20th Century Theater

4. Perform actions before audience or in nature, contains both visual art and drama, and has historical antecedents in Dada performances of the early twentieth century as well as in Expressionist painting
9. a self-conscious break from traditional artistic forms
10. written by Arthur Laurents
12. The attempt to represent subject matter truthfully
15. the presentation of innovative works and the development of new concepts and techniques in stage production
16. An artistic movement that focused on expressing emotion and feelings through abstract images and colors, lines and shapes.
18. an artistic movement that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images
19. Style known as realism and contains themes of cynicism of the American dream and criticism of capitalism.
20. written by Oscar Hammerstein

1. written by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling,
2. a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of Dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
3. Style known as Southern Gothic and contains themes of Alienation, loss, and longing
5. came out in 1956 by Eugene O’Neill
6. written in 1949 by Tennessee Williams
7. theater that comments on political issues
8. Style known for psychological realism and themes of substance abuse
11. a style of art in which communist values and life under communism are glorified
13. came out in 1949 by Arthur Miller
14. a style and theory of representation on the accurate depiction of detail
17. a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting where its typical trait is to present the world from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas