THEA 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Existentialism, Magic Realism, Ethnography
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Any examples will be linked to texts, films watched in class, or plays. Questions based on themes and arguments explored in course lectures and readings. Go over all of the lecture notes, powerpoints, and course readings. Be familiar with all themes, debates and arguments. Magic realism (examples of magic realism in lion in the streets) Theatre of the absurd (definition, meaning and characteristics) Existentialism: note in the commentary, lecture notes. Waiting for godot as example of theatre of the absurd. Brecht"s epic theatre (a-effect, historification, gestus) o: alienation. Mother courage as example of epic theatre.
