THEA 1000: Study Guide
42 Cards in this Set
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Henrik Ibsen
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-1828-1906
-A Doll's House (1879)
-Hedda Gabler (1890)
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August Strindberg
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-Swedish
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-Miss Julie (1888)
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Anton Chekhov
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-Russian
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-The Sea Gull (1896)
-The Cherry Orchard (1990)
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Symbolism
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Movement of the late nineteenth century and early and early twentieth century that sought to express inner truth rather than represent life realistically
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Expressionism
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Movement in Germany at about the time of World War I, characterized by an attempt to dramatize subjective states through distortion; striking, often grotesque images; and lyric, unrealistic dialogue
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Cubism
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Early twentieth that revolutionized European paintings (Pablo Picasso)
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Futurism
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Art movement, begun in Italy about 1909, which idealized mechanization and machinery
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Surrealism
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Departure from realism that attempted to present dramatically the working of the subconscious
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Dadaism
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A European artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity
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Realism
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One of the five strands of theatre in the modern era, realism conveys everything onstage to resemble observable, everyday life to promote a strong sense of audience recognition and identification
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Naturalism
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Special form of realism developed in Europe in the late nineteenth century; it was not carefully plotted or constructed but was meant to present a "slice of life"
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Latin American Theatre
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-Artist response to social turmoil
-Influenced by surrealism and expressionism
-Addressed nationalist issues
-Theatre of the Oppressed
-Augusto Boal (1931-2009)
-Rehearsing Revolution
-Young playwrights attempting to develop new forms and styles of theatre
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Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
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-The Glass Menagerie
-A Streetcar Named Desire
-Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(Realism)
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Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
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-The Crucible
-Death of a Salesman
-All my Sons
(Realism)
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Selective Realism
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A type of realism that heightens certain details of action, scenery, and dialogue while omitting others
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Edward Albee (1928-)
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-The Zoo Story
-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
-Three Tall Women
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John Osborne (1929-1994)
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-Look Back in Anger
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Book
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The dialogue and action of a musical (also called the libretto)
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Antecedents of the American Musical
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-W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
-Operetta
-The Pirates of Penzance (1879)
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Victor Herbert
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-Naughty Marietta (1910)
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George M. Cohan
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-Little Johnny Jones (1904)
-Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway
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Cole Porter
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-Kiss me Kate (1948) - based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
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Leonard Bernstein/ Steven Sondheim/ Arthur Laurents
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-West Side Story - based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
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Jerry Bock/ Sheldon Harnick/ Joseph Stein
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-Fiddler on the Roof
-The last great book musical
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Rock Musical
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Hair (1967)
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David Mamet
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-Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo (Contemporary American Playwrights)
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Sam Shepard
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-True West, Fool for Love (Contemporary American Playwrights)
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Tracy Letts
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-August Osage County (Contemporary American Playwrights)
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Lorraine Hansberry
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-A Raisin in the Sun
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August Wilson
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-10-play-cycle-- chronicling African-American Life
-Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and The Piano
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Amiri Baracks
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-Dutchman
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Suzan-Lori Parks
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-Topdog/Underdog
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Katori Hall
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The Mountain Top- about the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Luis Valdez
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-El Teatro Campesino- farm workers' theatre
-Actos
-Agit-prop-- agitation propaganda
-Zoot Suit
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Luis Alfaro
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-Oedipus el Rey
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Milcha Sanchez-Scott
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-Roosters
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Maria Irene Fornes
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-Fefu and her Friends
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Nilo Cruz
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-Anna in the Tropics (adaptation of Anna Karenina)
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Nuyorican
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-Puerto Ricans from New York
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Miguel Pinero
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-Short Eyes
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Wole Soyinka
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-Nigerian Playwright
-The Strong Breed
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Athol Fugard
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-South African writer
-Writing about apartheid
-Master Harold and the Boys
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THEA 1000: FINAL EXAM