THE Study Guide Stage Combat The purpose Safety first good partnering create the illusion of violence 04 26 2014 Tell a story conflict that leads to violence Have a logical physical dialogue Support the conflict continuous Weapons Broadsword Unarmed Quarterstaff long hard stick Sword and shield olden days Smalls sword smaller sword Rapier and dagger shield interesting form Knife Firearms Acting and Directing Julie Taymor Won Tony and 1st woman to win for directing Lloyd Richards August Wilsons work Richard Wagner 1813 83 Gesamtkunstwerk complete total art work Master artist controls every aspect of the production Innovations o Fan shaped auditorium everyone had same view o Darkened auditorium refocused to the stage Georg II Duke of Saxe Meningen 1st director 1879 Crowd scenes enormous and intricate Innovations o 3d sets allowed for interaction o acting styles o actors speaking to ach other o historic costumes Production concept Directors approach to the play Execution of the central theme idea Blocking Where actors are going to move Actor coaching Inside out representational acting Emotion first Psychicalization emerges naturally from emotions Problem can be inconsistent Outside in presentational acting Physical first Emotions appear to emerge from the physicalzation Technical approach Requires extensive training Ex Blue Man Group Given circumstances event stuff the playwright gives to actor Imagines circumstances what actors add in on their own Konstatine Stanislavski 1863 1938 Redefined acting Moscow Art Theatre Acting System o Objective o Relaxation o Private moment o Emotional recall o Magic If way of getting into character without stress what would I do if A scientific approach representational acting Bill Irwin Cirque du Soleil Spectacle music dance puppetry mime acrobatics Famous physical actor The Clown Prince Theatre and Social Change Social Drama theatre for social change Characteristics o Individual vs society o Social Ills problems in society o Question of morality right wrong good evil Ex Gem of the Ocean Lysistrata Uncle Tom s Cabin at front of the stage invisible forms barrier between audience and actor Realism truth representation of reality 4 th Wall Henrik Ibsen 1828 1906 the father of realism A Doll House 1879 o The door slam heard around the world 19thc woman walking out on husband and her 3 children Dada 1916 1919 anti art Zurich Switzerland Characteristics yernel o Chance and silliness o Mockery of high art Fountain 1917 by Marcel Duchamo wrote name on o Meaningless words and actions o Rejection of WW1 pacificism Tristian Tzara the gas heart most famous Dada play Absurdism 1945 1950s response to WW2 Paris France Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus Characterstics o Repetition o Meaningless o Cause does not equal effect o Violence and pain Epic Theatre 1920s 1950s Germany anti illusive alienated Bertolt Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble pioneered epic theatre o Wanted to distance his audience o Engage intelligence and critic not emotion o Mother courage and her children o The Three Penny Opera Characteristics o Didactic o Alienation effect eliminate illusion o No empathy Pioneered by Bertolt Brecht Melodrama Characterstics murder Ex Uncle Tom s Cabin o Clear cut morality o Poetic justice o Actions and spectacle disguise abduction battles floods earthquakes The Federal Theatre Project 1935 1939 only national theatre AgitProp agitational propaganda o Emerged in Russia dissmenting info excites audience into action Living newspapers The Cradle Will Rock 1937 by Marc Biltzstein Luis Valdez father of Chicano Theatre El Teatro Campension 1965 o Organization founded on migrants traveling up and down the state picking berries etc Actos inspire audience into social action in a brief way of migrant workers Anna Deavere Smith On the road a search for American character o Goes to people and uses interviews of real experiences to make a show plays all characters Fire in the Mirror Twilight Los Angeles 1992 Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Company The Laramie Project 2002 American Theatre and Performance Art Ford s Theatre April 14 1865 John Wilkes Booth 1838 1865 Our American Cousin production Lincoln was seeing Stage Yankee good loyal hard working but not very bright Ex Joey from friends Tactic strategy to get their objective The Astor Place Riot May 10 1849 American actor Edwin Forest 1806 1872 o Bowery Boys gang o Very physical actor o Manly man o Oil himself and beat himself with a tennis ball o WORKING CLASS William Macready 1793 1873 English Actor o More intellectual and emotional o Excellent Hamlet 10 of 12 for every 12 hours of technical time the actors can only be there working for 10 o UPPER CLASS Both actors played the role of Macbeth Bloodiest days in NYC Became symbols of nationhood 20 000 people inside the theatre threw object at Macready A lot of people were injured and killed 1st time American militia fired on Americans without war being the cause Showed class division Dime museums freak shows Vaudeville clean family entertainment Working Class Entertainment Edwin Forrest American actor Burlesque white flesh tights o Lydia Thompson pioneer of burlesque The British blondes The Golden Age of American Theatre Thorton Wilder 1897 1975 hopeful playwright o Our Town fictional town aftermath of the Depression Eugene O Neil 1888 1953 Only finished 3 10 plays he wanted to write Dramatizes his family very depressing disturbing Long Day s Journey Into Night 1942 Tennessee Williams 1911 1983 Choked to death on a bottle cap Arthur Miller 1915 2005 The Glass Menagerie 1945 A Streetcar Named Desire 1947 Married Marilyn Monroe Death of a Salesman 1949 The Crucible 1953 Died in 2005 Won dozens of awards Tragedy and the Common Man 1949 Chris Burden Shoot 1971 o Separation did not exist o Friend would shoot him on stage Bullet embedded his arm o Forces audience to be active Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez Pena Undiscovered Amerindians 1992 o Dressed as natives and placed themselves in a cage o People really took it seriously thought it was a violation of human rights Annie Sprinkle Public Cervix Announcement Porn star performance artist Mother Theresa of Sex Would undress on stage spread her legs show her cervix and the audience would come up and look with flashlights Demystifying the human body Breaking bonds between audience and actor NEA National Endowment for the Arts NEA4 were defunded for having explicit controversial material and sued the NEA SC ruled that the NEA