History of the Theatre II Exam 2

Historians believe that political and economic unrest in the 1910s and 1920s set the stage for the rise of the working class.

False

Lorraine Hansberry worked on a vaudeville circuit and then became a famous Broadway performer known in part for performing the song "Cabin in the Sky"

False

Psychophysical actions are linked to Stanislavski's method of relaxation, concentration, and observation

False

The performance group Silk Road Rising is both Native American and feminist; was founded in 1975 by Lisa Mayo, Gloria Miguel, and Muriel Miguel; and celebrates American Indian women and comments on stereotypes of women in general.

False

The revue lost favor during this period, but minstrelsy, a new form, became a place for talented African American artists to make a career.

False

A major focus in drama in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America was anticolonialism and nationalism

True

Edward Gordon Craig argued for an Übermarionette, or "superpuppet," so the director could control the performance totally.

True

In Calcutta, Mumbai, and Madras, India, there was a proliferation of proscenium-arch theatres built in this era.

True

Many theatregoers and critics were scandalized by realism in the theatre because the movement presented taboo topics such as sexually transmitted disease.

True

Sometime called the founder of modern realism, Henrik Ibsen was known for his early mythological plays, middle-class social-issue plays, and late symbolist plays.

True

The super objective was one of Stanislavski's methods and included finding what was driving a character throughout a play

True

Vsevelod Emilievich Meyerhold worked for the Moscow Art Theatre, became Russia's leading theatricalist, and was likely killed as a political prisoner.

True

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire are considered as 'selective realism', identifiable by each play's heightening of certain details of action, scenery, and dialogue while omitting others?

false

British actor Tyrone Guthrie is often considered to be the greatest English-speaking actor of recent times for his tremendous range and for his Shakespeare films? (He would later run the National Theatre.)

false

Contemporary British theatre demonstrates that women now have gender parity in theatre.

false

Environmental theatre is always produced outside and uses trees and natural elements as scenic structures

false

If you attended an event that was minimally planned, didn't have much structure, and took place on a street corner, you were likely at theatre of the absurd

false

Irish playwright Tom Stoppard is known for the use of terse and sparse language in his short plays

false

Luigi Pirandello's plays, such as Six Characters in Search of an Author, were originally written to be set in highly realistic settings with seamless "slice of life" dialogue.

false

Mei Lanfang specialized in playing "tan", or romantic male leads

false

One characteristic of the off-off-Broadway movement is extensive productions of traditional plays and plays that avoid controversial issues

false

Paul Robeson was a U.S. ambassador because his fame onstage led him abroad.

false

Selective realism combined existential philosophy with revolutionary, avant-garde dramatic form in which the setting is a strange, unrecognizable locale or an ostensibly realistic world that suddenly becomes topsy-turvy.

false

Suzan-Lori Parks, Pearl Cleage, Kia Corthron, and Lynn Nottage's work demonstrate that feminist and other forms of multicultural theatre do not meet one another with regard to the issues in the plays.

false

Tennessee William's plays are reminiscent of works by Pinter and question humans' ability to communicate and interact honestly with naturalistic language and settings and down-and-out characters whose struggles are easily recognizable

false

The Group Theatre is most significant because it produced female playwrights.

false

The Group Theatre resulted in twenty-three companies of actors, directors, writers, and technicians that produced plays by black artists and trained a generation of black theatre makers.

false

The advent of Bollywood has eliminated professional theatre in most of India.

false

The phrase 'multicultural theatre' does not include women in the theatre.

false

The three categories of Latinx theatre are Mexican, Puerto Rican, and South American

false

Theatre has not been affected by changes in technology.

false

Theatre of cruelty tried to put the audience at the center of the theatre experience, had an emphasis on ritual, and sometimes happened in found spaces

false

Anna Deveare Smith is known for interviewing people and then portraying them regardless of race or gender, creating a mosaic of diverse characters, attitudes, and voices

true

As a child, Stephen Sondheim lived next door to Oscar Hammerstein II, who taught him how to write lyrics.

true

Athol Fugard wrote plays about apartheid in South Africa, at times in collaboration with black actors.

true

Brecht's technique of having plays set in the past but concerning contemporary events paralleling historic ones is called historification.

true

Dario Fo, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, is known for his satirical political comedies that attack capitalistic institutions, plays including The Accidental Death of an Anarchist; We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay; and Female Parts (co-written with Franca Rame).

true

During the war, Jews and other prisoners in concentration and extermination camps produced theatre.

true

For most of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, Asians appeared in American dramatic offerings strictly as stereotypes.

true

Hedwig and the Angry Inch can be considered a LGBTQ musical

true

INTAR is a Latinx theatre company

true

Israeli theatre has been influenced by the Eastern European origins of many of its founders.

true

Kathakali is presented at night, by torchlight

true

Motivated lighting is illumination of the stage picture related to an actor's through line.

true

Native Voice's mission is to produce works by Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and First Nations authors (aboriginal Canadians).

true

Off-off-Broadway is dedicated to introducing new talent, styles of production, and forms of drama

true

Penumbra, Congo Square, Crossroads, and True Colors Theatres are significant African American theatre companies.

true

Playwright Václav Havel became the president of the Czech Republic when it emerged as an independent nation.

true

Popular theatre in India adopted many conventions of the British colonials.

true

Since the founding of the state, Israeli drama has explored the complexities of Israel's relationship with the Palestinians

true

Some of Federico García Lorca's plays had strong female protagonists whose desires were thwarted by oppression.

true

Surrealism, as a new form of theatre, tried to depict the subconscious and its major artist/theorist was André Breton.

true

The British theatre artist Tyrone Guthrie made his reputation between the wars at the Old Vic in London, where he broke with traditional staging by interpreting classic dramas imaginatively and developing unique production concepts, including presenting Shakespeare in modern dress.

true

The Federal Theatre Project was a government-subsidized agency to put unemployed theatre artists to work.

true

The Group Theatre is most significant because it introduced Stanislavski's system to the United States.

true

The Negro Theatre Project resulted in twenty-three companies of actors, directors, writers, and technicians that produced plays by black artists and trained a generation of black theatre makers.

true

The important American play from this era that uses a narrator to paint a picture of small town life and set it against larger issues is called "Our Town."

true

The international star Paul Robeson was best known for his work in Eugene O'Neill plays, for singing "Ol' Man River," and for his record-breaking performance of Othello

true

The jukebox musical is the creation of productions out of the music of former popular music stars and groups.

true

The three categories of producing theatres in western Europe and Britain are commercial theatre, fringe theatre, and subsidized or state-supported theatres.

true

While some artists push the boundaries of contemporary Chinese theatre, socialist realism remains the most popular style of theatre

true