1. October 4 –
5 and 10 –
12 at 8 p.m.
October 6
and 13 at 2
p.m.
Box Office 713-743-2929/ Tix are now all $10
Critique 1 is due 10/21, 6pm CST
2. Online Discussion Question 2 opens 10/1 – 10/7 6pm
The question is worth 10 points and will be up for the week.
3. Collaboration project:
You are required to
be a member of a
group by 10/12. If
you are not in a
group by this date
you will be assigned
to a group and lose
10 points of the
project grade.
4. When do you check in at the show for
your 10 points?
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7. What was Modernism?
In general, the term
modernism encompasses
the activities and output of
those who felt the
"traditional" forms of art,
architecture, literature,
religious faith, social
organization and daily life
were becoming outdated
in the new economic,
social, and political
conditions of an emerging
fully industrialized world.
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9. The following are characteristics of Modernism:
A strong and intentional break with tradition. This
break includes a strong reaction against
established religious, political, and social views.
Belief that the world is created in the act of
perceiving it; that is, the world is what we say it is.
No connection with history or institutions. Their
experience is that of alienation, loss, and despair.
Concerned with the sub-conscious.
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WW2
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11. WAR WAR WAR: Now peace!
Post WWII in US: brief focus on Conformity
“Father Knows best” etc
Europe
dealing with the opposite (destroyed
cities and economies): Social
Cold War starts in 1950s US vs USSR, Iron
Curtain, small nations are pawns etc
upheaval.
Korea in 1950s, Viet Nam in 1960s
Stability (coin of the realm in 19th century)
becomes a victim of upheavals.
(WWII, Tech, Sci, Comm).
12. Society Changes: WW2 makes world different
American
soldiers return home after first time overseas
and the GI Bill lets most soldiers go to college for first
time.
AA Soldiers return after spending time in Europe with NO
Jim Crow.
American Women now have experience in the workplace
having filled in well during the war.
All this brings new possibilities of
political, social, and economic change.
13. POP CULTURE is new icon
Represented by new music (from
mostly hidden black sources)
replaces European sources
History not as important
By 70s Shakespeare and the Bible
are replaced by TV and ads and
Rock and Roll
Art goes from a secular religion to Andy
Warhol and “Art is whatever you can get
away with”
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One of the most visible changes of this period was
the adoption of new technologies into daily life of
ordinary people. Electricity, the telephone, the radio,
the automobile—and the need to work with them,
repair them and live with them—created social
change. The kind of disruptive moment that only a
few knew in the 1880s became a common
occurrence.
15. Tech Changes
50s= TVs 70s=PCs enter homes 90s=PCs essential
Now = Internets
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Makes it possible for groups to be in contact
24/7 = Virtual experience
Wipes out distance
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are all close online)
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17. Post-modernism
Grows out of
Einstein(relativity) and
Heisenberg(uncertainty)
They found that objects –
material world- isn’t as solid
as once thought according
to Newton
Brings about social and
intellectual changes in world
Modernist world
Postmodernist world
Industrial Age
Information Age
Reason and Science
Nihilism and meaninglessness
Causality
Randomness
Where is truth coming from?
Hierarchy and Authority
Participation and dialogue
Championship of the individual and
celebration of inner strength.
Socially shaped people
Dualities/opposites
Differences, not opposites
19. Absurd means without meaning, not ridiculous.
Comes out of 50s: emphasizes life’s meaninglessness.
Avant-garde represents a pushing of the
boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or
the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm.
20. In
Absurdist plays what happens onstage often
transcends and contradicts what is said there.
Absurdism, is a school of thought stating that
the efforts of humanity to find inherent meaning
will ultimately fail (and hence are absurd)
because the sheer amount of information, as
well as the vast realm of the unknown, make
certainty impossible.
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Encourages ‘invisible’ groups to emerge : African Am,
Asian Am, Latino, women, Homosexual
Political and Artistic movements!
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The Artistic branch wants to change not society,
but the nature of theatre as an art.
24. AA theatre has roots well before
civil war in minstrel shows as well as
theatre companies in AA
communities.
25.
Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry,
produced on Broadway(59)
Study
of AA family life shows tensions between M/F
in sympathetic and sensitive way.
Wins awards
Genet’s The Blacks produced Off-Broadway
Reversed
the minstrel show and has AA actors in
whiteface to reveal the abuses of white power.
Helps
bring about a turning point in the
portrayal of AAs
26. Leroi Jones 1964 productions of The Toilet and
Dutchman Off-Broadway present pictures of
racial barriers, human hatred, and suffering from
racism.
Stereotypical “’negro’ replaced by more honest and
(often more disagreeable) black characters.
Eventually the eye turns onto itself- Ntozake
Shange in for colored girls ho have considered
suicide when the rainbow is enuf.
Critical of own community.
Explores double oppression of being black
and female. Women brutalized by whites AND
black Males.
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Explore the relationship between artist and art and
audience.
Open theatre: actors trained to work as a group
rather than individual.
Playwright part of the ensemble (develops text
from ideas of the group) Moises Kaufman develops
The Laramie Project and Gross Indecency with
Tectonic Theatre Project.
Unity
achieved through central idea or
theme
Disconnected concept of time and
space
Use of transformations instead of
complete character changes
Actors become their own environment
(do their own sounds etc)
28. 1. Thought/Theme/Ideas
What the play means as opposed to what happens (the plot)
2. Action/Plot
The events of a play; the story as opposed to the theme; what
happens rather than what it means.
3. Characters
These are the people presented in the play that are involved in the perusing plot.
4. Language
The word choices made by the playwright and the enunciation of the actors of the
language
5. Music
Music can encompass the rhythm of dialogue and speeches in a play or can also mean
the aspects of the melody and music compositions as with musical theatre.
6. Spectacle
The spectacle in the theatre can involve all of the aspects of scenery, costumes, and
special effects in a production.
