yayayyaya

Why was wolf play written?

to advocate for same-sex adoption

why was wolf play written?

to shine light on illegally rehoming via yahooo

What do character’s monologues focus on in the Realistic play Seagull?

Their monologues focus on how they’re feelings/internal psychology/and what’s really clouding their minds, what they’re feeling emotionally in that moment

Movement’s thought leader’s name – 4 us, by us, near us, about us?

W.E.B. DuBois

4 types of plays in this movement

· folk. Social issues, history paegeant

Predominate playwrights – male/female?

female, because they worked in education

Harlem Rennisance Time Period

Time Period: 1917-1935

Movement began in reaction to what 3 things?

Minstrel shows, Plessy v furgesons, the great migration

What type of play is plumes from the Harlem Renaissance?

folk. Social issues

Realism element examples in plumes

-        Charity torn between being a mother and being a Christian, she can’t afford to honor her child’s death because she’s a Christian

-        Slang is somewhat used amongst the female characters – “jus” // vernacular

-        Doctor tone is superficial rather than caring about how the other people feel – clinical, transactional, cold, dismissive

-        Story is not plot driven but introspection actions/relationships

-        Give her daughter surgery or not

Vernacular

day to day speak

Production practices of realism

·       Costumes are authentic 

·       Stage settings (locations) are often indoors and believable 

·       Props are believable

·       The ‘box set’ is normally used for realistic dramas on stage, consisting of three walls and an invisible ‘fourth wall’ facing the audience 

·       Settings for realistic plays are often bland (deliberately ordinary) 

Elements of Realism Drama

·    Vernacular, realistic themes, psychology driven, social situations, used for social change

Realism Definition

the artistic attempt to recreate life as it is in the context of an artistic medium.

Realism Time Perido

1880s/90s to now

Modernism Time Period

1850- until the end of WWII

William Wells Brown The Escape

a play about slavery from Brown’s first-hand experience - first extant (we still have it – did not perish in history) play by a Black American man

Melodrama

Elements of everything has an aww factor, overreactions, good characters rewarded, bad characters punished, written for the working class

where does the Licensing Act of 1737 affect Theatre?

London

Sentimental Comedy Time period

18th century

Sentimental Comedy Definition

style of drama born as a reaction to vulgar restoration plays and drama, appeals to upper class, they aren’t funny

Sentimental Comedy intended effect on audience

appeals to goodness rather than being funny

Animal Magnetism Performed as what type of entertainment during a night out at the theater?

afterpiece

What did Goldsmith argue for in his 1737 writing “An Essay in the Theatre”

against sentimental comic and mixing tragic elements in comedy, high class characters NEED to be knocked down

Farce

Type of ‘Laughing Comedy’

Farce

·       Elements of a type of comedy

·       has exaggerated characters

·       characters placed in improbable situations and face a number of outrageous obstacles

·       can carry serious social messages through satire (the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues)

social identity

to people's self-categorizations in relation to their group memberships (the “we”). These categorizations are often assigned to us or something we are born into.

Positionality

refers to where one is located in relation to their various social identities (gender, race, class, ethnicity, ability, geographical location etc.); the combination of these identities and their intersections shape how we understand and engage with the world, including our knowledges and perspectives. Positionality can also be considered from one’s shared experiences with their peers here at George Mason University.

intersectionality

It is the study of overlapping or intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination. The theory suggests that—and seeks to examine how—various biological, social and cultural categories such as gender, race, class, ability, sexual orientation, religion, caste, age, nationality and other sectarian axes of identity interact on multiple and often simultaneous levels. 

Marginalization

treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral.

Farce

A comic dramatic work (writing meant to be performed in the theater) that contains different elements to add to the comedy

farce elements animal magnetism

Lisette throws La Fleur back down on the couch after he stands up to speak when he’s supposed to be pretending to be dead

Lisette throwing water at Jeffrey to prove he’s rabid

Doctor fails and happy couples get to leave together

farce elements she stoops to conqeuor

Mrs. Harcourt being jostled in the coach and wading through mud

Mr. Harcourt describing Tony’s behavior of pulling his wig off his pate (head)

Tony Lumpkin’s first entrance – rubbing a chicken leg on his leg and crotch

At the pub when Tony conceives and executes his idea to mislead Marlow & Hastings about Hardcastle home an Inn

Moonlodge realism

In class we watched Konstantin’s monologue where he talks about his mother, his ideas about art and the theater and where he finds himself currently in his life. This is a typical feature of Realism – where a character gives a monologue about their interior, psychological life.

What do character’s monologues focus on in this type of Realistic play?

Their monologues focus on how they’re feelings/internal psychology/and what’s really clouding their minds, what they’re feeling emotionally in that moment

1.     Licensing Act of 1737  what does it require of straight plays?

All written plays had to go through Chamberlin which primarily focused on ensuring plays were not politically inflammatory, morally objectionable, or considered too critical of the government; essentially, plays had to be deemed appropriate and not cause public disruption. 

get around licensing act of 1737

non-patent theatres interspersed dramatic scenes with musical interludes. Melodrama and burlesque, with their short scenes and musical accompaniment, became extremely popular at this time.

modernism in theatre

a movement that began in the late 19th century and emphasized experimentation and innovation. It rejected traditional theatrical techniques and conventions.