Theatre Movements

[gimme_vodka]

can anyone explain, as best they can, the difference between Modernism and Postmodernism please?

[gary baldy]

Surprise surprise Wiki has an entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_theater

[dotjhawkes]

Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi is modern

Janet Jackson's sampling of it on Got 'til It's Gone (Velvet Rope album) is post-modernism.

[gimme_vodka]

thanks, have searched on the internet and not found any brief significant differences between the two. We'd very much like a basic description outlining all the differences.

'dotjhawkes' - We are looking for theatre definitions not music, but thanks for posting an answer.

[dotjhawkes]

gimme_vodka, that's my answer, gimme_vodka, oh, no, false alarm, I've got some, no worries, carry on, i found a brill site on post-modern theatre and how it shies away from the individual into the subjective. But i forgot.

[Aquamarine82]

Modernism: reaction against romanticism, privileges intellectual over romanticism, rational; think Dr. Freud or Hawking

Post-Modernism: romantic reaction to modernism, Form is subject (how something is said), irrelevance of logic, alienation from reality, art is important for what it suppresses as well as what it celebrates