Absurd Theatre Flashcards

1

What is the most well know Absurd Play?

Waiting for Godot
The Bald Soprano
High School Musical
The Chairs

2

What year did Downingtown East Perform The Bald Soprano?

2013
2005
2009
2011

3

When did the roots of the theatre of the absurd actually begin?

Medieval Times
B.C.
A.D.
After the rise of the Greek Drama

4

Did the people first accept this new form of theatre?

Maybe
Absolutely
No
Yes

5

Who coined the term “Theatre of the absurd”?

Martin Esslin
Samual Beckett
Nicki Minaj
Eugen Ionesco

6

What’s another famous absurdist play?

The Bald Soprano
The Balcony
The Chairs
Rhinoceros

7

In the absurd realm human-exsistance is what?

Very structured
A little bit structured
Extremely structure
Has no meaning

8

What else has no meaning in these types of plays?

Behavior
Emotion
Mode
Conflict

9

What is the mode of most absurdist plays?

Comedy
Musical
Tragicomedy
Tragedy

10

Conversations in the absurd theater is?

Pointless
Effective
Important
Meaningful

11

What is absurd theatre most commonly associated with?

Realism
Practical Theatre
Socialism
Existentialism

12

Who is the most well know Absurd Playwright?

Jean Genet
Harold Pinter
Samuel Beckett
Eugene Ionesco

13

What don’t absurdist plays have?

Rejection of Traditional Structure
Little Character Development
Irrational Dialogue
Logical Structures

14

Theatre of the absurd is characterized by:

all of the above
the rejection of traditional dramatic structures
irrational dialogue
little character development

15

What catalyst brought the absurd theatre to life?

World War II
Vietnam War
Cold War
World War I

Absurd Theatre

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Absurd Theatre

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