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Chapter 13-theater history
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04/22/2009

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What is isolationism?
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A Determination to stay out of foreign affairs
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Define League of Nations?
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America didn't become a member so League of Nations could never become a viable international force.

*Peace organization that without America had no real international power
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Chat about the Russian Revolution
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Revolution that lead to the Soviet goverment
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What countries had inflation and what was it?
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Europe and America. Inflation happened followed by the great depression-many nations were destroyed and many monetary systems were devalued
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The depression caused
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goverments to be weaker and money to be devalued. ALSO...
Historians believed the depression set the stage for the rise of totalitarianism in Europe
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Totalitarianim is...
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A form of goverment under which the individual is totally subservient to the state-most totaliartian states are controlled by ditators
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Three totalitarian dictators were...
F, H, M,
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Francicsco Frano (Spain)
Adolk Hitler (Germany)
Benito Mussolini (Italy)
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Francisco Franco was the totalitarian dictator over...
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Spain
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Aldof Hitler was the totalitarian dictator over..
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Germany
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Benito Mussolini was the totalitarian dictator over...
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Italy
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Who was Tojo and what'd he do...
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Prime Minister of Japan, General Hideki Tojo.
He allied himself with the fascist dictators of Europe KNOWN FOR...
Attacking Pearl Harbor which brought USA into World War II
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The holocaust is..
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Germany. Nazi concentration camps became mechanical death factories-innocent people were killed. Bomb ended war.
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Define expressionism
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First used in France to describe a style of painting. Meaning: The representation of reality is distrorted to communicate inner feelings
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Walter Hasenclever wrote...
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THE SON: Idea that love offers the only way to achieve happiness when rulers are gone. (meaning World War I representing the evils)
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Georg Kaiser wrote...
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FROM MORN TO MIDNIGHT: In a single day-an everyman character moves though life only finding curelity and greed-he ends a martyr.
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Ernst Toller wrote..
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TRANSFIGURATION: Protagonist begins an innocent patriotic solder and ends a anti war activist.
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MAN OF THE MASSES IS whose most important work..
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Ernst Tollers.
Because...
The main character is a woman. Ends sadly and is about a woman who sruggles to help people but caught in a world where she cant excel
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Who was Leopold Jessner...
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Director. Worked on classical and modern plays. Well known for using platforms and stairs-changing lighting and costumes to reflect emtions.
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Who was Jurgen Fehling...
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Director. Directed Ernst Tollers Man Of the Masses.
KNOWN FOR: Furniture that was extremely distroted either smaller or later
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Chat about the futurism movement...
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idealized war and the developinng machine age. It said bad things about the past and focused on future
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Who was Filippo Marinetti
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Leader of the Futurist movment. Italitan.
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Who wrote the futuristic play THEY'RE COMING...
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Filippo Marinetti
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What happens in the play THEY'RE COMING..
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Actors playing servants do nothing more than rearrange furniture onstage. Audience is also harassed by actors
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What did futurists use in their shows
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New electronic media, puppetry as well as visual arts
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What does "Mirror the maddness" mean...
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"Show the world art"
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What was the "Dada movement" about
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Anything goes in a production. "mirroriong the maddness of the world" Pacifists who concentrated on nonsense and irrational things.
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Who is Tristan Tzara...
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writer of manifestos for the DADA movement.
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What is surrealism.
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Developed out of the Dada movement.
BELIEVED: The subconscious was the highest plane of reality-and attempted to re-create its workings dramatically.
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Andre Breton was...
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Main surrealist.
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What did Gullaume Apollinaire write?
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THE BREAST OF TIRESIAS and the ballet PARADE (was a surealist)
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France was the center of...
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Surrealism
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Jean Cocteau wrote...
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ORPHEUS. Surrealist play.
Based on Greek myths and contrasted modern surrealist ideas with tradiational stories
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Who was Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz...
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Polish surrealist. Wrote: THE WATER HEN, THE CUTTLEFISH, and GYUBAL WAHAZAR
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Who wrote "The Infernal Machine"
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Jean Cocteau
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Believed that western tehatre needed to be totally transformed...
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Antonin Artaud
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Who is Antonian Artaud
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Made the theory of "Theatre of Cruelty"-wrote manifestos.
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"Suprt of Blood" was directed by
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Antonin Artaud
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