THEATRE 120 Study Guide - Final Guide: Postmodern Dance, Judson Dance Theater, Top Girls
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Significant props are linked to character traits: yepihodov: guitar (lovestruck dreamer, carlotta: magic tricks (detached from reality, varya: keys (control, yasha: cigar (desire for affluence, pishchick/liubov: coins, gayev: billiards, anya: hairpins. Colorblind casting*: says it is abnormal, compares to the idea of assimilation that black americans have been rejecting for the past 380 years, we are black, and we are beautiful, don"t pretend you don"t see our color, we are not ashamed. The sense that the certitudes and basic assumptions of former ages have been completely swept away: no playwright actually calls their work asburd", it is a title assigned by others, affected by wwii, not meant to use the term absurd/ridiculous as we use it, strives to express its sense of the senseless of human condition and inadequacy of rational approach by abandonment of rational devices, krapps last tape (sort of top girls/how i learned to drive)
