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Lecture 16 Outline of Last Lecture I. George Bernard ShawII. Oscar WildeIII. OperettaIV. Gilbert and SullivanV. Emerging American TheaterVI. Minstrel ShowsVII. BurlesqueVIII. VaudevilleOutline of Current Lecture I. General Information on Emerging American DramaII. Eugene O’NeillIII. Long Days Journal Into Light IV. Thornton WilderV. Other VoicesVI. Little TheatersVII. Provincetown PlayersVIII. Washington Square PlayhouseIX. The Group TheaterX. Lee StrasbergCurrent Lecture I. General Information on Emerging American Dramaa. Broadway is where commercial American theater begani. Largest theater district in the countryii. only place where you could make a living as an actor without travelingb. The Shubbertsi. Disagreed with monopoly in theatersii. Owned 75% of theatersc. The Great White Wayi. Theater district that was VERY lit with lights due to all the marketingii. Now called Times SquareII. Eugene O’Neilla. Great American playwright; born into a theatrical familyb. Son of James O’Neill who was famous for playing in Count of Monte Cristoc. Mom addicted to drugs; brother addicted to alcohold. Spent youth traveling with father and in boarding schools THAR 281 1st Editione. Attends Princeton but gets kicked out so becomes a sailorf. Develops tuberculosis and then a nerve disorder that made it hard for him to writeg. Died in hotel room in Boston in early 1940’sh. Suffered from depression and suicidal thoughtsi. Known for realism; experimented with expressionism (Henry VIII), mask work (Great God Brown), and Greek tragedyj. Won Pulitzer 4 timesk. Famous Works: “Moon for the Misbegotten”; “The Ice Man Cometh”; “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” III. Long Day’s Journey Into Night a. Last play O’Neill won Pulitzer forb. Considered one of the greatest American playsc. Kind of like an autobiography of O’Neill’s lifeIV. Thornton Wildera. Won Pulitzer 3 timesi. 2 for plays and 1 for a novelb. Famous Works: “Our Town”; “Matchmaker”; “By the Skin of Our Teeth”; c. “Matchmaker” is the redo of a previous playd. “Our Town” is concerned with:i. Life, marriage, and death of George and Emily Webbii. First Act introduces audience to town and townspeopleiii. Second Act shows the day they get marriediv. Third Act reveals death of Emily and a recap of her lifev. Takes place in town called Grovers Cornersvi. Often seen as the ionic American small townV. Other Voicesa. Lillian Helmani. “The Children’s Hour” (1934)ii. “Little Foxes” (1939)iii. Works often involve childrenb. Clifford Odetsi. “Member of the Group Theaterii. “Awake and Sing!” (1936)iii. “Waiting for Lefty” (1935)iv. “Golden Boy” (1937)v. Known for gutsy, red blooded realismvi. Street poetry is a term often associated with his namec. Kaufman and Harti. “You Can’t Take It With You” (1936)ii. “The Man Who Came To Dinner” (1939)iii. Wrote a bunch of American comediesVI. Little Theatersa. American version of the Independent Theaters in Englandi. Small theaters not concerned with making money but to push boundaries of theatersb. Inspired the off-Broadway movementc. Famous Little Theaters:i. Provincetown Playersii. Washington Square Playhouse VII. Provincetown Playersa. Boyce, Crem Cock, and Cslospell tried to get involvedb. Founded in 1915 but then burned down a few years after so the movement moved to New Yorkc. Ide of selective realism in staging thingsi. Focuses audience attention on acting/actors rather than the setting VIII. Washington Square Playhousea. Showcased plays for emerging playwrightsb. Evolves into The Theater Guildc. Attempt to start on acting company in addition to producing American-European worksd. Begin to work for profit because of the low economy in the 1930’s IX. The Group Theatera. Producing entity, acting ensemble, training program, etc. b. Big goal was to introduce Stanislavski’s work to American theaterc. Very political in nature (left-leaning)d. Harold Sherman was one of the founderse. Sheryl Crawford was a co-founderf. Lee Strasberg was a co-founder and theater teacherg. Stella Adler was a theater teacherh. Elias Kazan was a theater teacheri. Clifford Odette was one of the playwrightsj. Strasberg splits from the group because of a dispute over an acting techniqueX. Lee Strasberga. Founded “The Actor Studio”b. Trained people like Marilyn Monroe and many other big name peoplec. Stella studied with himi. Eventually she founded the :Stella Adler Studio” for the same purposes that Strasberg opened up his own


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