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Feb 02
Marivaux/ The Island of Slaves 
Enlightenment Ideas -Human Progress
		         -Religious intolerance and politic absolutism
		         -Freedom of expression, ? individual happiness 
		         -Justification of emotions and passion
COMEDIA DEL ARTE 
Humorous, Improvisation

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Historical Context/End of Napoleonic wars, German confederation associated with sovereign states.

Leonce and Lena à Ennui/weltschmerz (German): chronic boredom also a modern life.

1.     What is the representation of the government? Monarchy, authoritarian

2.     Do we see revolution? If yes, which kind? Rupture from previous traditions, rejection of responsibility. Cyclical because they get married.

3.     Is this text revolutionary? (in terms of novelty, in terms of drawing)

4.     Chance vs Destiny? Fate and Destiny will find you.

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Leandro Fernandez de Moratin (1760-1828)

-Translator of Moliere and William Shakespeare

-concern about marriage

Revolution à willing to have their own decisions.

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Revolutionary theater -A shifting, chaotic that offers a spurious yes.
Brecht and Artaud  Both envision a comprehensively revolutionary theater 
The Culture of Revolted 
The culture of revolt: always pressing issues, constant pressure, ongoing dissatisfaction, change by those who feel oppressed.

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Theater: Human body, God, Sexual
Theater of Cruelty: Shocks the audience, magic tricks, fantastic lighting, themes of rapes, murder.

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Lorquian theater: social change, realistic, satire theater.

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Alienation effect/ Change perspective and question the plays.

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Coco Fusco/Couple in a cage

People no fitting a group. Human zoos people exhibited because they were different.
How people interact with them, how people will react.

Agugusto Boal/ Created theater of the oppressed.

Give a voice to the minorities, engage audience part of the theater.

People who are oppress to make them to defend themselves.

Invisible theater Dialogue into social places

Forum theater à Joker: neutral party. Used: making “public health” public.

Poetics of the oppressed want people to act and do something of what they’re

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Esperpento use distorted descriptions of reality in order to criticize society
Death, the grotesque, Objectification

References: Circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno--- 9 stages represented in the text

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Context Discover: germs, vaccines, caesarian without killing women. Inventions: telephone, electricity and mass transportation.
Change on political and social thing: democracy, women’s rights.

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Jean Genet 1910-1986 The maids (1947)

·        Fantasy – Illusion vs. Reality

·        Otherness

·        Murder/Suicide

·        Authority

·        Suffer

·        Gender performance

·        Construction of identity

·        Transgresion

CONTEXT – Peter by Swedish composer Peter Bengtson written in 1994.

-Based in a true story The Papin Sisters (Cristine and Lea Papin) both send to a mental institution. Work as maids