major dramatist whoes work bridged the 19th and 20th centuries
Henrik Ibsen
important thinkers(Philosophy, psychology, science) whose work had major influence on the 20th century
A Strindberg
Idealism; suggestion rather than description; etat d’ame(Soul state); plays by Maurice Maeterlinck; influence of composer Richard Wagner and designer Adolph appia
Symbolism
More grounded(Often focusing on sordid elements) and less mediated than realism to convey the rawness of life without the artifice of the controlling artist’s hand; naturalist plays include The Lower Depths by Gorky and The power of Darkness by Tolstoy
Naturalism
Umbrella term that encompassed a variety of( often non-realistic) approaches to the arts and is usually associated with the period from the 1870s through the Great War and even into the 1930s-50s
Modernism
co-founded Moscow Art Theatre with Nemirovich-Danchenko
Konstantin Stanislavsky
Symbolist poetry and Little Fairground Booth(Balaganchik)
Alexander Blok
Bicycling enthusiast who wrote Ubu Roi(King Ubu)
Alfred Jarry
Art Impresario; got easel painter to design for Les Ballets Russes
Serge Diaghilev
Play was directed by Stanislavsky, designed by Edward Gordon Craig, opened at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1911, and featured tall screens or panels that were supposed to glide into different configurations
Hamlet
what and when was the Silver Age of Russian Literature
1890-1914
1905 was the year of “Bloody Sunday” and other worker uprisings in Russia. What was the year of the Great October socialist Revolution
1917
who was Harriet Bosse
3rd Wife of Strindberg
Leonid Andreyev
Symbolist playwright
Nikolai Evreinov
Director
Zinaida Gippius
Sacred Blood
August Strindgerg
wrote 70 plays 117 paintings
Name another play by Gorky besides Children of the Sun
The Lower Depths
Summer Folk
Kinetic energy, dynamism, celebration of the machine, very short plays(Sintesi)
Futurism
Anti-art, nonsense, simultaneous peoms; “Thought is produced in the mouth”
Dada
influenced by Freud; logic of the dream or the child; unexpected leaps in time or space
Surrealism
An avant-garde movement in painting with cross-influence on theatrical avant-garde
Cubism
With what avant garde aesthetic movement was Feu d’ artifice(Fireworks) associated? hint: it was presented in Rome and had music by Igor Stravinsky
Futurism
Leader of Dada
Tzara
what city and country did Hugo Ball open the Cabaret Voltaire
Zurich, Switzesland
What city did Dada hold its own funeral in 1922
Weimar
Who was Man Ray
wrote ‘Rayograpus”
Who led the break away from Dada to Surrealism? hint: He wrote the First and Second Manifestos of the movement
Breton
who was the leader of Futurism
Marinetti
who invented the word “surrealism,” wrote poems called Caligrammes, and wrote The Breasts of Tiresias
Apollinaire
What is Die Austrahlugen des Ich?
Reality Distorted by Subjective view
German author of Masse-mensch(Man of the Masses)
Ernst Toller
German author of From Morn to Midnight and the Gas trilogy
Georg Kaiser
Austrian painter who wrote short expressionist plays; Murderer, Hope of Women
Oskar Kokoschka
Czech stage & lighting designer; founded Laterna Magica
Josef Svoboda
Czech director, especially Chekhov; founded Divadlo za branou
Otomar Krejca
Czech author of R.U.R.; invented the word Robot
Karel Capek
what is the title of Artaud’s book that develops his theory of a theatre de la cruaute
La Nouvelle Revle francaise
Tell any two characteristic of theatre of cruelty
violent images
force the involvement
concrete language
What is the name of the poet-playwright-novelist-designer-filmmaker who staged the surrealist ballet Parade in 1917, wrote the Eiffel Tower Wedding Party, took Orpheus as the symbol of the artist, and got elected to the Academie Francaise
Cocteau
Prolific outstanding Flemish-Language playwright; Friday
Hugo Claus
Pantagleize, Exit the Actor
Michel de Ghelderode
Francophone Belgian; given aristocratic title; El Burlador
Suzanne Lilar
L’Oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird of Happiness)
Maurice Maeterlinck
who is Ivo von Hove
Wrote “Rumors” “Disease Germs”
Name the dierctor who founded the Thetre du Vieux Colombier and influenced two generations of French art Theatre
Copeau
What was one of the goals for theatre of the copeau
poetry of theatre
Name any two members of the Cartel des Quatre
Joviet, Dullin, Pitoeff, Baty
When was the golden Age of soviet theatre and film
1921-28
What was the NEP
New economy policy
Brief fling with Futurism; wrote Bedbug and Bathhouse; committed suicide
Vladimir Marakovsky
Dr Dappertutto; biomechanics; directed Magnanimous Cuckhold and Government Inspector; executed
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Playwright & directed The Storming of the Winter Palace
Nikolai Evreinov
Directed Turandot; “Fantastic Realism”
Yevgeny Vakhtangov
First people’s Commissar for Enlightenment
A.V. lunacharsky
greatest Soviet silent film director; Battleship Potemkin
Sergei Eisenstein
consolidated power by 1928 and began crackdowns on the arts
Josef Stalin
Leader of Great October Socialist Revolution; disliked avant garde theatre
V.I. Lenin
what did it mean when Soviet authorities accused an artist of “formalism”?
Form over content
What was the name of the only officially-sanctioned approach to the arts and art criticism in the USSR from 1934 to 1989?
Socialist Realism
Give the title of any work by Bulgakov besides Zoya’s Apartment
“days of Turbins”
Tell any fact about Bulgakov’s life
completed medical degree
what kind of play did the Alvarez Quintero brothers write
Custumbrismo
Who was Echegaray
playwright who wrote “folly or saintliness”
won nobel prize for literature
what is the title of the best-known play attributed to Gregorio Martinez Sierra
Cradle Song
Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; La Barraca
Lorca
Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Esperpentos and comedias barbaras
Valle-Inclan
Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Galicia
Valle-Inclan
Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca;Granada
Lorca
Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Tragic trilogy of rural Spanish womanhood, including Yerma
Lorca
Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Divine Words and Bohemian Lights
Valle-Inclan
Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Dona Rosita la soltera(Dona Rosita the Sinster)
Lorca
Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; El Publico(The audience)
Lorca
