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1
Artists who have no single style of their own, but who draw from many styles to produce their work, are known as:
eclectics
modernists
theatricalists
realists
2
Who wrote Major Barbara?
Oscar Wilde
Anton Chekhov
George Bernard Shaw
Lady Augusuta Gregory
3
The term "slice of live" refers to which theatrical style:
Realism
Romanticism
Symbolism
Naturalism
4
How does Zola compare the artist and the scientist?
The artist should emulate the scientist; perform experiments.
The artists wants to hold a mirror to it, a scientist want to play with it.
artists and scientist are nothing alike and only work against nature.
The artist & scientists only strive to figure out problems & how to fix it.
5
What is a "raw" theatre?
Also known as underground theatre
Nothing in life is off limits
Horror Theatre
Tabu subjects are now okay for the stage
6
The overall term applied to artists who rejected art forms from the past is:
Structuralism
Realism
Post-modernism
Modernism
7
This person's theories caused writers, and playwrights, to debate the ideas of free will and environmental determinism:
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Edward Gordon Craig
August Strindberg
8
Who stated: Everything could be understood as long as we knew what the human mind was doing.
Emile Zola
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud
Edward Gordon Craig
9
What is Strindberg's take on Comedies and Tragedies?
Comedies and farces are there for audiences to please and enjoy.
"Tragedy is to excite pity and fear", one can exist without the other.
Tragedies are the root of the problem in all societies.
Comedies are to excite and for audience to not think but to enjoy.
10
What is Zola's definition of "naturalism?"
For us to use them to show the humanity of them.
Anything that could actually happen and that it truthful and realistic.
the darkest part of life that is presented to us.
the nature and existence to man?
11
The overall term applied to artists who rejected art forms from the past is:
Structuralism
Post-modernism
Realism
Modernism
12
The "permanence of impermanence" is a concept forwarded by:
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
13
Which theatre believed: The simple gestures and natural movements of a modern man in everyday life
Stanislavski
Theatre Libre
Hippodromes
14
Which theatre introduced naturalism to Germany?
Theater des Westens
Semperoper Dresden
Frieie Buhne
Konzerthaus Berlin
15
Why does Craig like puppets?
A puppet can be manipulated, be formed to whatever art form you want.
A puppet is more enjoyable to watch than people.
A puppet makes life eaiser for the actor because it takes alot of work.
A puppet can turn into a real boy and bring joy to the world.
16
Anton Chekhov's plays are best described as:
modern tragicomedies
neoclassical dramas
serious melodramas
bourgeois tragedies
17
Along with Konstantin Stanislavski, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre?
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Maxim Gorki
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
Anton Chekhov
18
Who was a experimentalist and a psychological approach to characters?
Max Reinhardt
Francis Lederer
Risto Orko
August Strindberg
19
Who Micheal beileves is a true eclectic?
Francis Lederer
Oscar Wilde
August Strindberg
Max Reinhardt
20
This theatre artist was arrested, tortured, and killed:
Adolphe Appia
Edward Gordon Craig
Emile Zola
Vsevolod Meyerhold
21
What is Meyerhold's importance of Masks?
A way for an actor to completely transform into someone else.
It's a new form of Commedia Dell'Arte.
Meyerhold is trying to bring kabuki theatre to England.
An actor doesn't have to act anymore, just vocalize.
22
What does Craig mean acting isn't art?
Acting is an art that no one has learned how to master yet, and never will.
Actors are so self-obsorbed they can't emote correctly.
Acting is unmatrialistic art and cannot be re-produced the same every time.
Acting is a form of a joke and isn't taken seriously anymore.
23
Artifice of realism is a realistic genres that broke the fourth wall and had representative acting style?
False
True
24
This theorist said that acting was not an art, and that actors should be replaced by an übermarionette.
Edward Gordon Craig
August Strindberg
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Emile Zola
25
Who used "Aestheticism" which is the theory of art and literature made for arts sake.
Oscar Wilde
Max Reinhardt
August Strindberg
Francis Lederer
26
This playwright is considered the "father of modern realism."
Maxim Gorki
Anton Chekhov
August Strindberg
Henrik Ibsen
27
Which of the following is NOT a tenet of realism?
ALL of these are tenets of realism
It is a "raw" theatre, that deals with previously taboo subject matter
It is the "illusion of real life"
It shows a conflict between the individual and the society
28
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of naturalism?
Extremely realistic settings
Colloquial, but constructed, language
Based in the scientific method
Often shows the underbelly of life
29
What genre is Major Barbara?
Satire
Realistic Tragedy
Romantic Drama
Comedy
30
Which of the following theatre were dedicated to producing non-realistic drama.
Théâtre d'Art, led by Paul Fort
Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, led by Aurélien Lugné-Poe
Freie Bühne, led by Otto Brahm
Théâtre Libre, led by Andre Antoine
31
What were so notable things Max Reinhardt did as a director?
Believed his task to explore each and every style
Every play he directs he starts over in the beginning
All of the above
Let the drama speak for itself
32
Which Irish playwright opened the Abbey Theatre, the most important theatre in Ireland's history?
George Bernard Shaw
Lady Augusta Gregory
John Millington Synge
Oscar Wilde
