Little Theater and American Avant Garde: Crash Course Theater #40
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Coy
I live about a mile from Eugene O'Neill's childhood home and the location for -Long Days Journey- in New London, and down the street from that property still stands an Italian anarchist community center where they used to put on community opera and anarchist or socialist plays starting around the turn of the century. I can't help but think that the Italian anarchists there had a big influence on both O'Neill's writing and the Provincetown Players. I can almost guarantee that the -people in the movement. - and the location -on the coast- refered to in -The Iceman Cometh- are based on the people at that community center. It looks just like a VFW hall. There was a large Italian anarchist commune in that neighborhood from the 1890's all the way until the 1950s. All of the other buildings around it were torn down in a famous eminent domain dispute during the 90s, but that building somehow still stands there abandoned and surrounded by overgrown plots of land that the government never used after the rest of the neighborhood was destroyed. I thought that was an interesting piece of context for this video.
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I live about a mile from Eugene O'Neill's childhood home and the location for -Long Days Journey- in New London, and down the street from that property still stands an Italian anarchist community center where they used to put on community opera and anarchist or socialist plays starting around the turn of the century. I can't help but think that the Italian anarchists there had a big influence on both O'Neill's writing and the Provincetown Players. I can almost guarantee that the -people in the movement. - and the location -on the coast- refered to in -The Iceman Cometh- are based on the people at that community center. It looks just like a VFW hall. There was a large Italian anarchist commune in that neighborhood from the 1890's all the way until the 1950s. All of the other buildings around it were torn down in a famous eminent domain dispute during the 90s, but that building somehow still stands there abandoned and surrounded by overgrown plots of land that the government never used after the rest of the neighborhood was destroyed. I thought that was an interesting piece of context for this video.
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Oeumuepo
Crash Course General Western Music Theory (with Jacob Collier)
Crash Course -Indian Music Theory- ) (a person who knows their stuff, not a lot of resources out there for english-speakers)
Crash Course Music Theories (with Herbie Hancock)
Crash Course Written (worldwide, like really) Music History (with Adam Neely? David Hudry)
Crash Course Popular (worldwide, like really) Music History (with Rick Beato? Hank Green)
this could happen. in the next ten years. it's doable. keep up the great work.
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Crash Course General Western Music Theory (with Jacob Collier)
Crash Course -Indian Music Theory- ) (a person who knows their stuff, not a lot of resources out there for english-speakers)
Crash Course Music Theories (with Herbie Hancock)
Crash Course Written (worldwide, like really) Music History (with Adam Neely? David Hudry)
Crash Course Popular (worldwide, like really) Music History (with Rick Beato? Hank Green)
this could happen. in the next ten years. it's doable. keep up the great work.
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Tfin
Don't apply your modern morals and sensibilities to what isn't modern.
You can't say a play is not good for no reason other than that it has racist content. It is certainly possible that each and every performance was bad, but it should not be taken for granted that such was the case merely because they featured something that is now viewed with displeasure.
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Don't apply your modern morals and sensibilities to what isn't modern.
You can't say a play is not good for no reason other than that it has racist content. It is certainly possible that each and every performance was bad, but it should not be taken for granted that such was the case merely because they featured something that is now viewed with displeasure.
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Tokuijin
The more I think about it, the more I sympathize with the Minnie character in _Trifles_.
Her husband did more than kill the bird -, he killed _Minnie_, too, as his cruelty destroyed her, killing that bird really did it.
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The more I think about it, the more I sympathize with the Minnie character in _Trifles_.
Her husband did more than kill the bird -, he killed _Minnie_, too, as his cruelty destroyed her, killing that bird really did it.
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JDoors
-American theater took a long time to get - good. - [But popular with the public] -New plays we want to talk about in depth came out [presumably finally -good-]. - [Rejected by audiences and critics alike] Hmm.
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-American theater took a long time to get - good. - [But popular with the public] -New plays we want to talk about in depth came out [presumably finally -good-]. - [Rejected by audiences and critics alike] Hmm.
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Amee
My sister got to play the role of the stage manager in Thornton Wilder's -Our Town- her senior year. She had so much fun with it, man I wish they filmed it so we can relive the memories.
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My sister got to play the role of the stage manager in Thornton Wilder's -Our Town- her senior year. She had so much fun with it, man I wish they filmed it so we can relive the memories.
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Eric
With every episode of this series I watch, the more I come to despise modern theater, especially the playwrights. A dungsweeper would be more useful to society.
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With every episode of this series I watch, the more I come to despise modern theater, especially the playwrights. A dungsweeper would be more useful to society.
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Tom
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I am no longer supporting Patreon because of their banning of personalities that they disagree with. If there is another service that you use, let me know.
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Vrixton
Personally, I think O'Neill's masterpiece is his civil-war era rewriting of The Oresteia. It's absolutely fabulous. And there's a movie version too!
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Personally, I think O'Neill's masterpiece is his civil-war era rewriting of The Oresteia. It's absolutely fabulous. And there's a movie version too!
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