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-written by Sophie Treadwell
-Expressionism play
-Episodic structure
-girl is forced to marry her boss by her mother, eventually she kills her husband and gets trapped in the justice system |
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-written by Samuel Beckett
-Absurdism piece, first major success
-Two men in the void, tree is the only piece of scenery.
-a being or person |
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-Irish, expatriated to France
-wrote in French to challenge himself to simplify
-Resistance fighter during WWII
-"Minimalist with language to let actions speak for themselves" |
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-written by Eugene Ionesco
-Absurdism play
-couple eating dinner having a banal conversation...simple english sentences
-guy as girl, girl as guy |
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-Romanian father, French Mother
-Denounced oppression
-Accused of "hate language"
-"It's not a certain society that seems absurd to me, it's mankind." |
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-written by August Wilson
-a play written depicting the African American experience during each decade, 10th play finished months before his death |
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-Major contributor to African American theatre
-leading American playwright of the late twentieth, early twenty-first century
-loved music/storytelling |
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-written by Caryl Churchill
-About women of magnitude, distinction, and from different times
-Touches on class, politics, women, and their choices and lack thereof |
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-British, wrote 24 plays so far
-plays tend to be nonrealistic
-technique of putting down on paper the way people really speak |
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| things that seem mysterious, impossible, spiritual. can be difficult to stage |
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-19th century racist style of performance. in which white performers in blackface denigrated African American culture
-Slave entertainments, played for the master |
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-lawyer, Rhodes Scholar, Artist, Activist
-appeared in "Showboat", "Othello"
-first black actor to play Othello on an American stage
-longest running actor as Othello |
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-brilliant Shakespearian actor, first black actor to play Othello EVER.
-African Grove Theatre in NYC
-then moved to England |
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-Actor and director
-first black director on Broadway
-Head of Yale School of Drama
-August Wilson's director |
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-questionable marriage
-wild life
*supported herself
-First PROFESSIONAL playwright |
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-English gentry sent to court
-Desired to be recognized as an intellectual, but was mocked
-Interest in natural sciences and women
-wrote 26 plays
-First PUBLISHED playwright |
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-wrote "The Children's Hour"
* first play to explore possibility of a lesbian relationship
*shows women are vulnerable
-wrote "The Little Foxes"
*powerful female figures in conflict with each other |
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| Elements in Character Analysis |
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1) Given Circumstances
2) Super Objective
3) Tactics/Actions
4) Motivation
5) Values |
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| Given Circumstances (character analysis) |
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-facts, NOT OPINIONS, about each major character
-includes
*gender
*age
*occupation
*physical condition
*relationships |
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| Super Objective (character analysis) |
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-What a character wants or needs
-Drives them through all or most of the play |
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| Tactics/Actions (character analysis) |
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-What the character is willing to do to achieve a goal
-State as an active verb |
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| Motivation (character analysis) |
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-Why?
-Must be interpreted at times
-Many characters do not openly discuss motivations |
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| Values (character analysis) |
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-What a character believes to be true and important
-No characer has "no" values
-Our job is to articulate without judging |
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-The basic idea that two adults, a man and woman, are essential to the survival of the family
-Only if both parents work at full capacity can the children survive
*men do physical work
*women bear the children and
home based work |
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| "Magic or Expanded" Realism |
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-Embraces the world of playwright and actors
-EX. Realismo
-can be difficult to stage |
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-Subjective, no single correct reality
-Anti-Realism
-The "Dream" play, everything is possible
-Image
-EX. Strindberg's plays after "The Inferno" and Edvard Munch "The Scream" |
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1) Proscenium
2) Thrust
3) Arena |
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-After "The Great War" and The End of the Second World War
-based on the sense of existential despair
-nothing at the core of one's existence
-creatures of free will
-create meaning! -laughter & kindness |
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-Lighting comes from "over house" to prevent shadows
-Audience in front of upstage, frame forms a picture box
-limited points of view, but only audience side matters
-CHALLENGE- costumes detailed for the back as well as the front |
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-Pavillion Theatre at PSU
-3/4 round stage
-longer and narrower
-intimate stage, everyone is close to actors but at different angles
-everything must be completely finished because audience can see the whole stage |
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-Audience is all around the stage
-Scenic designs must be short to not block view
-environment is smaller, yet more intimate
-floor is the essential focus
-Sounds and sense of time are challenging |
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| a show with musical numbers where the primary entertainment is found in those numbers |
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| spoken word, story, or book in musical theatre |
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| designs of dance and movement |
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| Origins of Musical Theatre |
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1) Vaudeville
2) Burlesque
3) Minstrel Shows
4) Opera
5) Operetta |
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| variety entertainment, family oriented |
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| variety entertainment, adult oriented |
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| combine storytelling, music, and dance |
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thru-sing (little or no spoken word)
requires full chorus and orchestra
lavish costumes and sets |
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"little opera"
light musical romances |
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-12 successful operettas
-"Pirates of Penzance"
*fast lyrics* |
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-wrote musicals that are remembered for their great music
-"Yankee Doodle" |
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-1st song at age 19
-Annie Get Your Gun
Stop, Look and Listen
-"Alexanders Ragtime Band" first major hit |
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-first fully matured American musical
-paved the way for the great Book musicals
-addressed serious issues |
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-influenced by black musicians
-"Girl Crazy"
"Of Thee I Sing"
"Porgy and Bess" |
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-peculiar, had "all the money in the world"
-genius witty lyrics, frivolous libretto
-"The Gay Divorcee"
"Anything Goes"
"Can-Can"
"Kiss Me, Kate" |
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-transitions into the great "book musicals"
-by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart |
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-emphasized libretto/storyline
-issues are more complex, richer, darker |
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-considered by most to be the first Great "Book" Musical
-Rodgers and Hammerstein |
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-by Cole Porter
-a play within a play |
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-"My Fair Lady"
"Camelot"
"Brigadoon" |
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-two subplots
gambler and salvation girl
Adelaide and Nathan |
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-Henry Higgins makes girl a dutchess by changing her voice
-by Lerner and Loewe |
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-"Pal Joey"
-transitioned into the book musicals |
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-contributed to "Great Book Musicals"
-"Carousel"
"South Pacific"
"The King and I"
"Flower Drum Song"
"The Sound of Music" |
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| -director/choreographer of "Fiddler on the Roof" |
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-called by some critics, the last of the great book musicals
-about a milkman in a jewish town |
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unified around a central idea, theme or motif
-episodic script, contemporary popular music |
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-about actors/actresses auditioning for a show
-Hamlisch and Kleban |
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-by Kander and Ebb
-takes place in the "Kit Kat Club" |
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-Composer
-"Jesus Christ Superstar"
"Evita"
"Cats"
"Phantom of the Opera" |
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-Composer/lyricist
-experimentation with subject matter and innovative musical numbers
-"Gypsy"
"Sweeney Todd"
"Into the Woods"
"Assassins" |
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-African American Musical
-by Fats Waller |
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