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THAR 281 1st Edition Lecture 18 Outline of Last 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 StrasbergOutline of Current Lecture I. American Drama Continueda. Federal Theater Projectb. The Cradle Will RockII. American Musical Continueda. Porgy and Bessb. Pal JoeyIII. ExpressionismIV. Futurism and DramaV. SurrealismVI. Bertolt BrechtVII. Epic TheaterCurrent LectureI. American Drama Continueda. Federal Theater Projecti. The Living Newspapers = dramatized actual events going on throughout the worldii. Federal government did not like Living Newspapers because stories targeted them and talked badly about the governmentiii. Federal Theater Project built theatersiv. NTP = Negro Theater Project1. Biggest performance was in New York2. It used voodoo rituals and Haitian stereotypesb. The Cradle Will Rocki. Written by Mark Blitzsteinii. Told in brechtian styleiii. About a mythical place called Steelstorm USA where workers are trying tounionize iv. Sharply satirical1. Very anti-government2. Targeted by government because of controversyII. American Musical Conitnueda. Porgy and Bessi. Debuted on Broadway in 1935ii. Music by George Gurgeweniii. Libretto by Heywardiv. Book by Ira Gurgewenv. Takes place in Catfish Road (fictitious place in South Carolina)vi. Very dramatic; not a comedyvii. Known for fusion of azz and classical musicviii. Usually performed in an opera house nowadaysix. 2006 = Porgy and Bess is re-done and re-modeled as a musical b. Pal Joeyi. Performed for the first time in 1940ii. First musical with an antihero1. Antihero = protagonist but a bad guyiii. Very unsympathetic and cynicaliv. Built as a musical comedyv. Joey is a bigoloo and finds a rich womanvi. At the end, he doesn’t get rich woman nor the innocent young girlvii. The lyrist dies at beginning of play III. Expressionisma. An extension of the expressionist movement in art and literatureb. Don to reveal the inner truth of the character/storyc. Not concerned with realityd. Structured similar to station plays from the Middle Agesi. Short; don’t really link together but produce an overall feele. Characters are often typesf. Dialogue often not very valuedIV. Futurism and Dadaa. Futurism started in Italyb. Futurists were obsessed with war and the industry around iti. Felt that theater should constantly reinvent itselfii. Old forms of theater should die outiii. Audience should be antagonizedc. Futurism didn’t last long; dad didn’t last long eitherd. Dad started in Switzerlande. Dadaists were pacifistsi. Audience should be antagonized (not as much as futurism qii. Questioned the definition of artiii. Theater should constantly reinvent itselff. Influential on the Avant Garde movement of the 1960’sg. Both emphasized a mixing of media and style V. Surrealisma. An extension of the art movementb. Argued that the subconscious was the highest plane of realityc. You can’t trust what you see visuallyd. Mixed real and imagined eventsVI. Bertolt Brechta. Playwright, theorist, director, and producerb. Frequently collaborated with Edwin Piscator and Kirk Weill (composer)i. While he was in Berlin as a young manc. Converted to Marxism in Berlind. Fled Germany because of Hitlere. Went back to Germany because of McCarthy crisisf. Moved to east Berlin and was made head of the Berlin Ensembleg. Most famous for his theory: Brechtian Theoryi. Includes Epic Theaterh. Famous Works: “The 3 Penny Opera”; “Mother Courage and Her Children”; “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” VII. Epic Theatera. Highly episodicb. Very didactic (there’s an educational element to itc. Very political; highly theatricald. The Alienation Effect was used to give audience distancei. Audience to remember they are watching a play and not become too emerged in the performanceii. How Brecht accomplishes this:1. Direct address to audience2. Visible technical elements (ex: no floating objects-use visible ropes)3. Use placards (big signs)4. Use songs where characters explain themselves5. Use historification (set current events in different time


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