Athol Fugard: white. Public critique of apartheid. Supported international boycott of SA theater.P.T Barnum: Dime museum and circusTony Pastor: entertainment for women. VaudevillePEOPLEAntonin Artuad: Theater of CrueltyHenrik Ibsen: father of realismBertolt Brecht: Alienation effect. Wants audience to think (placards)Shakespeare: shareholder in Elizabethan Theater Company. Father of English theater (38 plays)Richard Burbage: leading actor of Shakespearean timeTokubei: Was in love with a prostituteStanislavskii: actors must be observers of life to act well.Aguste Comte: father of sociology. Emphasizing everyday people on stage. Chikamatsu Monzaemon: “Love Suicides at Sonezaki”Christopher Marlowe: playwright at the same time as ShakespeareRichard Wagner: unified production. Orchestra pit should be a “mystical chasm” where the audience is engulfed. Emile Zola: “slice of life”Antoin: fourth wall Sheng: heroic male character in Jingxi Don: virtuous female in JingxiChou: clown character in JingxiLaura Bohannan: Shakespeare in the BushTess Onwueme: gender and women in African SocietyAthol Fugard: white. Public critique of apartheid. Supported international boycott of SA theater. P.T Barnum: Dime museum and circusTony Pastor: entertainment for women. VaudevilleCharles Forhman: theatrical syndicate, created monopoly by owning multiple theaters. Arthur Miller: death of a SalesmanTennessee WIlliams: streetcar named desireEliza Frances Andrews: big deal during civil war (journals and support for soldiers)Lydia Thompson: British blondes and burlesqueHammerstein and Rogers: created Oklahoma Bernsetin and Sondheim: West Side StorySondheim: considered one of the most influential figures in theater. Dark themes and critical of America. Andrew Lloyd Weber: mega musical and spectacle musicalJohn Larson: RENTAugusto Boal: theater is communication… all about Audience. Use theater for liberation.“Theater of the Oppressed.” Visible thought.Debois: “about us, by us, for us, near us” defined Af-Am theaterNgugi wa Thiong'o: Criticized Kenyan gov. Imprisoned and wrote on toilet paperLorraine Hansberry: First black female playwright. “A raisin in the sun”August Wilson: Fences. Wanted to have black audience connect while white audience cannot. Wole Soyinka: wrote in indigenous languages and first African to win Nobel PrizeBetty Friedan: “Feminine Mystique”Gloria Steinem: NOW (national organization of women)Charlotte Cushman: female actress that plays male roles makes millions nad inspires women. Oscar Wilde: “Picture of Dorian Gray.” gay and liked younger men>Alfred Douglas. Wascondemned for coming out which proved dangers in coming out. Kushner: Angels in America relating to gays and AIDS epidemic. Carolee Schnezmann: “Meat Joy” almost naked people rub each other while meat is thrown at them.Annie Sprinkle: Public Cervix Announcement --pro sexMapplethorpe: pictures of flowers and went to pictures of nudity. Aeschyles: introduced the second actor to theaterSophocles: Antigone and Oedipus. Introduced 3rd actor.Fathers of Realism:IbsenMarxFreud
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