Thea final Exam Questions and Answers 2024;full solution pack

realism,selective realism , experimental theatre - Answer-post war movements post war realism in USA - Answer-dominant style, golden age of american realism, focus on "regular people" and their tragedies. Arthur miller - Answer-period playwright of post war realism, born in harlem, influenced by ibsen, plays usually have themes of guilt, failure and personal responsibility. His best known play was Death of a Salesman lillian hellman - Answer-another playwright of post war realism,born in demopolis, alabama, plays have themes of deceit, secrets, lives ruined by lies and greed,wrote for MGM, wrote "the children hour" august wilson - Answer-born in pittsburgh, penns, wrote the pittsburgh cycle plays, themes of plays were family, legacy, and identity. Wrote fences. post war realism in the UK - Answer-dominated by angry young men, themes were poverty, violence, ignorance, sex. popular playwright was edward bond. selective realism - Answer-mixes realism and anti realism, celebrates theatricality, influenced by brecht, one of the most dominant styles today. edward albee - Answer-american selective realist, uses realism with selective elements, themes are family and truth, his plays are mysterious to audience, won 3 pulitzer prizes, wrote who's afraid of virginia woolf. tennesse williams - Answer-Wrote the rose tattoo, a streetcar named desire, and cat on a hot tin roof angry young men - Answer-British writers in the 1950's and 60's who showed a bitterness for outdated values. Major writers: John Osbourne, Kingsley Ami, John Braine, and Alan Sillitoe.Documentary Drama - Answer-a german based movement of the 1960s, also called fact based realism. peter brook - Answer-a postwar eclectic director and english producer-director whose daring work contributed significantly to the development of the 20th century. josef Svoboda - Answer-Czechoslovakian designer who experimented with such elements as projections, multimedia, movable platforms, and new materials, including plastics. Computer technology as well has been incorporated into many modern theatre buildings and lighting systems the living theatre - Answer-A famous twentieth-century experimental theatre using aesthetically radical techniques to shake up audiences about social and political issues; founded in 1946 by Julian Beck (1925- 1985) and Judith Malina (b. 1926). ellen stewart - Answer-Established La Mama Experimental Theater Club joseph papp - Answer-Established the public theater in NY. Created a year-round producing home to focus on new creations, both plays and musicals. amiri baraka - Answer-Says the Revolutionary Theatre must Accuse & attack anything that can be accused and attacked. He believes you(African Americans) must step out of the victim role to get power. Anti-integration. Major work is Dutchman. black theatre alliance - Answer-listed over 125 production groups Expressionism - Answer-Movement that developed in Germany during the period around WWI, in drama was characterized by an attempt to depict subjective states through distortion; striking, often grotesque images; and lyric, unrealistic dialogue. Ex. Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller, & Leopold Jessner. Futurism - Answer-Art movement begun in Italy about 1905 which idealized mechanization, machinery, war, new technology, speed. Forshadowed later performance art. Surrealism - Answer-Developed out of Dada movement. Movement attacking formalism in the arts which developed in Europe after WWI. Seeking a deeper and more profound reality than the rational or theconscious, proponents replaced realistic action with the strange logic of dream and cultivated such techniques as automatic writing and free association of ideas. Theatre of Cruelty - Answer-Antonin Artaud's visionary concept of theatre based on magic and ritual which would liberate deep, violent, erotic impulses. He want to reveal the cruelty which he saw as existing beneath all human action--the pervasiveness of evil and violent sexuality. He advocated the use of "found spaces" and stylized, ritualized, Asian-inspired performances. "Cruelty" referred to bombarding spectators senses. Epic theatre - Answer-20th c. form of presentation associated with the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, its chief advocated and theorist. Epic theatre is aimed at the intellect rather than the emotions, seeking to present evidence regarding social question in such a way that they may be considered objectively and an intelligent conclusion may by reached. ex. "Mother Courage," "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," "The Threepenny Opera". Jacques Copeau - Answer-French theatre critic and manager of Theatre du Vieux Colombier. His contributions included: emphasis on the text, improv. as a tool for exploring the text, drama games, ensemble acting, mask work, & theatre as communion. He attempted to break down fourth wall and designed a theatre with no proscenium arch and simple staging techniques.