BELL RINGER M.socrative.com – Room #38178 Questions: 1. Who invented 12-tone compositions?

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES

10 points added to ANY grade (except for a zero) Tuesday, March 18 th at 7pm Percussion Ensemble, Guitar Ensemble, Jazz Band Thursday, March 20 th at 7pm 8 th Grade Band, HS Concert Band Both concerts will be under an hour

REALISM THEATER These will be turned in at the end of class – so don’t undo the staple

REALISM IN THEATER Around the middle of the 19 th 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 ( ) 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 ( ) embodied the spirit of 19 th 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