Theatre/Performance of the 1700s
The idea that the audience views a play through an invisible wall and that the audience and performers should not acknowledge each other’s presence is often referred to as this.
What is the 4th wall?
This form of drama rejected neoclassical rules, employed an episodic structure, aimed to create mood and atmosphere, included supernatural elements, and often featured a misunderstood hero who was a social outcast.
What is romanticism?
Many theatergoers and critics were scandalized by realism in theatre for these two reasons.
What is the movement presented taboo topics and contemporary social problems?
This style of art and literature distorts reality to express suppressed emotions. In this kind of drama, protagonists often navigate disconnected incidents, and the structure resembles station dramas. Characters typically are titled instead of named, and dialogue comprises short, abrupt lines with more lyrical passages
What is expressionism?
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire are this type of drama, identifiable by each play’s heightening of certain details of action, scenery, and dialogue while omitting others.
What is selective realism?
These were the only two theaters able to present drama in London according to the Licensing Act.
What are Drury Lane and Covent Garden?
This form of drama, first popularized by the French, was characterized by its focus on surface-level emotions, clearly defined heroes and villains, and the use of stock characters.
What is melodrama?
This is often considered the most extreme form of realism.
What is naturalism?
This was a form of theatre influenced by Filippo Marinetti. It glorified war and machines and consisted of short, illogical pieces that incorporated new electronic media and puppets.
What is futurism?
This man was arguably the most renowned of the absurdist playwrights. His plays often deal with the dullness of routine, the futility of human action, and the inability of humans to communicate. He won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.
Who is Samuel Beckett?
They are considered the first American theatrical family.
Who are the Hallam family?
These two women were the most popular international actresses during the nineteenth century. One was noted for her legendary eccentricities, melodic voice, and broad and flamboyant acting style. The other was known for her more realistic acting, with her believable and understated methods, which supposedly conveyed sincerity.
Who are Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse?
This company was undoubtedly the most influential of the independent theaters. It helped popularize Anton Chekhov’s plays and realistic acting.
What is the Moscow Art Theatre?
This was a government-subsidized agency that put unemployed theatre artists to work during the Great Depression.
What is the Federal Theatre Project?
This type of musical emphasizes style and thematic vignettes over plot.
What is a concept musical?
This family of designers were known for using the baroque art style, vast scale and elaborate ornamentation, and angle perspective in their scene designs.
Who are the Bibiena family?
He was a prominent Shakespearean actor during the nineteenth century. He left the United States due to racial prejudice and extensively toured Europe.
Who is Ira Alridge?
His acting system was designed to make the outward behavior of the performer natural and convincing, to convey the wants and objectives of a character, and to develop a cohesive ensemble.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavski?
This artistic movement was influenced by Tristan Tzara, railed against traditional “museum” art, tried to confuse and antagonize audiences, and presented pacifist ideologies. A popular form of performance associated with this movement was the sound poem, which consisted of meaningless phonemes rather than words.
What is Dadaism?
This type of drama has a fairly conventional form, but the characters exist in an irrational universe.
What is existentialist drama?
This was an artistic and literary movement in Germany that rejected dramatic rules and often had radical subject matter and style. Many view it as a precursor to romanticism.
What is storm and stress?
This woman instituted major innovations as proprietor of the Olympic Theatre, where she presented light entertainment with a degree of care usually reserved for tragedies and classical plays.
Who is Madame Vestris?
He was arguably the most popular writer in England at the end of the 1800s, with works like The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. However, his career was cut short when he was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison for his sexual orientation.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
Although he was originally associated with the surrealist movement, this man was kicked out due to his interest in the occult and mysticism. Later he conceptualized Theatre of Cruelty.
Who is Antonin Artaud?
This type of drama often explores the randomness or seeming meaningless of life. The plots in these plays tend to lack a conventional structure and may seem cyclical. There is usually minimal character development and little expository information. Settings are often strange or surreal, and dialogue tends to be sparse
What is theatre of the absurd?