Chapter 8

Question 1

Realism

Answer 1

the movement that began in the late 1800s and has had the most pervasive and long-lived effect on modern theatre. It has sought to create a drama without conventions or abstractions. Likeness to life is its goal.

Question 2

Henrik Ibsen

- Pioneers of realism

Answer 2

Norwegian playwright – a Doll’s house, ghosts, and enemy of the people, peer gynt – father of dramatic realism – father of the modern theatre

Question 3

ii. George Bernard shaw

Answer 3

comedic realism

Question 4

Antoine Checkov

Answer 4

Russian) realism stylistic peak

1. On par with Shakespeare
2. Collaborated with stanilovski
3. Wrote cherry ochard
4. Created complicated relationship, developed plots and themes and subtexts (between the line)

Question 5

Naturalism - far realism

Answer 5

Russian) realism stylistic peak

1. On par with Shakespeare
2. Collaborated with stanilovski
3. Wrote cherry ochard
4. Created complicated relationship, developed plots and themes and subtexts (between the line)

Question 6

Eugene O’Neill

Answer 6

America’s first great playwright

- 1. Autobiographical “ long days journey into night”

Question 7

antirealism

Answer 7

• the symbolist rebellion
• the era of isms
• stylized theatre

Question 8

1. The French avant-garde – ubu roi

Answer 8

a. Those theatre artists who abandon conventional models and create works that are in the forefront of new theatrical movements and styles

Question 9

expressionism - the hairy ape

Answer 9

a. An artistic style that greatly exaggerates ercieved reality in order to express inner truths directly. Popular mainly in Germany between the world wars expressionsm in the theatre is notable for its gutsy dialogue, piercing sounds, bright llighting and coloring, bold scenery and shocking vivid imagery.

Question 10

meta theatre

Answer 10

beyond theatre

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Question 11

e. 20th century playwright – meta theatre

Answer 11

i. 6 character’s in search for an author

1. Pirandello

Question 12

Theatre of Cruelty

Answer 12

a. Started in paris
b. Antonin Artaud in paris
i. Influence is more in his ideas rather than production
ii. Goal was to employ language for its sounds more than for its meaning and create shocking scream of sensation rather than coherent plots and casts of characters
iii. Theories – influential

Question 13

5. Theatre of the Absurd or Absurdism

Answer 13

a. Samuel Beckett waiting for Goddo
b. Notion is that the world is meaningless. Human beings has an unquenchable desire to understand but the world is eternally unknowable. Great conflict that we so desperately want to understand and know and yet will never know

Question 14

theatre of alienation

Answer 14

a. Theatre technique by german playwright – Bertolt Brecht
b. Where actor deliberately presents rather than represents the character
c. He wanted audience to be alienated – distance between themselves and plays
d. Very political wanted people to think, make a sound decision what you thought was right or wrong

Question 15

comedy of temporary manners

Answer 15

a. Niel simons – looking how people are behaving at each other

Question 16

Political satire

Answer 16

a. Incredibly socially conscious
b. Caustic and entertaining
c. Poking fun at politics and giving us an entertaining view.
d. Caryl Churchill – political satirist english