Intro to Theatre - Modern Theatre

Who are at least two of the Three famous figures representing science, psychology and philosophy, who had a great effect on the period of modernism

• Carl Marx

• Joseph Stalin

• Albert Einstein

• Charles Darwin

• Sigmund Freud

What modern invention had a great effect on the advent of realism?

• The printing Press

• The light bulb

• Steam Engine

• The typewriter

• Telegraph Machine

Henrik Ibsen is referred to as the father of ________________.

Following WWII many playwrights began to believe that our existence is futile. What kinds of plays grew out of or were a response to this time?

• Fatalistic

• Expressionistic

• Nihilistic

• Absurdism

• Freudian

What was Jean Paul Sartre's philosophy that grew out of the Atrocities of WWII?

Did you read chapter 17?

• Yes

• No

• Some

• Skimmed