Exam 1 Flashcards
Created Dada
Tristan Tzara
Created little theatre movement
Provincetown Playhouse (headed by George Cram Cook and Susan Glaspbell)
Surrealism
Realism with a twist (real but with something unreal about it)
Gestus
Federico Garcia Lorca
Spanish Playwright
Folk Tragedies
Gay
Filippo Marinetti
Created Futurism
Futurism
Italian movement, connected to Italian fascism
Two sides of Expressionism
Unique visualization of what artist sees in their head
Political side
Frank Wedekind
Plays way ahead of his time
Meeting place for symbolism, realism, expressionism, absurdism
For social change
Maurice Maeterlinck
Very important Symbolist playwright
Belgian, moved to France
David Belasco
American playwright
Designed in style of Visual Realism: realistic designs for plays that weren’t realistic
People who initially explored and formed Realism
Chekhov and Ibsen
How did Realism come into being
Moscow
Stanislavski and Nemirovich-D wanted to do away with melodrama
Melodrama
Battle between good and evil
Mel + drama
(music?)
Harlem Renaissance: disagreement
disagreement btwn Du Bois and Washington
The Cotton Club
Symbolism
Foundation of any style of nonrealism
Influenced by Wagner
French in origin
Independent Theatre Movement:
The Independent Theatre
Jacob Thomas Grein
England
