Theatre History Exam #3 Part #1 Flashcards
Group Theatre
Performed at the American Laboratory Theatre
Came out of Stanislavski Techniques
All about finding the American Voice
All had big personalities, got in fights, eventually broke up
Richard Boleslavsky
Founder of Group Theatre
Came from the Moscow Art Theatre
Maria Ouspenskya
Founder of Group Theatre
Came from the Moscow Art Theatre
Lee Strasburg
Primary Directory at the Group Theatre
Clifford Odets
Wrote “Waiting for Lefty”
Playwright, and minor actor at the Group Theatre
Had the Perfect American Voice they were looking for
Stella Adler
Important acting teacher
Also was a leading actress at the Group Theatre
Morris Carnovsky
Character actor at The Group Theatre
Elia Kazan
Director of “Streetcar” and “Death of a Salesman” at the Group Theatre
Reported names to The House of UnAmerican Activity
Started the Actors Studio
Cheryl Crawford
Member of the group theatre
Branched off with Kazan to create The Actors Studio
Bob Cole
Wrote “A Trip to Coontown” with Billy Johnson
Billy Johnson
Wrote “A Trip to Coontown” with Bob Cole
Eubie Blake
Wrote “Shuffle Along” with Sissle.
Noble Sissle
Wrote “Shuffle Along” with Blake
Adelaide Hall
Performed in “Shuffle Along”
Paul Green
Wrote “In Abrahams Bosom”
Rose McClendon
African American actress, died young, performed in Langston Hugh’s play
Marc Connelly
Wrote “Green Pastures”
Dorothy and Dubose Heyward
Wrote Porgy
Jack Carter
Played Porgy in the movie version of the play
Zora Neal Hurston
Wrote “Color Struck”
Langston Hughes
Wrote “Mulatto”, white producers cut many of his lines because they believed they were too insensitive to white people, did a production of “Macbeth” in Haiti
Charles Gilpin
Acted in the first mixed cast play, “The Emperor Jones” by Eugene O’Neill
Paul Robeson
Performed as the first mixed race couple in “All God’s Chilliun God Wings” with Mary Blair
Mary Blair
Performed as the first mixed race couple in “All God’s Chilliun God Wings” with Paul Robeson
Lorraine Hansberry
Wrote “A Raisin in the Sun”, used traditional structure
Lloyd Richards
Directed Lorraine’s “A Raisin in the Sun”, was the dean of the yale school of drama
Sidney Poitier
One of the first actors in “A Raisin in the sun”
Rubey Dee
One of the first actors in “A raisin in the sun”
Douglas Turner Ward
Created the Negro Ensemble Company with Robert Hooks
Robert Hooks
Created the Negro Ensemble Company with Douglas Turner Ward
Leroi Jones
Also known as Amiri Baraka
Wrote “Slaveship” used actual smells in his play
Created the separationist ideology (movement for african americans to create separate institutions for themselves)
Adrienne Kennedy
Wrote “Ohio State Murderers” , woman is raped by her teacher, children become murderers
semi-autobiographical
very Avant-Garde
Ntozake Shange
Wrote “For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”
choreopoem
language is written how your pronounce it
August Wilson
Wrote “Fences” and “Piano Lesson”
Wrote the American Cycle, 10 plays for 10 decades
Lloyd Richards
Directed all of August Wilson’s Plays
Kenny Leon
Took over for Lloyd, directed august wilson’s plays, took his shows from yale to broadway
George C. Wolfe
Directed the first production of “Angels in America” in NYC
Susan Lori Parks
Playwright, didn’t write with linear progression
Wrote alot about Lincoln and Booths relationship
Wrote “America Play”
Wrote a lot about Scarlett Letters
Wrote the book for the modern Porgy and Bess
Lynn Nottage
Wrote a play called “Ruined” and won a Pulitzer Price, recorded true stories from women war victims in africa
Josephine Baker
tried to be an african american star in America, wasn’t successful so went to Paris and became a STAR
