The Theatre Experience Ch.13

Ivo van Hove's production of which classic American play featured one character spending most of the play naked in a bathtub?

A Streetcar Named Desire

Even though this country's communist government controls most theatres, companies such as Teatro Studio, Compañía Teatral, Argos Teatro and many others still thrive and even present international playwrights and deal with contemporary issues.

Cuba

The most significant development of black theatre during the Depression of the 1930s was the ______ _____ ______ which set up separate black units in cities across the United States to employ thousands of African American playwrights, performers, and technicians.

Federal theatre project

__________ is a traditional form of theatre that comes from India.

Kathakali

______ ______were popular forms of entertainment that caricatured blacks using songs, dances, and skits performed by white entertainers who blackened their faces and exaggerated the eyes and mouth.

Minstrel Shows

A Native American as well as feminist theatre, _____ _____ is the longest continually running women's theatre in North America.

Spiderwoman theatre

The _____ was established to award and recognize women who write for the English-language theatre.

Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

Which English playwright is known for his dramas that emphasize wordplay and intellectual concerns?

Tom Stoppard

Playwright __________ challenged Soviet Union authorities through his plays; he was imprisoned and his plays banned only to be elevated to president of the Czech Republic after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Václav Havel

Ivo van Hove is a ____ known for minimalist interpretations of traditional texts.

director

True or false: It is a good practice to identify a writer in only one category such as being a feminist writer or being a lesbian writer rather than acknowledge overlap in their work.

false

An alternative to commercial theatre in London, __________ theatre is often in the postmodern tradition and also fuses high art with popular art.

fringe

Native American theatre is also known as ____theatre, and is written by and for Native Americans.

indigeneous

Most Native American plays today are primarily __________.

interested in contemporary problems or aspirations

Perhaps the most important play in the postwar era, A Raisin in the Sun was written by:

lorrain hansberry

It is important in discussing __________ points of view in theatre that artists differ in how they wish to be identified with their membership in underrepresented groups or specific gender groups.

multicultural

In looking at theatre groups and artists, there is often __________ between identities and groups that should be acknowledged and considered before trying to strictly categorize a playwright.

overlap

Today, theatre in the Arab world is greatly affected by the ______ of the region.

politics

In Africa, in pre-Columbian Latin America, and in the Indigenous cultures of North America, there are rich traditions of _____ and ceremonies that had theatrical elements like costumes, songs and dances, and impersonations of people, animals, and divinities.

rituals

Although the Islamic religion has strong prohibitions against theatre, the tradition of storytelling and folklore often found expression using __________ prior to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and totalitarianism.

shadow puppets

True or false: Dramatists who happen to be members of an underrepresented group or specific gender group may prefer not to be identified solely, or even primarily, on that basis

true

The three great Asian theatre traditions are:

-Chinese -Japanese -Indian

Athol Fugard Wole Soyinka

-attacked apartheid in plays such as The Blood Knot, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, and Master Harold...and the Boys -poet, novelist as well as playwright and Nobel Prize recipient in literature, he wrote Death and the King's Horseman, and Play of Giants

Native Americans did not have a theatrical tradition, rather

-they had spiritual and social traditions that had theatrical elements -observers were considered participants in the event rather than being a passive audience

Scholars have estimated that more than __________ feminist-oriented theatre companies have been founded in the United States.

100

In Asia, theatre in India began perhaps __________ years ago.

2000

Many regard August Wilson to be the most important United States playwright of the second half of the twentieth century. His more important plays include:

-Fences -the piano lesson -Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Heiner Müller Yasmina Reza Dario Fo Caryl Churchill Martin McDonagh

-German playwright; Hamletmachine -French playwright; Art and God of Carnage -italian playwright; wrote satirical political comedies -English playwright; Cloud Nine and Mad Forest -Irish playwright; The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Contemporary African theatre and society are divided into which groups?

-Portuguese-speaking Africa -Arabic-speaking Africa -English-speaking Africa -French-speaking Africa

Among the most notable feminist playwrights working in the American theatre today are

-Theresa Rebeck -Sarah Ruhl -Carson Kreitzer -Paula Vogel

Generally speaking, contemporary theatre in Western Europe can be divided into three categories:

-avant-garde -modern -classic

What are the directions in which feminist theatre has developed:

-it has contributed to the active development of women writers and productions beginning in the 1960s -it has attempted to gain recognition for women writers both past and present

Three important points to be kept in mind when engaging with global theatre are to:

-know that non-European theatres were influenced by the development of modern theatre in the West -understand that theatre has a long and rich history in many cultures reaching back more than 2,000 years -recognize that the development of global exchanges in communications, ideas, commerce, and the arts have influenced modern theatre

Chiano Theatre Cuban American theatre Nuyorican theatre

-originated in the West and Southwest and came to prominence in the civil rights movement; a key playwright was Luis Valdéz -originated primarily in Florida; a significant playwright is Maria Irene Fornés -referring to Puerto Rican culture typically in New York starting with productions in the 1960s and 1970s; Quiara Alegreia Hudes

The defining characteristics of African American theatre are:

-plays written by and for African Americans -productions performed by black Americans

African theatre artists of the twentieth century used traditional forms of performance such as music, song, and dance to:

-reflect anticolonial struggles -critique totalitarian regimes in newly independent African nation

What events have led to a greater cross-fertilization between Chinese traditions and Western drama?

-the opening up of China to the Next in the late 1970s -the death of leader Mao Zedong

A number of significant dramas such as The Normal Heart, The Baltimore Waltz, and Angels in America were spurred by the __________ crisis.

AIDS

In Canada as well as Australia there are theatres that focus on native peoples and people of African descent. One example is the Australian musical Bran Nue Dae which dealt with __________ life.

Aboriginal

The first black theatre company in the United States, founded by James Hewlett in New York, was called the _________.

African Grove Theatre

Derived from Bombay (now Mumbai) and American Hollywood, ______ emphasizes theatrical elements including choreography.

Bollywood

A prominent Asian American playwright, __________ found success in the 1980s starting with his play FOB. He later wrote M. Butterfly and more recently Chinglish.

David Henry Hwang

What theatrical form is based on historical documents, which give an air of historical reality and authenticity to the drama?

Documentary drama

Due in part to the global success of his play Ghetto, Joshua Sobol is perhaps the most internationally recognized dramatist from __________.

Israel

__________ was established in Canada by Tyrone Guthrie and continues to produce Shakespearean classics as well as musicals and contemporary works.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival

Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, Nigerian playwright ____________ wrote Death and the King's Horseman.

Wole Soyinka

Luis Valdéz wrote short agitprop pieces called ______ depicting the lives of farmworkers in California.

actos

Native American indigenous communal celebrations had theatrical elements but no real ____________ as we would consider in Western theatre traditions.

audience

Place the descriptor of each Latino-Latina theatre in the appropriate group.

chicano theatre - originated in the West and Southwest and came to prominence in the civil rights movement; a key playwright was Luis Valdéz cuban american theatre - originated primarily in Florida; a significant playwright is Maria Irene Fornés nuyorican theatre - referring to Puerto Rican culture typically in New York starting with productions in the 1960s and 1970s; Quiara Alegreia Hudes

Latino-Latina theatre may also be referred to as ____ theatre.

hispanic

Though there are many artists who are pushing the boundaries of subject matter and style, much of today's Chinese drama remains ______ in style and socialist in point of view.

realistic

The single most pivotal moment for theatre in Eastern Europe and Russia in the second half of the twentieth century was

the fall of the Soviet Union

Still active and vital today, nō, bunraku, and kabuki represent this branch of theatre in Japan.

traditional theatre

Contemporary playwrights like Basil Kreimendehl, Taylor Mac, and MJ Kaufman explore the __________ experience

transgender

True or false: Rather than being a relatively modern development, women have been writing plays as early as the tenth century and were successfully produced during the English Restoration.

true

While early Israeli drama dealt with the the establishment of the state, more recent dramatic works by writers such as Hanoch Levin have explored:

hypocrisy and self-delusion in Israeli society

Internationally recognized Brazilian playwright, director, and theorist __________ is perhaps best known for his innovative approach to socially conscious theatre in Theatre of the Oppressed.

Augusto Boal

__________ reflects the influence of modern playwrights such as Ibsen and Chekhov on Japanese theatre.

Shingeki

The goal for documentary drama is to convince audiences that they're watching ____ unfold in front of them.

history

As referenced in the textbook, an excellent example of the increasing influence of global theatre are the many __________.

international theatre festivals