THE 542 Final Exam Q

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:

A happening

Who of the following were members of the Group Theatre

All of the above

A poet, playwright, and key contributor to the Black Arts Movement _____, wrote Dutchman and several other plays dealing with race issues in the US

Amiri Baraka

This author is known for writing the modern "tragedy of the common man," and for writing a play that commented on the Communist investigations of the McCarthy era

Arthur Miller

Which of the following is NOT classified as an absurdist playwright at least some of the time?

Arthur Miller

Concern for political and social equality is at the heart of the works of South African playwright

Athol Fugard

is known for his theoretical work, Theatre of the Oppressed, which is a manifesto for revolutionary and socially conscious theatre, and for the practical work stemming from his theories

Augusto Boal

This German movement founded by Walter Gropius believed that all arts, including crafts and architecture, should be brought together in a unified fahsion

Bauhaus

The Mystery of Irma Vep is one of the most successful plays written by _______ and produced by the Ridiculous Theatre

Charles Ludlam

The leading playwright of the Group Theatre __ is noted for leftost plays such as Waiting for Lefty and Awake and Sing

Clifford Odets

Luis Valdez helped to found a compmany

El Teatro Campesino

The Cafe La Mama was founded in the 1960s by

Ellen Stewart

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

Ethel Waters

This artist had a profound effect on American theatre not only through acting, but also through the Civic Repertory Theatre, which offered classics and modern play at low prices

Eva Le Gallienne

in ________, the dramatic action is seen through the eyes of the protagonist and therefore seems dreamlike or distorted

Expressionism

After Hair, the American musical theatre scene became increasingly monolithic for the next 20 years, virtually all of the productions were of the same style with little experimentation or deviation from the model

FALSE

Bertolt Brecht argued that for theatre to succeed at teaching, the audience must be emotionally engaged throughout the performance

FALSE

Contemporary Native American Theatre is primarily historical or ceremonial

FALSE

Futurism developed as an avant-garde movement that protested WWI and fought for the reestablishment of values in art and literature

FALSE

Hitler banned all theatrical presentations in Germany during WWII

FALSE

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

FALSE

Most of the plays that won the Pulitzer Prize in the US b/t 45-75 were nonrealistic

FALSE

Postmodernists demand support for the idea of a "canon" of classics, arguing that works of art should be valued based only on their position in theatre history

FALSE

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

FALSE

Theatre of cruelty means violently attacking the audience

FALSE

Theatres such as the Market Theatre and Junction Avenue Theatre Company frequently produced works that supported South Africa's aparthied

FALSE

While the philosophy/worldview of existentialist plays in the 1940s and 1950s was fairly traditional, their dramatic form was revolutionary

FALSE

Ariane Mnouchkine

Founded theatre de Soleil

In London, Complicite, the Tricycle Theatre, Almeida, and the Menier Chocolate Factory are

Fringe theatres

_____, who directed both parts of Angels in America on Broadway, succeeded Joanne Akalaitis as Artistic Director of the New York Public Theatre

George C. Wolfe

_____, were unstructured events that occurred with a minimum of planning and organization

Happenings

Which part of the following designers is known for his use of multimedia on stage?

Josef Svoboda

Which of the following British actors is often considered to be the greatest English-speaking actor of recent times for his tremendous range and Shakespeare films? (run National theatre)

Lawrence Olivier

A company, led by Lee Breuer, with a highly visual style that is well-known for staging the plays of Samuel Beckett

Mabou Mines

This play by Sophie Treadwell tells the story of a woman trapped in a world that operates like a machine; eventually her mechanistic surroundings drive her to commit murder

Machinal

____ is a significant Hispanic woman and playwright who is known for her unconventional structure, dialogue, and staging

Maria Irene Fornes

Which of the following are members of a new generation of young irish playwrights who dramatize social, political, and historical issues?

McDonagh, McPherson, Kinahan

This organization's mission is to produce works by Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and First Nations authors (aboriginal Canadaians)

Native Voices

The important of the American play from this era uses a narrator to paint a picture of small town life and set it against larger issues

Our Town

Admired for his versatility as both singer and Shakespearean actor, ___, had his career curtailed because of his outspoken social and political beliefs

Paul Robeson

International star was best known for singing "Ol' Man River" and his record-breaking performance of Othello

Paul Robeson

Which of the following is an example of immersive theatre, or theatre wherein audience members become part of the productions and are free to watch and go where they went?

Punchdrunk's Sleep No More

A playwright who blends images of the American West, pop motifs, science fiction, and other elements of popular and youth culture is:

Sam Shepard

Which American playwright did not win the Nobel Prize for literature

Sam Shepard

Known for pieces such as Swimming to Cambodia, _____ is a monologuist who discusses issues that range from personal concerns to politics

Spalding Gray

This company is best known for its collaborative send up of A Streetcar Named Desire called Belle Reprive, created with Bloolips

Split Britches

is a contemporary African American playwright who wrote Topdog/Underdog, The America Play and also Venus, a play about the life of a black woman who was exhibited as a sideshow freak in England in the 19th cent.

Suzan-Lori Parks

British theatre was highly commercial between the world wars

TRUE

For most of the 19th century and 1st half of the 20th, Asians appeared in American dramatic offerings strictly as stereotypes

TRUE

In the 1930s, the Soviet Union estab. socialist realism as the only acceptable theatre

TRUE

Joseph Papp is known for founding the New York Shakespeare Festival and his work at the Public Theatre

TRUE

Just as off broadway developed as an alternative to the commercialism of Broadway, off off Broadway developed as an alternative to the increasing commercialism of off broadway

TRUE

Many Theatre artists were seen as subversive and were often suppressed during the Cultural Revolution in China

TRUE

Playwright Vaclav Havel became the president of the Czech Republic when is emerged as an independent nation

TRUE

Through the American musical has undergone significant changes, it remains primarily a commercial enterprise

TRUE

A Polish director known for "conducting" his own performance, including creating nightmarish images on stage in plays like The Dead Class is

Tadeusz Kantor

This playwright often used lyrical and poetic language and symbolism to create compassion for his outcast characters trapped in a hostile environment

Tennessee Williams

Who is known for writing plays that often focus on outsiders trapped in a hostile environment?

Tennessee Williams

Playwrights Mariette Bonner, Angeline Weld Grimke, Langston Hughes, and the theatre companies the Acme Players, National Art Theatre, and the Krigwa Players Little Theatre Group were associated with:

The Harlem Renaissance

In the US, The Washington Square Players evolved into ______, a subscription based pro theatre that supported the Group Theatre

Theatre Guild

_______ made his reputation at the Old Vic in London by developing innovative production concepts for classic works

Tyrone Guthrie

Anne Bogart's theoretical approach to directing is known as _______ which combines elements of dance and stage movement with concepts of time and space

Viewpoints

The first African writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature is

Wole Soyinka

Environmental theatre

all of the above

German director Peter Stein is not known for

being artistic director of the National Theatre in London for 15 years

Unlike theatre on the Continent, British theatre between World Wars was:

commercial

Tarell Alvin McCraney, Suzan-Lori Parks, Lynn Nottage, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins are

contemporary Black playwrights

Many off-off-Broadway groups perform in ________, such as factory lofts, churches, and warehouses.

found spaces

The Group Theatre is most significant because

it introduced Stanislavski's system to the US

Which of the following scenographic technique uses screens with images in conjunction with live action

laterna magika

Robert Edmond Jones led the ____ movement in the US, which strove for simplified realism, using detail only to suggest

new stagecraft

Ayad Akhtar, Stephen Karam, and Rajiv Joseph are

playwrights

The structure of expressionistic plays usually follow those of:

station plays

The Federal Theatre Project

was a government -subsidized agency to put unemployed theatre artists to work