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Avant-GardeMyiesha HuntJaneisha ClarkKanika BanksBrittney SangsterAshlee CatchingsCynthia BellLa’Nayah Bowman

Avant-Garde (19th century- present)

Art that pushes recognized boundaries Based on a French military term A term that often uses synonymously

with “experiment”

Cannot remain for long it either fails or succeeds

A rebellion against realism and naturalism

Major Players or Plays 

Symbolism Belgian Maurice Maeterlinck

The Blue Bird(1908) August Strindberg

A Dream Play(1907)

Expressionalism George Kaiser

Gas II(1920)

Changes in Production

Avant-Garde influenced the Japanese theatre when William Butler Yeats started to incorporate similar methods into his stage work using mask , open stages, folk music, and dance.

It also was the time where everyone went against the norm of theatre

Other Information WWII left artist disturbed by its horrors

especially the holocaust and the atomic bomb

During the Vietnam war the Avant- Garde in Europe and the U.S was pre occupied with communal performance groups that gave angry political messages

Vocabulary New Stagecraft- an approach to scenic design

featuring simplicity avoidance of detail and reduction of location to it’s most significant elements

Simplicity- A guiding principal detail and reducing a location to its most significant elements

Expressionalism- dehumanization or destruction of humanity at the hands of industry and war.

Theatre of Cruelty- An approach to theatre developed between the world war emphasizing a breakdown of causality and stressing emotion over intellect

Modernism- realistic and non realistic theatre from the 19th century to present day that represents a shift in theatre that started realism

Vocabulary Theatre of the Absurd- created a body of

work dominated by plays centered on characters who are strangers to each other trapped in a violent and meaningless world

Symbolism- First major challenge to realism in the 1980’s and early 20th century

Epic Theatre- anti-illusionist theatre featuring emotional detachment narration songs and obvious theatrically it has been adopted and by countless directors and playwrights which was developed by Bertolt Brecht

Trivia Questions

What is modernism?

#1 What is modernism?

Modernism- realistic and non realistic

theatre from the 19th century to present

day

Trivia Questions

What does modernism represents?

#2 What does modernism represents?

a shift in theatre that started realism

Trivia Questions

Who developed epic theatre?

#3Who developed epic theatre?

Bertolt Brecht

Trivia Questions

Give an example of an expressionist

play? 

#4 Give an example of an expressionist play?

George KaiserGas II(1920)

Trivia Questions

Identify a symbolic play?

#5 Identify a symbolic play?

Belgian Maurice Maeterlinck

The Blue Bird(1908)

Trivia Questions

What was the Epic Theatre?

#6 What was the Epic Theatre?

Epic Theatre- anti-illusionist theatre featuring emotional detachment narration songs and obvious theatrically it has been adopted and by countless directors and playwrights

Trivia Questions

How did WW11 affect

the artist? 

#7 How did WW11 affect the artist?

WWII left artist disturbed by its horrors especially the holocaust and the atomic bomb

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