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| What happened to Ibsen in the year 1828? |
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| What happened to Ibsen in the year 1834? |
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| Fathers buisness failed, family forced to move out of town |
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| What happened to Ibsen in the year 1852? |
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| Became a producer in Bergen and was comissioned to write a play for a theater anniversary |
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| What happened to Ibsen in the year 1857? |
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| Moved to Christiana to become artistic director of the Norwegian theater there |
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| What happened to Ibsen in the year 1864? |
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| Secured a small goverment grant and left Norway |
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| What happened to Ibsen in the yaer 1891? |
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| Returned to Norway-very careful about his work-allowed himself 2 years to write a play |
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| What happened to Ibsen in the year 1906? |
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| What country did Ibsen's plays examine the national character? |
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| Norweigian National Character |
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| Which theaters in addition to the Independent Theatre staged plays by Shaw? |
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1) The Incorporated Stage Society
2) The Royal Court Theatre |
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| What job did Shaw get through his friend William Archer? |
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| Book Reviewer and Art Critic |
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| Name Shaw's book of dramatic criticism? |
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| "Our Theatre In The Nineties" |
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| Who wrote the book of dramatic criticism entitled "Our Theatre In The Nineties" |
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What are 5 plays by Shaw?
HINT: C, C, M, M, S |
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Why was 1) Candida
2) Ceaser and Cleopatra
3) Major Barbara
4) Man and Superman
5) Saint Joan |
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| Why was the first performance of The Seagull in St. Petersburg a fiasco? |
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People didn't understand Checkovs dramatic techniques
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People didn't see the actress they were expecting |
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| An actress who later became Anton Chekhov's wife |
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Where was this quote said:
"Like a bursting of a dam, like an exploding bomb, a sudden deafening of applause broke out." |
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| Said by an audience member at Moscow Art Theatre presentation of THE SEAGULL |
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| Amateur theater group made up of many family members of Stanislatiski |
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| What is the Socitey of Art and Literature? |
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Founded by Stanislavski and Komissarzhevsky-
another amateur theater group (other one being Alekseev Circle) |
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| Who was Paul Claudel and what did he write? |
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Wrote on of the final plays to have the stamp of 'symbolism"
He wrote: "The Tidings Brought to Mary" |
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| What happened due to the Suffragist movement? |
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1) Voting rights for women (policital transformation)
2) Unionizing-gaining economic and political power for people
*Some early theater unions were founded during this era |
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| Why are Wilbur and Orville Wright important to this time? |
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| Radical technological inventions. They made a 'flying machine' |
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| What was The Theatrical Syndicate and what did it do? |
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| It was when American theatre became domincated by six producers who banded together and formed The Theatrical Syndicate. This union controlled the best playhouses throughout the nation and produced the most noteworthy touring shows |
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| What were the two contrasting twentieth-century approaches to theatre? |
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| The attempt to present onstage people and events corresponding to those observable in everyday life. |
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| Things not as they appear |
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| What do you know about Henrik Ibsen? |
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*Norwegian playwright
*Said to be the founder of modern realism
*Known for mastery of dramatic techniques, psychological insights into human nature and poetic symbolism |
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| One of Ibsen's earliest plays based on Norwegian history and mythology-a romantic play. |
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| Talk about Ibsens "A Dolls House" |
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Includes many elements of 19th century well-made play (developed exposition, withheld secrets and theatrical devices)
IMPORTANT: Huge realism because the play deals with the role of a women in marriage as well as the unequal treatment of women inside and outside the home |
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| Who wrote "The Ghosts" and what theater company had their first production being "The Ghosts" |
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Ibsen wrote "The Ghosts"
The English Independent Theatre made their first show "The Ghosts" |
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| Who wrote "An Enemy Of The People?" |
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| Who wrote "The Master Builder" and what was different about this play? |
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*Ibsen
*Ibsen was starting to make plays that had more symbolism and mysticism-"The Master Builder" was one of them |
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| How was symbolism used in this movement? |
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| Sought to replace realistic representation of life with the expression of inner truth. Symbolist dramas used myths, legends and symbols to reach beyond reality |
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| Describe Naturalism as well as a person who made naturalism popular? |
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*Naturalism is like a documentary-aiming to set characters, dress them, have them speak and act as they do in everyday life
*Emile Zola-she believed that theater should expose social behaviors/events/trends |
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| A French writer-the most famous proponent of naturalism. Believed in: "Scientific objectivity"-that an artist should present a picture of the real world without making their presence other than that picture of the natural world |
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| Who wrote "Therese Raquin"? |
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Emilie Zola
IMPORTANT: "Therese Raquin" is one of the best known naturalistic dramas of this era |
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| What did Gerhardt Hauptmann write? |
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| What did Maksim Gorky write? |
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| What did naturalists argue should be presented onstage? |
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| What are 2 key components to naturalism? |
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1) Showing the stark side of life
2) Attempt to be like a documentary-cannot be shaped by any kind of artistic techniques used in realism
**Naturalism helped to further the development of theatre with the idea of putting real life onto the stage |
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| Who wrote "Mrs. Warren's Profession"? |
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| What happened in Brooklyn at the production of George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession"? |
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| The entire cast was arrested because realistic dramas was were controversial |
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| What are subsciption companies? |
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Were formed to produce realistic and naturalistic dramas. They were theaters who were exempt from goverment censorship because they regarded their audience as "members of a private club"
*Small theaters just putting on works for a small ammount of interested people to see |
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founded in Paris. An independent theater from goverment restriction
*Smaller venues versus Berlins Freie Buhne
*REVOLUTIONIZED FRENCH THEATRE |
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| Why is Andre Antoine important? |
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| French man who founded The Theatre Libre (french independent theater) |
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| The chairman of Berlins Freie Buhne (Berlins "Free Stage") |
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Berlins independent theater company. DIFFERENT: Run by a board of directors (French Theatre Libre was not)
ALSO: Only performed on Sundays because they had professional actors in their productions and Sunday was the off day for actors |
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| What did Jacob Thomas Grein found? |
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| What was the Independent Theatre? |
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| A Subscription Company theater in London that had professional actors, theatres and performed on Sundays |
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| Who wrote "Widowers Houses" and why was it important? |
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George Bernard Shaw
It was his first play |
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| Who wrote "Heartbreak House" |
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| What is the Fabian Society and wrote on policital issues for the Fabian Society? |
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Fabian Society: A socialist organization
Who wrote for them: George Bernard Shaw |
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| What play did Villers de L'Isle-Adam write? |
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| What were Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant? |
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| A collection of George Bernard Shaws first plays |
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| Who wrote "Heartbreak House"? |
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| George Bernard Shaw (its a play about war) |
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| What is the Moscow Art Theatre famous for? |
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| Being the most inflential late 19th century theater dedicated to realism |
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What did:
Kontantin Stanislavski
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Vladmir Nemirovich-Danchenko found? |
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| The Moscow Art Theatre dedicated to realism |
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| Who wrote "Ivanov" and what was it? |
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| Anton Chekhov and it was Chekhovs first successful play |
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| Who wrote "Three Sisters" |
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| Who wrote "The Cherry Orchard" |
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| Who is Stephane Mallarme? |
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| Who is Maurice Maeterlinck? |
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| A Belgium playwright whose plays were important to the symbolist movement |
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| What did Anton Chekhov really get from his work? |
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| Perfected dramatic technique-had people rely on indirect action and character development to create tension. |
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