Joshua Simpson: group #4

#1: Europe and the United states Realism 1945-2000 : Realistic forms/Selective Realism
Refined by, Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg.

: Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams

Most famous plays include A Streetcar Named Desire (Williams) and Death of a salesman (Miller) used selective realism

: Edward Albee
Wrote Whos Afraid of Virgina Wolf.

: The angry young men a group of British playwrights

they dealt with abolishing the British Empire and the conflicts between classes.

#2: Experimentation and Departures from Realism 1945-1980 Experiments with theatrical forms : Theatre of the Absurd and Existentialism
Existentialism teaches that god does not exist and that man is alone in the world. Theatre of the Absurd is a mix of existentialism and avant-garde.

: Waiting for Godot , by Samuel Beckett

A tragicomedy in two acts

: Experimental Theatre including Happenings and Multimedia

Happenings were unstructured events that did not involve much planning. Multimedia is the joining of theatre with other art forms.

: Environmental theatre
The entire theatre is the acting space and the audience is part of the experience.

: Postwar (WWII) Directors

Eclectics are directors whose works incorporate the techniques of avant-garde.

#3: Alternatives to Commercial Theatre : Regional Theatre

In the 1940s and 1950s small non-profit theater start to appear in large numbers

: Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and Alternative Regional Theaters

Off-Broadway was start because Regional theatre was quite costly. Off-Off-Broadway was started because OffBroadway was getting to be too big and expensive. Alternative Regional Theaters were created to target specific groups such as labor theatre or lesbian theatre.

: Sam Shepard and David Marmot

Two recent American playwrights who have made quite a name for themselves. They mostly write about things like, the plight of the American family or, the demise of the American dream.