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| react against neo-classicism; Nature interest; instinct over educated reasoning; exotic locales; revival of shakespeare (natural genius) |
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| a domestic drama performed in 1855 in West End with Alfred Wigan as an actor in it |
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| contributor to naturalism in drama; french; sewer-bathing guy; ...rhymes with "cola" |
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| from Sweden; wrote Miss Julie |
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| year of the unification of the German States |
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| Bayreuth Festspielhaus 1876; he made the director more powerful; orchestra seats were now best seats in house, not box seats |
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| The Duke of Sax-Meiningen |
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| Georg II (toured Europe with his court theater) |
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| went to 38 cities including Moscow and Paris; many shakespeare plays; 6 on the road and 16 at home |
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| realism theater in Berlin |
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| realism theater in London that opened with Ghosts |
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| realism theater in Moscow |
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| realism theater in Provincetown, MA |
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| Georg II (made ensemble important so even small roles were played well) |
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| he wanted complete historical accuracy and Stanislavski saw him and his troupe in Moscow and he influenced Andrew Antoine |
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| Tolstoy play done at Theater Libre in 1888 |
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| Ghosts (1890) and Wild Duck (1891) |
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| plays done at Theater Libre by Ibsen |
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| he was influenced by Theater Libre and started the Scandinavian Experimental Theater in 1888 |
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| this play was banned at Scandinavian Experimental Theater but allowed at the Freie Buhne |
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| shaw's first play which was performed at the indepedent theater |
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| theater in Ireland 1899 with WB Yeats and Edward Martyn |
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| another Irish theater in 1904 |
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| theater in Chicago in 1912 with Maurice Brown |
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| Susan Glaspell and George Cook |
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| moved to NY in 1913 and did the Washington Square Players in 1914, Greenwich Village, Summers in Mass. Provincetown Players |
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| amateur actor in Russia, took on name of Stanislavski |
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| playwright and teacher became friends with Stanslavski |
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| Stanislavski saw Duke of Sax-Mein's tour in 1885 and how accurate they were and how well they worked together. |
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| Cafe meeting in 1897 between these guys from 10am-3am about principles for new theater |
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| the result of Stan and Dan's cafe meeting |
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| the symbol of the Moscow Art Theater (play by Anton Chekov) |
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| in this Tolstoy play at the Moscow Art Theater, the curtain was first parted instead of raised. |
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| Darwins Origin of the Species; Marx's Communist Manifesto (self determination of working class); Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (examining the subconscious) |
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| less solution, instabilty of character, no solid plot, distortion set design, enstranging audience |
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| properties of the alternatives to the well-made play |
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| dream-like nightmarish vision theater |
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| 1902 Strindberg play that was forerunner for expressionism |
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| emotional transcendence in expressionism |
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| get past the reason, text, mind and hit right for the emotion |
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| properties of expressionism |
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| bold lighting effects and symbolic color/ vivid dream-like visions, dynamic stylized movement |
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| dadaism (early 20th cent. Switzland) |
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| art form came out of WWI searching for purpose, is there a God? |
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| surrealism (french) dreams as superior reality (Persistence of Memory painting by Salvador Dali) |
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| genre about giving in to animalistic instincts and freeing mind of ego's logic and superego's censorship |
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| developed by Filippo Marinetty about glorifying technology |
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| 6 characters in search of an author |
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| written by Pirandello and caused riots at its opening |
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| did constructionism and biomechanics, member of Moscow Art theater, worked under Stan |
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| the set is a machine for the actor's performance |
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| all about Introspection and subjectivity. big Symbolism guy, evoked states of the mind and emotion |
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| Adolphe Appia and Gordon Craig |
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| symbolism people; used lighting and music to affect moods and emotions; fog and gauze curtains, actors as part of set |
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| a symbolism play that Alfred Jarry wrote in 1896, very absurd and surreal |
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| founded the Elizabethan stage society in 1895 |
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| plays without actors, created by E Gordon Craig |
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| managed the Deutsches Theatre, did a production of Everyman in Salzburg, and made a film version of Mid Sum Night Dream in 1935 |
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| started a company in 1883 devoted to Shakespeare, later known as the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961 |
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| She was the over-dramatic rival who managed a theatre in Paris |
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| She was the realistic rival who toured with her own company |
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| The Firebird and Rites of Spring |
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| ballets written by Stravinsky for the tour for the ballet Russes |
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| founded the Theater Libre in Paris |
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| Tour of the Ballet Russes |
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| a group that started in Paris in 1909; used mime and expressive acting and costume; influenced by modern innovators (Duncan) |
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| This was a time of extreme artistic experimentation |
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| Dadaism developed into this in France |
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| wrote Heartbreak House and Saint Joan |
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| wrote Private Lives and Blithe Spirit |
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| created the 'epic theater' used the alienation effect (relate to and distance yourself from the audience) |
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| French playwright, wrote The theatre and its Double; expressed ideals through image rather than argument; distrusted reason |
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| believed would help end division hatred and violence; used intense feelings for persuasion |
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| set design was for suggestion not representation; it answered rational problems, not moral ones; science not the answer |
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| FDR employed actors during depression with this |
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| founded the group theater and proposed "method" acting |
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| An Actor Prepares; Building a Character, and Creating a Role, My Life in Art |
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| wrote The Hairy Man, The Ice Man Cometh, and Desire Under The Elms |
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| wrote Glass Meneg, Cat on Hot Roof, Summer and Smoke, and Streetcar |
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| wrote All My Sons, Death of Salesman, Crucible |
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| Oklahoma! (Rog and Hammer) |
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| 1st big American musical 1943 |
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| absurd playwright wrote Waiting for Godot |
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| absurdist, wrote Betrayal |
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| absurdist wrote Zoo Story |
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| absurdist, wrote Rosencraft and Guildenstern are Dead |
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| won a pulitzer prize for writing 'Night Mother |
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| famous late 17th cent female playwright |
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| Tina Howe, Beth Henley, Caryl Churchill |
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| important female playwrights of 1980s |
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| wrote Fences and The Piano Lesson |
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