5641 Theatre History Practice - People

Wrote "A Doll's House"
Moved to Germany, where he wrote Hedda Gabler, creating one of theater's most notorious characters. By 1891.

American playwrights in the mid to late 20th century. Wrote The Odd Couple, God's Favorite, Biloxi Blues, Lost in Yonkers and Brighton Beach Memoirs. His style ranged from romantic comedy to farce to more serious dramatic comedy.

Known for writing social satire. Wrote social comedies in the late 19th century.

Mid to late 20th century French dramatist, leading exponent of Theatre of the Absurd.
Wrote Rhinoceros

Wrote tales of knights, Ballads with elaborate costumes and scenery during the Spanish Golden Age. Lived in the late 16th and early 17th century

He wrote Autos Sacramentales (Sacramental plays) when the Spanish Golden Age theatre was being defined by Lope de Vega, he developed it further, his work being regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theatre. one of Spain's foremost dramatists.

French playwright best-known as an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism during the late 19th century.

Late 17th Century French Playwright . During the French Restoration of the 19th century, his comedies (The Misanthrope, The School for Wives, Tartuffe, The Miser, and The Imaginary Invalid) became popular.

American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each work in the series is set in a different decade, and depicts comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the 20th century.

20th century Greek-American writer, actor and director. Known for his love of Method Acting. One of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history. Product of the Group Theatre and The Actors Studio

A tragedian who was generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Jean Racine.

18th century playwright known for the Figaro Plays.

A 17th century french dramatist who was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection"

20th century, German-born American actress and drama teacher.
Training through improvisation techniques to later use in characters
wrote a book, Respect for Acting
most notable role: Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?

20th century American dramatist, educator and acting coach,
Made improv popular as well as creative drama
Developed exercises for actors to improve improvisation skills

American acting teacher & disciple of Stanislavski
Developed a school of acting based in emotional memory/recall. "the Method" is considered the "father of method acting in America".

American acting teacher and disciple of Stanislavski who based her work on close attention to the text. Opened an actor's studio in NYC and LA

Creator of Viewpoints

Theatre artist, theorist, and creator of the "Theatre of the Oppressed"
Designs theatre events for the disenfranchised to encourage and support social change
Form Theatre

Theatre artist, theorist, and creator of the "Theatre of the Oppressed"
Designs theatre events for the disenfranchised to encourage and support social change
Form Theatre

Pioneered Theatre of the Absurd - focused on existentialism, expressed what happens when human existence has no meaning or purpose - all communication breaks down, silence

Restoration playwright who wrote Way of the World, which represented various characters of society in Comedy of Manners

Trained with Stanislavksi
Developed "the psychological gesture"

Member of Group Theatre
Think like the character, not like an actor
Get out of the head and act naturally
"live truthfully under imaginary circumstances,"
Repetition

American
Experimental and avant-garde theatre director

20th Century scenic designer
Replaced flat scenery with 3D structures like steps, platforms, ramps
Light used for angles and dimension

Traditionally the first actor, "chorus leader"
Stepped apart from chorus and began to engage in dialogue with them, involved in beginning of tragedy form

American playwright who wrote Madame Butterfly, The Girl of the Golden West
Furthered Naturalism

The 2 most popular Ibsen Plays are

Name 3 Neil Simon Plays

Oscar Wilde's most famous play

Wrote the Rhinoceros

What Century and country was Ibsen

What Century and country was Neil Simon

What Century and country was Wilde

What Century and country was Ionesco

What Century and country was Beckett

What Century and country was Emile Zola

What Century and country was Moliere

Father of Modern Acting; developed a highly influential method of actors training called the System
Co-founder of Moscow Arts Theatre

What Style was Zola famous for

What style was Moliere famous for

What style was Robert Wilson famous for (Not August Wilson)

What Style was Pierre Corneille

What style was congreve famous for

What style was checkov

What style was Victor Hugo

What style was Racine famous for

What style is Beckett

What style is Brecht

What did Adolphe Appia do?

What is Lee Strasberg develop

Name 3 17th century playwrights

Name an 18th century playwright

Name 3 19th Century playwright

Name the romantic playwrights

Name the naturalism playwrights

Name the restoration playwrights

Name absurdist playwrights

Polish theatrical director & innovator of experimental theatre, the "theatre laboratory" and "poor theatre." Music by actors, avoided machinery, special effects, make-up, costume changes.

What did Stanaslovki do

What did Jerry Grotowski do