Early Alternatives to Realism
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The Universal exists and should be represented onstage | Humanist Ideal: |
| Reduces truth to the observable | Realism: |
| Reject it all and replace with subjective visions and aesthetic modes of the artists | Symbolism: |
| Richard Wagner | Dramatist as mythmaker-ideal and unity. Wanted to be Shakespeare and Beethoven in one. Master art work. |
| Festival House at Bayreuth | Wagner's impact on theatre architecture: (huge impact artistically in opera) |
| 1. Classless theatre: one price ticketing, no box or pit or galleries 2. stepped rows, no center aisle 3. orchestra pit hidden below apron 4. space for stage movement and effects | Festival House at Bayreuth: |
| 1. no tuning of instruments when house was open 2. no applause you were there to see and hear great art | Wagner's dumb rules: |
| Symbolism | In France this served as alternative to realism and naturalism |
| Paul Fort. | This man starts an independent theatre: Theatre d'Art--symbols, legend, myth, mood. like edgar allan poe |
| Maurice Maeterlinck | Playwright who is master of mood and symbols--parallel to symbolism in film later |
| Alfred Jarry | He is the Forerunner of absurdism--world with no redeeming characteristics. Ubu Roi is the model |
| Rouche | This man introduces France to changes in theatre world, takes a Reinhardt approach personally |
| Jacques Copeau | This man holds that the director is second to playwright, and is subject to faithfully interpret that script. |
| Adolphe Appia | Scenic designer and theorist; believer in theories of Wagner. |
| Artistic unity | Appia's goal of theatrical production: |
| 1. moving 3D actor 2. perpendicular scenery 3. horizontal floor | 3 elements to control according to Appia |
| leaves flats for 3d units and a focus on light. (sees play as visual and light as paint applied to canvas) | 2 characteristics of his design: |
| Dalcroze | Appia adopts this man's approach to "eurythmics"--kinetic response to music. He seeks to discover the rhythm of each script |
| Gordon Craig | Child of the theatre--Ellen Terry's son. |
| 1. action 2. words 3. line 4. color 5. rhythm | Craig's 5 tools for theatre as an independent art form |
| right angles parallelism height mobile screens | Craig's influence best seen in visual design w/: |
| ubermarionettes: superpuppets w/o ego | Craig believes in monarchy, suggests actors are |
| 1. both say director is #1 2. Appia seeks to interpret the playwright/composer Craig is the composer 3. Both thought realism left visuals wanting for truth. 4. Appia sees it as pieces to be ordered, Craig denies ordering 5. Appia concentrates on multiple views and lighting, Craig single settings and shifting focus | Appia and Craig: |
| August Strindberg | Makes initial reputation with Miss Julie. plot is secondary to character. Then he goes crazy and leaves theatre for a few years. explores twilight world of dreams. |
| The Dream Play. The Ghost Sonata | Strindberg's 2 most famous plays that explore the mind. influenced by freud |
| Frank Wedekind | Freud also influences this man in Germany. He writes Spring Awakening--play later adapted into musical in 2006 |
| Max Littman | George Fuchs at Munich art Theatre has this man design a new theatre--focus on eclecticism |
| Max Reinhardt | heor of eclecticism is this man. Sees each play as a problem to be solved, not a style to be applied. also uses prompt book to record all details of all areas. |
| Aesthetic movement | Non realism in England seen in this movement |
| Oscar Wilde | leader of aesthetic movement. Importance of Being Earnest--best of show |
| Salome Lady Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance | 3 plays by Wilde |
| J. M. Barrie | writes Peter Pan |
| Granville Barker | This man most successful w/ nonrealistic approaches to Shakespeare |
| 1. Yeats and the poetic approach 2. Lady Gregory and the realistic approach | 2 approaches to theatre in Ireland at The Abbey Theatre |
| John Millington Synge | Winner is both in this man. best of show: The playboy of the Western World, and Riders to the Sea |
| Meyerhold | Stanislavsky hires this man when opening studio focused on symbolic approaches. |
| 1. meets w/ success with Moliere and opera 2. rediscovers commedia techniques 3. views director as primary artist | Meyerhold tries symbolism even in realistic plays: |
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