Theatre History Exam #3 Part #3 Flashcards
Tennessee Williams
Wrote “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”
Elia Kazan
Popular director, directed williams and millers plays
Jo Mielziner
Popular designer, designed williams and millers plays
Arthur Miller
Wrote “Death of a Salesman”
Arthur Kennedy
Actor in Arthur MIller’s Plays
Jerzy Grotowski
Director, Inspired theatre of cruelty
did a production called “Akropolis” holocaust have to construct their own creamatorium. Believed in emotionality, suffering, pain
Rysard Cieslak
In Akropolis hanging by wires
The Living Theatre
Brecht and Artaud influences, anti war, culture and political revolution did a production of antigone
Judith Malina
Creator of the living theatre, played antigone
Julian Beck
created the living theatre
The Performance Group
Environmental Theatre
Performance Studies
Did a production called “Dionysus in 69” where they had an orgy on stage
Richard Schechner
created the performance group
The open theatre
celebrated playwrights and collaboration
simple staging
trust exercizes
Did a production called “the serpent”
Joseph Chaikin
created the open theatre
Andre Gregor
Director, did a production of alice in wonderland with Meryl Streep
Tony Kushner
Wrote Angels in America
Adourd Bourde
Wrote “The Captive” with the first lesbian character
Mae West
Wrote “pleasure man” characters are all some sort of steriotype
Charles Ludlum
Wrote “Camille”
Charles Busch
Wrote “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom” cross dresses, casts himself as the female character
Larry Kramer
Wrote “Normal Heart”
William M. Hoffman
Wrote “As Is”
Post Modern
all about the audiences response, what they take, about the process
Happenings
visual artists and sculptors, non traditional, active audience invite them to do something
Peter Brook
DIrector, did a production of “Midsummer” with a white box with two doors and trapeze artists
Igmar Berman
Director, did “A Dolls House”
Jose Rivera
Wrote “Marisol”
Robert Wilson
Director, choreographed everything, no freedom for actors “quartet”
Peter Sellars
Director, did a production of “Merchant of Venice” gave his actors freedom
Mary Zimmerman
Wrote metamorphoses
Albee
Wrote “The goat, or who is sylvia” challenges american values, something seems perfect, he exposes it for what it is.
