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Eugene Ionesco
Definition

Wrote same time as Samuel Beckett

Concerned with Domestic Characters

Wrote: Rhinocerous 1960, The Chairs

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Jean Geret
Definition

Spent a lot of time in prision

The balcony

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Samuel Beckett
Definition

Waiting for Godot 1953

Endgame 1957

Happy Days

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Jean Paul Sorte
Definition

French Playwright

No Exit 1944

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Waiting for Godot
Definition

Samuel Beckett 1953

Didi, Gogo, Lucky, Pozzo

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Ernest Toller
Definition

WW1 took a toll on him

broken shell of man

expressionist playwright

Hoppla, We're Alive!

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Private Lives
Definition

Noel Coward  1930

Amanda, Sybil, Eliot, Victor

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Bertolt Brecht
Definition

German Playwright

Berliner Ensemble 1949

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Vsesvold Meyerholder
Definition

Surrealism

Director & Producer

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Alexandra Esker
Definition
Russian Costume Designer
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Adolph Appia
Definition

Scenic and Lighting Designer

First Modern Stage without procenium

"give the actor an environment"

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Max Reinhardt
Definition

Unconventional Venues for shows

Introduced the Cyc

Theatre & Film Director

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Karel Capek
Definition

Expressionist Playwright

RUR

first robot word to become popular

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Edward Gordon Craig
Definition

Son of Ellen Terry

PADS - Producer, Actor, Director, Scenic Designer

 

Known for overwhelming backdrop, not a fan of actors, used puppets. 

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Look Back In Anger
Definition

John Osboure 1956

Alison, Jimmy, Cliff, Helena

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Antonin Artaud
Definition

Theatre of Cruelty

ADPT - Actor, director, producer, theorist

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Erwin Piscatar
Definition

Advocate of Epic Theatre

German Director & Producer

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William Butler Yeats
Definition
Known for poetry, wrote a couple of unsuccessful plays
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Lady Gregory
Definition
Co-Founded the Abbey Theatre
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Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Definition

Actor Manager of his majesties theatre

hired whos who

founded RADA 1904

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Harley Granville Barker
Definition

DEAPP - director, essayist, actor, producer, playwright

Royal Court Theatre

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Ben Travers
Definition
Master of Farce
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Noel Coward
Definition

Private Lives 1930

Hay Fever

 

*didn't write anything horrible

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T.S. Elliot
Definition

Verse Drama, Murder in the cathedral 

 

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Christopher Fry
Definition

The Ladys Not For Burning

Verse Drama

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Royal Coburg Theatre
Definition
Looking Glass Curtain
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3 Main Venues, What are they?
Definition

The Swan theatre

The Royal Shakespeare Company

Shakespeare Memorial theatre

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Edith Evans
Definition
Dame, Known for playing Lady Bracknell
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John Osbourne
Definition

Look Back In Anger  1956

The Entertainer 1957 -> written for Laurence Olivier (Actor)

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Laurence Olivier
Definition

Actor

The Entertainer 1957 was written for him by John Osbourne. 

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Harold Pinter
Definition
Oldtimes
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Peter Shaffer
Definition
Equus, Amadeus 
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Ray Cooney
Definition

Run for your wife

great farces

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Joe Orton
Definition

Cut pictures out of books and pasted them on front cover, went to jail for this.

 

What the Butler Saw

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Edward Bond
Definition

Doesn't deliver the humour, punches you right in the face

Emotionally Terrifying Playwright

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Tom Stoppard
Definition

Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Screenplay: Shakespeare in Love

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Caryl Churchill
Definition
Top Girls
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Lord Chamberlain
Definition

Became the centre of theatrical preformances

Stated what productions could/couldn't include, very strict 

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Independent Theatre Society
Definition

Produced 22 plays

couldn't buy tickets, had to be a member

 

Loophole around Lord Chamberlain 

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George Bernard Shaw
Definition
1856-1950
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Incorporated Stage Society 1899
Definition

Was successful, learned from Independent theatre Companies mistakes. 

produced over 200 pays

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Aldwych Theatre
Definition
Home of the Aldwych Farces
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Shakespeare memorial theatre designed by?
Definition
Elizabeth Scott - Architect 
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What is a Drum Revolve?
Definition
Corkscrew that turns and goes up and down
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