THEA 1000 1st EditionFinal Exam Study GuideHenrik Ibsen Norwegian 1828-1906 A Doll’s House (1879) Hedda Gabler (1890)August Strindberg Swedish 1849-1912 Miss Julie (1888)Anton Chekhov Russian 1860-1904 The Sea Gull (1896) The Cherry Orchard (1900)The “isms”  Expressionism- representation of reality is distorted to- communicate inner feelings Cubism- fragmented the visual image in an attempt to include multiple perspectives Surrealism- proposed unreal juxtapositions (putting things side by side to compare) of real elements  Dadaism- turned everyday objects into art and ultimately rejected making objects in favor of performanceLatin American Theatre  Artist response to social turmoil Influenced by surrealism and expressionism Addressed nationalist issues Theatre of the Oppressed Augusto Boal (1931-2009) Rehearsing Revolution  Young playwrights attempting to develop new forms and styles of theatre Realism Continues  Tennessee William (1911-1983) The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire Cat on a Hot Tin RoofTHEA 1000 1st Edition Arthur Miller (1915-2005) The Crucible Death of Salesman All my Sons  Selective realism “a type of realism that heightens certain details of action, scenery, and dialogue while omitting others”  Edward Albee (1928- ) The Zoo Story Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Three Tall Woman John Osborne (1929-1994) Look Back in AngerBook—the dialogue and action of a musical (also called the libretto) Antecedents of the American Musical  W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan Operetta The Pirates of Penzance (1879) Victor Herbert Naughty Marietta (1910)  George M. Cohan Little Johnny Jones (1904) Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway (1906)The High Point of American Musicals Cole Porter Kiss Me Kate (1948) based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew  Leonard Bernstein, Steven Sondheim and Arthur Laurents  West Side Story based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet  Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick and Joseph Stein  Fiddler on the Roof (1964) The last great book musical  Rock Musical Hair (1967)Contemporary American PlaywrightsTHEA 1000 1st Edition David Mamet—Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo Sam Shepard –True West, Fool for Love Tracy Letts—August Osage County African American Theatre  Lorraine Hansberry—A Raisin in the Sun August Wilson 10-play cycle—chronicling African-American life Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, and The Piano Amiri Baraks—Dutchman  The Black Theatre Alliance  Suzan-Lori Parks—Topdog/Underdog  Katori Hall—The Mountain Top—about the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Latino-Latina Theatre  Chicano Theatre Luis Valdez  El Teatro Campesino—farm-workers’ theatre Actos  Agit-prop—agitation propaganda  Zoot Suit  Luis Alfaro—Oedipus el Rey  Milcha Sanchez-Scott—Roosters  Cuban American Maria Irene Fornes—Fefu and her Friends  Nilo Cruz—Anna in the Tropics (adaptation of Anna Karenina) Nuyorican—Puerto Rican from New York The Nuyorican Poets’ Café Miguel Piñero—Short Eyes African Theatre Wole Soyinka Nigerian Playwright The Strong Breed Athol Fugard  South African writer Writing about apartheid  Master Harold and the