Quiz - Nov 11

Question 1

Rozewicz

Answer 1

• playwright

- “White Marriage”

Question 2

Mrozek

Answer 2

• “Tango”
• “Out At Sea”
• politically interpreted pieces
• international reputation
• “Emigres”

Question 3

Wojtyla

Answer 3

• actor and playwright
• religious
• escaped Nazis by living in a monastery
• Pope John Paul II

Question 4

Glowacki

Answer 4

• playwright

- moved to NYC

Question 5

Kott

Answer 5

• Critic

- “Shakespeare Our Contemporary”

Question 6

French Theatre

Answer 6

• boulevard
• studio/independent
• government subsidized

Question 7

1940s

Answer 7

First wave of decentralization

Question 8

Anouilh

Answer 8

• “Antigone”
• “Ring Around the Moon”
• “The Lark”
• wrote 60 plays
• divided them into categories
  
  • irritating
  • historical
  • sparkling
  • pink
  • Black

Question 9

Giraudoux

Answer 9

• lover German literature
• worked closely with Jouvet
• playwright
• diplomatic service
• service during WWII influenced his early works
• “Siegfried et le Limousin
• “The Enchanted”/“Intermezzo”
• “Tiger at the Gates”
• “Oudine”
• “La Folle de Chaillot”
• found dead in his room under mysterious circumstances

Question 10

Claudel

Answer 10

• Diplomat with service in China
• Religious/Catholic Things
• poet & playwright
• poetic prose
• “Break of Noon”
• “The Satin Slipper”

Question 11

Major 30s/40s/50s directors

Answer 11

• Barrault

- Jouvet

Question 12

Existentialism

Answer 12

• humans are condemned to be free
• Freedom is a necessity of making choices
• identity is defined by your actions
• all actions are choices
• BUT the universe is absurd so limitations include:
  
  • torture
  • hell
  • those with power over others (“Dirty Hands”)

Question 13

Sartre

Answer 13

• playwright
• “No Exit”
  
  • “Hell is other people”

Question 14

Theatre of the Absurd

Answer 14

• abandonment of traditional form
• devaluation of language as communication
• demonstration of man’s isolation in uncaring universe
• no propaganda or message
• focus on non-human elements (focus on minutiae, mechanism of objects)

Question 15

Beckett

Answer 15

• Born in Dublin, Ireland
• first two novels were in english (“Watt” and “Murphy”) and from then on he wrote in French.
• part of the French Resistance during WWI
• “Waiting for Godot”
• Stabbed but survived
• “Endgame”