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Neoclassical Rules
what are the 3 rules?
What kind of decorum was used?
_____ of comedy and tragedy.
Number of acts?
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Unity of time, place, action
Decorum of "what happens onstage should be believable" and "what happens onstage should be appropriate."
Separation of comedy and tragedy.
5 act structure
Poetic dialogue |
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| Characteristics of the Enlightenment |
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Rene Descartes - Reason trumps emotion - remove all you feel and all you can know is: "I think therefore I am"
Sir Francis Bacon - Study data, beware your bias
Denis Diderot - Garrick's Face, wrote first encyclopedia to collect information from all branches of human knowledge. |
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| Enlightenment Management, Actors |
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Management - No more company of players. Actor-manager ran things. Long runs of plays. Competition with other forms of entertainment (circus, burletta, animals, etc.). First London stars, then touring stars.
Acting - Lines of business, (several parts memorized as any particular time. A particular kind of character is expected. A particular kind of Hamlet is expected. |
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| School for Scandal's author |
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Higher truth. Study of one helps to understand the other
The natural state is best; escape “society”
We can never fully know
Art helps to make people aware of the possible
Artist-genius
The power of the symbol |
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Storm and urge (or stress) the audience
A German revolt against rationalism |
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Tight plot.
Scene a faire.
Climax toward the end.
Letters, overheard conversations.
Manipulation of emotion more important than plot or character.
Use of music to underscore/create emotion.
Had a clear structure.
Comic relief.
Poetic justice. |
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| Under the Gaslight's author |
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Naturalism. Show a fragment of existence.
Have theatre reveal the "newborn babe of truth" |
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Characters trapped in their circumstances.
Environment important less because it conveys realistic setting but because it is forming.
Realism shows life as it is, while Naturalism shows life as it is—only worse” |
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Mise en scène - Stage details. Watching a “slice of life”. Fourth wall. Actors’ backs (as if we are looking in the room where the action takes place (in the play, not onstage)
Truthfulness in acting. |
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Truthful representation of a real world.
Based on direct observation.
Author impersonal. |
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| The symbolism of A Doll's House |
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Authenticity -- Research
Useable things onstage
Costumes
Unity -- Groups
Long rehearsal process
1874 tour of Meiningen Players to Berlin |
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| How is Machinal expressionistic? |
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Outside exposes inside
Focus on central character, the rest of them are flat; named for their function
Episodic structure
Technology
Environment is what environment feels like. sounds |
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Unified artwork
Richard Wagner |
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New art of the theatre
Music and the Art of Musical Performance
The Work of Living Art (1899)
3-D “living space”
Flats out, levels in: “living space”
Lights. Spot lights, lighting plot--orchestration of lights
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| Edward Gordon Craig, Unit Set |
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Deutsches Theater in Berlin
Rejected realist set
large-scale revolving stage
Expressionism – personal vision of the world
Make the literature present
Teamwork with actors and among the media |
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Graduated from Harvard in 1910
“new stage craft” (Stylized scenery and implementing story with the design of the set.).
Studied with Craig in Europe
Integrate story-telling into design
Simplified (and abstracted) realism
Provincetown Players (1916-1929)
Designed O’Neill’s early plays
Dramatic lighting in his Shakespeare designs |
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"“…the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as kings were," since "the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing—his sense of personal dignity.”
Hero is “ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing—his sense of personal dignity” |
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| Tragedy of the Common Man |
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Harold Pinter
Eugene Ionesco
Jean Genet
Samuel Beckett |
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Judith Malina and Julian Beck
Influenced by Artaud and Grotowski. Antagonism and union (allowing audience to participate).
"Life, revolution and theater are three words for the same thing: an unconditional NO to the present society.” Julian Beck |
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Holds that performers ought to have a *direct confrontation* with the audience.
No more than 100 spectators. |
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Augusto Boal
Theatre as education
Spectators actively engaged in performance, not just passive. Theatre should turn “spectators” into “spect-actors”
From monologue to dialogue |
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| Author of Death and the King's Horseman |
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| How is Romanticisim a reaction against the Enlightenment? |
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| The enlightenment was a period which advocated certain rules for discovering higher truth. Romanticism reacted to this by advocating the notion of "artist geniuses" and higher truths which are attainable if, and only if, someone uses artistic expression. |
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| Name an expressionistic aspect of Machinal and briefly explain how it is so. |
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| One aspect of expressionist quality was the stream-of-consciousness monologue which we see twice in the play. This is explicitly expressionistic in that it tells the reader/audience exactly what perspective the character has at that moment. |
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| Richard Sheridan compared School for Scandal to what when he called it a laughing comedy? |
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| A sentimental/moral comedy. |
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| In which play do we meet Charles Surface? |
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| In which do we meet Buggerlas? |
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Which is not one of the defining features of the mise-en-scene of Antoine?
a. stage details.
b. unit set and stairs and ramps.
c. truthfulness in acting.
d. fourth wall. |
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| b. Unit set and stairs and ramps. |
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| Which of these describes the design of Meryerhold's The Magnificent Cuckhold? |
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| The Astor Place Riots occurred due to what? |
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| British actor W.V. Macready was playing Macbeth across town from American actor Edwin Forrest's Macbeth. |
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| Who was known for group stagings? |
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| Created unit sets that would work for the whole play and believed in the symbolist possibilities of nonhuman figures? |
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| Created 3D, living sets on which the three-dimensional actor could move? |
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Which of the following is a type of theatre that strips away all that is unnecessary to find the true essence of theatre?
a. environmental theatre
b. theatre of the oppressed.
c. poor theatre.
d. performance art. |
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| The author of Fires in the Mirror? |
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| Why were some of the sexes and genders mixed up in Cloud 9? |
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| What is Verfremdungseffekt? |
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Provincetown players
Neighborhood Playhouse
Washington Square Players |
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| Off-broadway productions caused by ... (in 1930s) |
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| Economy, film, and Little Theatre Movement |
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| Marlon Brando was a member of what group? |
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| Strasberg's Group Theatre |
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| Flanigan was known for what? |
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| The Federal Theatre Project and how non-profit theatre can become an advocacy for social change. |
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| Theatre that can happen anywhere, at any time, no confinements, they can look anywhere they want and do whatever they want! |
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