Theatre ben dahlman
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- mass culture
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commercial
popular entertainment - serious drama
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plays writen to directly reflect social problems
- non commercial - realism
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artistic movement emphasizing the representation of things and people as they actually are in everyday life
- prose
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life - like speech
conversation speech - problem plays
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controversial plays
subjets are society problems - fourth wall
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invisible wall in a box set that audience looks through
audience is to believe that the wall is there - box set
- set with 3 walls and a ceiling
- What is the significance of Origin of the Species?
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assumes there are influences on behavior, i.e. environment, heredity
it influences changes, behavior changes, progress is natural - Who were the main contributors to modernism?
- Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud
- What ideas did Charles Darwin introduce?``
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survival of the fittest
influences on behavior - What ideas did Sigmund Freud introduce
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socialization
motivation
morality is cultural - How did audiences react to realism?
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They hated it at first, then they accepted it
more interpretive freedom, hot topics at the time - Master Artwork
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unifies technical elements (sets, costumes, etc)
audience is unified
created by Richard Wagner - Continental Seating
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Fan-shaped auditorium
make seating less segregated
darkened auditorium - Little Theatre Movement
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modeled on independent theatres
modernism arrives in U.S.
serious dramas v.s. mass culture - Vaudeville
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a series of unrelated acts in rapid succession
first outlet for black actors - Group Theatre
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ensemble acting, not stars
introduced representation style to U.S. - Federal Theatre Project
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New Deal Employment plan for actors
only successful attempt of nation theatre - What kinds of theatres respond to new ideas?
- Independent Theatres
- What kind of entertainment did American audiences like in the 19th Century?
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comercial theatre
melodrama, revival, operetta, vaudeville - What was acting like in the touring stock companies?
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professional company of actors
lines of business, type casting - How did the Syndicate affect american theatre in the late 19th century?
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New York became center for theatre
focuses only on mass culture keeping modernism out of the U.S. theatre - Decentralization
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process by which theatre moves away from theatre district in nyc
off broadway was the first - commercial
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for profit theatre
limits on sources of funding
need investors, box offices - Broadway
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professional union theatres near times sqyare
commercial, mostly musicals
stars, transfers revivals
- off-broadway
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smaller professional theatres in nyc
near theatre district, commercial, and originally avoided unions
introduced thrust stage
unionized in 1960, less experimentation - regional theatres
- professional union theatres with resident companies in permanent facilities
- non-profit
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organized as charity
tax exempt, variety of funding.
donations, fundraisers - small professional theatres (spt's)
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small, local, professional theatres
part union, non-profit - Scenic Unity
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acting, design, and dialogue conform to single point of view
made by the duke - Richard Wagner
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director is central artist
continental seating, darkened auditorium - Max Reinhardt
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director responsible for visual motif which can move beyond reaism
interpretation of play - Stan
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representational acting
brought realism to acting - what are the characteristics of presentational acting?
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focus on external features
focus on actor, not acting - representational acting
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method of acting involving skilled observation
pyschological preparation
brings realism to acting - independent theatre movement
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small theatres fostering their own style
small theatres respond to new ideas faster than comercial theatre - touring stock companies
- professional company of performers touring variety of stock shows in different theatres around the country
- actor manager
- selected season schedule and main performers
- star system
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major roles now played by stars hired for the shows
made 42000$ per visit
company actors made 20$ per week - lines of business
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type casting, actor plays small range of roles
stock characters
used by touring stock companies - syndicate
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theatre owners/ booking agents
monopolized tours
700 theatres - Idaho Shakespeare Festival
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regional, seasonal theatre
drama school, school tours, outdoor ampitheatre
most audience, 55,000 + - Morrison Center
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road house, rental hall
not a producing organization
broadway touring shows - boise contemporary theatre
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spt
contemporary plays
newly rennovated building - boise little theatre
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produces most show each year
oldest community theatre in the west - What is the best way to get information on theatre in Boise?
- idaho statesmen, scene magazine, boise weekly, mailing lists, web sites
- How can you save money when you go to the theatre?
- student discounts, dress rehearsals, season tickets, rush tickets
- multiculturalism
- pertaining to society of varied cultural groups
- assimilation
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choose to absorb customs of prevailing culture
language, foods, traditions
- negro units
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federal theatre project
black theatres - black arts movement
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founded by Amiri Baraka, started in new york
responsibility of artist to his or her community
racially focused art - amiri baraka
- started black arts movement
- What are the typical themes of multicultural plays?
- real characters v.s. mainstream pereptions
- What kinds of african american characters were typically portrayed in vaudevillle?
- generalized and stereotyped
- What kind of movement is neoclassicism?
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artistic movement interpreting greek forms/ideas
theatre should teach and please - romanticism
- importance placed on emotion
- melodrama
- dramatic genre that reflected romantic truths
- what caused neoclassicism to be abandoned and Romanticism to rise?
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political revolution
industrial revolution
new technology and wealth - what was versimillitude of romanticisim?
- common man fighting against unnatural restrictions in society
- what kind of movement is romanticism?
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artistic movement starting in the late 18th century
rejecting neoclassical ideals, establishing its own versimillitude - how are each of the romantic ideals reflected in melodramas?
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decorum replaced by nature
unities replaced by variety
reason replaced by emotion - what were the contribution of melodramas to theatrical development?
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theatre again popular
middle class audience, huge commercialism
introduced realism in set design, sets were representational and unique
audiences develop taste for spectacle - modernism
- social and intelectual movement, all about science
- Who believed that no one style should rule in the theatre?
- max reinhardt
- what was a social movement in the 19th century which put a growing faith in science?
- modernish