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Question 1

Rather than being confrontational with his audience, Augusto Boal determined he could be more effective if he engaged audiences in the theatrical process. This philosophy informs the basis of which type of theatre?

Answer 1

theatre of the oppressed

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

true

Question 3

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

Answer 3

reflect anticolonial struggles

critique totalitarian regimes in newly independent African nation

Question 4

Choiceattacked apartheid in plays such as The Blood Knot, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, and Master Harold…and the Boys

Answer 4

athol fugard

Question 5

Choicepoet, novelist as well as playwright and Nobel Prize recipient in literature, he wrote Death and the King’s Horseman, and Play of Giants

Answer 5

wole soyinka

Question 6

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

Answer 6

african grove theatre

Question 7

Plays with a strong social and political message, as championed by Augusto Boal, are called Blank______ plays.

Answer 7

agit prop

Question 8

A Raisin in the Sun was written by

Answer 8

lorraine hansberry

Question 9

It is important in discussing Blank______ 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.

Answer 9

multicultural

Question 10

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

Answer 10

lorraine hansberry

Question 11

Contemporary African theatre and society are divided into which groups?

Answer 11

Portuguese-speaking Africa

Arabic-speaking Africa

French-speaking Africa

English-speaking Africa

Question 12

The three great Asian theatre traditions are:

Answer 12

Chinese

Indian

Japanese

Question 13

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

Answer 13

wole soyinka

Question 14

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

Answer 14

hispanic

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

minstrel shows

Question 16

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

Multiple choice question.

Answer 16

audience

Question 17

T/F; One of the examples of the significant place that A Raisin in the Sun has in history is the many revivals and other stories the original play has inspired.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Most Native American plays today are primarily Blank______.

Answer 18

interested in contemporary problems or aspirations

Question 19

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:

Answer 19

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

The Piano Lesson

Fences

Question 20

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.

Answer 20

true

Question 21

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

Answer 21

David Henry Hwang

Question 22

Lauren Gunderson is one of the most frequently produced playwrights in the United States despite never having had one of her plays produced on

Answer 22

broadway

Question 23

originated in the West and Southwest and came to prominence in the civil rights movement; a key playwright was Luis Valdéz

Answer 23

chicano theatre

Question 24

originated primarily in Florida; a significant playwright is Maria Irene Fornés

Answer 24

cuban american theatre

Question 25

referring to Puerto Rican culture typically in New York starting with productions in the 1960s and 1970s; Quiara Alegreia Hudes

Answer 25

Nuyorican theatre

Question 26

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

Answer 26

100

Question 27

T/F: Native Americans’ spiritual and social traditions that had theatrical elements were found primarily in ancient rituals and communal celebrations, which were often infused with cosmic significance.

True false question.

Answer 27

true

Question 28

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

Multiple choice question.

Answer 28

overlap

Question 29

A Native American as well as feminist theatre,

is the longest continually running women’s theatre in North America.

Answer 29

spiderwoman theatre

Question 30

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

Answer 30

transgender

Question 31

What are the directions in which feminist theatre has developed:

Answer 31

it has attempted to gain recognition for women writers both past and present

it has contributed to the active development of women writers and productions beginning in the 1960s

Question 32

T/F: Actors trained by Tadashi Suzuki are praised for their eloquent ways of delivering lines from the text.

Answer 32

false

Question 33

T/F: Lauren Gunderson has becomes one of the most produced playwrights in the United States by having her plays performed at the country’s major regional theatres.

Answer 33

true

Question 34

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

Answer 34

a streetcar named desire

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Theresa Rebeck

Carson Kreitzer

Paula Vogel

Sarah Ruhl

Question 36

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.

Answer 36

rituals

Question 37

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.

Answer 37

false

Question 38

Ariane Mnouchkine is a globally respected

Answer 38

director

Question 39

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

Answer 39

AIDS

Question 40

The actor-training system known as the
_ method combines elements of traditional Japanese theatre techniques with the experimental work that emerged from international theatre in the 1960s and 1970s.

Answer 40

suzuki

Question 41

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

Answer 41

director

Question 42

In Asia, theatre in India began perhaps Blank______years ago.

Answer 42

2000

Question 43

Ariane Mnouchkine is especially known for her effective use of theatre techniques from Blank______ theatre.

Answer 43

asian