Theater Art Terms FINAL
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- The Romantic Aesthetic
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-Flawed Characters
-High Emotions
-Strangers - Characteristics of Romantic Theater
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-Intuition
-Imagination
-Feelings - Melodrama Aesthetic
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-Gothic
-Crime
-Domestic
-Military of the Nautical
-Sensations (Earth, natural disasters) - Melodrama STYLE
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-SIMPLICITY
-EMOTION
-FOCUSED ON PLOT
-HAPPY ENDINGS -
Melodrama Characteristics
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-Stock characters
-FOCUSED ON PLOT
-Simple characters
-VILLAIN/HERO
-NO MORAL AMBIGUITY
-GOOD vs. EVIL - OPERA: RICHARD WAGNER
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German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas.
He transformed musical thought through his idea of Gesamtkunstwerk ("total artwork") - Conventions of Musical Theater
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-Form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance.
-Humor, pathos, love, anger - Book Musical
- -A musical play where the songs and dances are fully integrated into a well-made story, with serious dramatic goals, that is able to evoke genuine emotions other than laughter.
- The Modernist Project
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1) Faith in Technology
2) Pure Form (Lobster phone)
3) Self-Conscious View of History
4) Universalism
- Realism
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-Material Reality
-Issues of Gender, Marriage tied to plot
-Psychology....people act in morally ambiguous ways
-Family/Domestic Settings
-Focus on Family Traditional
-MIDDLE/LOWER CLASS
-Colloquial speech
-Complex plot
-Questions - Naturalism
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-FOCUS ON LOWER CLASS
-No plot ( but suggests problems and solutions)
-Takes place in present
-Broken COMMUNICATION
-DETERMINISM:
WHO you are is determined by social forces, YOU HAVE NO CONTROL - REALISM: Stanislavski
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Developed psychologically based SPEECH
REAL LIFE
Free stage routine from stereotypes
Characters having inner thoughts
- Chekhov
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Trained as a doctor, became playwrite
Cynical view of life in his plays
Realistic speech style - Realism: IBSEN
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Interested in gender issues, ethical issues
right/wrong
Interested in social change
WROTE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE - Realism: Arthur Miller
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-Marriage to Marilyn Monroe
-DRAMATIC PLAYS
-Interest in Holocaust
-Greatest American playwrite in 20th century
- Lillian Hellman
- Focused on being a woman in society
- Tennessee Williams
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-Veiled homoeroticism
-Interested in fading/aging women - 4 MODELS OF DIRECTING
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1) Director/playwrite partnership
TEXT IS CENTER OF PRODUCTION
2) Director as playwrite
CHANGES TEXTS, MANIPULATES
SCRIPTS TO THEIR LIKING AND IDEAS
3) Director as collaborator
DEVISING: Director has less
authority,collaborates ideas of
actors, designer---- EQUAL
INVOLVEMENT
4) Playwrite as a Director
Director directs their own written
play
- Expressionism
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PEOPLE ARE DISGUSTING, THE WORLD IS DISGUSTING
-MAX BECKMAN
-distorted forms
-black line
-bright colors
EXPRESSIONISM REJECTS THE WORLD
Nothing you do matters.
Very angry. - Surrealism
- Dealing with the probs in the modern world by using IMAGINATION
- Dadaism
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-The world is awful
-Spontaneity
-The cult of nothingness
-Life is a pun
-COLLAGES
-ART OF NEGATION - Duke of Saxe Meiningen
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- Used money to create elaborate theater pieces
- VERY REALISTIC COSTUMES
-Visited places around the world to design his sets
-3 DIMENSIONAL SETS - PostModern Condition
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Cultural trends
Asthetics - Future Shock
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IS ALL TECHNOLOGY REALLY DOING GOOD?
For human relationships.... - Globalization
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Ethnic voices are heard, marginalized voices heard, individual voices heard
GLOBAL BUSINESS - Intertextuality
- Using a variety of texts together to make a new story