c13 Flashcards
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?
theatre of the oppressed
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
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
Choiceattacked apartheid in plays such as The Blood Knot, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, and Master Harold…and the Boys
athol fugard
Choicepoet, novelist as well as playwright and Nobel Prize recipient in literature, he wrote Death and the King’s Horseman, and Play of Giants
wole soyinka
The first black theatre company in the United States, founded by James Hewlett in New York, was called the Blank______.
african grove theatre
Plays with a strong social and political message, as championed by Augusto Boal, are called Blank______ plays.
agit prop
A Raisin in the Sun was written by
lorraine hansberry
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.
multicultural
Perhaps the most important play in the postwar era, A Raisin in the Sun was written by Blank______.
lorraine hansberry
Contemporary African theatre and society are divided into which groups?
Portuguese-speaking Africa
Arabic-speaking Africa
French-speaking Africa
English-speaking Africa
The three great Asian theatre traditions are:
Chinese
Indian
Japanese
Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, Nigerian playwright Blank______ wrote Death and the King’s Horseman.
wole soyinka
Latino-Latina theatre may also be referred to as
theatre.
hispanic
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
Native American indigenous communal celebrations had theatrical elements but no real Blank______ as we would consider in Western theatre traditions.
Multiple choice question.
audience
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.
True
Most Native American plays today are primarily Blank______.
interested in contemporary problems or aspirations
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:
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
The Piano Lesson
Fences
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
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.
David Henry Hwang
Lauren Gunderson is one of the most frequently produced playwrights in the United States despite never having had one of her plays produced on
broadway
originated in the West and Southwest and came to prominence in the civil rights movement; a key playwright was Luis Valdéz
chicano theatre
originated primarily in Florida; a significant playwright is Maria Irene Fornés
cuban american theatre
referring to Puerto Rican culture typically in New York starting with productions in the 1960s and 1970s; Quiara Alegreia Hudes
Nuyorican theatre
Scholars have estimated that more than Blank______ feminist-oriented theatre companies have been founded in the United States.
100
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.
true
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.
overlap
A Native American as well as feminist theatre,
is the longest continually running women’s theatre in North America.
spiderwoman theatre
Contemporary playwrights like Basil Kreimendehl, Taylor Mac, and MJ Kaufman explore the Blank______ experience.
transgender
What are the directions in which feminist theatre has developed:
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
T/F: Actors trained by Tadashi Suzuki are praised for their eloquent ways of delivering lines from the text.
false
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.
true
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
Among the most notable feminist playwrights working in the American theatre today are
Theresa Rebeck
Carson Kreitzer
Paula Vogel
Sarah Ruhl
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
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
Ariane Mnouchkine is a globally respected
director
A number of significant dramas such as The Normal Heart, The Baltimore Waltz, and Angels in America were spurred by the Blank______ crisis.
AIDS
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.
suzuki
Ivo van Hove is a
known for minimalist interpretations of traditional texts.
director
In Asia, theatre in India began perhaps Blank______years ago.
2000
Ariane Mnouchkine is especially known for her effective use of theatre techniques from Blank______ theatre.
asian
