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Proscenium Stage
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Stage with a large archway through which the audience views the play
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Scenic Realism
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Plays free of excessive melodrama (the well-made play), Henrik Ibsen
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Fourth Wall Staging
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Seperates the audience from the actore and vice versa
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Well Made Plays
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19th Century genre of formulaic plays, known for tight plot and climax with thinly veiled exposition. Often used letters or papers to bring plot twists.
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Thesis Plays
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Plays that develop or defend a clear message (thesis)
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Aesthetisism
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The doctrine that beauty is the basic principle from which all other principles, especially moral ones, are derived.
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Epigram
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A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation.
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Pointillism
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A postimpressionist school of painting exemplified by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th-century France, characterized by the application of paint in small dots and brush strokes
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Independent Theatre Movement
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Theater which was established for theh purpose of showing plays free of censorship.
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Moscow Art Theatre
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Theater established as a venue for naturalistic theater. Showed Chekov's four influential plays.
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Konstantin Stanislavski
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Co-Founded Moscow Art Theater, actor and directer worked on Chekov's four major plays. Saw them as tragic.
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Black Arts Movement
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Artistic branch of the black power movement.
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Romare Bearden
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African-American writer and artist.
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Color-Blind Casting
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Casting without regard to race.
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The Blues
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Music Genre
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American Dream
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Prosperity based on personal merit.
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Bertolt Brecht
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Founded of Epic Theater
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Epic Theater
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Epic theatre assumes that the purpose of a play, more than entertainment or the imitation of reality, is to present ideas and invites the audience to make judgments on them. Audience must be outside the play.
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Critical Distance
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Methods a play uses to keep the audience aware that what they are viewing is fiction and piece they must judge objectively.
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Alienation Effect
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Performers break the fourth wall to establish critical distance.
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Theater of the Absurd
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The Theatre of the Absurd departs from realistic characters, situations and all of the associated theatrical conventions.
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Martin Esslin
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Coined the term Theater of the Absurd.
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Postmodern Drama
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Breaks conventional audience expectations.
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