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Before 1940 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Tragedy: downfall caused by transgression or social taboo. Avoidance of social transgression is Aristotle’s goal for the audience. It ensures that any potential for revolution is crushed
- - - - the Black Arts Movement, an artistic movement of the 60s that focused on black nationalism and self-determination in promoting an art which would speak directly to and from AfricanAmerican experience, led to the founding of the Black Arts Repertory
      - The off-Broadway movement was primarily interested in exploring the period’s concern with personal freedom and authenticity apart from political and social oppression, and with avoiding realism’s representations of superficial appearance in favour of more abstract presentations of an inner reality
    - - Post modernism
        
        :check:The two world wars brought about a fragmented and dislocated individual that by the 70 emerged as Post-modernity.
        :check: Post-modern drama focuses on instability of meaning and the inadequacy of language to completely and accurately represent Truth.
        :check: A lack of any hierarchy or boundaries
        in the treatment of ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture
        
        Post-modern performance gave a voice to those groups who have been marginalised in society, and focuses on the subjectivity and multiplicity of truth and experience
        
        By the 70s and 80s, new plays were regularly employing anti-realistic devices in order to avoid the facility of realistic illusion. Self-consciousness of performance, experimentation with narrative form, the deconstruction of character, and fragmented language that focused on the gaps in constructing meaning were common features of plays that are now considered part of contemporary American drama
      - the 80's
        
        Due to the Vietnam war, psychodramas well-known as Vietnam Plays emerged.Vietnam veterans writing, producing and performing in the theatre
        
        the 80's and 90's
        
        In the United States, solo performance emerges. Interest in challenging the dominant power structures of society, exposing the language, values and
        assumptions about gender, ethnicity and social class set up by patriarchal constructs.
  - - - episodic scenes: interrupted by
        placards, cards or projections that announced a title for each scene serving to highlight and explain the main point or
        focus of that scene.
        awarenss that the actor is not the charecter