history of theater one final

• Stanislavski and the US

  • Russian theater didn't really exist until the 16th century
  • realism came from russia
  • Stanislavski wrote the first method on how to act
• The Roman Theatre at Orange

  • Built from local yellow and white limestone
  • The Roman theater of Orange was built under reign of Emperor Augustus during the first century CE
  • Sat 10,000 spectators
  • Hosts the summer Opera Festival every year since 1860
• Did playwrights from the Yuan Period create tragedies?

  • the yuan period was while the mongols were in charge
  • there is a bunch of different definitions of tragedy
  • there are many plays including those we read that were definetly tragedies
• No theatre today

  • the 4 posts in no theater are because the performers had limited vision because of masks and the poles told them where they were
  • Brecht was heavily influenced by No theater
  • There were multiple european playwrites who took no plays and just rewrote them with western vibes and the same plot
• Bunraku theatre today

  • The puppets are 2-4 feet tall
  • Male puppets usually have feet, while female puppets don’t
  • There is a small wall that blocks the legs of the puppeteers and gives the puppets a place to stand
• Was Hrosvitha the first woman playwright?

  • She was born in Germany in 935
  • She wrote closet dramas
  • often wrote her plays in the meter and style of Terence
• The Origin of Medieval Theatre and the role of Quem quaeritis

  • Morris Dancers wore bells on their shoes to catch the audience's attention
  • morris dance usually told common known stories like robin hood
  • Mumming involved wicker masks to look like animals
• Oberammergau Passion Play

  • asked jesus to stop the plague if they did theater about him. it worked so they do it once every ten years
  • Until the early 1800s, they rebuilt the stage every year specifically for this play
  • 4 years of preparation
  • Script changes each year, nazism affected the way they rewrote, has since been changed
• Adaptations as sources of drama

  • theatrical adaptations and film adaptations have very different definitions
  • lion king is an adaptation of hamlet
  • west side story is an adaptation of romeo and juliet
• Women performing in commedia dell'arte

  • the pope forbade women from performing in 1588 among the papal states
  • Many states outside of the papal states rescinded this ban a few years after it was instated
  • ISABELLA ANDREINI was a performer
  • there were female stock roles
• What is the exact origin of the proscenium arch?

  • the first theater was the Farnese theater in Italy
  • It opened in 1618
  • first american proscenium theater 1828
• Should theatre be didactic?

  • A study in Singapore found that Didactic teaching is in fact more effective
  • Brecht liked didactic theater
  • Theater has been Didactic for about as long as its been around
• Elizabethan Theatres during the Plague

  • The theatres were closed for a year in 1593
  • Richard 3 was likely written during a shutdown
  • There was another outbreak in 1603, and theatres were closed until it subsided
• A lost Spanish popular entertainment Zarzuela -

  • Inspired by italian opera
  • Female actors performed all diety roles
  • upbeat and fun - opposite of opera formality