1968 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Off-Broadway Movement | 1959 Ford Foundation Grants 1965 The NEA Questions/Goal - Relationship between theatrical forms and reality. Connection btw. actor and character. Role of the audience. Is art a social function? (Lincoln Center, 1965 example for not-for-profit theate |
Off-Off Broadway | October 1960, Ubu Roi at Greenwich Village Theater Coined by Jerry Talmer Less commercial |
Regional Theater Movement | Stage 47 in Dallas, TX / Margo Jones Alley Theater in Huston / Nina Vance Arena Stage in D.C. / Zelda Fitzcandler Actor's Workshop in San Francisco / Irving Blau |
Living Theater | 1947 - Judith Molina and Julian Beck Mission: To aid the audience to become a congregation of choral ecstasy of reading and response. Social problem plays and "Paradise Now" MARIJUANA |
Judson Dance Theater | Progressive politics form 1930s to 60s Visual art and dance art Postmodern Dance 200 dances from 1962 to -64 |
Postmodern Dance METHODS | Formalist Disruption of formalist power No choreography Move away from personal style and imitation of masters Other media / found material Whatever aleatory methods of indeterminacy |
Yvonne Rainer | NOT MARTHA GRAHAM No anything, ever....except for formalism. ......Trio A...... |
Nigeria | Independence in 1960 from Britain. 250 ethnic groups Glee group singing and play |
South Africa | Protest plays - Athel Thugard Independent 1910 and Apartheid ends in 1990. |
Egungun Festival | (Nigeria) Planting season (spring) Means "bone" of "skeleton" Refers to the collective spirits of ancestors. Priests invoke ancestors with costumes, drumming and improvisation and drugs. Informal setting - circle of people outside...in the dirt... |
Alarinjo Theater | 17th C. Court of Oyo Yoruba kingdom. Secret guild system for training. Dance spectacle to show off money. |
Yoruba Opera | Alarinjo and music hall from England Glee-Group signing, play (satire or topical story with dialogue, ends with glee singing). Known story based off of conventions. Contemporary: 1980s 120 companies Mix of traditional and modern and Yoruba and englis |
Hubert Ogunde | Founder of Yoruba. Wrote plays and professional company Plays: "The Garden of Eden and the Throne of God" and "Strike and Hunger" Form (refernce Yoruba Opera card) |
John Osborne | 1929 - 1994 "Look Back in Anger" - 1956 known as angry monologue Angry Young Men - school writing Questioned the class system. |
Joan Littlewood | 1914 - 2002 (Theater Workshop) -> Founded in 1945 to offset commercial theater in London. Ex: "Oh What A Lovely War" - Questioned WW1 and WW2 |
Devised Theater | Political Objectives: For locals Theater isn't text-based Collaborative Artist-centered |
Harold Pinter | 1930 - 2009 "The Dumb Waiter" "The Homecoming" "Old Times" Characterized by "Pinteresque pause, silence, subtext, undefined danger and realistic setting" Temporal echoes "Battle rapping" |
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