Exam I Flashcards
(110 cards)
1
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Which director was known for his crowd scenes and using a prompt book?
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Duke Saxe-Meiningen
2
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Where did expressionism start?
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Germany
3
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What are three qualities of an expressionist production?
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Presentational set, episodic plot structure, choppy and telegraphic speech
4
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Who’s a director known for revolutionizing realism?
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Stanislavski
5
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Who wrote The Hairy Ape?
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Eugene O’Neill?
6
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Which Playhouse is O’Neill associated with?
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Provincetown Players
7
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Who founded Futurism?
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Marinetti
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Why did Futurism fall out of fashion?
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It’s glorification of war and fascism prior to WWI
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Where was Dadaism founded?
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Switzerland
10
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Who’s the spokesman for the Dada movement?
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Tzara
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What type of performance is Dada known for?
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Aleatory
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What are three hallmarks of a Dada performance?
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Many things happening simultaneously, Nonsense poetry, and or improv
13
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Who coined surrealism?
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Apollinaire
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What was Apollinaire’s main play?
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The Breasts of Tiresias
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What was the goal of surrealism?
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To access the subconscious and bridge the gap between reality and the dream state.
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How did surrealists attempt to access the dream state?
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Automatic writing,
17
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Who the Theatre of Cruelty?
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Antonin Artaud
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In what book was the Theatre of Cruelty coined and defined?
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Theatre and its Double
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What did Artaud want to do?
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Drain the abscesses of society
20
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Why did Artaud like the Balinese dancers?
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He liked that he couldn’t understand what was happening
21
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Where should the Theatre of Cruelty be staged?
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Non-Traditional theatre spaces
22
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Who helped form the Theatre National Populaire?
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Gemier
23
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Who wrote a 1944 adaptation of Antigone?
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Jean Anouilh
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Who wrote The Madwoman of Chaillot?
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Giradoux
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What was Pirandello's famous play?
Six Characters in Search of an Author
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Who wrote a series of pastoral Spanish plays?
Frederico Garcia Lorca
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Why couldn't Lorca's plays be performed until 1946?
They were banned because Franco
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Who created a theater in Minneapolis, MN?
Guthrie
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What type of stage is the Guthrie?
Thrust
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Who was the important Irish playwright of the 20s?
Sean O'Casey
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What was O'Casey's especially controversial play?
Juno and the Paycock (24)
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Name the German composer known for his realism
Richard Wagner
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Who was Brecht's influence?
Piscator
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What is an interesting detail about Piscator's production of Sturmflut?
There was a ramp behind the screen, story was told with a mix of onstage action and projections
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What's the name of the group that Brecht founded with Helene Weigel?
Berliner Ensemble
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What was Brecht's goal?
To make the audience think critically by alternating between empathy and aesthetic distance
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List three differences between Epic and Dramatic Theatre
Epic: turns spectator into observer, Dramatic: spectator shares experience; Epic: episodic, Dramatic: through narrative; Epic: makes arguments, Dramatic: makes suggestions
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What is the term for Epic Theatre being set in a distant time?
Historicization
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What is the term for Brecht's acting theory?
Third-person acting
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Name three examples of Epic Theatrical staging?
Exposed lighting equipment, gestus, and projections
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What's considered to be the first book musical?
Show Boat
42
What was the censorship law that led Mae West to leave for Hollywood?
Wales Padlock Law
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Who founded the Provincetown Playhouse?
Susan Glaspell
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What is Cherry Lane Theatre known for?
Experimental plays
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Why was The Neighborhood Playhouse founded?
To unite immigrant communities
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Why were the Washington Square Players notable?
Would eventually found the Theatre Guild
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Which playhouse was known for the Meisner technique?
The Neighborhood Playhouse
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How was the Theatre Guild different from other Little Theatres?
It was professional
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What was different about the Theatre Guild's repertoire?
No American plays
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Who said that black theatre should be "about us", "by us", and "near us"
W.E.B. DuBois
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Which company was founded by W.E.B. DuBois
Krigwa Players
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What was the first hit all-Black Broadway show?
Shuffle Along
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Which Langston Hughes play ended in a call to "fight fight fight"?
Don't You Want to Be Free?
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How many theatre companies did Hughes found?
3
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What was Zora Neale Hurston's educational background?
Anthropology
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What was the play that Hurston and Hughes ended their friendship over?
Mule Bone
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Which Black theatrical company led to many other Black theatrical companies forming?
Lafayette Players
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Why are Richard Boleslavsky and Maria Ouspenskaya notable?
Brought Stanislavski's method to the US
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What theatre did Boleslavsky and Ouspenskaya found?
American Laboratory Theatre
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Who headed The Group Theatre?
Strasberg, Clurman, and Adler
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Why was The Group Theatre formed?
People upset with programming of Theatre Guild
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Who was the resident playwright of The Group Theatre?
Clifford Odets
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Why did Strasberg leave The Group Theatre?
Wanted to keep doing emotional recall
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What was the play about homophobic children?
The Children's Hour (Hellman)
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What was the Federal Theatre Project a part of?
The WPA
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Who led the Federal Theatre Project?
Hallie Flanagan
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What are three things that the FTP led to?
Representation, hundreds of new plays, and low ticket prices
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What was the importance of the "Little Man" in Living Newspapers?
He was the main character and a kind of everyman
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Who directed a production of Voodoo Macbeth?
Orson Welles
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What production mounted 21 simultaneous productions in 17 different states?
It Can't Happen Here
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What is the musical where the actors had to sing from the audiences?
The Cradle Will Rock
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What was theatre like during WWII?
Escapist
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What was the title of Camus' philosophical essay?
The Myth of Sisyphus
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What is the play that said "hell is other people"?
No Exit by Sartre
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Who called it the Theatre of the Absurd?
Martin Esslin
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Who wrote The Bald Soprano?
Eugene Ionesco
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Which playwright is known for his pauses?
Harold Pinter
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Who wrote a psychosexual play about maids?
Genet
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Who did Beckett say Godot was?
He didn't
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Why did the US premiere of Waiting for Godot fail?
It was pitched as "the laugh-hit of two continents"
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What are Selective Realism sets like?
Only the stuff mentioned in the script, selectively real
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Who was the most famous Selective Realism set designer?
Jo Mielziner
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What was Arthur Miller's essay that argued for average tragic heroes?
Tragedy of the Common Man
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What was England like after the war?
Broke and upset (sad, young, angry men)
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What was the arts foundation formed during the war?
CEMA
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What was CEMA renamed to?
Arts Council
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Why was the fringe established in Edinburgh?
Cause it was the only place not bombed to hell
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Where does the English Stage Company perform?
The Royal Court theatre
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Why is English theatre pre- and post-1956?
Look Back in Anger
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What style of realism did Look Back in Anger kick off?
Kitchen Sink Realism
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Who founded the Theatre Union and later the Theatre Workshop?
Joan Littlewood
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What is Joan Littlewood's famous play about WWI?
Oh What a Lovely War!
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Why was Off-Broadway founded?
Broadway too commercial
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What type of productions were first performed Off-Broadway?
Amateur
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Who founded the NY Shakespeare Festival?
Joseph Papp
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What else did Papp found?
The Public Theatre
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What is the show that ran Off-Broadway for 42 years?
The Fantasticks
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What award did both The Fantasticks and Zoo Story win?
Obies
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How was Adrienne Kennedy influenced by her trip to West Africa?
Masks, Black Pride
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Which theatre was influenced by the Theatre of Cruelty?
The Living Theatre
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Who founded The Living Theatre?
Malina and Beck
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Why did Beck and Malina leave for Europe?
The IRS was after them
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Who founded The Open Theatre?
Joseph Chaikin
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Why did The Open Theatre make The Serpent?
Response to commercial success
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Did The Open Theatre focus on production?
No! Process!
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Why was Off-Off-Broadway created?
Off-Broadway became too commercial
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Who founded Caffe Cino?
Joe Cino
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What was notable about Caffe Cino?
First openly gay productions
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What do The Judson Poets' Theatre and Theatre Genesis have in common?
Both founded in churches as a means of outreach
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Who founded La Mama?
Ellen Stewart
