Quiz - Oct 30 Flashcards
Gustaf Gründgens
Actor famous for playing Mephisto in Faust. He stayed in Germany during the war because he was well liked by the Nazis.
“Thingspiel”
Nazi cult pageant plays often with outdoor seating set up similarly to Greek theatre.
Max Reinhardt
- Austrian Director who began as an actor under Otto Braun and who founded the Salzburg Theatre.
- Thought the performance space should fit the text/script.
- Directed 452 plays over 25 years
- Bought a castle (Leopoldskron)
- “The Miracle” was his most famous production.
- Invented “Regiebuch”
Tell us about “The Miracle”?
- Pantomimic drama set to music by Englebert Humperdinck
- Max Reinhardt’s most important production
- Premiered in London and was staged 17 times including in NYC and KC
“Regiebuch”
A record of everything in a script that you should be able to use to re-create an entire production with (a “director’s proms-script”)
“Verismo”
- Turn-of-the-century Italian version of Naturalism.
- Approach to depicting the worst of rural life.
- Led by Giovanni Verga who wrote the novella “Cavalleria rusticana”
“Cavalleria rusticana”
A Verismo novella written by Giovanni Verga
“Dialect Theatre”
- Theatre performed in the local dialect.
- Realistic depiction of regional customs.
- Comedic
Eleonora Duse?
- Leading actress of the 20th Century
- Expressive hands
- Never wore make-up
- Natural actings (as opposed to Berhardt’s technical acting)
- Ten year romance with D’Annunzio
- 4 American tours
Gabriele D’Annunzio
- Poet, novelist, playwright and political upstart
- Full of himself and terrible to Duse
- Decadence
- Bought a town and commandeered a woman’s house during the war.
Luigi Pirandello
- Sicilian Philosopher, fiction writer: short stories and novels and playwright who wrote “Enrico IV”
- Came from a wealthy family and had an arranged marriage. Sulpher mines flooded and both families went bankrupt.
- Wife (Antoinetta) went had a mental breakdown and they kept her at home.
- Taught courses on humor.
- Wrote “Six Characters in Search for an Author”.
- Nobel prize for literature.
Piccolo Theatre di Milano
Company started by Giorgio Strehler
Giogio Strehler
-Director who directed over 200 plays and operas
Luchino Visconti
Well-known neorealist film director
Ugo Betti
Wrote 25 plays
