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PRODUCTION, STYLES OF THEATRE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Representational using physical gestures, voice, etc to reach emotional core of character ("outside in")
      - Presentational using character's task to tap into authenticity and truth
- - - - written/performed by Anna Deavere Smith
      - solo performance where Smith delivers multiple different monologues, each as a different character
      - focuses on the school-to-prison pipeline
      - includes audience participation through call and response
    - - focuses on gender, class, and sex
      - includes audience interaction ("Why do you create a safer, more courageous world"
    - - does not include audience interaction, but designed to open conversations on dangers of climate change
  - - - begin experimenting with theatre as leftist political education at São Paulo Arena Theatre
  - - - created Tanztheater Wuppertal
        
        work focuses on relationships, emotion, trauma
        
        includes spoken text, action, surreal circumstances
      - drew on expressionist dance
        
        Expressionism focuses on art's ability to observe relationship between performer and interpreter
  - - - Fusco and Gomez-Peña pretended to be indigenous people from an undiscovered island; they were exhibited in a cage and onlookers were encouraged to interact with them
- - - - Act 1 entire troupe dancing and singing popular songs
      - Act 2 variety show
      - Act 3 afterpiece, short comedic skit
  - - - Integrated musical musical elements are blended with dramatic elements; contains music, dancing, and spoken dialogue
      - Controversy
        
        Ali Hakim draws heavily on Jewish stereotypes; typically played by a white actor
        
        all white revisionist history
      - musical theatre conventions
        
        Overture orchestral piece that samples music, alerts audience that show is about to start
        
        Opening number establishes setting
        
        "I Want" song main character sings about what they have and what they desire
        
        List song comedic song that lists things
        
        Act 1 finisher large group number to finish 1st act
        
        11 o'clock number penultimate song, usually solo
        
        Finale big group number that ends show
        
        Reprise repeated song that is slightly different to change meaning or emphasize theme
  - - - In the Heights
        
        follows typical musical theatre conventions, but uses more a more modern style of music
        
        written by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- - - - Feminist Theatre
        
        plays produced during the second wave of the women's movement (1960s-1980s)
        
        second wave feminism focused on women's roles and decisions in a family, women's sexuality and desire, and equal opportunity in higher education and the workplace
        
        Fefu and Her Friends
        
        written by Maria Irene Fornés
        
        born in Havana, emigrated to New York in 1945
        
        work often includes an intense examination of the human condition and explores the world through the sense of a female protagonist
        
        focuses on the personal struggles of each member of a group of women who gather to prepare for a presentation
        
        typically utilizes non-conventional staging to convey sense of multiple, simultaneous events
        
        Sila
        
        plot focuses primarily on female characters who each have fleshed out personalities and motivations
      - Long Days Journey Into Night
        
        considered autobiographical
        
        O'Neill had tuberculosis
        
        father was an alcoholic former actor
        
        mother was a morphine addict
        
        focuses on one day in the life of a family based on O'Neill's
        
        written by Eugene O'Neill
      - Fences
        
        written by August Wilson
        
        grew up in a historically black neighborhood in Pittsburgh
        
        rose to national prominence with his 10 play Pittsburgh cycle
        
        about the tumultuous relationship between a man and his wife, his son, and his brother
        
        themes of past vs present, tradition vs modernity
      - Scientific Theatre
        
        History of Science and Theatre
        
        long tradition of theatre interrogating role of scientists in society
        
        scientists and showmen have used spectacle to communicate scientific facts to the public since Enlightenment
        
        Controversial History
        
        "Freak Shows" popular practice in circuses and museum theatre of exhibiting people with supposed physical anomalies, often followed by pseudo-scientific facts
        
        Ethnographic Exhibitions exhibitions of indigenous people, often included "scientific" methods used to prove superiority of white people
        
        The Couple in the Cage
        
        designed to evoke and mock ethnographic exhibitions
        
        Sila
        
        written by Chantal Bilodeau
        
        playwright/translator from Montreal
        
        artistic director of The Arctic Cycle
        
        uses storytelling and live performance to foster discussions on climate change
        
        intended to draw attention to how climate change impacts indigenous communities
    - - creates imaginative theatre
      - focus on symbolism and abstract design
      - unrestrained by historical accuracy
      - Mr Burns, A Post-Electric Play
        
        written by Anne Washburn
        
        plot focuses on a group of post-apocalyptic survivors who use memories of episodes of The Simpsons to relax and the way that those memories shift and warp over time
      - Fences
        
        "He finishes his dance and the gates of heaven stand open as wide as God's closet"
        
        wording allows final scene to be symbolic or literal depending on director's dedication to realism
      - Sila
        
        scenes with Nuliajuk break from realism to focus on indigenous culture
        
        scenes with bears break from realism to create emotional connection to environmental damage
    - - created by Bertholt Brecht
      - reminds the audience that they are watching a play
      - minimalist, symbolic design with the lights staying on
      - breaks 4th wall; placards/narration announce action before it happens