Theatre History Vocabulary Xll

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SIMULTANEITY OF ACTION:The simultaneous accuring of two or more seperate but connected actions.
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POSTMODERNISM: A late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.”.
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RICHARD FOREMAN: An American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer.
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PERFORMANCE ART: An artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants.
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MONTAGE: The technique of producing a new composite whole from fragments of pictures, text, or music.
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MARTIN MCDONAGH: An Irish-British playwright, screenwriter, producer, and director.
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INTENTIONAL FALLACY: The fallacy of basing an assessment of a work on the author's intention rather than on one's response to the actual work.
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IMMERSIVE THEATRE: A performance form emphasizing the importance of space and design; curating tangible, sensual environments; and focusing on personal, individual audience experience.
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DECONSTRUCTION: A method of critical analysis of philosophical and literary language which emphasizes the internal workings of language and conceptual systems, the relational quality of meaning, and the assumptions implicit in forms of expression.
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AUTEUR DIRECTOR: An artist, usually a film director, who applies a highly centralized and subjective control to many aspects of a collaborative creative work.