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Charles Kean
Still images onstage reveal character relationships |
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(George II first director of Meiningen,1874)
1st professional director
adds patterned movement to still pictures
all movement on stage in dirctors responsibility |
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use of Small gestures
use of props
to revieal character |
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Character actor: transforms into a character
Personality actor: hired for self |
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body
voice
imagination
intelligence |
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neutral body
flexibility
strength
dance
poise |
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1. heard-ability to project
2. be understood-articulation |
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| A conventional formulaic, oversimplified conception, opinion or image. |
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A place of:
1. reflection
2. action
3. representation |
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Native American Theatre characteristics and conventions:
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Oral history
Creation stories
Non-linear
Liquid boundaries (spirit/physical world)
Awareness of genocide
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protest
revolt affirmation spirituality music |
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1860-1890, 1930 uses "Black Face" plantation entertainment
racial entertainment
Whites “black up” with burnt cork |
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was the first black to have a play on Broadway by Lorraine Hansberry the youngest to have a drama on Broadway
died at 34 |
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The Piano Lesson Wrote a play for every decade during the 1900s about American history located in Pittsburg |
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latin lover
revolutionary
hot tamale
brown face (performance as latinos) |
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Louis Valdez and the Farmworkers Theatre of the Universe
Support Mexican and Filipino workers in Cali
Actors-short plays using mitos, myths |
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First latino play on Broadway
Based on Sleepy Lagoon Murder case
Political action
Start fed Edward James Olmos
Brechtion |
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| Feminist theatrefeminist theatre |
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Montage
Non-linear
Camp
Gender switching
role doubling |
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1965 Calm Down Mother mother daughter realationships |
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1968 Mark Crowley
first queer play |
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Caters to the identities Gay, lesbian, transgender, and bi people |
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For children, with children, by children |
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Theatre by people over 55
For of audiences of all ages
Creative opportunities in retirement
preserve memories through oral history give back to the community |
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1866 First american musical French ballet dancers and American melodrama |
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First all-black musical on broadway
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British
international success,
Jesus christ superstar
Cats |
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Edgy, complex works
Sweeny Todd
Into the Woods
The Assassin |
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major broadway producers:
Disney
Ziegfeld
Mackintosh |
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| What succeeds on broadway? |
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Musicals
light comedy
proven imports
revivals
sometimes dramas
other-Stomp, Blue Man Group, Riverdance |
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| The New York Public Theatre |
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Joseph Papp “non-profit” theatre in NY
Shakespeare in Central Park
A Chorus Line starts here |
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Regional professional theatre
In every major city
Cleveland Playhouse is longest running (1916)
Source for Broadway
Develop new audiences/plays/playwrights
Art over business; profits return to the theatre |
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Celebrate oral history
Tecumseh
Blue Jacket
Trumpet in the Hand
The Living Word |
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actor’s ability to appear at ease on stage
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| top awards in the theatre profession in the NY theatre |
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1850 Actor/manger, responsible for starting picturization
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| An African American choreographer and dancer |
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Off Broadway lower cost where young artists could start |
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Off-off Broadways less union influence less commercial |
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focus on identity in society
camp extreme stereotypes
sexuality
AIDS references |
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Phoenix or Ohio State drama in Education
Most conservative theatre
Introduces students to performing arts
Classics and musicals |
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1991 and 1992 It is a two part queer play won the Tony Awards It addressed the issues of aids awareness, McCarthyism, spirituality and the Regan Era |
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Ideas come from:
Literature, movies, jukebox musicals, and original ideas |
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Jonathan Larson Rent is about aids and struggling artists |
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| he emotions underlining the words of the action (tone and physicalization) |
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