Thea 241: Exam 3

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Age of Enlightenment

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18th century

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19th century

Back 2

-built on innovations of the 18th century
-working/middle classes had money
-more money meant bigger and more theaters

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Early American Theater, aspects from England

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verse, tragedy, comedy, ballad opera, operettas, literature & exploration

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Early American Theater, aspects from Italy

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opera, Commedia dell' Arte, proscenium arch, painting, architecture & exploration

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Early American Theater, aspects from France

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farce, ballet & exploration

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Early American Theater

Back 6

immigrants & women actors

Hint 6

-achievements?

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Puritans view on theatre

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immoral

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Calvinist

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-profit=smiled on by God
-first theatre build in Williamsburg, VA in 1716

Hint 8

their view on profit = ?

achievment?

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The Black Crook

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-1886
-475 consecutive performances
-3200 seat Niblos Garden on Broadway
-1st book
-made over 1 mil.
-"first American type musical"

Hint 9

-release date?
-number of performances?
-where?
-revenues?
-classification?

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Our American Cousin

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-by Tom Taylor
-follows Asa Trenchard
-performed by Laura Keene's Company

Hint 10

-playwright?
-plot?
-performed by?

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Abraham Lincoln

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-fatally shot on April 14th, 1865
-was watching Our American Cousin

Hint 11

-event?
-play he was watching?

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Booth Theatre

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-first modern theatre in NYC
-built by Edwin Booth at 23rd and 6th ave. in 1869
-stage lights could be completely extinguished, first in U.S.

Hint 12

-achievements?
-built by?
-where?
-when?

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Chestnut Street Theatre

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-built in 1816 in Philadelphia
-completely gas lit

Hint 13

-when?
-aspect?

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American Musical Theatre

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music: ragtime, jazz, big band, B'Way pop, rock & roll, blues, country, gospel

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genres of music?

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Florenz Ziegfeld

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-first great American producer (impresario extraordinaire)
-producer of Follies
-died at age 63, 1942

Hint 15

-achievement?
-play?
-died when?

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George M. Cohan

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-father of American Musical Comedy
-died at 64, 1942

Hint 16

-achievement?
-died when?

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Oscar Hammerstein

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-built first theatre on Times Square, cigar manufacturer
-Jewish, German director
-SHOWBOAT lyricist and director
-died at 65, 1960

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-achievement?
-nationality?
-position?
-plays
-died when?

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Bert Williams

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-first black performer to star in Follies (1910) and on B'Way
-WC Fields called him funniest man that he ever saw and the saddest man
-died at 47, 1922

Hint 18

-achievement?
-WC Fields comment about him?
-died when?

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Irving Berlin

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-White Christmas, God Bless America, Easter Parade, No Biz Like Show Biz, Alexander's Rag Time Band, Swanee River
-died at 101, 1989

Hint 19

-plays?
-died when?

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Fanny Brice

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-Jewish Hungarian
-comedian, singer, actress, dancer

Hint 20

-nationality?
-positions?

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Jerome Kern

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-SHOWBOAT composer
-Jewish German
-died at 60, 1945

Hint 21

-plays?
-nationality?
-died when?

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Tin Pan Alley West 28th St.

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where songs were composed and sold

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-function?

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AEA (actors union) strike

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-July 1919
-dancers: 8 dollars a week
-no health care, relief time, etc

Hint 23

-when?
-why?

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Showboat

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-1927
-Edna Ferber, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Florence Ziegfeld,
-most profound influence on the American Musical

Hint 24

-premier year?
-made by?
-achievement?

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Oklahoma

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-1943
-Hammerstein II, Rogers, Agnes de Miles,
-Pulitzer prize to Rogers and Hammerstein
-first musical to use dance to further story

Hint 25

-premier year?
-made by?
-achievements?

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American Playwrights

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-20 century
-used and like realism
-Eugene O' Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Edward Albee, Mamet

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-when?
-aspects?
-who?

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Eugene O' Neill

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-(1888-1953) 65
-characters on the fringe
-most famous for "Long Day's Journey"
-3 Pulitzers

Hint 27

-lifetime?
-age at death?
-realism type used?
-plays?
-achievements?

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Tennessee Williams

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-(1911-1983) 72
-family, southern gothic
-Plays: A Street Car Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Hint 28

-lifetime?
-age at death?
-realism type used?
-plays?

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Arthur Miller

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-(1915-2005) 89
-family, unjust system, misplaced values, power run amok
-plays: 1949 Death of a Salesman

Hint 29

-lifetime?
-age at death?
-realism type used?
-plays?

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August Wilson

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-(1945-2005) 60
-10 plays to his name
-died from liver cancer
-sometime referred to as the "black american shakespeare"

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-lifetime?
-age at death?
-how he died?
-known as?

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Edward Albee

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-(1928-present)
-Plays: Zoo Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
-delicate balance adopted
-expelled from Lawrenceville School, Trinity College
-still writing "Me Myself and I"

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-lifetime?
-plays?
-realism used
-youth memory?
-working on?

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what is Mamet?

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"master of realism"

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"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

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-Elizabeth and Mic play Maggie and Brick

Hint 33

-who performed this for us?
-characters?

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20th century realism

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-brought about by social change and industrial revolution
-Edison (lights), steam power, transportation, new modes of communication
-Darwin, Marx, Freud

Hint 34

-how it came about?
-driven by?
-key players?

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Ibsen

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-Norwegian
-1828-1906
-A Doll House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler
-individuals vs. society
-taboo subject matter

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-nationality?
-lifetime?
-plays
-type of realism used
-subject matter?

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Strindberg

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-Swedish
-1849-1912
-Father, Miss Julie
-more real than Ibsen, moving towards naturalism
-taboo subject matter

Hint 36

-nationality?
-lifetime?
-plays?
-realism to....?
-subject matter?

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Chekhov

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-Russian
-1860-1904
-Seagull, 3 Sisters, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard
-larger gallery of characters (12-14 rather than 5-6)
-developed new genre (tragicomedy)
-MAT (Moscow Art Theatre)

Hint 37

-nationality?
-lifetime?
-plays?
-number of characters?
-genre?
-his plays performed where?

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Realism

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Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Scandinavia, Russia

Hint 38

-key players?
-countries?

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Naturalism

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Strindberg, Scandinavia

Hint 39

-key players?
-countries?

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Surrealism

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Dali, France

Hint 40

-key players?
-countries?

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Expressionism

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Ionesco, O' Neill, Germany, WWI

Hint 41

-key players?
-countries?
-time period?

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Brecht

Back 42

-against Stanislavski
-Epic Theatre
-intricate plots, many characters, highly theatrical, uses history
-historification
-alienation

Hint 42

-aspects?

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Beckett

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-pattern play, tragicomedy,
-absurdism

Hint 43

-aspects?
-genre?

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greatest contributing eras towards western theatre

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Greeks, English Renaissance, and 20th century

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A Doll House (1879)

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-Torvald and Nora, end of play (read by Elizabeth and Mic)
-double ending, new one used in Germany

Hint 45

-performed by who?
-characters?
-aspect?

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"vaudeville"

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-heart of musical plays/entertainments
-made Marx brothers famous
-silly narratives, comic routines
-common to Anything to Declare

Hint 46

-aspects?

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historification

Back 47

setting plays in past but using contemporary issues

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alienation

Back 48

causing audience to think by getting them out of their comfort zone

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Puritans view on work

Back 49

moral

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Puritans view on plays

Back 50

immoral

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Puritans: theatre is idleness

Back 51

devil's plaything

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Puritans on actors

Back 52

pretend

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Puritans on lying

Back 53

agents of devil

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Puritans on the bible

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honest

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Puritans on the actors

Back 55

prostitutes & gamblers

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real ending of "A Doll House"

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Nora leaves without saying goodbye to her children, goes and gets education

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alternate (German) ending of "A Doll House"

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Torvald tells Nora that kids will be "motherless". Nora can't go through with it.