Mid-term Flashcards by Stella Tag

major dramatist whoes work bridged the 19th and 20th centuries

Henrik Ibsen

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important thinkers(Philosophy, psychology, science) whose work had major influence on the 20th century

A Strindberg

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Idealism; suggestion rather than description; etat d’ame(Soul state); plays by Maurice Maeterlinck; influence of composer Richard Wagner and designer Adolph appia

Symbolism

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More grounded(Often focusing on sordid elements) and less mediated than realism to convey the rawness of life without the artifice of the controlling artist’s hand; naturalist plays include The Lower Depths by Gorky and The power of Darkness by Tolstoy

Naturalism

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Umbrella term that encompassed a variety of( often non-realistic) approaches to the arts and is usually associated with the period from the 1870s through the Great War and even into the 1930s-50s

Modernism

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co-founded Moscow Art Theatre with Nemirovich-Danchenko

Konstantin Stanislavsky

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Symbolist poetry and Little Fairground Booth(Balaganchik)

Alexander Blok

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Bicycling enthusiast who wrote Ubu Roi(King Ubu)

Alfred Jarry

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Art Impresario; got easel painter to design for Les Ballets Russes

Serge Diaghilev

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Play was directed by Stanislavsky, designed by Edward Gordon Craig, opened at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1911, and featured tall screens or panels that were supposed to glide into different configurations

Hamlet

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what and when was the Silver Age of Russian Literature

1890-1914

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1905 was the year of “Bloody Sunday” and other worker uprisings in Russia. What was the year of the Great October socialist Revolution

1917

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who was Harriet Bosse

3rd Wife of Strindberg

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Leonid Andreyev

Symbolist playwright

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Nikolai Evreinov

Director

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Zinaida Gippius

Sacred Blood

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August Strindgerg

wrote 70 plays 117 paintings

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Name another play by Gorky besides Children of the Sun

The Lower Depths

Summer Folk

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Kinetic energy, dynamism, celebration of the machine, very short plays(Sintesi)

Futurism

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Anti-art, nonsense, simultaneous peoms; “Thought is produced in the mouth”

Dada

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influenced by Freud; logic of the dream or the child; unexpected leaps in time or space

Surrealism

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An avant-garde movement in painting with cross-influence on theatrical avant-garde

Cubism

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With what avant garde aesthetic movement was Feu d’ artifice(Fireworks) associated? hint: it was presented in Rome and had music by Igor Stravinsky

Futurism

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Leader of Dada

Tzara

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what city and country did Hugo Ball open the Cabaret Voltaire

Zurich, Switzesland

What city did Dada hold its own funeral in 1922

Weimar

Who was Man Ray

wrote 'Rayograpus"

Who led the break away from Dada to Surrealism? hint: He wrote the First and Second Manifestos of the movement

Breton

who was the leader of Futurism

Marinetti

who invented the word "surrealism," wrote poems called Caligrammes, and wrote The Breasts of Tiresias

Apollinaire

What is Die Austrahlugen des Ich?

Reality Distorted by Subjective view

German author of Masse-mensch(Man of the Masses)

Ernst Toller

German author of From Morn to Midnight and the Gas trilogy

Georg Kaiser

Austrian painter who wrote short expressionist plays; Murderer, Hope of Women

Oskar Kokoschka

Czech stage & lighting designer; founded Laterna Magica

Josef Svoboda

Czech director, especially Chekhov; founded Divadlo za branou

Otomar Krejca

Czech author of R.U.R.; invented the word Robot

Karel Capek

what is the title of Artaud's book that develops his theory of a theatre de la cruaute

La Nouvelle Revle francaise

Tell any two characteristic of theatre of cruelty

violent images force the involvement concrete language

What is the name of the poet-playwright-novelist-designer-filmmaker who staged the surrealist ballet Parade in 1917, wrote the Eiffel Tower Wedding Party, took Orpheus as the symbol of the artist, and got elected to the Academie Francaise

Cocteau

Prolific outstanding Flemish-Language playwright; Friday

Hugo Claus

Pantagleize, Exit the Actor

Michel de Ghelderode

Francophone Belgian; given aristocratic title; El Burlador

Suzanne Lilar

L'Oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird of Happiness)

Maurice Maeterlinck

who is Ivo von Hove

Wrote "Rumors" "Disease Germs"

Name the dierctor who founded the Thetre du Vieux Colombier and influenced two generations of French art Theatre

Copeau

What was one of the goals for theatre of the copeau

poetry of theatre

Name any two members of the Cartel des Quatre

Joviet, Dullin, Pitoeff, Baty

When was the golden Age of soviet theatre and film

1921-28

What was the NEP

New economy policy

Brief fling with Futurism; wrote Bedbug and Bathhouse; committed suicide

Vladimir Marakovsky

Dr Dappertutto; biomechanics; directed Magnanimous Cuckhold and Government Inspector; executed

Vsevolod Meyerhold

Playwright & directed The Storming of the Winter Palace

Nikolai Evreinov

Directed Turandot; "Fantastic Realism"

Yevgeny Vakhtangov

First people's Commissar for Enlightenment

A.V. lunacharsky

greatest Soviet silent film director; Battleship Potemkin

Sergei Eisenstein

consolidated power by 1928 and began crackdowns on the arts

Josef Stalin

Leader of Great October Socialist Revolution; disliked avant garde theatre

V.I. Lenin

what did it mean when Soviet authorities accused an artist of "formalism"?

Form over content

What was the name of the only officially-sanctioned approach to the arts and art criticism in the USSR from 1934 to 1989?

Socialist Realism

Give the title of any work by Bulgakov besides Zoya's Apartment

"days of Turbins"

Tell any fact about Bulgakov's life

completed medical degree

what kind of play did the Alvarez Quintero brothers write

Custumbrismo

Who was Echegaray

playwright who wrote "folly or saintliness" | won nobel prize for literature

what is the title of the best-known play attributed to Gregorio Martinez Sierra

Cradle Song

Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; La Barraca

Lorca

Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Esperpentos and comedias barbaras

Valle-Inclan

Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Galicia

Valle-Inclan

Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca;Granada

Lorca

Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Tragic trilogy of rural Spanish womanhood, including Yerma

Lorca

Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Divine Words and Bohemian Lights

Valle-Inclan

Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Dona Rosita la soltera(Dona Rosita the Sinster)

Lorca

Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; El Publico(The audience)

Lorca