*These notes were taken from Reca Sarfati's page: http://i-have-forgotten.blogspot.kr/2012/10/notes-in-presentations.html as my notes were extinguished from the face of this planet. Thank you computer.*
Austin: Accidental Death of An Anarchist
- Written in 1970, by Nobel Prize winning playwright, Dario Fo
- Morte Accidentale di un Anarchico
- Based on true story of Giusuppe Pinelli
- Pinelli Fell (thrown) from fourth story during interrogation
- Man accused of Piazza Fontana bombing was a real guy, but
- Uses comedy to depict story in an interesting manner
- Who is the "maniac"?
- Not to answer questions, but questions answers
- Political themes
- Open-ended (two endings)
George: The History Boys
- Alan Bennet
- Takes place in private school in Northern England in the 1980's
- Feeling of being in the 50's
- Hector revealed fondling another boy at the school
- Themes of homosexuality
- "In order to preserve our freedoms, we must sacrifice our liberties"
- Verbatim Theater
- Non-linear (language swaps)
- Theater of Difference - homosexuality
- Dadaism - incorporating poetry into text: Shakespeare, Kipling
- What is education really about?
- Eroticism of education
Joel: Stuff Happens
- By David Hare, from Sussex, England.
- Interestingly, play is set in an American setting; switches perspectives
- Comedy, Politics, War
- Decision Making - taking apart different issues surrounding Iraq War
- Tensions between Bush and Blair
- Not funny, very serious
- Big name characters
- Moral and Political characters
- Verbatim theater: real politics, real interviews, although some is creative "where the doors close"
- Dangerous theater: Tough topics, tough people
- Non-linear Theater: time jumping
- Disconnect between actor and audience
- Live narration
- Interjection of Song
- Global theater
- Need for background with politics, too much realism, difficult to consider art
- ??? Change races of actors, tech, simple objects, use live narration but leave elements of surprise
- ??? Dance and song?
Kevin: Equus
- Peter Shaffer, 1973
- Weird. Horses.
- Alan committed crime of stabbing the eyes of 6 horses
- Dysart takes Alan in as a patient
- Religion/Sex
- Due to poster, Alan sees horses as God-like creatures
- Doesn't want God to see into his soul
- Non-linear timeline
- Character to narrator
- Actors as Props
- Use of song to convey message
- Bare set
- Speaking directly to audience
- Use of Masks
- Repetition
- Altered states of mind and being
- Recontextualism
- Theater of difference
- ??? Wouldn't change much,
Andy: Arcadia
- 1993, by Tom Stoppard, born in Czecho Slovakia, born in England
- Censorship/political freedom
- Set in Sidley Park, centered around Lord Byron
- Juxtaposes time/timelessness
- Table with all the prop pieces on it
- THE HOURS by Virginia Wolf
Annie: The Accidental Death of an Anarchist
- Only a couple characters: maniac "detective," superintendent, journalist, inspector
- Written in 1970, by Dario Fo
- Po-Mo is the maniac
- Realism is found in the situation
- Dangerous Theater: politics, gets into the mind, questioning the role of the police force in
- Verbatim Theater: Maniac changes characters through simple changing of clothing
- Idea of massive "hyberbolized" window
Justin: Metamorphoses
- By Mary Zimmerman, American, born in Lincoln, Nebraska - Tony Award
- Idea of 'constantly changing' - how humans react to change, can humans ever really change?
- Looking Glass Theater Company, Chicago --> movements
- Adapted from classic Avid poem, Metamorphoses
- Take into consideration that this play was written in 1990's, during the resurgence of
- Self-contained episodes, connected with an overarching theme of change. It does flow. Pulls you in,
tragic.
- Non-linear theater
- Dangerous theater: nudity and incest
- Recontextualism
- Q and A
- Insight into present society
- Anthropomorphism
- Art for art's sake, no specific story line, difficult to immerse into the plot
- Set design = simple, yet elegant and intricate
- ??? Stick with Mary Zimmerman, play with water reflections, actors playing drastically different roles in each scene.
- Symbol: Water
Peter: Euridice
- By Sarah Ruhl, based off Greek tale
-More modern sense, based off Euridice, rather than Orpheus
Adds Characters, such as Euridice's father
When Euridice dies, she loses all memories and knowledge she had before she died
THEME: mind
dreamlike, nothing seems linear in the speaking of it
Remembering vs. forgetting
Relationships between Orpheus and Euridice: based around relief, playing music when she's sad
Between Father and Euridice: overcoming hardships
When Orpheus goes to retrieve her from hell, she instead chooses to stay with her father, but her father had already chosen to forget her
Anthropomorphism: Some of the characters are rocks
- Altered States of Mind:
- ALL OUT for set design - look for different art styles, out of the ordinary
- Using very simple stage design: just split into pastels and navies.
- Symbol:
Georgia: The Blue Season
- Man, Woman, Prologue, Epilogue, Doctor, Nurse
- Play within a play
- Set within a mental hospital
- Relationship between man and woman begins to deteriorate,
- Recontextualism: difficult to follow story with Epilogue and Prologue
- Non-linear
- Art for Art's sake: writing was very eloquent
- ???Very obviously staged, white open light. Fun casting characters, personifying epilogue and prologue
- Symbol: Snow
Sammy: Accidental Death of an Anarchist
- Dario Fo: Satyrical radio star, hooked on Italian politics
- Been arrested, put on trial, beaten.
- Maniac breaks into police station... etc. Anarchist revealed to be innocent, bomb is to be revealed to be put together by an
- Unnamed characters
- Change in perspective: character of Maniac changes situation he walks into
- Non-linear
- Dangerous Theater: unearthing political corruption... came out the same time of actual event -
- Verbatim
- Not art for art's sake: show corruption through theater
- people in the presence of corruption will be drawn to corruption
- ??? Smoke machine, long arms, lighting changes with each character shift
- Symbol: chalk outline holding bomb
Emma: The Exonerated
- First performed in 2002
- People convicted for murder, on death row
- Based off real interviews
- Real people's names
- Non-linear
- Macaronic: most experience racism, convicted because of race
- Bricolage: Gathered from legal archives
- Expressionism: what characters felt through their experiences
- Recontextualism: Narrator has his own story
- Purpose: Shine light on these people who were convicted for what they didn't do.
- Connected to society: reflection of injustices in American justice system. People in power aren't willing to go into depth to find truth.
- ??? Table and seat vs. Three chairs on a completely blank stage
- Symbol: Chair with light over it
- Written in 1970, by Nobel Prize winning playwright, Dario Fo
- Morte Accidentale di un Anarchico
- Based on true story of Giusuppe Pinelli
- Pinelli Fell (thrown) from fourth story during interrogation
- Man accused of Piazza Fontana bombing was a real guy, but
- Uses comedy to depict story in an interesting manner
- Who is the "maniac"?
- Not to answer questions, but questions answers
- Political themes
- Open-ended (two endings)
George: The History Boys
- Alan Bennet
- Takes place in private school in Northern England in the 1980's
- Feeling of being in the 50's
- Hector revealed fondling another boy at the school
- Themes of homosexuality
- "In order to preserve our freedoms, we must sacrifice our liberties"
- Verbatim Theater
- Non-linear (language swaps)
- Theater of Difference - homosexuality
- Dadaism - incorporating poetry into text: Shakespeare, Kipling
- What is education really about?
- Eroticism of education
Joel: Stuff Happens
- By David Hare, from Sussex, England.
- Interestingly, play is set in an American setting; switches perspectives
- Comedy, Politics, War
- Decision Making - taking apart different issues surrounding Iraq War
- Tensions between Bush and Blair
- Not funny, very serious
- Big name characters
- Moral and Political characters
- Verbatim theater: real politics, real interviews, although some is creative "where the doors close"
- Dangerous theater: Tough topics, tough people
- Non-linear Theater: time jumping
- Disconnect between actor and audience
- Live narration
- Interjection of Song
- Global theater
- Need for background with politics, too much realism, difficult to consider art
- ??? Change races of actors, tech, simple objects, use live narration but leave elements of surprise
- ??? Dance and song?
Kevin: Equus
- Peter Shaffer, 1973
- Weird. Horses.
- Alan committed crime of stabbing the eyes of 6 horses
- Dysart takes Alan in as a patient
- Religion/Sex
- Due to poster, Alan sees horses as God-like creatures
- Doesn't want God to see into his soul
- Non-linear timeline
- Character to narrator
- Actors as Props
- Use of song to convey message
- Bare set
- Speaking directly to audience
- Use of Masks
- Repetition
- Altered states of mind and being
- Recontextualism
- Theater of difference
- ??? Wouldn't change much,
Andy: Arcadia
- 1993, by Tom Stoppard, born in Czecho Slovakia, born in England
- Censorship/political freedom
- Set in Sidley Park, centered around Lord Byron
- Juxtaposes time/timelessness
- Table with all the prop pieces on it
- THE HOURS by Virginia Wolf
Annie: The Accidental Death of an Anarchist
- Only a couple characters: maniac "detective," superintendent, journalist, inspector
- Written in 1970, by Dario Fo
- Po-Mo is the maniac
- Realism is found in the situation
- Dangerous Theater: politics, gets into the mind, questioning the role of the police force in
- Verbatim Theater: Maniac changes characters through simple changing of clothing
- Idea of massive "hyberbolized" window
Justin: Metamorphoses
- By Mary Zimmerman, American, born in Lincoln, Nebraska - Tony Award
- Idea of 'constantly changing' - how humans react to change, can humans ever really change?
- Looking Glass Theater Company, Chicago --> movements
- Adapted from classic Avid poem, Metamorphoses
- Take into consideration that this play was written in 1990's, during the resurgence of
- Self-contained episodes, connected with an overarching theme of change. It does flow. Pulls you in,
tragic.
- Non-linear theater
- Dangerous theater: nudity and incest
- Recontextualism
- Q and A
- Insight into present society
- Anthropomorphism
- Art for art's sake, no specific story line, difficult to immerse into the plot
- Set design = simple, yet elegant and intricate
- ??? Stick with Mary Zimmerman, play with water reflections, actors playing drastically different roles in each scene.
- Symbol: Water
Peter: Euridice
- By Sarah Ruhl, based off Greek tale
-More modern sense, based off Euridice, rather than Orpheus
Adds Characters, such as Euridice's father
When Euridice dies, she loses all memories and knowledge she had before she died
THEME: mind
dreamlike, nothing seems linear in the speaking of it
Remembering vs. forgetting
Relationships between Orpheus and Euridice: based around relief, playing music when she's sad
Between Father and Euridice: overcoming hardships
When Orpheus goes to retrieve her from hell, she instead chooses to stay with her father, but her father had already chosen to forget her
Anthropomorphism: Some of the characters are rocks
- Altered States of Mind:
- ALL OUT for set design - look for different art styles, out of the ordinary
- Using very simple stage design: just split into pastels and navies.
- Symbol:
Georgia: The Blue Season
- Man, Woman, Prologue, Epilogue, Doctor, Nurse
- Play within a play
- Set within a mental hospital
- Relationship between man and woman begins to deteriorate,
- Recontextualism: difficult to follow story with Epilogue and Prologue
- Non-linear
- Art for Art's sake: writing was very eloquent
- ???Very obviously staged, white open light. Fun casting characters, personifying epilogue and prologue
- Symbol: Snow
Sammy: Accidental Death of an Anarchist
- Dario Fo: Satyrical radio star, hooked on Italian politics
- Been arrested, put on trial, beaten.
- Maniac breaks into police station... etc. Anarchist revealed to be innocent, bomb is to be revealed to be put together by an
- Unnamed characters
- Change in perspective: character of Maniac changes situation he walks into
- Non-linear
- Dangerous Theater: unearthing political corruption... came out the same time of actual event -
- Verbatim
- Not art for art's sake: show corruption through theater
- people in the presence of corruption will be drawn to corruption
- ??? Smoke machine, long arms, lighting changes with each character shift
- Symbol: chalk outline holding bomb
Emma: The Exonerated
- First performed in 2002
- People convicted for murder, on death row
- Based off real interviews
- Real people's names
- Non-linear
- Macaronic: most experience racism, convicted because of race
- Bricolage: Gathered from legal archives
- Expressionism: what characters felt through their experiences
- Recontextualism: Narrator has his own story
- Purpose: Shine light on these people who were convicted for what they didn't do.
- Connected to society: reflection of injustices in American justice system. People in power aren't willing to go into depth to find truth.
- ??? Table and seat vs. Three chairs on a completely blank stage
- Symbol: Chair with light over it
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