BELL RINGER

• M.socrative.com – Room #38178

• Questions:• 1. Who invented 12-tone compositions?

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES

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 THEATERThese 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 toward realism

• By 1860, dramatic literature strove for truthful portrayal

• Everyday life, with which the playwright was directly familiar, became the 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 avoid such ugly depictions on the stage was to change society

REALISM IN THEATER

• Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) from Norway was the original master of realist drama

• Ibsen built powerful problem-dramas around carefully selected detail and plausible character-to-action motivations

REALISM IN THEATER

• Ibsen’s concern for detail carries to the scenery and costumes, and his plays contain detailed descriptions of settings and properties (all essential to the action)

• The content was controversial, and most deal with questions about moral and social issues that remain difficult today

REALISM IN THEATER

• The Irish writer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) embodied the spirit of 19th century realism

• He was above all humanitarians – his faith lay in humanity and its infinite potential

• Shaw’s plays deal with the unexpected and they often appear contradictory 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

character comes to the girl’s defense. The girl then explodes in anger against her defender. She had been married the whole time and condemns her defender’s freethinking

• 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