International Theatre

Question 1

Macronic Drama

Answer 1

speeches in multi-language

Question 2

Macronic Examples

Answer 2

HOMEBODY/KABUL-tony kushner

CHINGLISH- David Henry Hwang

Question 3

Great Britain

Answer 3

censorship until 1968

Question 4

British Playwrights

Answer 4

David Hare

• PLENTY (1978)
• THE BLUE ROOM (1998)

Tom Stoppard (feircely intellectual)

• ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (‘68)
• THE REAL THING (‘86)
• ARCADIA (‘94)
• COAST OF UTOPIA-russian history 2002
• ROCK N’ ROLL-covers 2 yrs. about fall of communism

Caryl Churchill

• CLOUD NINE (79)
• TOP GIRLS (82)

Question 5

IRELAND -PLAYWRIGHTS

Answer 5

MARTIN MCDONAGH

• THE LEIUTENANT OF INSHORE (2002)
• THE PILLOWMAN (2005)
• THE CRIPPLE OF INSHORE (1998)

Question 6

LATIN AMERICA

Answer 6

AUGUSTO BOAL (Brazilian)

Question 7

Czechoslovakia

Answer 7

Voclav Havel (playwright, prisoner, president)

Question 8

South Africa

Answer 8

Brit and duthc oclonies
apartheid (1948-mid 90’s)=white oppression, three gourds, blacks whites and nonwhites, whites held lal power, institutionalized racism

Question 9

South African

Answer 9

Athol Fugrard (playwright and actor)
BLOOD KNOT (61)
MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS
ROAD TO MECCA

Question 10

CHINA

Answer 10

chinese (peking or bejing) opera

Question 11

Chinese playwrights

Answer 11

Mei Langfang-actor influenced brecht

-THE PEONY PAVILLION (98)-opera, got cancelled

Question 12

Middle East

Answer 12

Islamic Rel on thr (strict about imagery)

Afghanistan National Theatre (2001)

Question 13

Indian Playwrights

Answer 13

Rabindranath Tagore-art that would change society

-THE POST OFFICE (1911)

Question 14

African Thr

Answer 14

• lots of opp. for drama

- ancient practice of storytelling

Question 15

African Playwrights

Answer 15

Wole Souinka (Nigerian 1954-?)

• 1st african to win nobel prize
• DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN (75)