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Angry Young Men
- harsh realism vs escapist themes of previous generation of theater
- openly discussing social/political motifs about social cast systems of period
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biomechanics
- developed by Meyerhold after studying the Winslow-Taylor efficiency method
- focused on stability and limiting extraneous movement
- 1st fully implemented physical acting method
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Cambridge anthropologists
theorists who return to Aristotelian form where theater comes from ritualistic performance intended to have a direct effect
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Cartel des Quatre
- 4 directors/colleagues/competitors
- (Jouvet, Bullin, Bath and Pitoeff)
- director takes the reigns and focuses on a particular theme or style
- becomes the impetus for big picture directors
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Dadaism
- art movement of the European Avant Garde
- begun by Tristan Tzara early 20th century
- informal international movement
- protest against bourgeoisie nationalist and colonialist interests
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Epic Theatre
- contemporary existence
- documentary effects, audience interaction
- reaction to realism
- "the alienation effect"
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expressionism
- developed mostly in 20th century Europe
- Sophie Treadwell
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futurism
- argues that energy and assertiveness are the ultimate expression of war
- overtly masculine
- present-tense oriented
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the Old Vic
- WW1 era, est. by Ben Greet
- started matinees and children's plays
- 1st modern company to do all Shakespeare's plays
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the New Stagecraft
- encouraged by the Theater Guild
- Robert Edmund Jones
- Lee Simonson
- moved away from realism and toward suggestion and mood
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socialist realism
glorified communistic values
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surealism
- "extra realism"
- focuses on subconscious mind
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Theater of the Absurd
- named by critic Martin Esslin
- man's reaction to a world seemingly without meaning
- man controlled by outside forces
- Samuel Becket, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, etc
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Oklahoma!
- Rodgers and Hammerstein
- wildly successful
- won a Pulitzer in 1944
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Waiting for Godot
- absurdist
- Samuel Beckett
- 2 people waiting endless for someone named Godot who never shows up
- "the play where nothing happens twice"
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