Robert Cohen - Theatre, Brief Version-McGraw-Hill Education (2016)

I-6 Index
directors
antirealism, 146–148
casting director James Calleri, 164–165
contemporary, 148, 152
directors of realism, 146
dramaturg, 158, 160, 163
of Les Éphémères (Ephemeral Things), 145
Gábor Tompa’s Leonce and Lena, 144
Jerry Patch as dramaturg, 159
photo essay on Susan Stroman, 149–151
pressures faced by the, 143–144
realism, 146
task during opening night presentation, 173
teacher-directors, 145–146
training of, 174
The Director’s Craft (Mitchell), 307
Dirty Linen (Stoppard), 67
disabled actors, 266–267, 268
discipline of actor, 55
Disgraced (Akhtar), 48, 291
Disney films, 2, 76
Disney musicals, 250–251
The Distance from Here (LaBute), 274, 276
“distancing-effect” (Verfremdung), 233, 234
dithyramb fertility ritual (ancient Greece), 193
diverse theatre
American Sign Language (ASL) for hearing
impaired, 267
Asian American, 260, 262, 266
emerging black dramatists, 258–259
inclusion of women in a, 257–258
Latino theatre, 260, 262, 263, 264, 264
Native American, 262, 265
nontraditional casting as part of the, 267, 269
theatre of difference as part of the, 265–267
Dizzia, Maria, 84
documentary drama, 25, 72
Dodin, Lev, 306
Dogon performers dona ritual, 189
A Doll’s House (Ibsen), 163, 217, 217
Dom Juan (Molière), 205, 298
Domingo, Colman, 64
Don Juan in Hell (Shaw), 221
Donmar Warehouse Theatre (London),
249, 295
Doubt (Shanley), 288
Dowling, Eddie, 135
Doyle, John, 250
drama
ancient development of, 187–213
applied, 276, 278
beginnings of traditional, 191–192
horizontal axis timeline of, 31–36
origin of word, 20
ritual, shamanism, trance, and magic elements
of early, 189–191
role in play structure, 20–21
Sinhalese sanniyakuma ceremony,
191–192
storytelling as early form of, 190
Sub-Saharan Africa traditional, 192
vertical axis components of, 27–31
See also theatre
drama components (vertical axis)
characters, 27
conventions, 29–31
diction, 28
music, 28
plot, 27
spectacle, 28–29
theme, 27–28
drama timeline (horizontal axis)
the climax, 34–35
the conflict, 33–34
the denouement, 35
the exposition, 32–33
play, 31–32
post-play, 35–36
preplay, 31
dramatic analysis, 311
dramatic criticism
as audience’s contribution to the theatre, 36
drama critic definition, 311
horizontal axis timeline analysis, 31–36
Poetics (Aristotle), 194
vertical axis components of analysis, 27–31
dramatic stylization era
Bedroom Farce (Ayckbourn) example of
comedy of manners, 235–237, 236
description of, 224
The Hairy Ape (O’Neill) example of
expressionism, 226–229, 227
The Jet of Blood (Artaud) example of theatre
of cruelty, 230–231
No Exit (Sartre) example of philosophical
melodrama, 231–232
Serious Money (Churchill) example of
political satire, 237–239, 238
Six Characters in Search of an Author
( Pirandello) example of metatheatre,
229–230, 229
Ubu Roi (King Ubu) [Jarry] example of
French avant-garde, 221, 224–226, 225
Waiting for Godot (Beckett) example of
theatre of the absurd, 232–233
dramaturgs, 158, 159
dramaturgy
catharsis (cleansing), 35
definition of, 26
drama components: vertical axis, 27–31
timeline: horizontal, 31–36
See also playwriting
Draper, Alex, 238
drapers, 141
A Dream Play (Strindberg), 221, 230
Dreamgirls, 249
dressers, 142
Drinking in America (Bogosian), 281
Driving Miss Daisy (Uhry), 219
Druid Theatre (Galway), 296
Du Liniang, 207
DuBarry Was a Lady (Porter), 243
Duffy Square (New York), 287
Dunagan, Deanna, 289
Duncan, Lindsay, 109
Dunn, Carolyn, The Frybread Queen, 262, 265
Duphly, Jacques, 179
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich, 232
Dutchman (Baraka), 258
Dwan, Lisa, 3
dyers, 141–142
Eastern European theatre, 147, 156, 299–300
Eastern Standard (Greenberg), 112
Easton, Richard, 259
Ebb, Fred, 149
economy of play, 71–72
Edgar, David, Pentecost, 263
Edinburgh Festival, 73, 167, 168, 217, 282,
300, 303
Edson, Margaret, 258
Wit, 68–69, 71, 159, 288
Egyptian drama, 193
Ehle, Jennifer, 118
Einstein on the Beach (Wilson), 301
El Teatro Campesino (San Juan Bautista),
260, 276
Elder, Lonnie, III, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men,
258
electricians, 142
electronic sound enhancement, 128
Elevator Repair Service, production of
Arguendo, 190, 271–272, 272
Elice, Rick, Peter and the Starcatcher, 63
Eliot, T.S., Old Possum’s Book of Practical
Cats, 251
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 3
Elkins, Dennis, 184, 186
Ellington, Duke, 249
Elliott, Emun, 274
ellipsoidal reflector spotlight (ERS), 111
Ellis, Scott, 149
emotion memory (acting technique), 44–45
The Emperor of Sydney (Nowra), 298
The Empty Space (Brook), 304
Endgame (Beckett), 29, 29, 233, 316
Endstation Amerika (Castorf), 263
Enriquez, Bryant Ranier, 264, 264
Ensemble Theatre (Sydney, Australia), 298
Les Éphémères (Ephemeral Things) (Mnouchk),
145
Epic Theatre Ensemble (New York), 61
Eppinger, Almut, 275
Equus (Shaffer), 35, 41
Esping, Laura, 171
Esslin, Martin, 232
Estienne, Marie-Hélène, The Valley of
Astonishment, 305
Eubie (Smalls), 249
Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center (Connecticut),
76, 153
The Eumenides (Aeschylus), 240
Eureka Theatre (San Francisco), 74
Euripides
Alcestis, 301
The Bacchae, 194
The Phoenician Women, 306
plays written and produced by, 194
The Trojan Women, 27, 106
Evita (Webber), 251
exposition
description of, 32–33
as part of horizontal axis timeline, 32–33
expressionism
description of, 226–227
The Hairy Ape (O’Neill) example of,
226–229, 227
external acting method, 38
Extraordinary Chambers (Wiener), 273
extravaganzas shows, 242
Les Fables de la Fontaine (Wilson), 117
“The Fabulous Fernandez Sisters” (ABC TV),
260
Falls, Robert, 216
The Fantasticks, as longest-running
off-Broadway hit, 111
Far Away (Churchill), 33
Faraone, Cheryl, 238
Farquhar, George, 296
Fat Pig (LaBute), 65–66, 288
Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parks),
81, 81