Notes(Midterm) Flashcards

Question

What is a constructivist set?

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machine for the acting, nonrealistic construction, less literal than a unit set

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Adolphie Appia - abstract set, minimalist | Edward Gordon Craig - screens, sculpture

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``` ORIGINS beginning of 20th century Germany initially a style of painting we see the world through the protagonist's eyes, emotional state of the character's world ASPECTS types instead of characters (ex. MAN, WOMAN, SOLDIER, etc) often politically motivated distorting reality to reflect inner feelings PLAYS Walter Hasenclaver - The Son George Kaiser - Morn to Midnight Ernst Toller's - Man and Masses Eugene O'Neill - The Hairy Ape ```

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``` ORIGINS Italy 1909 ASPECT idealized war and the machine age audience interaction (antagonizing) introducing variety of media, puppetry PLAYS Fillipo Marinetti - They're Coming ```

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``` ORIGINS Swiss (France) 1916 ASPECT Irrationality confuse the audience Marcel Duchamp - signed urinal, Mona lisa with mustace, weird acronym at bottom (what is art?) Tristan Tzara ```

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``` ORIGINS French 1920s ASPECT subconscious accessed reality dream like worlds taking something realistic and warping it PLAYS Jean Cocteau - The Infernal Machine ```

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``` ORIGINS France, Antoine Artaud in 1930s, Jerzy Grotowski in 1960s ASPECT "cruelly" rooting out societies evils change inclination to violence less literary and more ritualistic emphasis on the sensory Poor Theatre ```

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``` ORIGINS Germany 1920s-1940s ASPECT alienation political didactic presentational entertaining PLAYS Any Brecht, ever. ```

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theorist director and playwright aggressive humanist started the Berliner Ensemble 4 Great Vices: military, capitalism, industrialism, imperialism

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It ranslates as "make strange". Its a theory that seeks to distance the audience from the action, so they can think about the ideas presented rather than being involved emotionally with the characters and or story.

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This is a technique used by Brecht where he sets the story in a time period that represents the current climate, and also is removed from the situation so people can digest it without being attached.

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demystifying theatre techniques

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anti-Stanislavski rejects a complete conversion, rejects "identification", rejected causality (actor is an actor playing a character) appreciated the conventions of Chinese opera

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``` ORIGINS France 1940s-50s grew out of philosophy ASPECT life has little meaning God is dead humanity is irrational traditional structures and recognizable characters PLAYS Jean Paul Satre - No Exit Albert Camus - The Flies ```

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``` ORIGINS International began in the 1960s ASPECT human existence is futile, absurd, illogical plots do not have traditional structures plays are all individualistic PLAYS Eugene Ionesco - Rhinoceros Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot, Endgame ```

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ORIGINS 1940s - Today; mostly British and American ASPECT uses certain elements of reality while excluding others plays feature realistic acting not usually realistic in design or direction PLAYS Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, The Crucible Tennessee Williams - the Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Edward Albee - The Zoo Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Goat or Who's Sylvia

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Author of Waiting for Godot, and Endgame Existentialist themes Really shook things up, by minimalizing

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Death of A Salesman Selective Realism Dealt with theme of American pursuit of pleasure

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by Harriett Beecher Stowe, white woman most popular play of its time stereotypes, racism, slavery

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vaudeville style, comedic created by black people and appropriated by white people featured blackface and imitation

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popular minstrel show character

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made moviemaking history while telling a pretty racist narrative

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Kander and Ebb show tells the story of case of 19 African American boys accused of raping a white woman uses the minstrel show style to tell the story

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all black company, would do a new play every week performed white plays assimilated white culture

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popular performer Sweet Mama String Bean people lynched a black boy and threw his body in lobby of her theatre

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Old Man River, Showboat one of the first Black people to be successful playing a black man on Broadway longest running Shakespeare production on Broadway Uta Hagen - Desdemona

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First African American playwright on Broadway Raisin in the Sun show had first African American director

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``` raw plays about race Slave Ship (1969); environmental staging ```

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wrote a play for every decade of 20th century about African American experience