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Arthur Adamov
- Russian
- lived in France, wrote plays in French
- Professor Taranne
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Jean-Louis Barrault
- french
- director, actor, mime
- interpretations of classical work
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Richard Boleslavsky
- Stanislavsky disciple
- American Theater Lab company
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Andre Breton
principle spokes person of surrealism
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Albert Camus
- french
- philosopher, playwright
- Drama of the Absurd
- re-envisions Sisyphus
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Paul Cezanne
multiple views of the same image at the same time
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Jaques Copeau
- director of Theatre Vieux Columbier
- bare stage ("nude theater")
- focuses on the actors
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Noel Coward
- witty English playwright
- gay
- successor to Oscar Wilde
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Albert Einstein
- theory of relativity
- 4th dimension
- questions idea of absolutes
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Zelda Fichandler
- starts Arena Stage in 1949
- Washington D.C.
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Jean Giradoux
- French leftist Patriot playwright
- brought focus back to playwright
- manipulated inherited material where plot lines are the same but used a different perspective
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John Geilgud
- leading English actor
- one of the first to adopt Stanislavskian ideas
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Tyrone Gutherie
founded Statford Festival of Canada and Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis
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Eugene Ionesco
- The Bald Soprano
- Theater of the Absurd
- avant garde
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Sir Barry Jackson
- Birmingham Rep
- (1st modern rep theater in England)
- decentralized English theater
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Margo Jones
Theater 47 in Dallas
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Carl Jung
- disciple of Freud
- discusses element of psychology and personality that can't be explained
- claimed symbols are the purest form of expression
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Georg Kaiser
- Expressionist dramatist
- From Morn to Midnight
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Elia Kazan
- director for The Actor's Studio
- Arthur Miller and Tennessee William's go-to director
- controversial figure during Red Scare
- testifies against Arthur Miller
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Joan Littlewood
- Theater Workshop
- set it in working class suburb east of London
- presented plays that represented the neighborhood and its people
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Frederico Garcia Lorca
- Spanish
- poet,playwright,director
- was assassinated
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Anatol Lunarcharsky
- Dar Kommisar for Education and Enlightenment
- (mediator for Russian arts community and Stalin)
- 1st true attempt to take children's theater seriously
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Vsevelod Meyerhold
- takes over directorship of Moscow Theater Arts
- nonrealist and revolutionary
- stylized and physicalized theater
- biomechanics
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Arthur Miller
- American successor of Ibsen
- All My Sons
- Death of a Salesman
- The Crucible
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Jo Mielziner
- designer
- worked w Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller
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Sean O'Casey
- Irish playwright
- wrote about the Dublin working classes
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Eugene O'Niell
- wrote mostly during The Wars
- Princeton dropout
- Provincetown Players
- most works not performed until 50s
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Luigi Pitandello
- most important Italian playwright since mid 18th century
- juxtaposed planes of reality
- examples of truth being relative
- themes of sanity
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Erwin Piscator
- proponent of Epic theater
- Berlin's Peoples Theatre
- epic moves toward futuristic view
- incorporates technology
- retains principle of expressionism
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Max Reinhardt
- most important director of Germany from immediate post WW1 and Russian revolution
- all types of spaces
- theater as a shared community w/o agenda
- eclectic tastes
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Jean-Paul Sarte
- French
- philosopher, playwright
- Drama of the Absurd
- The Flies
- No Exit
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Leopold Sulerzhitsky
built career as head artistic director at Moscow Art Center by starting as a janitor
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Alexander Tairov
- non-realistic
- symbolist
- early American expressionist
- lift audience out of the doldrums
- visual rhythm
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Tristan Tzara
- dadaism
- playwright/theorist
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Yevengy Vakhtangov
- fantastic realism
- distorts reality
- preserves text
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Nina Vance
started the Alley Theater in 1947
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Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)
- Polish
- believed Western civilization was collapsin
- art existed to help him cope with the world
- "pure form"
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