Global Theatre (condensed) Flashcards
China + singing + acrobatics + mime
Peking Oprea (China)
Poetry + beards + interaction=
Los Tzantzicos (Ecudaor)
Post-WWII + avant-garde + white body paint
Butoh Theatre (Japan)
alism + taboo topics + lower class
Henrik Isben (Norway)
comedy + pompous characters + religious commentary
Moliere (France)
won 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature; the first African Laureate to win
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
entire country went into mourning upon my death
Lope de Vega (Spain)
one of the most famous playwrights of all time; another one of his is opening this fall!
Antov Chekhov (Russia)
his plays was banned from my country, but their reasoning was a bit contradictory..
Chay Yew (Singapore)
wrote “the Family Trilogy,” and other pieces about apartheid and racial segregation
Athol Fugard (South Africa)
Marcel Marceau, Jean Gaspard Deburau, Paul Degrand
Mime (France)
Wood, string, rod
Russian Puppetry (Russia)
one of the oldest forms of theatre (1,500 BC)
Sanskirt (India)
Evolved from masquerade, involving dance, music, and chanting
Yoruba Theatre
Damaged by airstrikes in WWII
Slovak National Theatre
Three Theatres Responding to opression
Haitian Theatre, Los Tzanicos, Theatre of the Oppressed
Theatre of the Oppressed
Brazil
Pecking Oprea
Martial arts, mime, acrobatics, speech, and singing (specialized high pitched vocal technique)
Zarzeula
Cuba/Phillippenes
Spanish musical theater that combines operatic and theatrical elements. It typically features a mix of spoken dialogue, song, and dance and often incorporates elements of Spanish culture and folklore.
- Response to dominance of Italian opera
Chay Yew
wrote about LGBT issues
Singaporean government took down his show for contradictory reasons
Anton Chekov
Russia
Realism and stream of concioussness
- Plays to spread awareness that Russians should make their own decisions
“Plasticisty”
Commedia del-Arte
Italy
- improvised comedy
acrobatics and dance
characters wore masks
Mime
France
Jean Gaspard Deburau father of mime
Marcel Marceav (most popular)
black and white clothing/face
Theory of fixed points
Sanskirt
India
Oldest theatre practice
dancing, singing, poetry
Noh Theatre
Japan
About religious stories or tormented humans
masks worn
-Handmade props and set
Lope De Vega
Spain
Whole country mourned
seen as Spanish Shakespeare for how he wrote about the “ordinary life”
- combined Spanish and dramatic elements with three acts
Hatian Theatre
Hati
Response to oppressed
Types of dance: Yanvalo and Kanpo
Preformed at Yanvalo Cafe
white clothing
George Bernad Shaw
UK
Los Tzanticos
Ecuador
Henrik Isben
German
