I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. -- George Bernard Shaw Featured Pages: Spectator New! THR413 -- Main direction for this class: POMO (postmodern) and thematic (topical) organization, instead of the chronology. The Class: " Thank you, The Academy..." [The Platonic Girls are in Theatre Theory Directory]: [ PM irony ] Aristotle: Objective Idealism Aristotle Page in vtheatre.net/200/drama Platonism: Subjective Idealism The concept of "Ideas" ... and Christianity Hegel: Objective Idealism The End of Classical Philosophy... Existentialism ... 150 years ago. Marxism Concept of Individual, according to Marx (Self) Objectivism made in USA philosophy. Neitzsche and some more antisocials (20th century, Foucault & Co.) are missing... PoMo Summary In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. --Jean Cocteau The Book of Spectator (selected ideas, a few) Questions Where is "No Exit" script online link? Connect with pages -- Marxism and BAKHTIN? Notes War as Business - Brecht states in the Courage Model Book that the play conceives of war as a "continuation of business by other means." War is neither some supernatural force nor simply a rupture in civilization but one of civilization's preconditions and logical consequences. In this respect, there are many dialogues�the most explicit one appearing in Scene 3�that cast war as another profit venture by Europe's great leaders. Mother Courage is the play's primary small businesswoman, parasitically living off of the war with her canteen wagon. As the Model Book observes the "big profits are not made by little people." Courage's commitment to the business of war will cost her children, the war taking back for what it has provided her in flesh. 2006: 2007 : Stoppard -- in between ... Hero and the Chorus (Oed). ... feminism : men as others Culture and Art of the Chorus

Themes: Others

Playscript Analysis of the End of Humanity

"The Hell is Others" -- Sartre, or "The Hell is Me" -- Antoly

* Five (historical, chronological) parts: Comedy, Drama, Tragedy, Modern, Postmodern, Realism & Anti-Realism (see pages @ THR directory @ Film-North

Anti-Realism and The End of the National Theatre (Styles and Movements)

The trick is to organize Structural (Formal) Principles (Composition, Plot, Character, etc -- see 200X Aesthetics) and the Historical, plus the Topical (Family, Individual, Gender, Death, etc).

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Modernism is Utopia Project?

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Beckett ("Last Modernist") and After (After 1968) -- Hamletmachine

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From reqiured (definitions) : Marxism and Existentialim are borned at the same time (mid XIX century) -- what's happend in/with Euroupe?

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... And notes and comments : in 215 and 331 Directing class?

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about Lucky:

"He stopped crying. You have replaced him as it were. The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased." �Waiting for Godot