May naturalism in the theatre die! ~ Evgeny Vakhtangov
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"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?" -- George Bernard Shaw
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Notes for THR 413 class Playscript Analysis (we start this course with modernism) and THR 215 Dramatic Literature (we end with modernism).
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Modernism is a cultural movement that generally includes progressive art and architecture, music and literature which emerged in the decades before 1914, as artists rebelled against late 19th century academic and historicist traditions. [see wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism]
attention to The explosion of modernism 1910–1930 and Modernism's second generation (1930-1945) + Modernism after the Second World War (1945-)
Modern art - Symbolism (arts) - Impressionism - Expressionism - Cubism - Surrealism - Dadaism - Futurism
20th century - Modernity - Existentialism
...Preceded by Romanticism (?)
"... They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields..."
20th Century = Crisis of Moderninty: view from the top -- back (THR215) and to the transition to postmodern (THR413)[Definition] Chronology: 16th century (Shakespeare and Galileo), French and American Revolutions, High Modernity (turn of the century). How and why did we move into Postmodern (the Crisis of Ideology of modernism) From The Age of Revolution to the turn of the century (short historical overview).
Last 100 years of Modernism (high modernity): Re-Definitions. Modernism as a style. Where is the borderline?
Texts (413): * Albee, Williams, *Pinter, *Fugard, Chekhov pages, Brecht, Ibsen: similarities and differences (* are not in 215).
Two World Wars. The Cold War -- Pomo. Postmodern and Post-Pomism (from POV Files).
Old Themes: family, man and woman, I and the World (freedom, self-liberation)
Existential themes: no human nature (marxism), no essence, self-construct. Variations of socialist concepts. Including the present day formations.
Relations with time: past and present. Promising Future Arrived. Second look at the Idea of Progress
How do they look now those Six Principles of Aristotle? (See Shows Director's Notes)
STRUCTURE1. New plots (New stories)
2. New Hero! (Inner conflict)
3. New Ideology (Society and Individual)
TEXTURE4. Language (Realism)
5. Melody (Style)
6. Spectacle (New Theatre) Revolutions in Theatricality;
The Age of Directors. "Director's Theatre" Concept (Meyerhold).
SELF and its double. Our postmodern problematics. The weakness came out of the strength of the modernist ideology: humanism. The End of Man. (Fudjimoto "The End of History" and Hegel)
Different nature of dramatic complications: self-discovery, self-revelation.
Limitations of the modern (After the atomic age). Alienation and subjectivity in its extremes. (A-Effect in Epic Theatre, see Brecht page).
What is the postmodern?Loytard: The Postmodern Condition (1979, engl. 1984), Just Gaming (1985; orig. 1979), The Difference (1988; orig. 1983). Later -- Foucault, Deleuse, Baudliard, Virilio.
No universal theory, no hierarchy, no common values, but plurality, multiplicity, horizontal connections. (Aftershocks of the revolution in science and technology).
The end of history (American Age), no progress? What is the new vision of "progress"? Principle of Uncertanty.
(New physics: Q Mechanics, Relativity), New Technology (Hiedegger) and new social conditions (globalism) (McLuhan).
(Refereneces: TECH (Theology of Technology). Did you read directory POV (Point of view or Viewpoints, film site) Pomo, drafts/chapters for Post-American Book -- Index). For students who want to know too much. Not required for your tests (even in film classes).
INTRO(How to discuss/produce today; samples -- "Woolf" and "Reckless." Postmortems as post-production meetings. Trust the two: plays and audience. How to analyze? What is there for us? Can't arrive to the grounds of discussion -- the ideas. What is the whole thing about? Why do we put it on? To look at ourselves.)
POMO -- Theatre is missing 20 years of the recent major critical theories:
1. Foucault (knowledge/power, disciplines)
2. Baudrillard (simulacra), nihilism.
3. Derrida (de-construction),
4. Deleuze (society of control), rhizome
5. Virilio (dromology), military principle.
(Notes @ Theology of Technology)
Six Characters in Search of an Author
413. Shepard (Genre -- drama); modern and pm elements. American version. "West and Western" and American urbanism (Mamet).
Note for myself: how to separate 215 notes for students from 413? In Dramatic Literature class my throughline is the evolution of dramatic principles (Aristotle) from Oedipus to modern drama. Transformation of the concepts -- action, character and etc. In Playscript Analysis (THR 413) the territory is the modern and postmodern organization of drama. Since we are the citizens of postmodernity, students ask many pomo questions, view from the bridge "Today" -- I can't resist and answer them.
[ I have to start a new Existential Page; too many references to Existentialism ( the diagram above) in the 20th century drama. ]
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American Theatre history links http://www.cofc.edu/~kattwins/AmerThealinks.htm
Brockett's History of the Theatre, Digital Bibliography http://www.abacon.com/brockett/links.html
Voice of the Shuttle's Drama & Theatre Links http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english2.html#drama
Snagged Links: On Modern Drama
German Society for Contemporary Drama in English (CDE) Theatre & Drama links http://fb14.uni-mainz.de/projects/CDE/links.html
Theatre Studies: articles and resources: WWW-VL http://www.brookes.ac.uk/VL/theatre/studies.htm
The Ibsen Centre (English) http://www.hf.uio.no/ibsensenteret/index_eng.html
August Strindberg homepage http://www.extrapris.com/astrindberg.html
The Anton Chekhov Page http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/ac/yr/Anton_Chekhov.html
Oskar Kokoschka's "Self-Portrait of a 'Degenerate Artist'" http://www.dwc.edu/users/wellman/OK_Self.html
Biographie of Oskar Kokoschka:
Images from Expressionist plays
Eugene O'Neill http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc34.html
Antonin Artaud (English version) http://www.offroads.com/artaud/home.html
The Samuel Beckett Endpage http://beckett.english.ucsb.edu/
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