DRAM 116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gao Xingjian, Athol Fugard, Moscow Art Theatre
Document Summary
Social and political incentives to make it attractive. Sainetes = short satirical plays, comments on political/social situation. Characteristics - blending of spoken language, music, mime, acrobatics (common for se. Beijing opera - uses above characteristics in a narrative framework. Dissident theater - talked about dangerous political topics. India folk forms use storytelling, singing, dance, and music. Apartment drama = done in apartments of the actors and playwrights, in secret. Strong sense of cultural identity - > leads to division. Attempts to establish communication between living and the dead. African drama - communal often an interplay between actors and audience. Constructivism - use of abstract sets in place of realistic ones. Resistant theatre - works against the apartheid system. Attempts to bridge two different cultures by not erasing them but by making the boundaries visible and meaningful in order to foster dialogue between the two. Hybridization - blending of cultural traditions partition in northern ireland.
