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27 Cards in this Set
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Federal Theatre Project
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- Created jobs during Depression
- Macbeth, all black production - Arthur Miller |
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Jo Mielziner
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-scene, costume, light designer for Death of a Salesman
- Selective Realism |
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Stage Manager
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-call/run show
-prompt book -stage business -blocking -lighting, sound and cues -groundplan -rehearsal schedule |
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Social Realism
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-Waiting for Lefty (Odets)
-political conscience |
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Realism
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-Imitation of real life
-Ibsen, Stringberg, Chekhov |
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Billy Rose
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-30's producer for Odets
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Absurdist Drama
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-Existentialism
-Martin Esslin (Theatre of Absurd) -Samuel Beckett- Waiting for Godot, Happy Days -Eugene Ionesco-Bald Soprano |
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Henrik Ibsen
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-Father of Modern Drama
-Contemporary life, repression -Originally radical -Doll's House, Ghosts |
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Director
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-selecting/creating/interpreting script
-stage space -cast actors -working with other artists -rehearsing -help actors with characters -coordinating all elements |
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Tennessee Williams
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-Streetcar Named Desire
-The Glass Menagerie |
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Lorraine Hansberry
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-Raisin in the Sun
-First African on Broadway -Wrote for Group Theatre |
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David Garrick
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-External Acting
-Mimical Behavior |
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Rogers and Hammerstein
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Oklahoma
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Clifford Odets
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-Waiting for Lefty
-Social Realism -Group Theatre |
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Arthur Miller
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-The Crucible
-Death of a Salesman (selective realism) -HUAC -Federal Theatre Project |
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Antirealism
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-Louigi Pirandello:Six Characters in Search of an Author
-Surrealism -Beyond Realism |
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Constantin Stanislavski
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-internal acting
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AEA
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-Actor's Equity Association
-Broadway |
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SAG
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-Screen Actor's Guild
-TV -Film |
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AFTRA
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-American Federation of TV and Radio Artists
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Agnes Miller
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-Dance in Oklahoma
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Samuel Beckett
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-breakthrough in dramatic form by presenting, without comment or moral judgment, situations showing life’s irrationality
-unrecognizable plot -mechanical characters -situations like dreams and nightmares -incoherent dialogue -endgame, happy days, godot |
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Bertolt Brecht
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-Broke away from Aristotle's formula for drama
-Audience aware of play (broke fourth wall, actors addressed audience but audience did not relate to them, pantomime) -Alienation effect-opposite of suspending disbelief -Incorporated multimedia -HUAC -Epic Theatre -philosophical and political issues -founded Berliner Ensemble, which produced his plays -The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage |
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Epic theatre
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-episodic, narrative, historical
-promote self-reflection |
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Brechtian
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-separation from audience
-transposition in the third person -transposition into the part -speaking of stage directions aloud |
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Poetic Realism
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Playboy of the Western World-John Millington Synge
-Desire Under the Elms -O'Neill |
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Eugene O'Neill
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-Desire Under the Elms
-The Iceman Cometh -A Long Day's Journey into Night -Ah! Wilderness |
