Exam II Flashcards
(160 cards)
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Who created Poor Theatre?
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Jerzy Grotowski
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What was the goal of Poor Theatre?
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To create theatre at its most fundamental (just actor and audience)
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What book solidified the idea of Poor Theatre?
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Towards a Poor Theatre
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What is “Via Negativa”?
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The actor’s true, authentic self
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What was the goal of Poor Theatre?
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Make actors vulnerable so that they may become the “holy actor”
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Who started Environmental Theatre?
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Richard Schechner
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What are three axioms of Environmental Theatre?
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Lose distinction between life and art; use found space; text less important aspect of performance
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What company did Schechner create?
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The Performance Group
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Where did the Performance Group perform?
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The Performing Garage on Wooster St
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What was the Performance Group’s most famous work?
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Dionysus 69
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How was Dionysus 69’s staging unique?
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Everything was performance space, seating in scaffolding around perimeter of the room
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How did Makbeth (69) relate to the political climate?
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It related Shakespeare to American fascism
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Who is known for exploring the self as content/other?
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Spalding Gray
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How did Gray and LeCompte compose their works?
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Brought in objects for actors to do free association
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What theatre troupe is known for their immersive Environmental Theatre?
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Punchdrunk
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What is the style of theatre characterized by simple, popular forms, and overt political messaging?
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Agit-Prop (Agitation Propaganda)
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Who founded Bread and Puppet Theatre?
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Peter Schumann (1963)
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How do most Bread and Puppet plays begin?
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With large parade to performance site
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What is the unique, communal aspect of Bread and Puppet Theatre?
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Actors baked bread that was then shared with the audience
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Which company did R.G. Davis found in 1961?
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San Francisco Mime Troupe
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What classical style did SFMT use when they began?
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Commedia Dell’Arte
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Who founded El Teatro Campesino?
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Luis Valdez
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What other agit-prop theatre had Valdez previously been a part of?
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San Francisco Mime Troupe
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What does El Teatro Campesino mean?
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The Farmworker’s Theatre
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What were the short plays that El Teatro Campesino performed for striking farmworkers called?
Actos
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Who founded 7.48 Scotland?
John McGrath
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What is the significance of 7.48 in 7.48 Scotland?
Economist statistic declaring that 7% of British people had 48% of the wealth
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What traditional form is used in the Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil?
Ceilidh
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How was the set for Cheviot made transportable?
It was a pop-up book
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Who founded ANT?
Abram Hill and Frederick O'Neill
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ANT's 1945 production of Anna Lucasta featured which famous Black playwright?
Alice Childress
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What happened to ANT after Hill left?
Became less Black focused, began hiring White teachers
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What was the first play by a Black woman playwright to be produced in the US?
Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress
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What was the first play by a Black female playwright to be produced on Broadway?
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
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Name one other Alice Childress play
Florence
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What is one event of the Civil Rights Movement that impacted the Black Arts Movement?
Freedom Summer
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Who is credited with beginning the Black Arts Movement?
Amiri Baraka
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What was unique about Black Arts Repertory Theatre audiences?
Excluded white people
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What theatre did Baraka found?
Black Arts Repertory Theatre
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Where was Dutchman first produced?
Cherry Lane
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What theatre did Baraka open after dissolving the Black Arts Repertory Theatre?
Spirit House
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What are the initials of the company founded by Douglas Turner Ward?
NEC
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Which company was founded by August Wilson?
Black Horizons on the Hill
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Where was Black Horizons on the Hill located?
Pittsburgh
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Name one other Black playwright and one of their famous plays
Douglas Turner Ward, Day of Absence
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Name one famous West Coast Latine theatre company
El Teatro Campesino
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What was the theatre and training company founded by Fornes?
INTAR
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Name one famous Latine play on Broadway in the 70s
Zoot Suit
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What is the only Latina theatre company in the US?
Teatro Luna
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Who was the first latino person to win a Pulitzer?
Nilo Cruz
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Who are considered the parents of Latine theatre?
Luis Valdez and Maria Irene Fornes
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Which play by Josefina Lopez currently has a musical adaptation on Broadway?
Real Women Have Curves
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Which Latino playwright writes one-man shows that make use of stereotypes?
John Leguizamo
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Who wrote a queer, Mexican Medea?
Cherrie Moraga, The Hungry Woman
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Which play by Kristoffer Diaz has to do with professional wrestling and identity stereotypes?
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
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Which Czech artist made innovations in scenic and tech design?
Joseph Svoboda
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Define Polykran
Multiple screens with simultaneous projections that interact with each other
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Define Laterna Magika
Projections interacting with live actors
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What is one other way that Svoboda created a flexible stage?
Stairs
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Describe Svoboda's design for one of his famous shows?
Oedipus (63): had stairs from front of stage to almost in the flies
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Who is the only dissident-playwright-turned-president?
Vaclav Havel
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What is Peter Handke's "anti-play"?
Offending the Audience
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What is Peter Weiss' play with a really long title?
Marat/Sade
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Who was Peter Weiss influenced by?
Artaud and Brecht
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Who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company?
Peter Hall
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Which RSC season sent the public into an uproar?
The Theatre of Cruelty season
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Who did Peter Hall bring in to co-lead the RSC?
Peter Brook and Michael St. Denis
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What was Brook's book of lectures titled?
The Empty Space
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Name and define two of Brook's types of theatre
Deadly: conventional theatre, is unsatisfying; Holy: off Grotowski, seeks to rediscover ritual within theatre
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What is Brook's famous direction of a play that used wire trees?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Why was the Lord Chamberlain officially involved in theatre?
In charge of censorship, had to approve plays before they were produced
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How did the Royal Court get around the Lord Chamberlain?
They became a private club
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Who won when the Royal Court was taken to trial?
The Royal Court
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What did the Theatre Acts of 1968 do?
Abolished censorship
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How did The Royal Court celebrate the end of censorship?
Entire season of Bond plays babey
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Which theatre is known as the directors' theatre?
RSC
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Which theatre is known as the actors' theatre?
National Theatre
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Which theatre is known as the playwrights' theatre?
English Stage Company/Royal Court
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Name one other famous British playwright from the period
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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What was happening in France in 1968?
Student Uprising
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How did the '68 student uprising address theatre?
Decentralization
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Who founded the National People's Theatre?
Roger Planchon
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What types of shows did Planchon stage?
Classics with working-class interpretations
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Who co-founded the Theatre du Soleil?
Ariane Mnouchkine
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Name one way that the Theatre du Soleil was a co-op
Everyone paid the same wage
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Where was the Theatre du Soleil located?
In the Cartoucherie
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Which play mirrored the disappointment of the '68 uprising with the disappointment of a different revolution?
1789
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What was different about the way 1789 was staged?
Different platforms that audience members could go between
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Which actor was known for his use of the commedia dell'arte character Arlecchino?
Dario Fo
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Who wrote Theatre of the Oppressed?
Augusto Boal
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What was Boal's "spect-actor"?
Wanted audience members to be participants
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What was the name for a performance in a public space where the audience is unaware it's happening?
Invisible theatre
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What was the goal of forum theatre?
To make the audience active participants and encourage them towards social change
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How did legislative theatre differ from forum theatre?
Audience was lawmakers and others who could actually affect the system
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What was the main theme of post-independence African theatre?
To rediscover pre-colonial indigenous theatrical traditions
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What was the 70s South African movement that led to more plays by Black playwrights?
Black Consciousness Movement
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Name one of Athol Fugard's plays
Master Harold and the Boys
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What ethnic group is Wole Soyinka a part of?
Yoruba
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Why does Soyinka say that Death and the King's Horseman not a play about tradition v. modernity?
It's a metaphysical play
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What is the main theme of postmodernism?
No master narrative
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What is the goal of Robert Wilson's "interior screen"?
To lull the audience into a less conscious state
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What is Robert Wilson's most well known work?
Einstein on the Beach
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Who composed Einstein on the Beach?
Philip Glass
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Who founded the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre?
Richard Foreman
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How did Richard Foreman make his plays?
Collected notes from notebooks, became text
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Which theatre group was founded by Willem Dafoe, alongside Gray and LeCompte?
The Wooster Group
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What was the Wooster Group's main goal?
Deconstruction and reconstruction, usually using classic works
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Name one of the Wooster Group's productions
LSD (... Just the High Points)
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Why did Charles Mee originally not have to charge for his plays?
He had a patron
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Which company does Mee often work with?
SITI Company
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Name and define one style of feminism from the second wave
Materialist Feminism: explores the way that economic structures operate differently on women and men
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What did lesbians and women of color add to the feminist movement?
Intersectionality (which wasn't invented until the third wave)
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How does feminist theory seek to disrupt the male gaze?
Make women subjects rather than objects
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Name two of Caryl Churchill's writing techniques
Devising, collapse of time and space
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Who saw little difference between playwrighting and directing?
Maria Irene Fornes
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What inspired the stage layout of Fefu and Her Friends?
A tour of a theatrical space
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Name one brechtian aspect of Fefu
Historicization
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How did queer characters have to be presented during the Wales-Padlock era?
As problems or coded
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Name one play from the period of the sexual liberation movement
Terrence McNally's The Ritz
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What is the famous "state of the nation" play from the period of the AIDS crisis?
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
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Name one of the lesbian theatre companies from the queer theatre movement
Split Britches
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How many volumes are there of Trans plays?
One (almost two!)
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Why wasn't Asian American Theatre coined until the 60s?
Because the term Asian American hadn't been invented yet
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Which Asian American theatre company produced classics starring Asian Americans?
National Asian American Theatre Company
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What was the “the single event that put Asian American theatre on the national and international cultural map”?
David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly
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Name one more Asian American theatre company
Theatre Mu
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How were third-wave Asian American playwrights different from first-wave?
Were able to focus on more than racism and identity issues
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Who wrote Stop Kiss?
Diana Son
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Who wrote the Language Archive?
Julia Cho
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Who wrote Vietgone?
Qui Nguyen
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Which of David Henry Hwang's plays is semi-autobiographical and addresses issues in racial casting?
Yellow Face
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Why are the Nan Dan important in M. Butterfly?
Men playing female roles
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Why was the American Indian Movement started in 1968 in Minneapolis?
Response to the Indian Relocation Act
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Where did the Native Theatre Movement start?
With the American Indian Theatre Ensemble
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Who was the the American Indian Theatre Ensemble founded by?
Hanay Geiogamah
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Which is the longest continually running female theatre ensemble in the US?
Spiderwoman Theatre
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Where does Spiderwoman Theatre get it's name?
From a Hopi goddess, storyweaving
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Which is the only Equity theatre in the US devoted to Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and First Nations playwrights?
Native Voices at the Autry
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What is the story behind the name the 1491s?
It's the last great year for Native Americans
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Who was the 2019-22 US poet laureate?
Joy Harjo
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Who is referred to as the Native August Wilson?
William Yellow Robe
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Who wrote Sovereignty?
Mary Kathryn Nagle
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Who wrote The Thanksgiving Play?
Larissa FastHorse
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Who coined In-Yer-Face theatre?
Aleks Sierz
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What are three characteristics of In-Yer-Face?
Violence, sex on stage, nudity
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What's the goal of In-Yer-Face?
A reaction
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Who are the "big three" of In-Yer-Face?
Mark Ravenhill, Anthony Neilson, Sarah Kane
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How was Kane influenced by a story about the horrors of the Bosnian war?
Led her to add the soldier to Blasted and connect hotel room to larger problem of war
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Who is known as the chocolate covered woman?
Karen Finley
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Who wrote Clit Notes?
Holly Hughes
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What was so controversial about John Fleck's Blessed Are All the Little Fishes?
Toilet Shrine
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Who created PS 122?
Tim Miller
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Which is the only of August Wilson's Pittsburgh cycle to not be set in Pittsburgh?
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
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Name two others of August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle
Gem of the Ocean; Jitney
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Which Black playwright is fascinated by Reading, PA?
Lynn Nottage
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How many Pulitzers does Lynn Nottage have?
2
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Name one other important Black playwright
James Ijames, Fat Ham
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Who directed the first production of A Raisin in the Sun and frequently worked with August Wilson?
Lloyd Richards
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Who directed the most recent Broadway production of Othello?
Kenny Leon
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Define "Post-Black"
Departure from form that characterized segregation and civil rights era plays
