Postmodern European Theatres
Cultural Developments Theatrical Trends Persons Persons (cont.) Western European Union “angry young men” playwrights Littlewood Friel, McGuinness, McDonagh, Warsaw Pact censorship by Lord Chamberlain Osborne & Bond McPherson, & Carr 1956 Hungarian Revolution end of censorship Hall McBurneye 1968 French protests “Theatre of Cruelty” season Brook Noble Prague Spring “in-yer-face” playwrights Feldenkrais Branagh Bloody Sunday in Derry, Ireland Globe replica on the Thames Shaffer Jackson 1972 Summer Olympics’ West End & Off-West End Stoppard Wannamaker & Rylance terrorism national theatres (Wales & Ayckbourn Blin, Barrault, Lecoq, Decroux, Pope John Paul II & Solidarity Scotland) Hare Mnouchkine, Cixous, Vitez, Py, UK Miners’ Strike “natural gymnastics,” mask Frayn & Reza 1989 Communist governments work, physical theatre, Churchill Hagerup end corporeal mime, radical Wertenbaker Frisch & Dürrenmatt Yugoslavia & USSR dissolve reinterpretations of classics, & Kane Handke European Union (EU) & euro long shows in France Nielson & Ravenhill Weiss, Kroetz, Stein, Castorf, & Müller 1995 end of Bosnian Civil War docudramas & monumental Norton-Taylor Braun, Kantor, Grotowski, Cieślak, “The Troubles” in N. Ireland productions in Germany Soans Mrożek, & Głowacki Chechin Islamists capture a using classics & symbolic Kelly Kundera, Havel, & Svoboda theatre imagery to dodge censorship Wade Strehler, Zeffirelli, Barba, Fo, & Rame immigrant & deb crises Polish, Czech, & Romanian Butterworth Lovinescu, Serban, & Ciulei London’s 7/7 attacks in 2005 emigres due to censorship & Robertson & Murphy Lyubimov Russia’s invasion of Georgia & police attacks Beaton & Howard Stefanovski Crimea socialist propaganda imposed & Thomas & Lewis Obrenović, Lebović, Simović, British riots after police killing dissident artists jailed Conn, Nielson, & Abramović 2015-17 terrorist acts poetic realist plays & directors Harrower, Burke, & Brexit vote Grieg
Play Titles & Types Play Titles & Types (cont.) Perf. Places & Performance Practices Look Back in Anger & A Patriot The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Companies “empty space” theory & for Me Pillowman, & A Behanding in Theatre Workshop 4 modes of theatre Saved Spokane Royal National feminist plays using Brechtian Oh! Calcutta! By the Bog of Cats & On Rafferty International Centre for techniques, with twisted Equus & Amadeus Hill Theatre Research histories & gender identities, & Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Talking to Terrorists Joint Stock double casting, or Artaudian are Dead, The Real Thing, & The Indiade, or the India of Edinburgh Fringe surreal elements Arcadia Their Dreams & Last Caravan Royal Court experimenting with actor-audience The Norman Conquests Stop Monstrous Regiment relations & violent stagecraft Plenty & Racing Demon La Servant & Face of Orpheus Théâtre de Complicité audience at tables in in refugee camp Noises Off & Copenhagen Art & God of Carnage DV8 Physical Theatre one emotion per moment Cloud Nine, Top Girls, A Bullets at Sundown, In this Royal Shakespeare vs. Method acting Mouthful of Birds, Skriker, & World Everything is Possible, Cardboard Citizens “speech plays” Far Away & Heartbreak Hotel Shakespeare’s Globe director as “text-destroyer” Our Country's Good The Firebugs & Andorra Old Vic “Theatre of Death” with puppets Colour of Justice & Justifying The Visit & The Physicists Genedlaethol Cymru “holy actor,” “poor theatre,” War Offending the Audience & National Theatre Wales “life mask,” “translumination,” Osama the Hero Kaspar Théâtre du Soleil paratheatrical activity, “theatre Colder than Here & Posh Marat/Sade & The Investigation Schaubühne of sources,” & “objective drama” The Ferryman Hamletmachine Berlin Volksbühne architectural, holistic, non-naturalistic The Jungle The Dead Class Laterna Magika approach with electronic devices Under Milk Wood & Siwan Tango & The Émigrés Odin Teatret political parodies through commedia The Burning Hunting Cockroaches & The Taganka Theatre & guillari techniques The Wonderful World of Fourth Sister feminist & anti-fascist monologs Dissocia The Garden Party & plays, even after physical attack Blackbird A Game of Life and Death in deconstructive adaptations of poems Black Watch the Ashen Desert & novels, sometimes banned Dunsinane Hotel Europa scenes staged in derelict buildings Translations & Dancing at Heaven's Detachment by different directors in Lughnasa The Travelling Troupe different cities Factory Girls, Carthaginians, & Šopalović performance art with violent tools There Came a Gypsy Riding Rhythm 0 & The Artist is & long-term spectator involvement Present