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Film, Theatre & Television
10th Grade
06/08/2010

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Impressionistic scene design creators
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Gordan Craig & Adolphe Appia
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Epic Theatre
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Bretolt Brecht
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Absurdism
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Eugene Ionesco
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Major American Playwright
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Tennessee Williams
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African-Amreican Playwrights
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August Wilson & Suzan Lori-Parks & Lorraine Hansberry- A Rasin In the Sun
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Major English Playwright
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Noel Coward
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Actors of the 19th Century
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David Garrick, Edwin Booth
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Drama that escapes reality
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Romanticism
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Late 19th Century Theatre
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Realism
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Brechtian Theatre of Social Protest
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Epic Theatre
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Theatre of meaninglessness
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Absurdism
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Theatre in Blackface makeup
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Minstrel Show
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Type of Variety Show
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Vaudeville
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Resident Theatre companies outside of NY
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Regional theatre
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Scene design emphasizing color and line
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impressionistic
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American Comic writer
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Neil Simon
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American Tragic Writer
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Arthur Miller
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First American Major playwright
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Eugene O' Neil
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Controversial playwright
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Tony Kushner
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Pulitzer prize winning playwrights
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Suzan Lori-Parks
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French Playwright
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Jean Giradoux
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British Playwright & author of Peter Pan
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James M. Barrie
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American Playwright
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David Mamet
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Feminist Playwright
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Wendy Wasserstein
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theatre that involves socail protest, breaking realistic illusion, use of theatricality, projections, narration, and songs
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Epic Theatre
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Theatre where characters speak & act random regardless of societal rules
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Absurdism
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Theatres that involes sentimentality with heroes, heroines, & villians...over dramactic
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Melodrama
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Theatre that focuses on characters in real-life situations
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Realism
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Theatre that involes singers, dancers, acrobats, and comedy acts
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Vaudeville
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Theatre that involves adventure and sentimental idealism as a means of escape from reality is:
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Romanticism
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Type of theatre that made fun of follish acr=ting aristocracy is: (language was for aristocrats-upper class)
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Comedy of Manners
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Father of Realism & author of A Doll's House
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Herick Isben
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Russian Theatre/ acting teacher
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Constantine Stanislavski
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Romanticism & author of Hunchback of Noterdam
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Victor Hugo
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Considered the greatest playwrigth since Shakespeare
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George Bernard Shaw
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Expressionistic Plays-forerunners of Avant Garde
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August Strindberg
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Famous American Actors
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Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Booth
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Realism
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Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
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Luigi Pirandello
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
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Epic Theatre
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Mother's Courage
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First Amrican Play
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The Contrast
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Tragedy
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All My Sons
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Absurdist Play
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Waiting for Godot
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Restoration Theatre
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School for Scandal
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Our Town
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Thornton Wilder
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A Doll's House
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Henrik Ibsen
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Tennessee Willams
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Brighton Beach Memoirs
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Neil Simon
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Equus
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Peter Shaffer
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Why was the Restoration Period called that?
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The theatre had been banned by the Puritans and when Charles II took the throne and kicked the Puritans out, he restored theartre back to its "normal self"
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Which Theatre was intended for the Upper Class
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Noh
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A convewntion of Noh theatre is?
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Highly polished floor which resonates under the feet & Characters enter and annouce who they are and what they do
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Mask are used in:
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Noh
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Doll Theatre
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Bunraku
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Involves shadow puppets behind a screen
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Wayang Kulit
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Only performed by men
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Bunraku, Peking Opera, Noh, & Kabuki
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evolved from women dances
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Kabuki
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uses highly stylized makeup
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Kabuki & Peking Opera
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use of color is important in this theatre
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Kabuki
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use Kyogens as comic interlude
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Noh
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color type jel inserted in flat puppets
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Wayang Kulit
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appealed to common class
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Kabuki
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women and childeren sit on one side of the screen while men sit on the other
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Wayang kulit
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use three men in black; master's face uncovered; others keep faces covered
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Bunraku
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Jointed Flat Puppets
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Wayang kulit
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props have meaning
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Peking opera
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musin instruments in Peking opera
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Jinghu, Yueqin
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Started by a woman and very symbolic, presentational,and rhythmic
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Kabuki
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incorporates dance and more melodramatic and sensational and actors enter from a flowerway
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Kabuki
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Took western plays and turned them into Kabuki plays
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Shozo Sato
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specific attitude is expressed, audience sits on 3 sides, wooden floor with 18ft squares made of Cypress, very specific, costumes made of silk,and different masks.
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Noh
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3 puppeteers, puppets 2/3s size of a normal human, weighs 10 Kg (15 Lbs)
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Bunraku
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To be a master puppeteers you must do and you move the:
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10 yrs on leg, 10 yrs on left arm and then you move the body, right arm and head...head must not drop, if it does you are losing your srength
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the narrator of Bunraku theatre
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Tayu, Joruri
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japanese instrument in Bunraku
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Shamisen
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dialouge is chanted
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Bunraku
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The director of The Lion King
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Julie Toimor
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author of Hernani
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Victor Hugo
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author of The Three Musketeers
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Alexandre Dumas
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Melodrama specialist performer performed plays about:
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Yankee, Indian, sometime African-Americans
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Given Monopoly
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William Davenant and Thomas Killigrew
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First female Playwright
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Aphra Behn
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Italian Family. evolution of Theatre scenery
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Bibilena Family
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author of She Stoops to Conquer
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Oliver Goldsmith
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What Kind of Comedy is she stoops to Conquer
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Laughing Comedy
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The Four types of Comedy in teh Restoration Period are:
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Comedy of Humors, Comedy of Intrigue, Comedy of Manners, & Farces
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Ferdinando
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Angle perspective
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English Drama (1660-1700)
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"Heroic Tragedy"
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Written and released in 1879
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A Doll's House
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Characters: Nora and Torvold Helmer
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A Doll's House
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Novel: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Play Adaption: George L. Alken
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August Comte
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Found science in sociology
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Willaim Charles Macready
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first modern director, positioning actors
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Madame Eliza Vestris
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Box Set
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All that exists has been created by an absolute being, GOD! Artist are genius, complete happiness and truth can not be obtained here on Earth but in a Spritual Realm, WITH GOD!
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ROMANTICISM
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Only3Acts
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Melodrama
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1800-1850
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American Theatre is picking up!
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Charles Kean
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directed Shakespeare with touring companies
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First theatre in the west was in:
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San Fransico (SAN FRAN!!!)
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Finest theatres outside of NY
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Chicago Theatres
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Marius Petipa
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Russian ballet , The Nutcracker & Swan Lake
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theatre where actors had to wear wigs and oversized lips
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Blackface
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