Chapter 10: Thr

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Symbolism

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attempts to capture the ineffable, mystical, and subconscious on stage through poetry, repeated imagery and avoidance of plot and action-oriented structures; Look:dreamlike, mists, shadows; Sound: voice and music emphasis, rhytmic and poetic; Acting: abstraction, play situations-dreams

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Futurism

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early 19th century Italy that glorifies the age of mechanization and the energy of the Industrial Age

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Dadaism

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European Artisan movement that began after WWI that portrayed the meaningless of life and influenced poetry, paintings and theatre; the world makse no sense; Look: vast, bare, abstract; Sound: shouting, singing, gibberish Acting: defiant, confrontational

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Tom Stoppard

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dadaism, wrote Travesties

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Sam Shepard

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dadaism; The Unseen Hand

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Expressionism

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style: attempts to expose ife through the lens of the author of the protagonist as he experiences it, frequently through dream and nightmare imagery; anti-industrial, anitmilitary, and antiurban; Look: moody, diagonal lines, leaning panels, sharp angles; Sound: explosive language, nonhuman noises, repetitious and mechanical; Acting: highly theatrical

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Absurdism

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style: drama that portrays human existence as meaingless and language as an insuffient way of communication-3 types: fatalist, existentialism, and hilarious; Look: setting up false expectations or may be staged in a cartoonlike way; Sound: speech is disconnected, noncommunicative, and rambling; Acting: silence, surprising pauses

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Albee, Edward

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Absurdism author; The American Dream and The Sandbox

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Ionesco, Eugene

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Absurdism author; The Bald Soprano, Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson

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Pinter, Harold

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absurdism author; The Dumb Waiter, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, No Man's Land, Old Times, The Homecoming

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Satre, Jean-Paul

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abusurdism author; No Exit and The Flies

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Beckett, Samuel

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absurdism author; Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, Happy Days

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Didacticism

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style: epic or Brechtain theatre, that attempts to lead the audience into an intellectual rather than emotional response; stage is meant to narrate, to communicate knowledge; Look: proscenium space, blank screens with projections; Sound: clear, distinct, often harsh, stong language; Acting: step in and out of character (flexibility)