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  2. The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window - Wikipedia

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    The play focuses on events that occur after Sidney hangs a political sign urging an end to bossism in the window of his Greenwich Village apartment. Chaos ensues in his marriage and personal relationships and raises questions about Bohemian culture , Judaism , race , suicide , homosexuality , political corruption , interracial love , and ...

  3. Expressionism (theatre) - Wikipedia

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    Expressionism on the American stage: Paul Green and Kurt Weill's Johnny Johnson (1936). Expressionism was a movement in drama and theatre that principally developed in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century.

  4. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  5. Play (theatre) - Wikipedia

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    The term "play" can encompass either a general concept or specifically denote a non-musical play. In contrast to a "musical", which incorporates music, dance, and songs sung by characters, the term "straight play" can be used. For a brief play, the term "playlet" is occasionally employed. The term "script" pertains to the written text of a play.

  6. Lilith (play) - Wikipedia

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    Sterling hired Anna Reed to print and bind his play. She regarded Lilith as “the most wonderful dramatic poem that has yet been written. I am proud to think that I have had something to do with presenting it to the world.” [15] Sterling received his copies of Lilith: A Dramatic Poem in early December 1919. The first edition was limited to ...

  7. Dramaturgy - Wikipedia

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    Dramaturgy is the study of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage.. The term first appears in the eponymous work Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767–69) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

  8. Realism (theatre) - Wikipedia

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    A new type of acting was required to replace the declamatory conventions of the well-made play with a technique capable of conveying the speech and movements found in the domestic situations of everyday life. This need was supplied by the innovations of the Moscow Art Theatre, founded by Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko ...

  9. Classical unities - Wikipedia

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    In Rhetoric Aristotle considers the dramatic elements of action and time, while focusing on audience reception. Poor translations at the time resulted in some misreadings by Trissino. [1] [2] Trissino's play Sofonisba followed classical Greek style by adhering to the unities, by omitting the usual act division, and even introducing a chorus ...