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SURREALISM (Acting (Fragmented characters (not fully developed), Can be a…
SURREALISM
Acting
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Disturbing, nightmarish, grotesque visuals
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Conventions
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Personification - the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
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Physical theatre - a form of theatre which emphasizes the use of physical movement, as in dance and mime, for expression
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Context
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Often performed in Paris in the 1920s, but met with hostility from the general public
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Term 'surrealism' first used by Guillaume Apollinaire in the preface to his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias, written in 1903 and first performed in 1917.
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Plot/structure
Experimental, unconventional
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Deliberate abandonment of clarity, order and rational thought*
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“Surrealism promised to free the mind of rational control by exposing the subconscious mind of man" …
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“(Surrealism is) .. pure psychic automatism, by which is intended to express verbally, in writing, or by other means, the real process of thought. Thought’s dictation, in the absence of all control exercised by the reason and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupation”.
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