Final

Question 1

Bauhaus

Answer 1

founded by Walter Gropius

Question 2

Baltics

Answer 2

Vanemuine is 1st professional Estonian theatre

Question 3

three Baltic nations

Answer 3

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

Question 4

who published Die Fackel(The Torch) and wrote the novel-length play The Last Days of Mankind?

Answer 4

Karl Kraus

Question 5

Belgian born director of the Toneelgroep in Amsterdam who has also directed on Broadway

Answer 5

Ivo Van Hove

Question 6

Who wrote The Chinese Wall and The Firebugs

Answer 6

Max Frisch

Question 7

Who wrote The Physicists?

Answer 7

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Question 8

Jessnertreppen

Answer 8

Jessner’s frequent use of stairs

Question 9

Title of any play by Peter Handke

Answer 9

Kaspar

My foot my tutor

Question 10

Austrian woman playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature

Answer 10

Elfriede Jelinek

Question 11

Max Reinhardt

Answer 11

first directed “The Miracle”

Question 12

Violent folk naturalism developed by Sicilian novelist Giovanni Verga, notably in the work that became the opera Cavalleria Rusticana?

Answer 12

Verismo

Question 13

factors that retarded the development of legitimate drama in Italy

Answer 13

Harsh censorship
commedia dell arte
Regional dialect

Question 14

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Answer 14

wrote “Dead City” and “Daughter of Jorio”

Question 15

author of Six Characters in Search of an Author

Answer 15

Luigi Pirandello

Question 16

Eduardo de Filippo

Answer 16

Beloved actor who wrote “Filumena Marturano” and “Saturday, Sunday, Monday”

Question 17

Ugo Betti

Answer 17

Plays with Legal questions like “Crime on Goat Island” and”Queen & the Rebels”

Question 18

Marta Abba

Answer 18

actress in Pirandello plays

Question 19

Franca Rame

Answer 19

playwright & wife of Dario Fo

Question 20

Giorgio Strehler

Answer 20

Director who founded the Piccolo Teatre di Milano in 1947

Question 21

the great 1901 play by Stanislaw Wyspianski that shows the ineffectualness of the Polish people(both urban and rural) under the country’s occupation by foreign powers.

Answer 21

The Wedding

Question 22

Polish director

Answer 22

Leon Schiller

Question 23

Gabriela Zapolska

Answer 23

Morality of Mrs. Dulska

Question 24

Tadeusz Kantor

Answer 24

The Dead Class

Question 25

Konstanty Galczynski

Answer 25

Little Theatre of the Green Goose

Question 26

Andrzej Wajda

Answer 26

stage and film director; academy award

Question 27

Polish theatre between 1939 and 1945

Answer 27

Warsaw Uprising; 70% of all theatres in Poland destroyed by war

Question 28

20th C polish theatre or culture

Answer 28

polish theatre is all about Poland/Polish

Question 29

who wrote Tango

Answer 29

Slawomir Mrozek

Question 30

who ran the polish Laboratory theatre and wrote Towards a Poor Theatre?

Answer 30

Jerzy Grotowski

Question 31

Jan Kott

Answer 31

wrote "Shakespeare our contemporary"

Question 32

Karol Wojtyla

Answer 32

was in Acting Group wrote "Our God's Brother" " The Jeweler's shop"

Question 33

who wrote "Tiger at the Gates", "The Enchanted", Ondine, "Madwoman of Chaillot"

Answer 33

Jean Giraudoux

Question 34

philosopher playwright associated with existentialism

Answer 34

Jean Paul Satre and Albert Camus

Question 35

In what decade did Theatre of the Absurd flourish?

Answer 35

1950s

Question 36

who wrote the book that put that name on that decade's iconoclastic playwright?

Answer 36

Martin Esslin

Question 37

what is the name and birth nationality of the author of Waiting for Godot

Answer 37

Samuel Beckett, Irish

Question 38

Who wrote the Balcony?

Answer 38

Jean Genet

Question 39

Play by Paul Claudel

Answer 39

Break of Noon | The Satin Slipper

Question 40

Jean -Louis Barrault

Answer 40

actor-mime-director; founded his own company with Madeleine Renaud

Question 41

Jean Vilar

Answer 41

Director of TNP in Paris and Avignon festival

Question 42

Ariane Mnouchkine

Answer 42

Founded Theatre du Soleil, Collective creation

Question 43

Partrice Chereau

Answer 43

Actor-director; Marxist approach to Ring Cycle

Question 44

what month and year were the paris street manifestations that led to the occupation of the Odeon

Answer 44

May 1968

Question 45

what was 1789

Answer 45

collective creation by Mnouchkine's company

Question 46

Fernando Arrabal

Answer 46

wrote "Architect and emperor of Assyria" "And they put handcuffs on the flower"

Question 47

Name the world-famous Swedish director of stage and film who also wrote plays and screenplays, including The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring

Answer 47

Ingmar Bergman

Question 48

who is internationally recognized as the leading contemporary Swedish Playwright

Answer 48

Lars Noren

Question 49

outstanding contemporary Norwegian Playwright

Answer 49

Jon Fosse

Question 50

Margareta Garpe

Answer 50

Swedish playwright who wrote For Julia

Question 51

Suzanne Osten

Answer 51

Founded Unga Klara; Directs Adult & Children plays

Question 52

Eugenio Barba

Answer 52

Italian-born director of Danish Odin Teatret

Question 53

Olafur Haukur Simonarson

Answer 53

Icelandic Playwright;l Under your skin & the sea

Question 54

What is Riksteatern

Answer 54

National Touring Theatre

Question 55

What is Dramaten

Answer 55

Royal Swedish Theatre

Question 56

In what city are the Tivoli Gardens located?

Answer 56

Copenhagen

Question 57

The author of The Glass Mountain

Answer 57

Tor Age Bringsvaerd