THEA 210 (Art Humanities and Theater) FINAL
STUDY GUIDE LATEST UPDATES AND RATED A.
68% female, 44 years old, 80% white, average income of $201k.
Trending in 2018: more diverse, more male, younger, higher annual salary.
Demographics of Broadway
1. Popular entertainment (lower class/income) — traditionally circus/animal
shows, carnivals, freak shows.
2. Bourgeois (middle class/income) — mainstream narrative theater ex. live
sports.
3. Elitist theater (upper class/income) — experimental, challenging theater,
requires special knowledge or education.
3 Categories of Theatre
Non violent social protest.
Aim to reinforce group identity, consciousness, and self worth.
Ahimsa=non violence
Ahimsa/Gandhi/techniques
> Went on a hunger strike to protest Missouri's treatment of black students
> Mizzou Football Team went on strike by refusing to play and joined the
protest.
> Prez stepped down.
Jonathan Butler
Catholics of Northern Ireland were protesting against conditions in Protestant
prisons.
Bobby Sands newly elected to Parliament, died of starvation doing a hunger
strike.
N. Ireland now free.
Bobby Sands
> SFMT is the country's most racially diverse theatre company.
> Always free and aligned towards some political issue.
, San Francisco Mime Troupe
Spontaneous, unannounced shows in random places to an unsuspecting
audience.
Guerilla Theatre
"To run around"
Moving from topic to topic without order or reason.
Related to background noise or "the tapes we play in our head."
Discursive
Vanguard or 'advance troops' (scouts).
As it relates to theater: new, unusual, shocking, experimental, provocative.
Avant Garde
Began in Europe before became a movement in the US.
Futurist Manifesto (1909) in "Le Figaro" (Paris)
The spectator must live at the center of the action.
Roots of Avant Garde
"The theater of Cruelty."
"Our goal is to utterly shatter reality."
One of the first steps in Artaud's manifesto is to "eliminate the stage area"
Emphasis is on ritual.
Artaud
Lots of realism in the US, Creates a backlash of sentiment against "the system."
Reactions Against Realism
Important American play; all 4th wall, creates a backlash of sentiment against
the system.
Arthur Miller.
"Death of a Salesman"
(Founded in 1947) the oldest experimental theater.
The Living Theater
STUDY GUIDE LATEST UPDATES AND RATED A.
68% female, 44 years old, 80% white, average income of $201k.
Trending in 2018: more diverse, more male, younger, higher annual salary.
Demographics of Broadway
1. Popular entertainment (lower class/income) — traditionally circus/animal
shows, carnivals, freak shows.
2. Bourgeois (middle class/income) — mainstream narrative theater ex. live
sports.
3. Elitist theater (upper class/income) — experimental, challenging theater,
requires special knowledge or education.
3 Categories of Theatre
Non violent social protest.
Aim to reinforce group identity, consciousness, and self worth.
Ahimsa=non violence
Ahimsa/Gandhi/techniques
> Went on a hunger strike to protest Missouri's treatment of black students
> Mizzou Football Team went on strike by refusing to play and joined the
protest.
> Prez stepped down.
Jonathan Butler
Catholics of Northern Ireland were protesting against conditions in Protestant
prisons.
Bobby Sands newly elected to Parliament, died of starvation doing a hunger
strike.
N. Ireland now free.
Bobby Sands
> SFMT is the country's most racially diverse theatre company.
> Always free and aligned towards some political issue.
, San Francisco Mime Troupe
Spontaneous, unannounced shows in random places to an unsuspecting
audience.
Guerilla Theatre
"To run around"
Moving from topic to topic without order or reason.
Related to background noise or "the tapes we play in our head."
Discursive
Vanguard or 'advance troops' (scouts).
As it relates to theater: new, unusual, shocking, experimental, provocative.
Avant Garde
Began in Europe before became a movement in the US.
Futurist Manifesto (1909) in "Le Figaro" (Paris)
The spectator must live at the center of the action.
Roots of Avant Garde
"The theater of Cruelty."
"Our goal is to utterly shatter reality."
One of the first steps in Artaud's manifesto is to "eliminate the stage area"
Emphasis is on ritual.
Artaud
Lots of realism in the US, Creates a backlash of sentiment against "the system."
Reactions Against Realism
Important American play; all 4th wall, creates a backlash of sentiment against
the system.
Arthur Miller.
"Death of a Salesman"
(Founded in 1947) the oldest experimental theater.
The Living Theater
