Theatre History Exam #3 Part #1

Question 1

Group Theatre

Answer 1

Performed at the American Laboratory Theatre
Came out of Stanislavski Techniques
All about finding the American Voice
All had big personalities, got in fights, eventually broke up

Question 2

Richard Boleslavsky

Answer 2

Founder of Group Theatre

Came from the Moscow Art Theatre

Question 3

Maria Ouspenskya

Answer 3

Founder of Group Theatre

Came from the Moscow Art Theatre

Question 4

Lee Strasburg

Answer 4

Primary Directory at the Group Theatre

Question 5

Clifford Odets

Answer 5

Wrote “Waiting for Lefty”
Playwright, and minor actor at the Group Theatre
Had the Perfect American Voice they were looking for

Question 6

Stella Adler

Answer 6

Important acting teacher

Also was a leading actress at the Group Theatre

Question 7

Morris Carnovsky

Answer 7

Character actor at The Group Theatre

Question 8

Elia Kazan

Answer 8

Director of “Streetcar” and “Death of a Salesman” at the Group Theatre
Reported names to The House of UnAmerican Activity
Started the Actors Studio

Question 9

Cheryl Crawford

Answer 9

Member of the group theatre

Branched off with Kazan to create The Actors Studio

Question 10

Bob Cole

Answer 10

Wrote “A Trip to Coontown” with Billy Johnson

Question 11

Billy Johnson

Answer 11

Wrote “A Trip to Coontown” with Bob Cole

Question 12

Eubie Blake

Answer 12

Wrote “Shuffle Along” with Sissle.

Question 13

Noble Sissle

Answer 13

Wrote “Shuffle Along” with Blake

Question 14

Adelaide Hall

Answer 14

Performed in “Shuffle Along”

Question 15

Paul Green

Answer 15

Wrote “In Abrahams Bosom”

Question 16

Rose McClendon

Answer 16

African American actress, died young, performed in Langston Hugh’s play

Question 17

Marc Connelly

Answer 17

Wrote “Green Pastures”

Question 18

Dorothy and Dubose Heyward

Answer 18

Wrote Porgy

Question 19

Jack Carter

Answer 19

Played Porgy in the movie version of the play

Question 20

Zora Neal Hurston

Answer 20

Wrote “Color Struck”

Question 21

Langston Hughes

Answer 21

Wrote “Mulatto”, white producers cut many of his lines because they believed they were too insensitive to white people, did a production of “Macbeth” in Haiti

Question 22

Charles Gilpin

Answer 22

Acted in the first mixed cast play, “The Emperor Jones” by Eugene O’Neill

Question 23

Paul Robeson

Answer 23

Performed as the first mixed race couple in “All God’s Chilliun God Wings” with Mary Blair

Question 24

Mary Blair

Answer 24

Performed as the first mixed race couple in “All God’s Chilliun God Wings” with Paul Robeson

Question 25

Lorraine Hansberry

Answer 25

Wrote “A Raisin in the Sun”, used traditional structure

Question 26

Lloyd Richards

Answer 26

Directed Lorraine’s “A Raisin in the Sun”, was the dean of the yale school of drama

Question 27

Sidney Poitier

Answer 27

One of the first actors in “A Raisin in the sun”

Question 28

Rubey Dee

Answer 28

One of the first actors in “A raisin in the sun”

Question 29

Douglas Turner Ward

Answer 29

Created the Negro Ensemble Company with Robert Hooks

Question 30

Robert Hooks

Answer 30

Created the Negro Ensemble Company with Douglas Turner Ward

Question 31

Leroi Jones

Answer 31

Also known as Amiri Baraka
Wrote “Slaveship” used actual smells in his play
Created the separationist ideology (movement for african americans to create separate institutions for themselves)

Question 32

Adrienne Kennedy

Answer 32

Wrote “Ohio State Murderers” , woman is raped by her teacher, children become murderers
semi-autobiographical
very Avant-Garde

Question 33

Ntozake Shange

Answer 33

Wrote “For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”
choreopoem
language is written how your pronounce it

Question 34

August Wilson

Answer 34

Wrote “Fences” and “Piano Lesson”

Wrote the American Cycle, 10 plays for 10 decades

Question 35

Lloyd Richards

Answer 35

Directed all of August Wilson’s Plays

Question 36

Kenny Leon

Answer 36

Took over for Lloyd, directed august wilson’s plays, took his shows from yale to broadway

Question 37

George C. Wolfe

Answer 37

Directed the first production of “Angels in America” in NYC

Question 38

Susan Lori Parks

Answer 38

Playwright, didn’t write with linear progression
Wrote alot about Lincoln and Booths relationship
Wrote “America Play”
Wrote a lot about Scarlett Letters
Wrote the book for the modern Porgy and Bess

Question 39

Lynn Nottage

Answer 39

Wrote a play called “Ruined” and won a Pulitzer Price, recorded true stories from women war victims in africa

Question 40

Josephine Baker

Answer 40

tried to be an african american star in America, wasn’t successful so went to Paris and became a STAR