Taming Supplemental Questions

Question 1

Q1: In the mid-twentieth century, Brecht set about in epic theatre to _______ audiences so that they would make judgments about the social and economic issues of his plays.

Answer 1

Distance

Question 2

Q2: Paula Vogel grew up in suburban Maryland and arrived on the national scene by writing plays on such highly charged issues as pornography…. Unlike most writers on political issues, she is not interested in ____ audience to adopt political or moral positions, but rather to understand that there are no easy answers.

Answer 2

Persuading

Question 3

Q3: Which of the following black playwrights “confronted American racism head on”?

Answer 3

Amiri (like the singer) Baraka (like Barak)

Question 4

Q4: Which of the following playwrights is credited with “effectively” introducing the Asian American voice into mainstream American theatre?

Answer 4

David Henry Hwang

Question 5

Q5: Your text speaks of hispanic… Where is Mr. Cruz from originally?

Answer 5

Cuba

Question 6

Q6: The script belongs to the playwright, but once this original creative act-this blueprint for performance-is completed and handed over to the director, designers…, the playwright in once sense becomes _______ to the process.

Answer 6

Peripheral

Question 7

Q7: Match the Playwright

(a) How I learned to drive
(b) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(c) For colored girls…suicide
(d) Death of a Salesman
(e) Fences
(f) The Little Foxes
(g) Stop Kiss
(h) Marisol
(i) Glengarry Glen Ross
(j) A Raisin in the Sun

Answer 7

(a) Paula Vogel
(b) Tennessee Williams
(c) Ntozake Shange
(d) Arthur Miller
(e) August Wilson
(f) Lillian Hellman
(g) Diana Son
(h) Jose Rivera
(i) David Mamet
(j) Lorraine Hansberry

Question 8

Q8: Through the centuries, playwrights have developed a way of imitating… Drama’s forms have changed as societies and _________ of the world have changed.

Answer 8

perceptions

Question 9

Q9: The best way to determine the style / genre of a play is to look to the content and endings.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Q10: Some tragedies are concerned with seeking meaning and justice in an ordered world; others take up humanity’s helpless protest against an ________ one.

Answer 10

irrational

Question 11

Q11: In our readings, we discover that Oedipus and Medea each discover a new reality by the end of the play, much like Creon does Antigone. What is the term used to describe this epiphany or realization?

Answer 11

Anagnorisis

Question 12

Q12: We look to playwrights to give us insights into the world around us-to provide fresh ________ and new visions.

Answer 12

perspectives

Question 13

Q13: In ______, society survives the threat posed by inflexible or antisocial behavior.

Answer 13

comedy

Question 14

Q14: The term modern tragicomedy is used to designate plays with mixed moods in which the ______ are neither exclusively tragic nor comic, happy nor unhappy.

Answer 14

endings

Question 15

Q15: Both in lecture and in your readings, we discussed which Russian playwright and their propensity for writing tragicomedies, such as our required viewing Uncle Vanya?

Answer 15

Anton Chekov

Question 16

Q16: When adapting a novel into a stage play, playwrights should disregard the narrative and character arcs of the original work in favor of retelling the story.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

Q17: Absurdist writers, such as Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett, made their breakthrough in dramatic writing by presenting, without comment or ______ judgement, situations showing life’s irrationality.

Answer 17

moral

Question 18

Q18: Match the Playwright

(a) Epic Theatre
(b) Tragicomedy
(c) The “American” Absurd
(d) “Rhinoceros”
(e) “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
(f) “Waiting for Godot”
(g) “Tartuffe”
(h) “Oedipus the King”
(i) “Perestroika”
(j) “In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play”

Answer 18

(a) Bertolt Brecht
(b) Anton Chekov
(c) Edward Albee
(d) Eugene Ionesco
(e) William Shakespear
(f) Samuel Beckett
(g) Moli`ere
(h) Sophocles
(i) Tony Kushner
(j) Sarah Ruhl

Question 19

Q19: ______ is the key to success of the playwright’s story and dialog. Whether the story is told in a straight-forward manner…

Answer 19

Performability

Question 20

Q20: ______ is the playwrights third essential tool. As dialogue, it must be speakable as words filled with potential for gesture and revelations of meaning - both obvious and hidden.

Answer 20

Language

Question 21

Q21: Writing a history of ________ America, he probed what he perceived to be crucial oppositions in African American culture between those who celebrate black Americans’ African roots and those who deny that historical reality.

Answer 21

Black

Question 22

Q22: Arthur Miller is often tough of a s amoralist and social dramatist. His plays deal with the individual’s responsibility in the face of society’s emphasis on such _______ values as material success and personal happiness.

Answer 22

False

Question 23

Q 23: The chapter speaks about Gay and Lesbian writing and speaks of the AIDS epidemic that started in the 1980s and whose victims were predominantly gay (in Europe and the United States). It also speaks of playwrights such as Tony Kushner, Larry Kramer, and Terrance McNally, whose works were addressed political, medical, and personal issues at this time. While the medical and personal issues address the human significances of the play’s content, what wold the political issues reflect?

Answer 23

Social Significance