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What did Antonin Artaud mean by "a theatre of cruelty?"
An experience that pulls pranks on the audience.
An experience that overwhelms the senses of the audience.
An experience in which extreme acts of sadism are presented on stage.
An experience where artists literally assault the audience.
2
This ism is the setting being abstract with great movement, sets really didn't have a base.
Constructivism
Surrealism
Symbolism
Epic Theatre
3
This person is the Artistic Director of the Théâtre du Soleil, considered one of the best theatre companies in the world
Josef Svoboda
Peter Brook
Arianne Mnouchkine
Bertolt Brecht
4
This designer created designs which were able to move along with the action, known as "kinetics."
Jerzy Grotowski
Edward Gordon Craig
Josef Svoboda
Henry Purcell
5
Who wrote
Endgame
?
Peter Brook
Samuel Beckett
Federico Garcia Lorca
Jerzy Grotowski
6
This playwright was originally a surrealist, but his most famous plays:
The House of Bernarda Alba
Robert Edmond Jones
Federico Garcia Lorca
Jean Genet
Jacques Copeau
7
Scene titles, songs, historification, and
gestus
are all techniques used to create:
verfremdungseffekt
gesamtkuntswerk
der Schauplatz
schauspielkunst
8
This person directed Peter Weiss's play
Marat/Sade
, and later formed the International Centre for Theatre Research.
Peter Brook
Max Reinhardt
Josef Svoboda
Jean-Paul Sartre
9
Which ism has ideas that the Universe has no purpose, Life has no meaning, There is no external moral authority.
Surrealism
Symbolism
Constructivism
Existentialism
10
Which artist promoted a "poor theatre" in which the productions were stripped down to bare essentials?
Peter Brook
Jerzy Grotowski
Jacques Copeau
Federico Garcia Lorca
11
This ism is the concept explore the mystery of the being, the cosmos. Invoked a mood rather than a story.
Symbolism
Constructivism
Epic Theatre
Surrealism
12
In this theatrical style, the characters are often overwhelmed by their environment.
Expressionism
Symbolism
Surrealism
Constructivism
13
Which Irish playwright, writing in French, creates world in which the characters are surrounded by an empty void?
Jean Genet
Samuel Beckett
Eugene Ionesco
Harold Pinter
14
The existentialist whose formation of "The Myth of Sisyphus" became the foundation for the Theatre of the Absurd was:
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus
Eugene Ionesco
Jean Genet
15
This type of theatre is A "proletariat theater" Techniques such as Multimedia and Film / Projection.
Theatre of Oppressed
Epic Theatre
16
This ism is about revealing the subconscious in order to reveal a surreal reality. Not our own reality.
Symbolism
Epic Theatre
Constructivism
Surrealism
17
Who wrote
Mother Courage and Her Children
?
Antonin Artaud
Samuel Beckett
Heiner Muller
Bertolt Brecht
18
A concept that is created by Qauntam Physics and the implications for theatre is that Baci both a god and a man?
Qauntam Physics
The Principle of Complementarity
Newtonian Physics
The Theory of Evolution
19
What happened in the snap shot in 1968 - Europe?
British Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi
Soviets troops invade Prague
British Theatre became independent from American theatre
Colonial Independences
20
What is the difference between Realism and Non-Realism?
Non - Realists: Hated how their was no plays about the war.
Non - Realists: Saw no answers to the world problems
Realists: Cling to Realism to make sense of things. Became a dominant style
Realists: Hold onto the ideas of Romantism
21
Who wrote
6 Characters in Search of an Author
?
Samuel Beckett
Heiner Muller
Luigi Pirandello
Bertolt Brecht
22
This isn't really a style, but an umbrella term for a group of playwrights who use similar techniques.
Eclecticism
Existentialism
Theatre of the Absurd
Postmodernism
23
Who wrote
The Spurt of Blood
?
Antonin Artaud
Jerzy Grotowski
Federico Garcia Lorca
Samuel Beckett
24
Who wrote
Hamletmachine
?
Samuel Beckett
Heiner Muller
Josef Svoboda
Peter Brook
25
What acting style involved with the audience. Highlight the contradictions. Just a member of the audience?
Brechtian Acting
Meyerhold Technique
Absurdism
26
Artists who experiment with a wide variety of styles, as opposed to specializing in only one style, are known as:
theatricalists
anti-realists
eclectics
modernists
27
Which ism (according to Esslin) A world without meaning / art has no meaning Paradoxical, and had a dual purpose?
Absurdism
Epic Theatre
Existentialism
28
Which playwright is a socialist feminist, with plays such as
Vinegar Tom
and
Top Girls
?
Caryl Churchill
Eva Le Gallienne
Arianne Mnouchkine
Charlotte Cushman
29
The Uncertainty Principle and the Principle of Complementarity are both fundamental principles in what field of science?
Newtonian Physics
The Theory of Evolution
Relativity
Quantum Physics
30
Practitioners of this style were pacifists, and created art that was based in collage without any inherent meaning.
Dadaism
Symbolism
Futurism
Constructivism
31
This style glorified war and machinery.
Futurism
Surrealism
Dadaism
Expressionism
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This is expressed by a mixing of different styles from the past, or "high" and "low" art.
Postmodernism
Modernism
Absurdism
Existentialism