BELL RINGER
•M.socrative.com – Room #38178
•Questions:
•1. Who invented 12-tone compositions?
EXTRA CREDITOPPORTUNITIES
EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES
•10 points added to ANY grade (except for a zero)
•Tuesday, March 18th at 7pm
•Percussion Ensemble, Guitar Ensemble, Jazz Band
•Thursday, March 20th at 7pm
•8th Grade Band, HS Concert Band
•Both concerts will be under an hour
REALISM THEATER
These will be turned in at the end of class – so don’t undo the staple
REALISM IN THEATER
•Around the middle of the 19th century, there was a movement towardrealism
•By 1860, dramatic literature strove for truthful portrayal
•Everyday life, with which the playwright was directly familiar, becamethe subject matter
•Interest shifted from the past to human motives and experience, or,more likely, idealized versions of these
REALISM IN THEATER
•Exposure to such topics on the stage was not particularly pleasant,and many play-goers objected that the theater was turning into a“sewer”
•Playwrights countered the criticisms by saying that the way to avoidsuch ugly depictions on the stage was to change society
REALISM IN THEATER
•Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) from Norway was the original master of realistdrama
•Ibsen built powerful problem-dramas around carefully selected detailand plausible character-to-action motivations
REALISM IN THEATER
•Ibsen’s concern for detail carries to the scenery and costumes, and hisplays contain detailed descriptions of settings and properties (allessential to the action)
•The content was controversial, and most deal with questions aboutmoral and social issues that remain difficult today
REALISM IN THEATER
•The Irish writer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) embodied the spiritof 19th century realism
•He was above all humanitarians – his faith lay in humanity and itsinfinite potential
•Shaw’s plays deal with the unexpected and they often appearcontradictory and inconsistent in characterization and structure
REALISM IN THEATER
•He loved to build up a pompous notion and then destroy it
•Example: a responsible family learns that their daughter is pregnant. A charactercomes to the girl’s defense. The girl then explodes in anger against herdefender. She had been married the whole time and condemns her defender’sfreethinking
•Shaw insisted that art should have a purpose
•Plays, to him, made great vehicles for social messages
MAN AND SUPERMAN
•A play by George Bernard Shaw
•Read through the play as a class
•Answer the plot questions on your notes as you read
•Answer the comprehension classes on your own and TURN THEM IN
•10-15 minutes short