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The Dramaturg What is their job?

The Dramaturg What is their job? Advise the director on the literary aspects or historical facts of the play. Help select theatre’s repertoire. Translate, adapt, and/or edit texts Clarify and explain cultural, social, and political aspects of a given play. Contribute to the content and design of posters, programs, press releases, and other interactions with the media. Collaborate with the director in casting. Advise designers Work with playwrights Provide a second set of eyes and ears for the director to help keep a production on track in rehearsal.

Greek Theatre 534?-400 BCE

Festival Dionysus Dithyrambic Chorus

Thespis: First Actor, 534 BCE

Tragic Playwrights: Aeschylus Sophocles Euripedes Comic Playwright: Aristophanes

Greek Performance: Masks Chorus Ekkyklema

Greek Performance: Periaktoi

Plan View of Theater at Epidaurus Theatron – “the seeing place” Orchestra Paradoi Skene Ancient Greece

Aristotle: The Poetics, 335 BCE Earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. Topics: Definition of Tragedy Parts of Tragedy Rules for construction of Tragedy

Roman Theatre 240 BCE-568 AD

Comic Playwrights Plautus 254-184 BCE Terence 195-159 BCE

Tragic Playwright Seneca 4 BCE-65 AD

Roman Republic Established 509 BCE 27 BCE Roman Empire Established

Theatre at Orange Orange, France 1st Century AD Scaenae frons Ancient Rome

Theatre at Orange Orange, France 1st Century AD Ancient Rome

Theatre at Orange Orange, France 1st Century AD Ancient Rome

The Colosseum Rome, Italy 1st Century AD Ancient Rome

The Colosseum Rome, Italy 1st Century AD Ancient Rome

RIFT BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ROMAN THEATRE 393 AD. Any religion other than Christianity outlawed in the Roman Empire 398 AD Christians excommunicated from Church if they went to theatre instead of Church on holy days 398 AD Actors forbidden church sacrements Ancient Rome

RIFT BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ROMAN THEATRE. WHY? Associated with pagan gods and festivals Plays and practitioners offended church morals. Theatre often ridiculed the church. Ancient Rome

The Fall of the Roman Empire September 4, 476 AD Ancient Rome

Medieval Drama – Mansions Western Europe After 925 AD Medieval Europe

Medieval Drama – Pageant Wagons Western Europe 1200 AD Medieval Europe

Renaissance

Renaissance Drama Italy Characters Pantalone Dottore Capitano Zanni

Teatro Olimpico Vicenza, Italy 1580 Renaissance Italy

Theatre at Orange Orange, France 1st Century AD Ancient Rome

Teatro Olimpico Vicenza, Italy 1580 Renaissance Italy

Teatro Farnese Parma, Italy 1618 Renaissance Italy

Renaissance in England 1500-1642 Ben Jonson Christopher Marlowe William Shakespeare Renaissance England

Globe Theatre (Shakespeare) London, England 1599 – 1613 & 1614 - 1644 Renaissance England

Globe Theatre (Shakespeare) London, England 1599 – 1613 & 1614 - 1644 Renaissance England

Globe Theatre (Shakespeare) London, England 1599 – 1613 & 1614 - 1644 Tiring House Galleries Inner Above Stage Inner Below Pit Renaissance England

(Staurt Court Masques) Private Theatre (Staurt Court Masques) English Renaissance Late 16th Century Renaissance England

(Staurt Court Masques) Private Theatre (Staurt Court Masques) English Renaissance Late 16th Century Renaissance England

1642-1651 Roundheads vs. Royalists English Civil War 1642-1651 Roundheads vs. Royalists England

English Interregnum 1649-1660 Oliver Cromwell, England

Execution! 1649 King Charles I, England

English Interregnum 1649-1660 Oliver Cromwell, England

English Restoration 1660-1700 Charles II England

English Restoration Drury Lane Theatre

English Restoration Comedy of Manners

French Renaissance 1500-1700 Renaissance France

French Tennis Courts France Mid 16th Century Renaissance France

Only permanent theatre in Paris Hôtel de Bourgogne 1595-1629 Only permanent theatre in Paris

Moliere 1622-1673 Jean Racine 1639-1699 Pierre Corneille 1606-1684

SPANISH RENAISSANCE 1580-1680 Renaissance Spain

Corral Theatre of Almagro Almagro, Spain 1628 Renaissance Spain

Modern Theatre 1875-1975

Influences Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species Karl Marx: Das Kapital Sigmund Freud: Interpretation of Dreams Political and social unrest Fragmentation of society

5 Theatrical Movements in the Modern Era Realism Rejection of realism Eclecticism Continuation of Popular Theatre Globalization

Realism Henrik Ibsen August Strindberg Anton Chekhov 3 early realistic playwrights.

American Realism Eugene O’Neill Arthur Miller Tennessee Williams 3 later realistic playwrights from the US.

The New Stagecraft Edward Gordon Craig Adolphe Appia Robert Edmond Jones

Eclectics

Popular Theatre