THTR 1020 Chapter : A Century Of Changes
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Some terms: modernism- an umbrella term for a wide range of artistic styles which broke from the traditional relationship of fidelity between perception and representation. Imaginative a formal artistic innovation valued over accurate renditions of recognizable subjects: brecht"s spic theatre is one example, new stagecraft- early assimilation of european modernist innovations into u. s. set design. Simplification and suggestion valued over ability to create a detailed reproduction of the real world: why does modernists just blow up, the need to represent the essence of a thing not just represent the thing, new stagecraft -r. e. Bertolt brecht- epic theatre: realism"s spectator, yes, i have felt like that, too. It"s only natural: the sufferings of this individual appall me because they are inescapable, that"s great art: it"s obvious! I weep when they weep, i laugh when they laugh: the epic theatre"s spectator, i"d never have thought it.
