Avant-Garde Myiesha Hunt Janeisha Clark Kanika Banks Brittney Sangster Ashlee Catchings Cynthia Bell La’Nayah Bowman

Avant-Garde (19 th 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 v WWII left artist disturbed by its horrors especially the holocaust and the atomic bomb v 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 v New Stagecraft- an approach to scenic design featuring simplicity avoidance of detail and reduction of location to it’s most significant elements v Simplicity- A guiding principal detail and reducing a location to its most significant elements v Expressionalism- dehumanization or destruction of humanity at the hands of industry and war. v Theatre of Cruelty- An approach to theatre developed between the world war emphasizing a breakdown of causality and stressing emotion over intellect v Modernism- realistic and non realistic theatre from the 19 th 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 20 th 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 19 th 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 Kaiser  Gas 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

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