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Theatre History Chapter 13
Chapter 13 Part 1
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History
Undergraduate 3
04/19/2009

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League of Nation
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US not involved: isolationism; supposed to help the world
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Russian Revolution
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Huge impact on the world
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inflation leads to...
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the depression
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Franco
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Spain
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Tojo
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Japan
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Mussolini
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Italy
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Hitler
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Germany
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Expressionism
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France (painting); Germany (art & literature); distortion of reality to show inner feelings; dream like
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Walter Hansenclever
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"The Son"
expressionism
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George Kaiser
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"From Morn to Midnight"
expressionism
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Ernst Toller
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"Transfiguration"
"Man and the Masses"
expressionism
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Jurgen Fehling
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directed "Man and the Masses"
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Leopold Jessor
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directed "Richard III"
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Futurism
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originated in Italy; war should be idealized; short plays concentrating on nonsense
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Filippo Marinette
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"They're Coming"
futurism
actors rearrange furniture for 30 min
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Dada
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"anything goes"; rebellion against art and people's expectations; theme: mirrors and madness;
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Dada originated by
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Tristan Tzara in Switzerland
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Surrealism
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still around today
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Guillaumme Apollinaire
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"The Breasts of Tiresias"
Surrealism
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Andre Breton
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"Jean Cocteau"; "Orpheus"; "The Infernal Machine"
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The Theatre of Cruelty
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Antonin Artaud
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Antonin Artaud
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wrote manifestos; theatre is a sensory experience; made audience in center of action; did not perform in theatres; humans have natural inclination to violence
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"Theatre could act like a plague, cleansing society" was said by:
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Antonin Artaud
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Antonin Artaud wrote
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Spurt of Blood
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Epic Theatre
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begins in Germany; developed by Erwin Piscator
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Original name for Epic Theatre:
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Proletarian Theatre
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Erwin Piscator was the director of this theatre:
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Volksbuhne
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Walter Gropus
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architect; founder of Bauhaus; designed the theatre for the epic theatre
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"The GOod Soldier Schweik" came from the novel by:
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Jaroslov Hasek
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Bertolt Brecht STYLE:
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episodic; gave epic theatre its name
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Bertolt Brecht SUBJECT
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subject matter was almost always history, sometime foreign countries
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Bertolt Brecht CHARACTERISTICS:
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frequent shifts in local; intricate plots
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Bertolt Brecht PURPOSE:
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to instruct; you could use theatre to change the world (Lehrstucke); alienation; Verfremdung (to make strange);
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historification
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titles behind the actors
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"Three Penny Opera" music by:
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Kurt Weill
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"The Three Penny Opera" most famous song:
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"Mack the Knife"
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"Pirate Jenny" song was about...
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anti capitalism, pro socialism
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Brecht fled ______ and became a _______.
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Germany; Marxist
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"Mother Courage" was by:
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Brecht
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"The Song of Great Capitulation" was in..
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"Mother Courage"
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Brecht also wrote...
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"Galileo"; "The Good Person of Setzwan"; "Caucasian Chalk Circle"
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Brecht left America due to...
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House of un-American Activities and went to East Berlin
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Jacques Copeau (France)
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text oriented theatre; Theatre de Vieux Colombier
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Jean Giraudoux (France)
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"Amphitryon 38"; "The Mad Woman of Shyo"; "Andine"
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Jean Giraudoux's director was...
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Louis Jouvet
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Style of Louis Jouvet was...
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witty, elegant language, loved antithesis
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Jean Anouith (France)
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"Antigone" adaptation; "The Tank" (Joan of Arc)
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Miguel de Unamuno (Spain)
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philosopher, wrote treaties "The Tragic Sense of Life"; human struggle for immortality with the knowledge of knowing there is not; "Dream Shadows"
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Ramon del Valle-Inclan
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used grotesque and puppets
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Federico Garcia Lorca
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killed in Spanish Civil war
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Traveling theatre company that did Lorca's shows...
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La Barraca
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Federico Garcia Lorca wrote...
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"Blood Wedding"; "Yerma"; "The House of Bernada Alba"
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Luigi Pirandello (Italy)
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fascist; "Six Characters in Search of an Author; appearance vs reality; Teattro d'arte
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Harley Granville Baker (England)
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represents commercial theatre
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Tyrone Guthrie (England)
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Strattford Theatre, Ontario, Guthrie Theatre, Old Vic
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Noel Coward wrote...
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"Blithe Spirit"; "Hay Fever"; "Private Lives"; comedy of manners
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TS Elliot (England)
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Poet; "Murder in the Cathedral";
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Edith Evans
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Shakespearean actress; "The Nun Story"
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Peggy Ashcroft
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great stage actress; Juliet
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Michael Redgrave
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Strong Shakespearean actor; head of family actor (Natasha Richardson); "Morning Becomes Electra" (Adam)
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Alec Guinness
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stage to film actor; "Bridge on the River Kuai"
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Laurence Olivier
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greatest stage actor of 20th century; Shakespearean, comedian; Vivien Leigh: one of his wifes
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