Theatre History Exam #3 Part #3

Question 1

Tennessee Williams

Answer 1

Wrote “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”

Question 2

Elia Kazan

Answer 2

Popular director, directed williams and millers plays

Question 3

Jo Mielziner

Answer 3

Popular designer, designed williams and millers plays

Question 4

Arthur Miller

Answer 4

Wrote “Death of a Salesman”

Question 5

Arthur Kennedy

Answer 5

Actor in Arthur MIller’s Plays

Question 6

Jerzy Grotowski

Answer 6

Director, Inspired theatre of cruelty
did a production called “Akropolis” holocaust have to construct their own creamatorium. Believed in emotionality, suffering, pain

Question 7

Rysard Cieslak

Answer 7

In Akropolis hanging by wires

Question 8

The Living Theatre

Answer 8

Brecht and Artaud influences, anti war, culture and political revolution did a production of antigone

Question 9

Judith Malina

Answer 9

Creator of the living theatre, played antigone

Question 10

Julian Beck

Answer 10

created the living theatre

Question 11

The Performance Group

Answer 11

Environmental Theatre
Performance Studies
Did a production called “Dionysus in 69” where they had an orgy on stage

Question 12

Richard Schechner

Answer 12

created the performance group

Question 13

The open theatre

Answer 13

celebrated playwrights and collaboration
simple staging
trust exercizes
Did a production called “the serpent”

Question 14

Joseph Chaikin

Answer 14

created the open theatre

Question 15

Andre Gregor

Answer 15

Director, did a production of alice in wonderland with Meryl Streep

Question 16

Tony Kushner

Answer 16

Wrote Angels in America

Question 17

Adourd Bourde

Answer 17

Wrote “The Captive” with the first lesbian character

Question 18

Mae West

Answer 18

Wrote “pleasure man” characters are all some sort of steriotype

Question 19

Charles Ludlum

Answer 19

Wrote “Camille”

Question 20

Charles Busch

Answer 20

Wrote “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom” cross dresses, casts himself as the female character

Question 21

Larry Kramer

Answer 21

Wrote “Normal Heart”

Question 22

William M. Hoffman

Answer 22

Wrote “As Is”

Question 23

Post Modern

Answer 23

all about the audiences response, what they take, about the process

Question 24

Happenings

Answer 24

visual artists and sculptors, non traditional, active audience invite them to do something

Question 25

Peter Brook

Answer 25

DIrector, did a production of “Midsummer” with a white box with two doors and trapeze artists

Question 26

Igmar Berman

Answer 26

Director, did “A Dolls House”

Question 27

Jose Rivera

Answer 27

Wrote “Marisol”

Question 28

Robert Wilson

Answer 28

Director, choreographed everything, no freedom for actors “quartet”

Question 29

Peter Sellars

Answer 29

Director, did a production of “Merchant of Venice” gave his actors freedom

Question 30

Mary Zimmerman

Answer 30

Wrote metamorphoses

Question 31

Albee

Answer 31

Wrote “The goat, or who is sylvia” challenges american values, something seems perfect, he exposes it for what it is.