Quiz 4

Question 1

Tadeusz Rozewicz’s play

Answer 1

White Marriage(1974)

Question 2

Slawomir Mrozek’s play

Answer 2

Out at Sea(1961)

Tango(1965)

Question 3

Karol Wojtyla was in

Answer 3

Acting Group

Question 4

Karol Wojtyla’s two plays

Answer 4

Our God’s Brother(1949)

The Jeweler’s shop(1960)

Question 5

Janusz Glowacki’s two plays

Answer 5

Hunting Cockroaches(1986)
Antigone in New York(1992)

Question 6

Jan Kott’s book

Answer 6

Shakespeare Our Contemporary(1964)

Question 7

Post War Theatre

Answer 7

La Décentralisation du Theatre(1947)

Question 8

1920-30s 3 Categories of Paris theatre

Answer 8

1) Boulevard theatre-commercial
2) studio theatre - small, independent
3) government-subsidized theatre

Question 9

Jean Giraudoux’s 3 plays

Answer 9

Tiger at the Gates(1935)
Ondine(1939)
The Madwoman of Chaillot(1945)

Question 10

Jean Anouilh’s 3 plays

Answer 10

Antigone(1944)
Ring Round the Moon(1948)
The Lark(1953)

Question 11

Paul Claudel’s two plays

Answer 11

Break of Noon(1906)

The Satin Slipper(1928)

Question 12

Louis Jouvet was

Answer 12

Cartel Director-actor

Question 13

Jean Louis Barrault was

Answer 13

Actor-director, directed “ Break of noon”

Question 14

Influence of Theatre of the Absurd

Answer 14

Abu roi, Theatre of Cruelty, existentialism

Question 15

Jean Paul Sartre’s play

Answer 15

No Exit(1944)
"Hell is other ppl"

Question 16

The Theatre of the Absurd(1961) is written by

Answer 16

Martin Esslin

Question 17

Samuel Beckett’s play

Answer 17

Waiting for Godot(1952)

Question 18

Eugene Ionesco’s 3 plays

Answer 18

The Bald Soprano(1950)
The Chairs(1952)
Rhinosceros(1960)

Question 19

Jean Genet’s two plays

Answer 19

The Maids(1947)
The Balcony(1960)

Question 20

Slawomir Mrozek wrote

Answer 20

Absurd Plays

short funny with political subtext

Question 21

Jean Giraudoux worked with

Answer 21

Director Jouvet

Question 22

Existentialism 1) Humans are

Answer 22

condemned to be free

Question 23

Existentialism 2) Freedom is

Answer 23

the necessity of making choices

Question 24

Existentialism 3) A person’s identity is

Answer 24

defined by his or her actions

Question 25

Existentialism 4) every action is

Answer 25

a choice, even refusing to make a choice is a choice

Question 26

Existentialism 5)

Answer 26

Responsibility

Question 27

Existentialism 6) Limitation of Choices

Answer 27

Torture, hell, those with power over others(=dirty hands)

Question 28

Theatre of the absurd 1) Abandonment of

Answer 28

Traditional concepts of plot&characters

Question 29

Theatre of the absurd 2) devaluation of

Answer 29

Language as communication

Question 30

Theatre of the absurd 3) Demonstration of

Answer 30

Man's isolation in uncaring universe

Question 31

Theatre of the absurd 4) No didacticism or propagandizing or message other than

Answer 31

showing what has already been destroyed

Question 32

Theatre of the absurd 5) Overwhelmingness of non-human elements

Answer 32

proliferation or mechanization of objects, focus on minutiae, closed space