Final Flashcards
(26 cards)
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American Realism
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- was a style in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century.
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Antonin Artaud
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- Actor, Director, Theorist
- Theory: Theatre of Cruelty
- Wrote: Theatre and its Double
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Samuel Beckett
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- Playwright, Poet, Novelist
- Irish
- Often wrote in French then translated to English
- Wrote: Krapp’s Last Tape
- Themes: Man VS…, Loneliness, Futility of Action, Hope
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Augosto Boal
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- Began theatre work in Brazil
- Arrested and tortured
- Developed Theatre of the Oppressed in exile
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Bertolt Brecht
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- Popularized the Epic Theatre
- Director, Dramaturg, Playwright
- Started Berliner Ensemble
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Comedy of Menace
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- is the body of plays written by David Campton, Nigel Dennis, N. F. Simpson, and Harold Pinter
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Distancing Effect
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- to unsettle, to not allow for comfortable passivity
- to encourage action
- to experiment in form and effect
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Epic Theatre
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- a theatrical approach in which various techniques are used to prevent the audience from being “lost in an illusion”
- constant reminders they are watching a performance
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Forum Theatre
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- is a type of theatre created by the innovative and influential practitioner Augusto Boal as part of what he calls his “Theatre of the Oppressed.”
- audience participation
- as a forum for teaching people how to change their world.
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Bob Fosse
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- was an American dancer, musical theatre choreographer, director, screenwriter, film director and actor
- He won 8 Tony Awards for choreography, more than anyone else, as well as one for direction. He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning for his direction of Cabaret.
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Athol Fugard
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- South African
- Plays deal with the oppression of apartheid and identity crises under oppression
- Wrote: After an Arrest
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Lorraine Hansberry
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- She was the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway.
- Wrote: A Raisin In The Sun
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Quiara Alegria Hudes
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- an American playwright and composer best known for writing the book for the musical In the Heights.
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Invisible Theatre
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- is a form of theatrical performance that is enacted in a place where people would not normally expect to see one (for example in the street or in a shopping centre) and often with the performers attempting to disguise the fact that it is a performance from those who observe and who may choose to participate in it, thus leading spectators to view it as a real, unstaged event.
- Brazilian theater practitioner Augusto Boal & Panagiotis Assimakopoulos developed the form during his time in Argentina in the 1960s as part of his Theater of the Oppressed
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Operetta
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- a short opera, usually on a light or humorous theme and typically having spoken dialogue.
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Harold Pinter
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- British dramatists
- Writer and political activist
- he created his own distinctive style, marked by terse dialogue and meaningful pauses.
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Franca Rame
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- born into commedia family
- movie star in 1950’s
- wrote multiple political and feminist monologues
- Wrote: The Rape 1973
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Regional Theatre Movement
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- spread of smaller theatre across the US
- new voices
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Rodgers and Hammerstein
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- were an influential, innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team.
- They created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, initiating what is considered the “golden age” of musical theatre.
- Wrote: Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music,
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Stephen Sondheim
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- is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theatre.
- Created the Follies
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Spect-Actor
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- is a term created by Augusto Boal to describe those engaged in Forum theatre.
- and audience must be active, equal, and have some agency as the actor
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Surrealism
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- was a literary, artistic and revolutionary movement, founded in Paris during the 1920s.
- Its primary goal was to overcome societal traditions that oppressed the freedom of the individual, and to explore, in a completely uninhibited manner, the far reaches of one’s imagination, dreams and desires.
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Theatre of the Absurd
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- a post World War II
- written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s, as well as one for the style of theatre which has evolved from their work.
- Their work focused largely on the idea of existentialism
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Theatre of Cruelty
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- a form of theatre developed by avant-garde playwright, actor, essayist, and theorist, Antonin Artaud
- break with traditional Western theatre, and a means by which artists assault the senses of the audience, and allow them to feel the unexpressed emotions.
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Theatre of the Oppressed
- A theatrical approach based in audience interaction that highlights, confronts, and examines,, difficult social and political topics by given voice to all sides of the argument
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August Willson
- an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle
- Wrote: Fences
