Chapter 15 Flashcards
Who in 1950s England was a group of anti-establishment playwrights who dealt with the dissolving British empire, class conflict, and political disillusionment?
Angry Young Men
What area of theatrical design was especially shaped by technological developments?
Lighting.
Who created the concept of Poor Theatre?
Jerzy Grotowski
What movement developed in the late 1940s as a reaction against Broadway commercialism?
Off-Broadway
What philosophy is the most clearly articulated by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus?
Existentialism
Whose plays are credited with beginning a renaissance of African American theatre in the 1960s and 70s?
Amiri Baraka
Who coined the term environmental theatre?
Schechner
What English critic called a movement in the theatre, Theatre of the Absurd?
Martin Eslin
Who became the 1st African American playwright on Broadway?
Lorraine Hansbury
What brought a reevaluation of traditional morality, including such institutions as marriage and family?
The Sexual Revolution
Whose plays mix realism with mysticism and symbolism, creating a certain obliqueness and obscurity?
Edward Albee
What term is sometimes applied to some of Harold Pinter’s plays?
Comedy of Menace
What notable regional theatre was founded in 1964 in Louisville?
Actors Theatre of Louisville
During the mid 20th Century what was a Czechoslovakian designer?
Josef Sovboda
What was it called when in 1943 Oklahoma! inaugurated a quarter century in which an outpouring of musicals that set a standard throughout the world?
The Golden Age
