THAR 281 1st Edition Lecture 19 Outline of Last Lecture I Storefronts II Chicago Theatre III Sam Shepard IV David Mamet V Wendy Wasserstein VI Phantom of the Opera VII AIDS Crisis a William Finn b Tony Kushner Outline of Current Lecture I Significant people of this time a Lynn Nottage b Rajiv Joseph c Tracy Letts i August Osage County II Postmodernism a Anne Bogart 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 i Suzuki ii View Points Current Lecture Contemporary Theatre I II Significant people of this time a Lynn Nottage was a playwright that looked at race gender and sexuality intersections Her famous works are Intimate of herald and Ruined b Rajiv Joseph wrote Bangle tiger at the Bagdad Zoo and Gruesome Playground injuries c Tracy Letts was a playwright and actor He was a member of the Steppenwolf He focused on lives of mid westerners and their challenges and responses His famous works are Killer Joe and August Osage County i August Osage County is a three act play that is about a family of selfdestruction of drugs lies and prejudice This play is like that of death of a salesman journey days into night and cat on a hot tin roof This play has had 648 performances Postmodernism is the reexamining of traditional attitudes and ideas about the structure or function of theatre Some traits that may apply to this is authorship plot structure questioning and what is the significance of the presented materials to the audience This mixed styles medias and elements of past ideas and concepts a Anne Bogart was a director and theorist She created the SITI Company Saratoga International Theatre Institute which trained actors There were two styles in which they trained actors i Suzuki was the physical training of the body and voice that was very military inspired ii View Points was a language for actors designers and choreographers to talk about what happens on stage These are divided into two topics space and time Space consists of special relationships architecture floor plans shape and gesture Time consists of kinesthetic response tempo duration and repetition
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