War Years Flashcards

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Jacques Copeau

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French director started as a theatre critic, became convinced that theatre had reached a low point as an art form and set out to fix it He liked realistic and naturalistic directors like Antoine for bringign the works of Ibsen onstage however, he decided that some productions were too realistic so he began reading plays first and then deciding on a style

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Jean Copeau founded First production was a huge success - Twelfth Night WWI hits, he's drafted, gets injured, studies theatre when he gets home and meets Appia and Craig, takes company to New York for two years

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illuminated the text through the actor and devoted his energy to actor training by exploring the text, improv, ensemble acting, and mask work wanted to break naturalistic barrier no proscenium arch and only simple screens/set named head of Comedie Francaise

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French playwright wanted to return literary value to plays'produced by Louis Jouvet "Ondine"

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French playwright literary value influenced by Giraudoux, started out as secretary to Jouvet "Antigone"

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Spanish playwright interested in folk stories killed by fascists during Spanish Civil War, plays were banned for long time known for strong female protagonists and very poetic, even symbolic language "Blood Wedding" and "The House of Bernarda Alba"

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Greatest Italian playwright of period very nonrealistic plays question the relationship between appearance and reality "Six Characters in Search of an Author" controversial figure because he was member of the fascist party awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and donated the money to the Italian government during invasion of Ethiopia

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Developed during 20s and 30s in America collection of songs around a theme or by a single writer, staged with costumes and movement/dance and sometimes a little dialogue connecting them Biggest: Ziegfeld Follie

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Oscar Hammerstien II and Jerome Kern - ahead of its time may be cnsidered the first book musical

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Oklahoma written by Hammerstien and Rogers

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American director Brought many of the realistic and naturalistic staging techniquestion to the U.S. busted the Syndicate because of his popularity staged dangerous chariot ras in Ben Hur used functional kitchen for the first time on stage successful playwright - melodramatic "Madame Butterfly"

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first American playwright to get respect in Europe famous for realism and expressionism when he turned to expressionism he took a class at Harvard taught by George Pierce Baker - father of academic theatre first play was produced by the Provincetown Players who produced many of his plays won 4 Pulizter Prizes and noble Prize for Literature late plays combined realism and expressionism "selctive realism"

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American equivalent to the Independent Theatre Movement in Europe purpose was t produce new plays by new American playwrights and the quality literary plays of Europe first little theatre was Provincetown Players another was the Washington Square Players

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found by George Cram Cook and Susan Glaspell his wife and Pulitzer Prize winner - "Allison House" she srote the one-act Trifles company secured the careers if Eugene and Edmund Jones

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American scene designer started out with PP also designed for Washington Square Designed many of O'Neill's early works and stduied under Baker at Harvard

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aka "simplified realism" start with text realistic detail was used to suggest a location only valued atmosphere

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founded in Greenwich Village closed but reopened as the Theatre Guild had a theatre on Broadway - produced literary and art plays instead of commercial theatre

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Formed as a splinter group from the Theatre Guild -inspired by Moscw Art Theatre

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Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman - directors Cheryl Crawford - manager (money)

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Clifford Odets - playwright who leaves for Hollywood Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner - acting teachers Elia Kazan - director

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company based acting and production tcehniques on Stanislavsky

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would go live in uptown New York and live communally like Moscow

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Clurman and Adler go stay with Stan while in Europe and he explains to them that he changed his mind about emotional recall Clurman and Adler began criticizing Strasburg's emphasis on emotional recall and Strasburg ended up levaing the Group Theatre and went to head up the Actor's Studio

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started out as part of FDR's Works Progress Admin Ran by Hallie Flanagan funded individual theatres all over U.S. 22 of them were African American The living newspaper evolved from it closest the U.S. has ever come to having a nationally-subsidized theatre, like Europe

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dramatizations of current events like bread lines and unemployment

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American director and actor (film and theatre) Mercury Theatre was part of Federal Theatre the first to produce the stage adapation of the "Native Son" also did an all-Black version of Macbeth set in Haiti called Voodoo Macbeth Orson produced a lot of black theatre

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most significant African American actor of this period went to Rutgers on athletic schloarship, then went to law school at Columbia and earned his law degree

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turned down O'Neills The Emperor Jones, but played it later when he realized he was wrong about racsit intentions starred in the movie version became a concert singer after humming in movie Sang "Ol' Man River" in Showboat tthe musical and the movie Played Othello in ENgland with Peggy Ashcroft he had 296 performances which broke the record for Shakespeare in Broadway

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said negative things about race relations in the U.S. and postive things about communism while visiting Europe U.S. revoked his passport and the entertainmemt industry blacklisted him lived in seclusion for years untile he came back during the Civil Rights Movement

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