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-Brought about by the release of "The Origin of the Species" (1859)
-Hereditary vs. Environment
-Spokesperson was Emile Zola (1840-1902)
-France/Case Studies
-Naturalism = "Slice of Life"
-Dramatist ---> pathologist
-"The Vultures" (1882) |
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| I.T.M. (Independent Theatre Movement) |
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-Andre Antoine (1858-1943)
-1887-Theatre Libre
-Subscription based
-Foreign Works
-"Ghosts" by Ibsen
-Production values:
-Observed 4th Wall
-Sets
-1894-Antoine Leaves
-by departure Theatre Libre produced 62 programs/184 plays |
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-Freie Buhn (1889-1894)
-Democratic org.
-Otto Brahm - Pres.
-Sunday perf.
-Plays - "Ghosts" |
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| Independent Theatre (1891-1897) |
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-J.T. Grein (1862-1935)
-Subscription
-Sundays |
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| George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
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-"Arms & The Man" (1894
-"Major Barbara" (1905)
-Freedom of Choice |
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| Herbert Beerbuhm Tree (1853-1917) |
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-"Midsummer" (1900)
-220,000 spectators saw play
-1904 - RADA |
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| M.A.T. (Moscow Art Theatre) |
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-Constatin Stanislavski (1863-1938)
-Vladmir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858-1943)
-Professional
-Production |
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| Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) |
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-"The Sea Gull" (1896)
-"Uncle Vanya" (1899)
-"The Three Sisters" (1901)
-"The Cherry Orchard" (1904)
-Rural Russia
-Landowning Class
-Mood, Details
-delineated Characters |
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-1902 - Own Theatre
-39-100 Members
-1911 - 1st Studio
-"My Life in Art" (1924)
-"An actor perpares" (1936)
-"Building a Character" (1949)
-"Creating a Role" (1961) |
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1. Body/Voice
2. Stage Techniques
3. Observe reality
4. Inner Justification
-Magic If
-Emotional Memory
5. Given Circumstance
-Objective
6. Illusion of 1st Time
7. Continually Strive |
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-Put together packages of Shows so producers from Other states can just deal with them
-Rules of Producers:
-People will not come to a show without stars
-Public opinion is infaluable |
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| David Belasco (1854-1931) |
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1. Star-Maker
2. Staging /Ralism
3. Broke the Syndicate |
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| Richard Wagner (1813-1883) |
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-"Mythmaker" is role of playwright
-Ideal world - unite/"folk"
-Spoken dialogue
-Shakespeare & Beethoven
-"Music Dramas"
- -Master Art Work-
-Architecture - "Classless" theatre
-No Center aisle
-No Side boxes
-fan - shaped
-pit hidden
-Raked floor
-No musicians tuning
-No applause
-No Curtain Calls |
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| Wanted to combine Poe, Dostoevsky, Wagner |
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-Novelty, experimentation, Subjectivity, Spirituality, Truth?
-Symbols, myths, legends, moods |
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-Paul fort (1872-1962)
-Palleas and Melisande
-Few props
-Semi-darkness
-gauze curtain
-gray-medieval costumes
-Stacca to Chant
-Stylized |
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-"King UBU"
-No human decency
-popular after WWII |
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| Aldolphe Appia (1862-1928) |
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-3 conflicting elements:
-3-D Actor
-Perpendicular Scenery
-Horizontal floor
-3-D units, steps, platforms, ramps - Transions
-Light = music
-Unity |
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-Actor/Designer
-"The Art of the Theatre" (1905)
-Master Artist - Test?
-"See", why people go to theatre, not hear
-Mobile Stting
-Screens
-"Ubermarionette", no actors, big puppets |
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| Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) |
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-1906 - Built Kammerspiele Theatre
-No Single approach
-Problem to be solved
-eclecticism
-Physical Arrangement
-Regiebuch (prompt book) |
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-Theatre --> National Treasure
-Proletariat, wrote plays about
-New Regime --> New Forms
-Avant-garde |
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-Berloit Brecht (1891-1956)
-"Mother Courage and Her Children" (1938-1939)
-"The Good Woman of Setzvah" (1938-1940)
-"The Caucasian Chalk Circle" (1944-1945)
-Narrative & Dramatic
-Audience --> Active NOT passive
-"Verfremdungseffekt" Alienation
-Everything should be seen
-Songs, captions, etc.
-No unification
-Leave theatre and change the world |
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| Walter Gropius (1883-1969) |
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-"Bauhaus" (useable decoration, but esthetically pleasing)
-1927 - Gropius desings "Total Theatre"
-can be made into any type of Theatre |
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-1880 - Old Vic (Built)
-1914 - Shakespeare begins to be performed @ Old Vic
-1937 - Tyrone Gutherie (1900-1971), takes over Old Vic
-1939 - Finest Theatre --> Set standard for how "Bill" should be performed |
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| Barry Jackson (1879-1961) |
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-Birmingham Rep.
-*Malvern Festival (1929) |
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| Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) |
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-"Hayfever" (1925)
-"Private Lives" (1930) |
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| United States (1915-1940) |
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-Social Planning
-1912-1915 --> Little Theatre (1940)
-Toy Theatre (Boston)
-Provincetown Players (MA)
-1925->2000 "Little "Theatres
-Drama League of America (Promote "community" Theatre)
-1903 -> George Pierce Baker (1866-1935)
-> Radcliffe College (1st Playwriting Class)
-1914 - Carnegie Inst. of Tech
-First Degree in Theatre
-1925 - Yale, Creates Degree in Theatre
-Post 1910 --> "The New Stagecraft"
-Robert Edmond Jones (1887-1954)
-"Simplified REalism"
-Steps, platforms, lighting |
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-R. Boleslavsky (1894-1937)
-M. Ouspenskaya (1881-1949)
-Am. Laboratory Theatre |
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-Lee Strasberg (1901-1982)
-Harold Clurman (1901-1980)
-Cheryl Crawford (1902-1986)
[Students of Am. Laboratory Theatre]
-Stella Adler
-Elia Kazan
[Students of The Group Theatre] |
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| Federal Theatre Project (1935-1939) |
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-Hallie Flannagan Davis (1890-1969)
-10,000 Arts productions
-1,000 Theatrical productions - 65% free
-"Living Newspaper" (Most Popular)
-Data w/ dramatic scenes --> Cinematic
-Problem --> "Little man" |
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| Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) |
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-25 plays
-Interior Monologues
-"Anna Christie" (1921)
-"Desire Under The Elms" (1924)
-"The Iceman Cometh" (1956)
-"A Long Days Journey Into Night" (1939-1941, 1957) |
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| Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) |
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-"Our Town" (1938)
-"The Skin of Our Teeth" (1943)
-"The Matchmaker" (1954)
-Theatricality & Simplicity |
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| Revues/Musical Comedies (1907-1931) |
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-Ziegfeld Follies
-1928 - Jerome Kern
-Oscar Hammerstein
-Richard Rogers - "Oklahoma!" (1943) |
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-Jean-Paul Satre (1905-1980)
-philospher, Novelist, Playwright
-"No Exit" (1944)
-Facits of Existentialism
-"God is Dead"
-"Condemned to be free"
-"Man becomes what he chooses to be"
-"Reasses your standards" OR Conformity
-Politically engaged |
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-Absurd
-Hope/Irrational Universe
-No Engagement |
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-World --> Irrational
-plays --> Chaos out of order
-Episodic
-Moods/Themes |
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| Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) |
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Definition
-"Waiting For Godot" (1953)
-"Endgame" (1957)
-"Happy Days" (1961)
-ravaged world
-disaster
-isolated in time/space
-Questions? (No answers)
-Struggle |
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| Eugene Ioneso (1909-1994) |
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-"The Bald Soprano" (1949)
-"The Lesson" (1950)
-Social Relationships, Middle Class, Materialistic world
-loneliness of individual
-Automatons |
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-"The Maids" (1949)
-Rebel against organized society - deviation is necessary to achieve integrity
-meaning w/ opposite |
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| Josef Svoboda (1920-2002) |
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-Multimedia
-Screens/Moving pictures w/ actors
-Moving steps , platforms
-Mirrors
-Plastics
-Netting |
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-Dramatist (attacked government)
-1989 - becomes president |
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-East vs. West
-Berliner Ensemble (1949)
-Modellbuch (contains photos of productions) |
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-"The persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade".
-Theatre of Cruelty |
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-George Devine (1910-1966)
-New/foreign
-John Osborne (1929-1994)
-"Look Bak In Anger" (1956)
-Jimmy Porter
-"Angry Young Men" |
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| The Theatre Workshop (1945) |
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Definition
-Joan Littlewood
-Stratford East
-Production style = "Oh, What a Lovely War!"
-Brecht, Music Hall, Stanislavski
*Working Class |
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-"The Room" - 1957
-"The Dumbwaiter" - 1957
-"Betrayl" - 1978
-"The Birthday Party" - 1958
-Everyday situations --> Uh, Oh
-Mystery, Menace, Unexplained
-Natural, Carefully wrought dialogue
-Unspoken subtext
-Dancer OUtside
-Room
-Beckett/Chekhov (Anton) |
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| 1. RSC - Royal Shakespeare Co. - 2. National (Actors Theatre) |
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-Peter Brook
-"Midsummer"/"MARAT/SADE"
-Hippolyta/Theseus
-Set/Costumes |
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-Actors Studio
-Kazan, Crawford, Lewis |
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-1958 - 512 stations/50 mil sets in houses
-Tickets --> $$ Increase |
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| 1952 - "Summer and Smoke" |
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-"Circle in the Square" - Jose Quintero
-"The Phoenix"
-repertory (voice to new plays)
-The Living Theatre
-Julian Beck/Judith Malina
-"The Connection" |
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-Alley Theatre
-The Arena Stage
-Actor's Workshop
-The Guthrie |
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-Oregon
-San Diego
-1954 --> Joseph Papp
-N.Y. |
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-1900 - Indigenous Drama
-Miss Horniman
-Buys dramatists a building (Abbey Theatre) |
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| John Millington Synge (1871-1907) |
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-Language, Prose
-"In the Shadow of the Glen" (1903)
-"The Playboy of the Western World" (1907)
-"Riders to the Sea" (1904) |
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-Biomechanics - Acting
-Gymnastics, Ballet, Circus --> Machine
-Muscular Movements --> Emotions
-Kinetic pattern
-Construcivism --> Visual Arts
-platforms, Ramps. Wheels
-trapezes > machine for acting |
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-Reality --> alterable
-inner qualities
-Distorted lines, shape, abnormal coloring, mechanical movement, telegraphic speech
-protagonist is viewpoint |
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-1916 - Tristan Tzara (1896-1963)
-Insanity
-Calculated Madness
-Chance poems, dances, visual art, scenes |
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-Andie Breton (1896-1966)
-1924 - Manifesto
-Real process of thought |
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-S. Freud
-"The Interpretation of Dreams"
-abnormal behavior |
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| August Strindberg (1849-1912) |
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-*"Miss Julie" (1888)
-"The Dream Play" (1902)
recreate a dream |
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| Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) |
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-"The Theatre And It's Double" (1938)
-Division Among People?
-"Theatre of Cruelty"
-Break Down! - operate on nervous system
-No performances in Trad. Theatres
-Audience in the Action
-Lighting - Shredded
-Voice - Shrill
-Purge/Salvation = Theatre |
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-"The Glass Menagerie" (1945)
-"A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947)
-"Cat on A Hot Tin Roof" (1955)
-Characters --> Beauty, Violence
-Past? Degradation, Materialism |
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-"Death of a Salesman" (1949)
-"The Crucible" (1953)
-Materialistic Values
-Morals/False Values |
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-"The Odd Couple" (1965)
-"Biloxi Blues" (1984)
-"Lost In Yonkers" (1991)
-Humor? |
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-"Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?" (1962)
-Psy. - relationship - tortured
-Stripped Away |
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| Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999) |
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-Polish Laboratory Theatre
-"Towards a Poor Theatre" (1968)
-2 essential elements (Actors & Audience)
-No machinery/Spectacle - limited, makeup/costumes/sound
-props (if necissary), space
-Actor has total control of physical, vocal & psychic
-Used script any way he wanted
-1983 - UC -Irvine |
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-Ariane Mnouchkine
-1789 - French Revolution
-Audience
-Space - Cartoucherie
-1990's - Respected
-21 countries (Actors) |
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-College, pubs, playgrounds, etc.
-Lunch hours, after hours |
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-"Rozencrants & Guildenstern Are Dead" (1967)
-Highly Theatrical |
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-Power - lessness
-Exploitation
-Feminist perspective
-"Cloud 9" (1979)
-"Top Girls" (1982) |
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-"Getting Out" (1977)
-*"'night Mother" (1983) |
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-"The Miss Firecracker Contest" (1984)
-"Crimes of the Heart" (1977) |
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| Wendy Wasserstein (1950-2066) |
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Definition
| -*"The Heidi Chronicles" (1988) |
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| August Wilson (1945-2005) |
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-*"Fences" (1985)
-"The Piano Lesson" (1988) |
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-Lack of consistency
-Disparity
-Collapse categories
-Reflexive
-Work vs. Text (author)
-Interpretation |
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