Jacques Rouche wrote
L’Art theatrical moderne
Father of modern French
Firmin Gemier
Firmin Gemier presented
an international repetoire
Theatre National populaire was
National popular theatre
Theatre National populaire was theatre critic influenced by
Rouche
Jacques Copeau’s two theatres
Poesie du theatre
La Retheatralisation du theatre
Jacques Copeau’s big contribution
Theatre Du Vieux Colombier
The Cartel Des Quartre
Louis Jouvet
Charles Dullin
G. Pitoeff
G. Baty
Vladimir Lenin did
Great October Socialist Revolution
Anatoly Lunacharsky was
first commissar of the People’s Commissariat for Enlightenment
Agit Prop means
Agitation propaganda
Agit-Prop is about
trains, boats, & factory brigades to disseminate Bolshevik ideas
Mass spectacles was to
commemorate events of the october revolution
Mass spectacles in 7 Nov 1920
The Storming of the Winter Palace
Nikolai Evreinov was
Playwright-Director
Nikolai Evreinov directed
mass spectacle The Storming of the Winter Palace
1921-1928 in Soviet Golden Age
New economic policy and Golden Age of Soviet theatre and film
Vsevolod Meyerhold was as ________ staged
“Dr Dappertutto”
Balaganchik
Vsevolod Meyerhold’s stage name
Dr Dappertutto
Vsevolod Meyerhold ran his
theatre Biomechanics workshop from 1921
Vsevolod Meyerhold directed_________ but closed before opening because of
The Suicide
Formalism
Vladimir Mayakovsky’s two plays at the Meyerhold theatre
The Bedbug
The Bathhouse
Theatre Performances in Hebrew
Habimah Theatre
Golden Age of Soviet Film
Sergei Eisenstein’s Potemkin
Goals of Theatre Du Vieux Colombier 1)
Retheatralisation Du Theatre
Retheatralisation Du Theatre IS Opposed to
Commercial theatre
Goals of Theatre Du Vieux Colombier 2)
Poetry of theatre
Goals of Theatre Du Vieux Colombier 3) restore
beauty to the stage
Goals of Theatre Du Vieux Colombier 4) give primacy
to the dramatist’s text
Goals of Theatre Du Vieux Colombier 5) put
Appia’s ideals of staging into practice
Copeau profoundly influenced
2 generations of French Theatre Artists
Paris theatre since the 1930s 1) Boulevard Theatre
commercial entertainment for the Bourgeoisie and upper middle class
Paris theatre since the 1930s 2) Experimental
Avant garde & art theatre
Paris theatre since the 1930s 3)
small theatre, stress on intellectual, or aesthetic values`
Paris theatre since the 1930s 4) state
subsidized repertory theatre preserving the classics
The Cartel Des Quartre
Dullin renowned
Mime Artist
The Cartel Des Quartre
Dullin acted in ______ and career in _______
Stage and film
Silent Motion
The Cartel Des Quartre
Gaston Baty did
Scenery Important
Vladimir Lenin led
Bolsheviks(red) to victory over whites
Vladimir Lenin opposed to
Avant Garde
Vladimir Lenin said
theatre must be censored
Agit Prop was about
political education of the public in Bolshevik ideas
Agitki was
Propaganda skits toured to rural area by truck, train, boat`
Proletkult was
Proletarian/Amateur organizations to replace Bourgeois art with art created by workers
village play reading circles
The NEP(1921-1924) means
New Economic Policy
The NEP(1921-1924) was announced by
Lenin in 1921
The NEP(1921-1924) was limited
temporary return to capitalism
Golden Age of Soviet Theatre
Nepmen comedies satirized the greedy opportunists
Meyerhold was
director
Meyerhold’s Biomechanics was
Actors trained as athletes dancers, Acrobats and Fencers express emotion through physical action
Meyerhold was the most
visible fomalist
Socialist realism opposed to
formalism/Formable content(Bad)
Mayakovsky did
Anti-Taarist political activity
Vakhtangov did
Fantastic Realism
Vakhtangov’s Fantastic Realism
Happy medium between Meyerhold’s theatricality and Stanislavsky’s realism
Erdmann’s play
The Suicide
Erdmann was a
Brilliant writer
