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| A theater style that focuses on the basics of society. "Cutting a chunk out of everyday and putting it on a stage" |
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| Using different people's perspectives, reaction to naturalism- used to get inside the heads of the characters |
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| In retaliation to naturalism, often called "avant guard theater". |
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| The idea that all things are cause-effect basis |
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The idea of using overlying symbols in a play. Started with French poetry.
Gustav Adolf Mossa- artist
Anton Chekhov- playwright
Stanislavski- playwright
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created the "“Satiated Siren”
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| Dramatize spiritual awakening and suffering of main character. Started in Germany with art and theater. |
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Began is Switzerland. Anti-modern styles. Anti-war, anti-aristocrats, anti-government.
Max Ernst & Hans Arp & Tristan Tzara
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Showing a truth people do not want to see. Based in Antonin Artaud's play Theatre and Its Double (1948). Also Marat Sade
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| Doesn't focus on realistic elements but rather human's caught in repetition, subject to any action, however illogical. Martin Esslin coined term and wrote Theater of the Abserd |
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| Applied to theater- Each part of the play is cause and effect, you can predict it and it's very methodical. |
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| Ernest Renan, Life of Jesus |
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| Asserted that Jesus was like any other man and his life (along with the bible) should be told like that of anyone else. Part of the systematic side of the "modern theater" era. |
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| Thus Spake Zarathustra -nietzsche |
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| Turned moral on their head by mocking the bible and telling the life of Zarathusta. |
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| Charles Darwin, Origin of Species |
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| Populations evolve over time via the principal of natural selection. |
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| Critical analysis of Capitalism |
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| Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams |
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| Understanding unconscious mental processes. |
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| introduction of the assembly line. People became part of a machine, disconnected from their product, community, known as alienated labor. |
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| “Naturalism in the Theatre” (1881): Emile Zola |
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| Large contributor to Naturalism in theater and one of the prominent scholars of such. Tried to remove style totally |
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| African, pre-colonial tribal enactments. Heavily involved with animals and spirits. Big on audience participation and tradition |
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| celebrated the Egungen Festival. followed mostly "myth and ritual" |
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| Wrote A dance of the forests. Play was supposed to be a celebration of Nigeria, but ended up being a very political warning against repeating past mistakes. |
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| Written by Author Miller. Focuses on the inner workings of Willie Loman's head and his relationship with his family, himself and his desire for the "American Dream". Very subjective Theater |
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| Written by Albee. Emphasized a protagonist that was more common and every day. Used mutability to its advantage. Very Subjective play. |
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| The ability of a play to have multiple perspectives and aspects for examination by the audience. Ex. Three Tall Women and The Three Sisters |
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| Written by Anton Chekhov. Great example of Mutability and Entropy in a play |
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| In theater, used to describe the changing of "energy" in a play. Switching between scenes and emotions. |
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| Six Characters in search of an Author |
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| Written by Luigi Pirandello. Great Example of Mutability and Entropy in a play |
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| Mexican American Theater. ex: El Teatro Campesino |
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| Socio-political short improvised scenes. Began in the El Teatro Campesino |
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| Myth Plays from the chicano theaters. Ex: Dark Root of a Scream |
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| Created during the new deal, part of the WPA committee to promote arts and employment. |
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| Written by Luis Valdez. Part of the Chicano Theater. Represented the Zoot Suit Riots. Used a "Living Newspaper" format. Subjective use of "El Pachuco" as a character and alter ego |
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| The Term "Pachuco" was a racial put down that the Mexican-Americans adopted as their own. The character "El Pachuco" represents all the characters of Zoot Suit, the God of the play, a god of the play world and the alter ego of Henry Rena, all at the same time. Sometimes apart of the action in the scenes, sometimes above the action. |
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| Any part of theater that refers to it's self. Zoot Suit is an example when El Pachuco uses an "alienation effect" to stop the play's action and refer to the audience enjoying the killing of the chicanos in the play. |
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| When the play is used to jolt the audience by doing something "out of character". Can be achieved by breaking the 4th wall. Coined by Brecht |
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| A play that sees the life of a Chicano through the eyes of man |
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| a play that sees the life of a chicano through the eyes of god |
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