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Wrote Master Harold and the Boys
Blood Knot
Focuses on South Africa and Apartheid |
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o Woza Albert (1980) → what if Jesus came to South Africa
• Wrote & starred alongside Mbageni Ngema
o Bopha (1985)
o South African playwright |
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o Woza Albert (1980) → what if Jesus came to South Africa
• Wrote & starred alongside Mbageni Ngema |
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o Brazilian director and theorist
o Columbia University
o Studied Brecht, Stanislavski & Marx
o Theater in Brazil – 1960s
o Arrest/Exile – 1971
o Traveling Troupe across South America
o Creator of Theater of the Oppressed – 1975 |
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o “All human activities are political”
o Theater is political, a tool, a weapon
o Aristotle: power to actor so character may act & think for spectator
• “Sit and observe”, audience feels for characters
o Brecht: power to actor but spectator reserves right to think for himself
• Audience can question actions and be engaged
o Oppressed: no power to actors, spectator assumes role of protagonist; trains himself for real action/revolution
• Audience can stop the show & become main protagonist of story |
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o 1966
o Chicano Theater
o Work is Based on the plight of migrant workers
Improv
Luis Valdez |
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o 1940 – present
o Zoot Suit (1978) → Zoot Suit riots of 1940s LA
o Work performed at El Teatro Campesino |
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o Post-Castro Cuban playwright
o Anna in the Tropics (2003, Pulitzer Prize) → 1920s Cuban Cigar Machinery; boss reads Anna Karanina to workers |
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o New York based Theater for Puerto Ricans
Miguel Pinero |
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o 1947-1988
o Nuyoricans Poets Café
o Short Eyes (1978) → Child Molester-wrote a play about child molester |
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o Asian American Theater in NYC
o Tisa Chang, Artistic Director
Theatre for Asians |
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o 1957 – present
o Madame Butterfly (1988)
o Face Value (2007) |
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| Native American Theatre Ensemble |
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Founded at La Mama Experimental Theater in 1972
Founded by Hanay Geigomaah
made it legal for certain ceremonies to resume
increases awareness of these rituals and ceremonies |
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o Founded in 1975
o Storytelling and other non-traditional theatrical forms
o Focus on cultural identity issues & gender stereotypes |
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o 1947 – present
o KY native
o ‘Night Mother (1983)
o Julliard Program |
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o 1950 – 2006
o The Heidi Chronicles (1988)
o The Sisters Rozensweig (1992)
o Third (2005) |
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o Fires in the Mirror (1991)-kid hit with car
o Twilight: Los Angeles (1994) → based off riots after Rodney King verdict
o Let Me Down Easy (2009) → issues surrounding health care debate
Mono and docudramatist |
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o 1941 – 2004
o Wooster Group Member
o Swimming to Cambodia (1984) → experiences working on “The Killing Fields”
known for one person shows
o Monster in a Box (1991) → struggling to finish novel of same title |
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o Exploring roles & invention of self
o Bridge & Tunnel (2006)-about the changing of the cultural makeup of Queens
one person perforamcnes-Ted Conference lady |
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o Comedian, writer, actor, musician
o Talk Radio (1988)
o Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (1990)
stand up one man performances |
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Founded of Theatre Du Soleil
Site specific works
Against the fourth wall
Les Atrides |
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o 1915-1990
o Krakow Academy ‘39
o Nazi Occupation Independent Theater
o Post-war: Stage designer
o 1955: founded Cricotz, avant-garde theatre pieces
o 1960s: Happenings, Theater of the Absurd
became well known |
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o 1980 - present
o Elizabeth LeCompte, Artistic Director
o Kate Valk & William Dafoe, actors
o LSD, deconstructing The Crucible
o Miller protests
o O’Neill Plays |
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o 1937 – present
o Ontological-Hysteric Theater, founded in 1968
o Repetition of theatrical devices: voice overs |
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| Ontological-Hysteric Theatre Company |
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repetition of theatrical commentary in the format of voices, usesstrings
about moment-to-moment
momentary impulse |
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Amiri Baraka
The Blues
Jorge Luis Borges-Magical realism
Romare Bearden-collages
founded black horizon theatres
cycle of 10 plays covering story of black history in the 20th century |
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o Artist, Director, Performer, Collaborator
o Painter in the Theater: “visually concerned”
o Time: Slowed Down
o Collage
o Fusion of the elements
stages long epic productions |
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SITI with Suzuki
collaborative, vocal, and physical techniques
viewpoints: mixes many differing acting techniques |
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o 1943-1987
o The Ridiculous Theatrical Co., founded in 1967
o The Mystery of Irma |
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| Ridiculous Theatrical Company |
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gay/lesbian theatre
headed by Charles Ludlam
hosted drag shows that made fun of pop culture |
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o 1935 – present
o The Normal Heart (1985)-critique of Koch who was mayor of New York-supposedly turned back on gay community
o Founder of ACT/UP (1987)-called attention to aids |
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o 1939 – present
Frankie and Johnny-about a heterosexual company after a 1 nicght stang
Ups Together/Teeth Apart-from the view of a homosexual couples straight neighbors
Love! Valor! Compassion |
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o 1956 – present, openly gay
o Born in NYC, moves to Lake Charles LA
o Columbia University ‘78
o A Bright Room Called Day (1985-91)
o Angels in America (1990-1993) → Roy Cohn was a real person
o Caroline, or Change (1999)
o Homebody/Kabul (2001-2004)
o Munich (2006)
o The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism & Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (2009) |
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lesbians putting on satirical stories about their lives
3 Women |
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o Echoed Split Britches
o The Secretaries → Female empowerment with secretaries killing lumberjacks
5 lesbians coming out of WoW Cafe Theatre
about how women reinforce sexism |
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o 1964 – present
o African American writer
o Mud, River, Stone (1997)
o Intimate Apparel (2003)
o Ruined (2008, Pulitzer Prize)
Plays about the African American experience
Ruined-based on research on violence against women in the congo |
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o 1955 – present
o African American writer
o The Colored Museum (1986)-makes fun of colored girls and raisin-mocks african steretypes
o Spunk (1990)
o Jelly’s Lost Jam (1992)
o Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk (1996)
o Artistic Director of Public after Papp died |
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o 1951 – present
o Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief (1979) → rewrites main character to be empowering, more sexual
o Baltimore Waltz (1982) → sick gay brother & hesitant sister go on a “trip”, written for her brother who died of AIDS
o How I Learned to Drive (1997)
o Brown University MFA Playwriting Program: Nilo Cruz, Lynn Nottage, Sarah Ruhl
o Yale School of Drama |
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o 1971 – 1999
o Blasted (1995)
o Phaedra’s Love (1996)
o Cleansed
o Crave (1998)
o 4:48 Psychosis (1999-2000)
o Committed suicide
o Her works weren’t recognized until after death |
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o “taking apart”
o Takes apart the text and identifies meaning
o Taking apart “constructs”
approach based on the concept that a text has no stable reference. It questions historical assumptions about the abilitiy of language to represent reality |
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o Pastiche (variety of textures), collage, eclecticism, anachronism (not in chronological order), juxtaposition of the incompatible and the inconsistent
o Categories collapsed, boundaries breached between the sexes, the arts, the cultures, dramatic forms, & performing styles
o Pop culture & high culture valued equally
o Deconstruction of texts and auteur directors & companies v. playwright’s intention or meaning
works mix realisitc and nonrealistic elements as well as techniques from both and low art |
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| form of drama prefromed by a single actor focused on externalizing the consciousness of the protagonist |
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| term encompassing different types of 20ths century drama that presented material in the fashion of journalism or reporting |
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o Execution of Justice (1986)
Tells story of Harvey Milk and taken from newspapers, first hand sources |
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| o The Laramie Project (2000) w/ The Tectonic Theater Project |
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o 1980s: Andrew Lloyd Webber → Cats (1982), Phantom of the Opera (1987); Les Miserables (1985/1987)
o 1990s: Disney → Beauty & The Beast (1994), The Lion King (1997); RENT (1995/1996) → Jonathon Larsen |
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o Screen to Stage: The Producers (2002), Hairspray (2003), Spamalot (2005) → Monty Python
o Innovative: Wicked (2003), In the Heights (2007), Memphis (2004)
o Unconventional: Urinetown (2001), Avenue Q (2003), Spring Awakening (2006), Book of Mormon (2011) |
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| Feminist Theatrical Forms |
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o Bourgeois: realism, linear & closed; forward-moving; mimetic representation of real time (Raisin in the Sun)
o Cultural: women-identified forms of ritual, myth; open, contiguous, collective & cyclical cultural memories (Top Girls)
o Materialist: epic, episodic arrangement of scenes; alienation of linear; disjunction of time zones & worlds (Top Girls dream sequence/vignettes) |
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o Alley Theater (1949) Houston
o Arena Stage (1949) Washington D.C.
o Guthrie (1968) Minneapolis
o Actor’s Theater of Louisville (1959) → Humana Festival of New American Plays (1977)
o Long Wharf (1965) New Haven
o Mark Taper Forum (1967) Los Angeles |
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o Royal Court
o National Theater (Laurence Olivier)
o Royal Shakespeare Company (Kenneth Branagh)
o Donmar Warehouse (Sam Mendes)
o Menier Chocolate Company
o Theatre de la Complicite (Simon McBurney)
o Old Vic (Kevin Spacey) |
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