Flash Cards Flashcards by Makayla Mitchell

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Realism

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Seeks Truth
Everyday Life

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Naturalism

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Slice of Life

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Emile Zola

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Founder of Naturalist Movement

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Henrik Ibsen

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Founder of Modern Drama

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Avant-garde

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Something out of the norm

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Symbolism

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Would not represent real human beings

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August Strindberg

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Most famous symbolic playwright

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Expeessionism

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Distortion
Exaggeration
Symbolism

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Berlot Brecht

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“Epic Theatre”

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Antonio Artaud

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“Theatre of Cruelty”

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Existentialism

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Believed that life had a little meaning

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Theatre of Absurd

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Samuel Beckett absurdist playwright

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Environmental Theatre

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Where the play takes place

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The African Grove Theatre

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First black theatre

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Ira Aldridge

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The first African American actor

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The Escape

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Black people black audience
White people white audience

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Thomas Rice

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Jim Crow

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Minstrelsy

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Most popular form of entertainment

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Bert Williams

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First black person to take lead role in broadway stage

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In Dahomey

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Landmark American musical comedy

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Rachel

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First full-length musical

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Shuffle Along

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The musical introduced Paul Robeson

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The Harlem Renaissance

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New York blacks Artist

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Federal Theatre Project

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Largest to produce theatre events

Hattie McDaniel

First African American Actor to win Academy Awards

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry famous play

The Black Arts Movement

Art was made and created for black people

Smirk Baraja

Strongest Proponent for the black art movement

Ntozake Shane

Play for colored girls

August Wilson

Author of the century cycle of plays

Suzan-Lori Parks

First black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama

Lloyd Richards

Broadway first black director

George C Wolfe

Head of New Yorks Public Theatre

Katori Hall

Memphis Tennessee

Opera

A drama set to entirely music

Renvue

Loosely composed of songs

Book musical

Developed in United States A story spoken through text dance

Rock/Pop

A drama set entirely to rock or popular music

Composer

Person who creates music

Lyricist

Who writes the words Lyrics

Book

Dialogue that’s spoken

The black crook

Ordinary melodrama

George M Cohan

He wrote about American subjects

Runnin Wild

Introduces dance craze the Charleston

Showboat

First musical with depth

Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers

Most important musical writing team

Oklahoma

Hammerstein and Rodgers first collaboration

West Side Story

Choreography

Hair

Rock musical

Concept musical

Musical build on concept or idea

Stephen Sondheim

King of concept musicals

Dream girls

Broadway musical show for business aspirations

Spectacle Mega Musicals

Notable Effects

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Created spectacular musicals

Johnathan Larson

Write rent

Jukebox Musical

Mamma Mia