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ch13a: Eclecticism:

Theatre in the US from 1950

Review

Take Pop Quiz 1 on blackboard

anytime on Friday March 27

(go back and review chapter 12)

Quiz

  • Melodrama, Commercialism, Romanticism
  • Realism, Modernims
  • Brecht, Artaud
  • Theatre in Africa
  • American theatre Companies
  • Art Theatre & Independent Theatre Movements
  • New Stagecraft (Appia & Craig)
  • Playwrights

Arthur Miller (1915-2005)

Professional Theatre

Context

All My Sons (1947)

Death of a Salesman (1949)

The Crucible (1953)

A View from the Bridge (1956)

After the Fall (1964)

The Price (1968)

Commercial Theatre

Professional Not-for-Profit Theatre (Regional)

The Great White Hope (1967) - Arena Stage, DC

inflation

Revivals

Las Vegas

Post WW2:

Age of Anxiety

Nazi Germany

Nuclear Bomb

Cold War

Communism

Korea, Vietnam

JFK, MX, MLK, RFK

Nixon

Reagan

  • realism, tending towards harsher expressionism
  • overwhelming burden of guilt
  • larger than just family dynamics
  • moralist successor to Ibsen

Not-for-Profit Theatre

Edward Albee (1928-2016)

Social Changes

Zoo Story (1958)

The Sandbox (1959)

The American Dream (1960)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)

Three Tall Women (1994)

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002)

Theatre Communications Group (TCG)

The Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis)

Roundabout Theatre Co. (NYC)

Arena Stage (DC)

Triad Stage (Greensboro)

La Jolla Playhouse (San Diego)

The Goodman Theatre (Chicago)

Civil Rights Movements

Technology

Television

Terrorism

  • shocks audiences
  • late adherent to absurdism

Eclecticism

Other US Plays & Playwrights

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)

combo of various styles w/in 1 work

Educational Theatre

Off-Broadway (1952)

Regional Theatre

David Mamet

Sam Shepard

Neil Simon*

commercial comedy

Wendy Wasserstein

Limited Runs with star performers

The Glass Menagerie (1945)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

Summer and Smoke (1948)

The Rose Tattoo (1950)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954)

Sweet Birth of Youth (1959)

Night of the Iguana (1961)

  • poetic expression to sexuality & subconscious on stage
  • The South
  • Damaged women protagonists

Imported Plays

  • NFPT & NPD
  • $ potential for b'way
  • diminished impact of radical theatre
  • new voices
  • centrality of NYC
  • rising ticket prices
  • amateur & community theatres

Harold Pinter

Caryl Churchill

Tom Stoppard

Athol Fugard

  • realism, tending towards dreamlike impressionism
  • survival against all odds

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