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major dramatist whoes work bridged the 19th and 20th centuries

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Henrik Ibsen

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important thinkers(Philosophy, psychology, science) whose work had major influence on the 20th century

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A Strindberg

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Idealism; suggestion rather than description; etat d’ame(Soul state); plays by Maurice Maeterlinck; influence of composer Richard Wagner and designer Adolph appia

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Symbolism

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More grounded(Often focusing on sordid elements) and less mediated than realism to convey the rawness of life without the artifice of the controlling artist’s hand; naturalist plays include The Lower Depths by Gorky and The power of Darkness by Tolstoy

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Naturalism

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Umbrella term that encompassed a variety of( often non-realistic) approaches to the arts and is usually associated with the period from the 1870s through the Great War and even into the 1930s-50s

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Modernism

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co-founded Moscow Art Theatre with Nemirovich-Danchenko

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Konstantin Stanislavsky

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Symbolist poetry and Little Fairground Booth(Balaganchik)

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Alexander Blok

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Bicycling enthusiast who wrote Ubu Roi(King Ubu)

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Alfred Jarry

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Art Impresario; got easel painter to design for Les Ballets Russes

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Serge Diaghilev

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Play was directed by Stanislavsky, designed by Edward Gordon Craig, opened at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1911, and featured tall screens or panels that were supposed to glide into different configurations

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Hamlet

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what and when was the Silver Age of Russian Literature

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1890-1914

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1905 was the year of “Bloody Sunday” and other worker uprisings in Russia. What was the year of the Great October socialist Revolution

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1917

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who was Harriet Bosse

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3rd Wife of Strindberg

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Leonid Andreyev

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Symbolist playwright

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Nikolai Evreinov

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Director

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Zinaida Gippius

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Sacred Blood

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August Strindgerg

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wrote 70 plays 117 paintings

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Name another play by Gorky besides Children of the Sun

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The Lower Depths

Summer Folk

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Kinetic energy, dynamism, celebration of the machine, very short plays(Sintesi)

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Futurism

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Anti-art, nonsense, simultaneous peoms; “Thought is produced in the mouth”

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Dada

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influenced by Freud; logic of the dream or the child; unexpected leaps in time or space

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Surrealism

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An avant-garde movement in painting with cross-influence on theatrical avant-garde

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Cubism

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With what avant garde aesthetic movement was Feu d’ artifice(Fireworks) associated? hint: it was presented in Rome and had music by Igor Stravinsky

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Futurism

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Leader of Dada

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Tzara

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what city and country did Hugo Ball open the Cabaret Voltaire

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Zurich, Switzesland

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What city did Dada hold its own funeral in 1922

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Weimar

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Who was Man Ray

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wrote ‘Rayograpus”

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Who led the break away from Dada to Surrealism? hint: He wrote the First and Second Manifestos of the movement

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Breton

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who was the leader of Futurism

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Marinetti

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who invented the word “surrealism,” wrote poems called Caligrammes, and wrote The Breasts of Tiresias

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Apollinaire

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What is Die Austrahlugen des Ich?

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Reality Distorted by Subjective view

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German author of Masse-mensch(Man of the Masses)

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Ernst Toller

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German author of From Morn to Midnight and the Gas trilogy

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Georg Kaiser

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Austrian painter who wrote short expressionist plays; Murderer, Hope of Women

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Oskar Kokoschka

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Czech stage & lighting designer; founded Laterna Magica

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Josef Svoboda

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Czech director, especially Chekhov; founded Divadlo za branou

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Otomar Krejca

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Czech author of R.U.R.; invented the word Robot

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Karel Capek

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what is the title of Artaud’s book that develops his theory of a theatre de la cruaute

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La Nouvelle Revle francaise

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Tell any two characteristic of theatre of cruelty

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violent images
force the involvement
concrete language

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What is the name of the poet-playwright-novelist-designer-filmmaker who staged the surrealist ballet Parade in 1917, wrote the Eiffel Tower Wedding Party, took Orpheus as the symbol of the artist, and got elected to the Academie Francaise

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Cocteau

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Prolific outstanding Flemish-Language playwright; Friday

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Hugo Claus

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Pantagleize, Exit the Actor

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Michel de Ghelderode

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Francophone Belgian; given aristocratic title; El Burlador

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Suzanne Lilar

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L’Oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird of Happiness)

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Maurice Maeterlinck

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who is Ivo von Hove

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Wrote “Rumors” “Disease Germs”

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Name the dierctor who founded the Thetre du Vieux Colombier and influenced two generations of French art Theatre

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Copeau

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What was one of the goals for theatre of the copeau

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poetry of theatre

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Name any two members of the Cartel des Quatre

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Joviet, Dullin, Pitoeff, Baty

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When was the golden Age of soviet theatre and film

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1921-28

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What was the NEP

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New economy policy

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Brief fling with Futurism; wrote Bedbug and Bathhouse; committed suicide

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Vladimir Marakovsky

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Dr Dappertutto; biomechanics; directed Magnanimous Cuckhold and Government Inspector; executed

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Vsevolod Meyerhold

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Playwright & directed The Storming of the Winter Palace

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Nikolai Evreinov

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Directed Turandot; “Fantastic Realism”

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Yevgeny Vakhtangov

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First people’s Commissar for Enlightenment

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A.V. lunacharsky

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greatest Soviet silent film director; Battleship Potemkin

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Sergei Eisenstein

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consolidated power by 1928 and began crackdowns on the arts

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Josef Stalin

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Leader of Great October Socialist Revolution; disliked avant garde theatre

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V.I. Lenin

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what did it mean when Soviet authorities accused an artist of “formalism”?

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Form over content

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What was the name of the only officially-sanctioned approach to the arts and art criticism in the USSR from 1934 to 1989?

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Socialist Realism

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Give the title of any work by Bulgakov besides Zoya’s Apartment

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“days of Turbins”

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Tell any fact about Bulgakov’s life

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completed medical degree

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what kind of play did the Alvarez Quintero brothers write

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Custumbrismo

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Who was Echegaray

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playwright who wrote “folly or saintliness”

won nobel prize for literature

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what is the title of the best-known play attributed to Gregorio Martinez Sierra

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Cradle Song

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Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; La Barraca

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Lorca

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Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Esperpentos and comedias barbaras

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Valle-Inclan

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Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Galicia

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Valle-Inclan

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Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca;Granada

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Lorca

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Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Tragic trilogy of rural Spanish womanhood, including Yerma

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Lorca

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Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Divine Words and Bohemian Lights

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Valle-Inclan

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Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; Dona Rosita la soltera(Dona Rosita the Sinster)

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Lorca

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Valle-Inclan or Garcia Lorca; El Publico(The audience)

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Lorca

History Theatre: 20C (9 decks)

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