Theatre Final Exam Golden Age American Playwrights Wilder miller Williams O Neill Company o Takes place in New York City o Rotating stage different wall structures different colors during different scenes and other lighting techniques o Bobby is confused on whether he wants to be monogamous or continue in his ways o It s always Bobby s birthday o Scenic elements What did Georg II Duke of Saxe Meiningen pioneer He was also the first director 3D sets Actors speaking to each other Historic costume sets Interpretation Unification Representational Inside Out Presentational Outside In What are the two primary jobs of the contemporary director What are the two major approaches to acting discussed in lecture What is Konstantine Stanislavski famous for pioneering A scientific approach to representational acting Name one characteristic of Social Drama Who pioneered the Alienation Effect Individual vs Society Social Ills Question of morality Bertolt Brecht Absurdism Federal Theatre Project What response to realism was linked to Camus Myth of Sysiphus What is the name of the only national theatre over to exist in the United States What conditions or leading thinkers set the stage for the development of realism Darwin Freud Comte Marx Industrial Revolution Who wrote Los Vendidios El Teatro Campesino Luis Valdez What does Honest Sancho sell Mexicans Robots Who does Miss Jimenez work for The governor What word or phrase causes the Mexican American character Eric to short out American God Bless America Name or describe two of the stereotypes seen in Los Vendidos Johnny Pachuco El Revolucionario Farmworkers etc Where might you see the exhibit of the squirrels rubber band ball or Lincoln s poop Dime Museum Thornton Wilder Our Town Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman The Crucible Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie A Street Car Named Desire Eugene O Neill Long Day s Journey into Night Why is the Astor Place Riot important Solidified class in theatre 1st time American soldiers fired on Americans during peace What performance piece brought Coco Fusco Guillermo G mez Pe a national notoriety Undiscovered Amerindians What form focuses on the body has little no text and blurs the line between audience and actor What revelations come to light during Harper Prior s hallucination dream scene Performance Art Who wrote Angels in America Tony Kushner When does Angels in America take place 1980s Mr Lies Prior s soul is healthy Harper s husband is gay Who is Harper s imaginary friend in Angels in America Who dials 9 1 1 for Roy when he collapses in Angels in America Ethel Rosenberg What show are the inmates in SBB producing The Tempest Julius Caesar for next year s play What happened to Sammie when he went up for parole He was denied parole for 6 years How is the director of the SBB production chosen He volunteers Name one way the prisoners identify with the play Connect with character Subject matter forgiveness redemption Island Prison Why does the director of SBB think that Shakespeare would have appreciated the inmates production Renaissance actors were considered criminals vagabonds too What is the cult of Shakespeare Elevating of Shakespeare above all other writers in the Western theatre What German town is home to a 350 year passion play tradition Who revived theatre during the middle Ages Oberammergau The Church How did Queen Elizabeth I pave the way for a flourishing of the arts How can you tell the difference between Broadway Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway Geographic location and audience size What does Off Broadway offer Patron of the arts Political stability Banned topic of religion Experimentation Lower costs Intimacy Art What was the first musical ever The Black Crook Name one famous Broadway producer from lecture David Merrick Cameron Mackintosh Oprah Harpo Disney What is the difference between a concept fragmented musical and a book integrated musical Book Integrated music always forwards plot and character development Concept Fragmented focus on theme or idea plot loosely or not all What does Little Sally complain about in Urinetown connected The title Jumbo the performing elephant is an example of Vaudeville Variety Entertainment In Baz Luhrman s Romeo Juliet what costumes are Romeo and Juliet wearing Knight Angel In Chicago how can we tell the difference between reality and Roxie s imagined reality Set lights costumes narrator What does the clip from South Park show How ingrained musicals are in popular culture Richard Wagner Gesamtkunstwerk complete art work master artist innovations fan shaped darkened auditorium Directors production concept coordinate the production team and casting Actors building character interpretation analysis Acting requires discipline concentration imagination playfulness Acting Vocabulary Given circumstances events background Objective what actor wants fighting for Tactic strategies Obstacles whatever is in the way Konstantine Stanislavski redefined acting Moscow art theatre acting system inside out acting Outside In Method Acting Modern Physical Theatre conveys messages physically o Blue Man Group Stomp Mime Clowning Bill Irwin famous actor The Clown Prince Cirque du Soleil spectacle mime music acrobatics dance puppetry Realism truth the 4th wall middle class Henrik Ibsen is the Father of Realism A Doll House door slam heard around the world Responses to realism Dada o Zurich Switzerland o Mockery of high arts o Chance and silliness o Meaningless words and actions o Rejecetion of WWI pacifism o Tristan Zara Gas Heart most famous dada play Absurdism o Paris France o Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus o Meaninglessness o Cause does not equal effect o Violence pain o Reception Epic Theatre o Germany o Bertolt Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble the three penny opera Mother Courage and her children o Didactic o Alientation effect eliminate illusion o Does not mean empathy Melodrama o Character types o Clear cut morality o Poetic justice o Action spectacle disguise abduction battles floods death etc o The Octoroon by Dion Boucicault Uncle Tom s Cabin The Federal Theatre Project Only lasted 4 years Moral and emotional relief from the depression AgitProp Agitational Propaganda focused on a single group of people and presents a social ill why it s making your life horrible and how to fix it Designed to excite an audience into action Living Newspapers One Third of a Nation what caused and lead to poor conditions and how to change The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein Mois