THAR 281 1st Edition Lecture 17 Outline of Last Lecture I Broadway declines II John Kinder and Fred Ebb III Stephan Sondheim IV Andrew Webber V 1975 Chorus Line VI 1979 Sweeney Todd Outline of Current Lecture I Current Lecture New voices in theatre I II III IV V African American Theatres tried to answer the question of representation and portrayal of their race Ensamble theatre in Houston classical theatre of Harlem Black representative in St Louis Latino Theatres all address difficulty and complexity of combining cultures Chicano theatres were in southern California and founded by Balbez They staged informative skits for migrant workers to educate them of their rights Also there was a theatre with Cuban influence in Miami and a Puerto Rico influenced theatre in New York Asian Theatres are located in Los Angeles San Francisco Seattle and New York There are thirty companies and all of them struggle for visibility Homosexuality are portrayed negatively and unmoral In 1968 the boys in the band was the first to present gays without judgment This led to regularly seeing gay characters and later gay playwrights August Wilson was a playwright of poetic realism He wrote ten plays known as the pittsburg cycle They explore the black experience over the 20 th century However these plays are not in chronological order Each play is a different decade Also the characters in one play usually weren t the same in the next His famous works are ma Rainey s black These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute VI VII bottom the piano lesson fences and Joe Turner s come and gone Common themes are social mobility identity and religion Maria Fornes experimented with experimental theatre and Avant Garde theatre Her plays were usually about gender and social roles with income and wealth themes She won 8 9 ovie awards Her famous works are fefu and her friends and mud Carol Churchill wrote as a feminist She used Brecht techniques to critique on gender and sexuality She also used cross gender and race casting for her plays Her works are cloud 9 and top girls
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