DRAM 1310 Ch. 11: Theatre Today

From a practical standpoint, theatre may be considered a conservative institution because it conserves

Postmodern playwrights and directors are mainly concerned with

Postmodernism relates to previous artistic movements in all the following ways EXCEPT

The roots of postmodern theatre can be located in the arts phenomenon called

Flashbacks that are not clearly framed as such, shuttling instead between time zones without narrative warning, are examples of

This theatre, formed by Joseph Chaikin in 1963, combined social improvisation with Brechtian techniques and used character as a vehicle for direct interaction with audiences.

Which American playwright created works, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, and The Piano Lesson, that portray the entire twentieth-century history of black America?

Which of the following is NOT true of the role of women in the history of drama?

Founded by Luis Valdez in 1965, which contemporary Chicano theatre was created to dramatize the farm workers' situation in California through didactic actos?

An example of verbatim theatre, where the play consists of real-life speeches and interviews, would be

Which of the following does NOT exemplify the contemporary trend toward revival?

The emergence of spectacular theatre was facilitated mainly by

Which of the following statements about the history of censorship is false?

Which genre, featuring little or no speaking, as in the piece Contact by Susan Stroman, has moved from relative obscurity to Tony award-winning success in recent years?

Professional theatres operating on significantly reduced budgets and located primarily in Greenwich Village, SoHo, and upper East and West sides of Manhattan became collectively known in the 1950s as

Which of the following is NOT true of nonprofit theatres?

Which of the following is true of performance art?

This director/designer draws inspiration from Javanese rod puppetry, Balinese headdresses, and African masks.

Which Texas-born theatre and performance artist received critical attention for his tableaux vivant and was invited to create the central performance work of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Festival, the CIVIL warS?

Which English theatre artist, considered the most provocative director of the twentieth century (b. 1925), created the International Center of Theatre Research and authored The Empty Space, in which he divided modern drama into "the deadly theatre, the holy theatre, and the rough theatre?"

All of the following are considered leaders in movement art and dance theatre EXCEPT

Which of the following is NOT true of Broadway performances?

What description best characterizes the Borderlands Theatre?

If you were to join a discussion about macaronic drama, you would be chatting about plays that

Which region in Europe has been producing, according to many critics, the most exciting theatre of today, featuring subversive political ideas and artistic flamboyance conveyed through classical plays?

The extremity in artistic representation that responded to the social change of the sixties and the seventies took a number of forms, including plays that feature urination, bold profanity, and total nudity.

While postmodernism emphasizes self-reflection and reflections on the past, it also values rational logic and cause-and-effect determinism.

Postmodern theatre borrows ideas from both Beckett's theatre of the absurd and Brecht's theatre of alienation.

The representation of homosexuality on stage was illegal in England as late as 1958.

Theatre of community features works created for a community, by members of that same community, that often express, celebrate, and sometimes critique the culture of their creators.

The variety of theatre introduced to suburban America in the 1970s that produced light comedies, mystery melodramas, and musicals is commonly known as Off-Off-Broadway.

Although American artists are largely protected from direct censorship by the U.S. Constitution's first amendment, government funding is subject to approval by local and national legislators who sometimes balk at funding the work of certain artists.

Some of the most historically significant and innovative theatres in the world, such as Constantine Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre and Andre Antoine's Théâtre Libre, began as community theatres run by amateurs.

Shakespeare festivals, which began in the Great Depression and which now exist in every state, originated with summer stock productions.

Jerzy Grotowski's Towards a Poor Theatre emphasizes how performers should embrace external artifice and divorce emotion from their technique.