Crash Course Theater and Drama S1 E45 - Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurdmovie

Crash Course Theater and Drama

Crash Course Theater and Drama S1 E45 - Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd

201913 minDocumentary Movies

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Get ready to get weird. Mike Rugnetta teaches you about the Theater of the Absurd, a 1950s theatrical reaction to the dire world events of the 1940s. You'll learn about Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, and the theatrical movement that left us all Waiting for Godot.

Creator	N/A
Actor	Mike Rugnetta
Country	United States of America
Production	PBS Digital Studios

Season 0(1 episode)
Season 1(50 episode)

What Is Theater?
Thespis, Athens, and The Origins of Greek Drama
Tragedy Lessons from Aristotle
Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes
Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater, Everybody
Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca
Nostrils, Harmony with the Universe, and Ancient Sanskrit Theater
The Death and Resurrection of Theater as...Liturgical Drama
Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater
Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play
Just Say Noh. But Also Say Kyogen
Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte
The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare
Straight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days
Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson
Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines
English Theater After Shakespeare
Where Did Theater Go?
The Spanish Golden Age
Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism
Moliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials
Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana
Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku
All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali
China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera
England's Sentimental Theater
Why So Angry, German Theater?
The Rise of Melodrama
North America Gets a Theater...Riot
Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows
Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism
Realism Gets Even More Real
Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match
Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theater
The Horrors of the Grand Guignol
Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance
Dada, Surrealism, and Symbolism
Expressionist Theater
Futurism and Constructivism
Little Theater and American Avant Garde
The Harlem Renaissance
Federal Theatre and Group Theater
Antonin Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty
Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theater
Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd
Broadway, Seriously
The Birth of Off Broadway
Poor Unfortunate Theater
Into Africa and Wole Soyinka
Broadway Book Musicals