STUDY GUIDE
EXAM IV
INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE

PLEASE BRING A #2 PENCIL AND EXTRA PAPER TO THE EXAM.

REALISM:

When

Influence of Darwin and Freud in late 19th Cent.
    Environment vs. Heredity
    Individual vs. Society

Modernist movement with regard to form. Explosion of form.

Truth as relative not absolute, what is the difference

Spectacle become accurate

Showing the ills of society on stage

Ibsen - father of modern theatre
    A Doll's House - know characters and events
    Group 3's presentation, themes and some    
        casting choices

Naturalism: short lived but took Realism to the extreme.
   Emile Zola - Father of Naturalism

Realism Around the World - Handout, know.

Stanislavsky and Chekhov

Independent Theatre Movement:

What is it and why?  

Theatre Libre - why important?

Moscow Art Theatre

Independent Theatre Movement around the world handout

Playwriting and Dramaturgy:

Playwright like wheelwright, why?

Blueprint

Removed from collaborative process, why?

We are all playwrights, why?

How gets started?

Core of play is dramatic action

Two tools: dialogue and physical action

Playwrights career: how get started

Greatest Reward?

The Dramaturg:
    When start in America
    What is it?

Qualities of Literary Management and Production Management

The Modernist Movement:

Symbolism - what and why?

Appia, Craig, Reinhardt

Other Movements:
    Futurism, Dada, Expressionism

Epic Theatre - Bertoldt Brecht

Alienation

Theatre of Cruelty - Antonin Artaud

Existentialism

Absurdism - Beckett and Waiting for Godot

Reevaluation, Decentralization and Subsidization

The Group Theatre

Directing and Design collaboration

What is subsidization

Musical popularity

Postwar Europe
    Luigi Pirandello

Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway
    What, when, why

Professional theatres - Regional and festival

Non-For-Profit Theatre - what is it and what are the Advantages

Amateur theatre

Light Design
Concerns of designer:
        Visibility
        Focus
        Realism
        Atmosphere
Intelligent Lighting - Moving Lights

Lighting Designer at Work:
Reading, Light Plot, Cue Sheet, etc.

Contemporary Theatre:

Theatre of diversity
    African American Theatre
        August Wilson, why important
        Progress 1960s to now

    Women's theatre
        WOW Cafe
        Women playwrights

    Gay and Lesbian
        The Boys in the Band
        Angels in America
        The Normal Heart
        Progress from 1960s to now

    Asian Theatre
        David Henry Wang  - M Butterfly

    Latin Theatre
        INTAR

Playwright of diversity:
    August Wilson - Fences, The Piano Lesson
    Wendy Wasserstein - The Heidi Cronichles
    Tony Kushner - Angels in America
    David Hwang - M. Butterfly

A Doll's House - Characters and Events
    Group 3's thematic, visual and set elements
    What our textbook says about this play

Roosters - Characters and Events
    Group 4's thematic, visual and set elements
    What our textbook says about this play