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MODULE 4: THE LAST CENTURY, Postmodern theatre - Brian Watson, Death Mask/…
MODULE 4: THE LAST CENTURY
Theater of cruelty - Nathaniel Canfield
Jet of Blood (Griffin)
Holy Soul - The physicalization of pain or suffering from the actors (Sab)
Audiences being forced to witness the actors pain and the nightmare images that came with Theater of cruelty -Lily
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry - Nathaniel
Bertolt Brecht-Epic Theatre (Emily Sturgeon)
Jacques Copeau and Samuel Beckett, Modernism-Absurdism (Emily Sturgeon)
Theorists
(
LORENNE
)
resisted the idea of author, masterpiece, standard, and classic (
LORENNE
)
"Death of the author"
Roland Barthes (
Lorenne
)
The author has no further role in the process between text and reader (
Lorenne
)
The development of autur Directors - instead of the "Playwright's Play" it became "Director's version of Play" - Directors interpretation (Sab)
Musical Theatre: John Gay
(Kenny Rosa)
Postmoderism - Phil
Negro Ensemble Company - Phil
Agitprop theatre - agitation and propaganda
(Kenny Rosa)
Life Mask (AJ Battista)
Tennessee Williams (AJ Battista)
Stanislavsky vs The Method (Anastasia West)
Lee Strasberg vs. Stella Adler (Chloë)
Psychologyical Realism in the forms of Williams and Miller’s work (Anastasia West)
Postmodernism: Challenged universal certainties and truths and questioned master narratives of the modern world.
-Michael Jean
Agitprop Theatre: A highly politicized theatre. Mainly propaganda.
-Michael Jean
Musical theatre (Chloë)
Life Mask (Zach)
Off-Broadway and Off-off-Broadway
Tennessee Williams being the playwright to make Off-Broadway successful -Lily
Antonin Artaud (Natasha A.)
Derrida - concepts like truth and justice were complex, unstable, or impossible to determine (Natasha A.)
Death masks and the lengths performers go to to put on a show (Alec Cintula)
The popularity of off Broadway theatre (Alec Cintula)
John Osborne (Erin)
Alternative Theater- Thoughtful, radical, difficult theater. (Erin)
Postmodern theatre - Brian Watson
Death Mask/ cast or impression from corpse - Brian Watson