Types of Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
Antirealism
ANTIREALISM (CONTD.)
100
tragic ending
What is a musical drama?
100
producer, director, design team, technicians/crew, musical director, orchestrator/arranger/conductor, choreographer, composer/lyricist, actors, singers, dancers, specialty performers, orchestra/band/musicians
Who is a part of the production team?
100
developed by Antonin Artaud C. fought an ongoing battle w/mental instability and drug abuse wrote The Theatre and Its Double ---> powerful treatise exposing the faults of western theatre not cruel to audience, but senses must be bombarded
What is Theatre of Cruelty?
100
breaking rules ---> Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg moved away from realism late in their careers ---> Ibsen-The Master Builder (1892), When We Dead Awaken
What is Antirealism?
100
---> ORIGINATED IN SWITZERLAND IN 1916 ---> SHORT-LIVED MOVEMENT, REACTION AGAINST WWI ---> WANTED TO CONFUSE/ANTAGONIZE AUDIENCE ---> DESTRUCTION OF "HIGH" ART ---> LEANED TOWARD ANARCHY ---> SAVAGELY ATTACKED BOURGEOIS ---> ANTI-LIT., ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT ---> OFTEN VERY FUNNY ---> EXAMPLE: FUR-LINED CUP, TOILET AS SCULPTURE
What is DADAISM (ANTIREALIST MOVEMENT)?
200
similar to variety show, songs and dances but no plot
What is a musical review?
200
a series of variety acts- musical #s, sketches, juggling, animal acts
What is Vaudeville?
200
subjects/themes reflect agitation and unrest of contemporary society anti-literature- created a more physical, gestural, emotional language utilized "found spaces" audience was assaulted by intense sound, light, and gestural language
What are the characteristics of Theatre of Cruelty?
200
SYMBOLISM---> influenced by Freud's study of dreams, promoted a distrust of senses leading anti-realist movement b/w 1880-1910 ---> moody/atmospheric, ominous, morbid subject matter, placed in a dreamworld ---> French Focused geographical placeless/timeless stylized performances-repetitive language led to near chanting
What is SYMBOLISM (MAJOR ANTI-REALIST MOVEMENT)?
200
---> OUTGROWTH OF DADAISM, BEGAN IN 1924 ---> CENTERED IN FRANCE- ANDRE BRETON (1896-1966) ---> TRIED TO CREATE LINE B/W THE CONSCIOUS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS ---> BELIEVED SUBCONSCIOUS WAS HIGHEST PLANE OF REALITY AND TRIED TO RECREATE IT ON STAGE ---> DREAMLIKE MIXING RECOGNIZABLE AND FANTASTIC EVENTS
What is SURREALISM (ANTIREALIST MOVEMENT)?
300
almost no spoken dialogue
What is a rock opera?
300
a very racist show
What is Minstrel?
300
embraced existential (nothing matters/ life is pointless) philosophy developed from post wwII movement "Man makes himself who he is" examined meaninglessness and absurdity of existence characteristics---> circular structure, illogical speech/action, uncertainty/confusion
What is Theatre of the Absurd?
300
---> ENTIRE PRESENTATION WAS AN EXPRESSION OF INNER FEELINGS AND SEARCH FOR INTERNAL TRUTHS ---> IRRATIONAL, GROTESQUE, VIOLENT ---> SOMETIMES SHOCKING, NIGHTMARISH, EXPRESSIONS OF INEXPLICABLE FEARS AND ANXIETES REJECTED TRAD. CONCEPTS OF PLOT/ACTION
What is EXPRESSIONISM (MAJOR ANTI-REALIST MOVEMENT)?
300
---> art should/could be experimental ---> purposefully tried to flabbergast bourgeiose ---> Anti-Industrial ---> Anti-victorian ---> Anti-Materialistic ---> Anti-Political ---> Anti-Photography ---> Anti-Rational
What is Avant-Garde?
400
very little spoken dialogue, all sung
What is an operatic musical?
400
featured silly and frivolous stories, very popular songs that were played over and over again, these became known as standards
What are the characteristics of Modern American Musical?
400
approx. 1875-1960 IDEALISM---> are self-justifying and a noble end in itself "art for art's sake" as opposed to "theatre of social issues" BOHEMIANISM---> moved away from the artistic establishment by celebrating "differentness" ---> in talk, dress, behavior, attitudes, taste,etc
What are the major components of Modern Anti-Realism?
400
---> INTENSELY POLITICAL ---> ANTI-ARTISTIC: DISCOURAGED EMOTIONAL INVOLVEMENT BY INTENTIONALLY DISRUPTING "DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENT" ---> INSPIRED BY RUSSIAN AGITPROP THEATRE "AGITATIONAL PROPAGANDA" ---> TRIES TO AGGRESSIVELY HOUSE THE AUDIENCE INTELLECTUALLY AND RATIONALLY "DIDACTIC: THEATRE COULD BE A TOOL FOR EDUCATION OF PEOPLE
What is EPIC THEATRE?
400
---> COEXISTENCE OF MANY STYLES IN "REVOLT AGAINST REALISM"
What is PLURALISM?
500
wrote vaudeville
Who was Florence Zeguille?
500
written in 1927, by Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern 1st to deal w/a serious matter, love story b/w black woman and white man songs were carefully integrated into plot eliminated chorus line- young woman in skirts dancing ( at least 10)
What is Showboat?
500
developed by Ricahrd Wagner ---> high seriousness of art unified artist theatre ---> superhuman master artist, modern and abstract ---> 1 vision/director ---> increased complete stage illusion
What is Wagnerism?
500
---> ORIGINATED IN ITALY IN 1909 ---> WANTED TO DESTROY ART OF PAST (CALLED THEM "MUSEUM ART") IN FAVOR OF A NEW, KINETIC, TEMPORARY ART ---> USED ILLOGICAL DRAMATIC PIECES AND SEPARATED PERFORMERS AND AUDIENCE ---> CONFRONTED AND ANTAGONIZED AUDIENCE ---> UTILIZED WAR, SHAPES OF MACHINES ---> AFFINITY FOR EXTREME POLITICS/WAR
What is FUTURISM (ANTIREALIST MOVEMENT)?
500
---> BERTOLT BRECHT - (1898-1956)---> PERFECTED EPIC THEATRE---> MOTHER COURAGE (1941), THREE PENNY OPERA (1928) ---> EXPOSED ALL THEATRE MECHANICS ---> HE WORKED W/THE BERLINER ENSEMBLE ---> BRECHTIAN THEATRE WAS MORE COMPLEX YET MORE HUMANE THAN EPIC ---> USED "ALIENATION EFFECT"---> STIR THEM EMOTIONALLY
What is EPIC THEATRE (BERTOLT BRECHT)?
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