Quiz - Oct 2 - Soviet Golden Age & Socialist Realism

Question 1

Antonin Artaud started the ________

Answer 1

Theatre of Cruelty

Question 2

Theatre of Cruelty is “_____”

Answer 2

“An assault on the senses”

Question 3

Theatre of Cruelty aims to 1.___, 2.____, 3.____

Answer 3

1. Touching the audience to force their involvement. 2. Violent and supernatural poetic language. 3. Liberate audiences from repressions of civilization

Question 4

What is Jacque Rouché most known for?

Answer 4

Saving the Paris Opera.

Question 5

Tell us about Jacques Rouché.

Answer 5

-Put together the “World Fair” in Paris in 1889, wrote the book “Modern Theatre Art”, started the “Théâtre des Arts”, liked simplified designs (especially sets), traveled and supported other artists, saved the Paris Opera.

Question 6

What was the first production for the “Théâtre des Arts”?

Answer 6

Carnaval des Enfants

Question 7

Who is Firmin Gémir?

Answer 7

Actor who created the role of Ubu, toured productions out to “country” audiences, started the “Theatre Gémier”, “Le Théâtre National Ambulant Gémier” and the “Théatre National Populaire”, and imported artists from other countries who he thought were equally as important.

Question 8

Who started the “Theatre Gémier”, “Le Théâtre National Ambulant Gémier” and the “Théatre National Populaire”?

Answer 8

Firmin Gémir

Question 9

What are the “Theatre Gémier”, “Le Théâtre National Ambulant Gémier” and the “Théatre National Populaire”?

Answer 9

Touring production companies that took shows on the road to country audiences.

Question 10

Who is Jaques Copeau?

Answer 10

Founder of “Théâtre du Vuieux”, drama and theatre critic, known/thought of as the “master of French theatre”.

Question 11

What is the “Théâtre du Vuieux” defined by?

Answer 11

1. Retheatricalization of the theatre, 2. poetry of the theatre (a “harmony of elements”), 3. Restore beauty to the stage (getting away from the Avant-Garde), 4. Give primacy to the dramatists’ texts, 5. Put Appia’s ideals of staging into practice.

Question 12

Who started the “Théâtre du Vuieux”?

Answer 12

Jaques Copeau

Question 13

How many plays did the “Théâtre du Vuieux” have it’s first season?

Answer 13

17

Question 14

What happened between to the “Théâtre du Vuieux” after WWI started?

Answer 14

The second season was postponed. They opened in NYC to “represent France”. Removed proscenium “arch” to create an “open theatre”

Question 15

What is one thing that the “Théâtre du Vuieux” is known for?

Answer 15

Removing the “proscenium arch” to create an “open theatre”

Question 16

Who are two people/things that Copeau influenced?

Answer 16

Michel Saint and the Cartel des Quatre

Question 17

What makes up Paris theatre since the 1930s?

Answer 17

“Boulevard theatre” (commercial theatre), “Experimental, avant garde, art theatre”, and “State/goverment subsidized repertory theatre preserving the classics”.

Question 18

What makes up the Cartel des Quatre?

Answer 18

Charles Dullin, Louis Jouvet, Pitoëff, Baty

Question 19

Charles Dullin

Answer 19

-Stage/Film actor, “Volpone” was most famous production and was made into a movie.

Question 20

Louis Jouvet

Answer 20

-greatest decibel, -actor, director and author, -founded “Théâtre de l’Athénée”

Question 21

Georges Pitoeff

Answer 21

-actor influenced by Stanislovsky, married Ludmila (also an actress)

Question 22

Gaston Baty

Answer 22

-director, -not obsessed with the text like Copeau

Question 23

What is the “NEP”

Answer 23

Stands for “New Economic Policy”,

Question 24

Who is Vladimir Ilyich Lenin?

Answer 24

Communist Revolutionary, developed political theories known as “Leninism”, established NEP,

Question 25

When was the Golden age of Soviet theatre and film?

Answer 25

1921-1928

Question 26

Who is Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold?

Answer 26

Actor under Stanislavsky, outstanding director,