and uncomfortable clashing in the music, and the use of staccato and crescendo and the difference it makes when there are many instruments playing at the same time and then where they play individually.
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There was a gap of more than 70 years between Büchner’s death and the first performance of Woyzeck in 1913 in a now unified German nation.
nightmarish, sureeal, stylised, heightened