Styles of Drama
A new and experimental style of any art form is called
Avant-garde
The message is of the uselessness of human hopes and drams in the face of mechanisic forces
What is Expressionism
The play is seen through an imaginiary 4th wall; characters are not aware of the audience
Representational
Uses symbols to represent ideas or qualities
What is symbolism
We can know ourselves only thorugh our actions; therefore we cannot know ourselves before we act
Existential theater
This presents life as it really is
What is realism?
A style of performance where the characters or performers are aware of the audience's presence
What is presentational
Makes no pretense of reality because dramatic situations are not real situations
Theatricalism
Uses signs, projections, films, and loudspeakers to presnt events in an episodic form
Involves a fusion of all the performing arts into one presentation
Total Theater
It is not a traditional picture frame stage, but uses ramps, arches, ladders, and platforms
The audience participates in the action of the play
What is Theater of Involvement
Love is the main theme
What is Romanticism
Play written to show the absurdity of life by having absurd situations
Theater of the Absurd
The Italian Renaissance lasted from when to when
1300-1600
Idea that earthly life isn't just a vale of tears that might lead to heaven if you are good, but maybe worthy in and of itself
Humanism
Two fields that saw advancements in the Renaissance
Music and theater
Origianlly Italians wrote their plays in
Latin
Newoclassical plays are called that because they are both
New and classical
Italian writers did away with the
Chorus
Tragicomedies were tragedies with
happy endings
After 1560, who were allowed to finally perform on stage?
Italian theater used these on their sets
Special effects
Stock characters even had a specific what associated with them
Food
The Teatro Olimpico was build similiar to the ones in
Rome