THE2000:Notes:4-2-07
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Russian Theatricalism
- Meyerhold - Russian director who revolted against naturalism and principles of Stanislavski
- Exposed theatrical devices
- Biomechanics
Expressionism
- Floruished in Germany at the time of World War I
- The representation of reality was distorted in order to communicate Inner feelings
- Inner turmoil
Futurism
- Originated in Italy
- Attacked artistic ideas of the past
Dada
- Originated in Switzerland
- After WWI
- Replace reason with madness
- Wanted to confuse and antagonize their audience
Bertolt Brecht & Epic Theatre
- Theatre of Instruction
- Intellectual involvement rather than emotional
- Puppets
- Narrators
- Slides & Film
- Actors distanced themselves from emotion
- Realistic
Antonin Artaud & the Theatre of Cruelty
- Considered surrealist
- Theatre as sensory experience
- Bombard viewer's senses
- Purge the natural inclination toward violence and aggression
