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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
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Major Players or Plays
Symbolism Belgian Maurice Maeterlinck
The Blue Bird(1908) August Strindberg
A Dream Play(1907)
Expressionalism George Kaiser
Gas II(1920)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Trivia Questions
What is modernism?
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#1 What is modernism?
Modernism- realistic and non realistic
theatre from the 19th century to present
day
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Trivia Questions
What does modernism represents?
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#2 What does modernism represents?
a shift in theatre that started realism
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Trivia Questions
Who developed epic theatre?
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#3Who developed epic theatre?
Bertolt Brecht
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Trivia Questions
Give an example of an expressionist
play?
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#4 Give an example of an expressionist play?
George KaiserGas II(1920)
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Trivia Questions
Identify a symbolic play?
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#5 Identify a symbolic play?
Belgian Maurice Maeterlinck
The Blue Bird(1908)
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Trivia Questions
What was the Epic Theatre?
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#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
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Trivia Questions
How did WW11 affect
the artist?
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#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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