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Bertolt Brecht

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Comes to Drama through Poetry

Associated with Epic Theatre

A Theatre of Political Reality

Greatest impact on Germany, Britain, Brazil, the United States, and India

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Samuel Beckett

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Comes to Drama through Fiction

Associated with Existential or “Absurdist” Drama

A Drama of Poetic Reality

Greatest impact on France, Poland, Japan, and also the United States and Britain

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Cabarets and Chaos:

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Berlin is the cultural center

Brecht influenced by cabaret scene

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The Rise of National Socialism

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Rampant inflation
Economic downturn
“Brown Shirts” promote Hitler’s agenda

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The development of “Epic Theatre”

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In conversation with, but in opposition to, Expressionism

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Aristotle

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Catharsis: the purging of negative emotion

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Brecht

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Catharsis prevents theatre from being useful, as it simply reenforces the status quo

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Brecht moves towards a Dialectical Theatre:

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A theatre of ideas to affect political and social change

He Opposes a Bourgeois Theatre (”Culinary Theatre”):

Seeks to destroy naturalism, “fourth walls.“

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Gestus:

The “V-Effect”

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A single physical action
Shows the social “realism” of the
character
A tool for “Epic Acting”

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Verfremdungseffekt (“Distancing Effect”)

This creates the “V-Effect”

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Distances the audience from empathy, plot, catharsis

Lets you see true “realism” – the social and political powers

Character is not defined by emotion, but social relationships

Characters still have emotions!

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The Production That Changed Everything:San Quentin Prison, California, November 19, 1957

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Following an important production in a German prison in 1953, where inmates had had the play smuggled in.

The San Francisco Actors Workshop

Directed by Herbert Blau

Performed on the prison gallows

The beginning of prison theatre programs in the U.S.

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“Nothing Comes from Nothing” : King Lear

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Bleak comedy in a ruined world.

The disintegration of language

The play ends in an exhausted acceptance of horror:
“Our present business is general woe.”

“Never, never, never, never, never.”

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What object does Helen use to kill her husband?

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A bottle filled with rocks

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What physical change Helen protest just before her execution?

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Cutting her hair

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What was Helen’s relationship with George before they were married?

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Boss/employee

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What is the name of the man with whom Helen had an affair?

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Dick Roe

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In the first scene, what reason does Helen give for being late to work?

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She needed to step off the subway to get some air

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What article of clothing does Estragon always take off and put back on?

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Boot

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What is the relationship between Pozzo and Lucky?

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Master and slave

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  1. How is the tree different in Act II of the play Godot?
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It has grown leaves

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  1. What practical reason do Didi and Gogo give for not hanging themselves?
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They do not have any rope

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  1. In act II, which character remembers the previous interaction with Pozzo and Lucky?
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Vladimir (Didi)

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  1. Where does the play M. Butterfly begin?
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Paris prison cell

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  1. According the trial against Song, what are the two crimes that Song has committed against the cultural revolution?
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Being homosexual and being an artist

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Which character from Madama Butterfly does Hwang cast as a parallel to Comrade Chin?

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Suzuki

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  1. What does Song do as Gallimard dies?
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Smokes a cigarette

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  1. What crime is Gallimard In jail for?
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Espionage

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  1. What does the Foundling Father carry in the cherry-wood box?
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Beards

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  1. What play acts as the intertext with The America Play?
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Our American Cousin

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  1. During the reenactments, what does the Foundling Father do just before he is shot?
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Laugh

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  1. What is the setting of The America Play?
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The Great Hole of History and the Replica of the Great Hole of History

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  1. What is Brazil’s job?
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A wailer (or mourner)

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What tribal nation are Elesin and Olunde a part of?

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Yoruba

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Who was the bride supposed to marry before Elesin asked to marry her?

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Iyaloja’s son

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  1. What object does Elesin use to commit suicide?
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His chains

36
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  1. What is Amusa’s religion?
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Islam

37
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  1. What prompts Olunde to return to Nigeria?
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A telegram that says the king is dead

38
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  1. Which playwright, who we have not read but is mentioned frequently in lecture, did Steffen show us as a Pez dispenser?
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Henrik Ibsen

39
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  1. What term for radical art movements literally translates to “vanguard”?
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Avant-garde

40
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  1. Which Maureen Dallas Watkins play was paralleled with Machinal due to similar plot lines and time periods?
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Chicago

41
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  1. Which famous fellow Irish writer did Beckett defend in an essay?
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James Joyce (was defending Finnegan’s Wake – a notoriously unreadable novel)

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  1. What was significant about the 1957 California production of Waiting for Godot?
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Performed in San Quentin Prison, beginning of US prison theatre programs

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  1. What aspect of Aristotle’s theory of theatre did Brecht oppose?
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Catharsis because it reinforces the status quo

44
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  1. In the book Orientalism, Edward Said coined the term”___ geography” to describe concepts of the orient.
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Imaginative

45
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  1. What bizarre connection did John Wilkes Booth’s brother Edwin have to the Lincoln family?
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He saved the life of Robert Lincoln (Abe’s son) several months before Abe’s assassination

46
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  1. Suzan-Lori parks said, “history is time that….”
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Won’t quit

47
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  1. What two “worlds” do Yoruba rituals integrate?
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The mortal world and the spiritual/ancestral world

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What does Olunde go to London to study

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Medicine

49
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A pair of boots

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Waiting for Godot

50
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A television

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The American play

51
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A telephone

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Machinal

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A kimono

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M. Butterfly

53
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A masked costume

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Death and the Kings Horseman

54
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According to lecture, Samuel Beckett invented the term “theatre of the absurd” to describe his plays.
True or False

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False

55
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What character is very concerned about the condition of their hands?

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The Young Woman

56
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Term from jazz, Suzan Lori Parks

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Rep and Rev

57
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Oscar Wilde and Beckett were born in Dublin and they both died in __________.

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Paris

58
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What play was being performed when Lincoln was assassinated?

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Our American Cousin

59
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Who inspired Suzan Lori Parks?

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James Baldwin

60
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Who was Eugene Oneil?

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He was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama Long Day’s Journey into Night is often numbered on the short list of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century

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Who was Henrik Ibsen?

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He was a Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. As one of the founders of Modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as “the father of realism” and one of the most influential playwrights of his time.[2] His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People,

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Mythological character was chosen as representative of existential condition by Albert Camus?

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Sisyphus

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Who did Euripides inspire?

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Wole Soyinka

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