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Avant-GardeMyiesha HuntJaneisha ClarkKanika BanksBrittney SangsterAshlee CatchingsCynthia BellLa’Nayah Bowman
Avant-Garde (19th century- present)
Art that pushes recognized boundaries Based on a French military term A term that often uses synonymously
with “experiment”
Cannot remain for long it either fails or succeeds
A rebellion against realism and naturalism
Major Players or Plays
Symbolism Belgian Maurice Maeterlinck
The Blue Bird(1908) August Strindberg
A Dream Play(1907)
Expressionalism George Kaiser
Gas II(1920)
Changes in Production
Avant-Garde influenced the Japanese theatre when William Butler Yeats started to incorporate similar methods into his stage work using mask , open stages, folk music, and dance.
It also was the time where everyone went against the norm of theatre
Other Information WWII left artist disturbed by its horrors
especially the holocaust and the atomic bomb
During the Vietnam war the Avant- Garde in Europe and the U.S was pre occupied with communal performance groups that gave angry political messages
Vocabulary New Stagecraft- an approach to scenic design
featuring simplicity avoidance of detail and reduction of location to it’s most significant elements
Simplicity- A guiding principal detail and reducing a location to its most significant elements
Expressionalism- dehumanization or destruction of humanity at the hands of industry and war.
Theatre of Cruelty- An approach to theatre developed between the world war emphasizing a breakdown of causality and stressing emotion over intellect
Modernism- realistic and non realistic theatre from the 19th century to present day that represents a shift in theatre that started realism
Vocabulary Theatre of the Absurd- created a body of
work dominated by plays centered on characters who are strangers to each other trapped in a violent and meaningless world
Symbolism- First major challenge to realism in the 1980’s and early 20th century
Epic Theatre- anti-illusionist theatre featuring emotional detachment narration songs and obvious theatrically it has been adopted and by countless directors and playwrights which was developed by Bertolt Brecht
Trivia Questions
What is modernism?
#1 What is modernism?
Modernism- realistic and non realistic
theatre from the 19th century to present
day
Trivia Questions
What does modernism represents?
#2 What does modernism represents?
a shift in theatre that started realism
Trivia Questions
Who developed epic theatre?
#3Who developed epic theatre?
Bertolt Brecht
Trivia Questions
Give an example of an expressionist
play?
#4 Give an example of an expressionist play?
George KaiserGas II(1920)
Trivia Questions
Identify a symbolic play?
#5 Identify a symbolic play?
Belgian Maurice Maeterlinck
The Blue Bird(1908)
Trivia Questions
What was the Epic Theatre?
#6 What was the Epic Theatre?
Epic Theatre- anti-illusionist theatre featuring emotional detachment narration songs and obvious theatrically it has been adopted and by countless directors and playwrights
Trivia Questions
How did WW11 affect
the artist?
#7 How did WW11 affect the artist?
WWII left artist disturbed by its horrors especially the holocaust and the atomic bomb
Thanks Hope you learned something
