THET110 Notes October 31 2012 Realism Foundational ideas o The artist Reaction to Realism Ways Realism Changed Theater Voluminous stage directions Ending of a Doll s House was extremely controversial that Nora left her husband and children o This had huge societal implications World War I 1914 1919 Mechanization of war o Wireless communication o Machine guns o Trench warfare o Tanks o Planes and bombs o Submarines o Mustard gas chemical warfare o Mechanical dehumanized warfare Inconceivable loss of life Response in Art and Theater Realism no longer adequately spoke to human experience Order obliterated two significant failures Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theater German committed Marxist Hitler burned his books Uses theater to reveal social and economic construction of reality and invite audience to think critically about how something is made to happen Man is a process Rejection of Wagner s Gesamtkunstwerk Rerfremdungseffekt defamiliarization or to make strange Masks Place cards Poor minimal theater Theatricality reveal the construction Music Gestus Antonin Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty o Anti war anti art anti past anti future o Importance of presence only importance is how the now the movement of French surrealist Heritage of Dada performance o Language and logic are illusions Theater of cruelty o Break down artificial walls between spectator and spectacle o Bombard the audience from all sides with new sensations o Induce a trance that might permit performers and audience members to escape or resist control of authoritarian regimes
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