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Theater History 1968

TD 226 Spring 2011 - 1968 Study Sheets

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Nigeria - Independence from Great Britain - Yoruba gives Egungun Festival - Large population - Highly contested
South Africa - 1910 Independent nation - Apartheid until 1990 - 1962 Nelson Mendella
Egungun Festival - Planting season - Fertility rebirthing - Annual performance - Collective spirits of the ancestral dead – bone/skeleton - Spiritual cleansing - Improve, rhythmic movement, outdoors, music, engaged community
Alarinjo Theatre - Roots form Egungun Masquerades - Secret guild system for training performers - Court Performances - Showed $ and power
Yoruba Opera - Brought from England by missionaries - Adapted form Alarinjo and music hall traditions - Opened with a glee - Satire on topical issues - Song and dance - Closing glee - Nigerian
Oral Traditions - Passed down generationally - Not written, noted, documented - Languages – Africa has 100s - Difficulty for Historians - Colonization of the African Mind
Hubert Ogunde - Wrote plays - Established professional company - Nigerian - Strike and Hunger - The Garden of Eden and the Throne of God - Yoruba Opera
Glee - Group singing effort - Musical tradition
Wole Soyinka - Death and the King’s Horseman - Nigerian - 1986 Nobel Laureate - Educated in London, studied theater - 1960Masks - Political company - Retrieval and reappropriation of Nigerian culture
John Osborne - Angry Young Men school of playwriting - Playwrights from the working class - British - Questioning the class system
Joan Littlewood - The Theater Workshop - Class structure being challenged - 1945 - offset commercial theater in London - East Stratford – many languages and ethnicities - Devised Theater
The Theater Workshop - Class structure being challenged - 1945 - offset commercial theater in London - East Stratford – many languages and ethnicities - Devised Theater - Joan Little wood
Devised Theater - Developed by an ensemble - Not text based - Start with an image or idea with a group of artists creating together - Came out of the WWs - Questioning why and what happened
Harold Pinter - Realistic qualities with unsettling twists - Old Times - Dramaturgical strategies: pause, silence, subtext
Off – Broadway Movement - Coined by Village Voice - 1960 - Ubu Roi in a coffee house - 1959 Ford Foundation grants - Not-for-profit theater being produced - Performance happening outside the commercial theater - Artists exploring outside the mainstream
Regional Theatre Movement - Decentralization of performance and theater out of NY - Encouraged by the Ford Foundation Grants
The Living Theatre - 1947 Judith Malina and Julian Beck - Alternative to commercial theater - Coming out of Erwin Piscator (German - Epic Theater) - Political, Release from Social inhibitions, Revolution anarchy, Social problem plays Artaudian: images and behaviors that
Judson Dance Theater - Judson Church 30-60s NY Progressive politics - Intersection of visual artists and dance artists - Post-modern dance - Formalist: form over content - Disruption of choreographic/authorial power - Away from personal style - Other media
Yvonne Rainer - Trio A - Pedestrian movement - Rethink the way the body was allowed to be beautiful - Challenge beauty onstage
Angry Young Men school of playwriting - Playwrights from the working class - British - Questioning the class system - John Osborne
Judith Malina The Living Theater 1947 and Julian Beck - Alternative to commercial theater - Coming out of Erwin Piscator (German - Epic Theater) - Political, Release from Social inhibitions, Revolution anarchy, Social problem plays Artaudian: images and behaviors t
Old Times Harold Pinter 2 women, 1 man Love Triangle
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