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| Federal Theatre Project director |
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| 3 englishmen knighted for acting |
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| Laurence Olivier, John Guilgould, Paul Robeson |
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| Fires in the Mirror playwright |
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| Edward Albee's play with human sized lizards |
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| Name of a nigerian playwright |
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| Author of Homebody/kabul, best known for 2 part play |
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| Mirrored the Insanity of War |
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| device used by brecht used to take the audience out of the play |
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| first director for federal theatre project |
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| An Expressionist play by Elmer Rice |
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| name 3 forms of modern theatre |
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| chicano, litano, african american, lgbt, gender, etx. |
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| attended yale school of drama wrote heidi chronicals |
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| author of Good Soldier Swick |
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| 1927 musical precursor to the first book musical |
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| WPA federal theatre children's show which was accused of desiminating communism |
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| wrote 6 Characters in Search of an Author |
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| Director/ president of the british drama legue after WWi |
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| Anglo-english director, founded stratford Theatre ontario |
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| Wrote the paradox of acting |
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| expressionist characters have names such as |
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| name 2 plays by bertolt brecht |
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| mother courage and her children, 3 penny opera |
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| Charles gave the patent to |
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| Thomas Killigrew and William Davenant |
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| Springs Awakening and The Country Wife |
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| first american acting family |
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| first black actor to reach international acclaim |
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| what german created the "total theatre" |
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| scribe and sardoux were known for perfecting the |
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| first president of the actors equity |
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| expressionist play the hairy ape written by |
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| the -ism that idealised technology in war |
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| who wrote the lower depths |
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| who wrote the symbolist play a dream play? |
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| mt holyoake grad who inspired wasserstein |
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| susan lori parks won pulitzer prize for what play? |
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| author of school for scandal |
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| french female acting rivals |
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| why wars were fought in 18th century |
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| 2 important 18th century philosophers |
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| voltaire, russeau, thomas jefferson, and diderot |
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| 18th century artistic style |
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| abraham lincoln associated with |
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| under the gaslight author |
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| pygmaleon, man and superman |
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| theatre manager, first used box sets |
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| most famous russian actor before stanislavski |
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| crumbs of table of joy and intimate apparel written by |
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| august wilson's 2005 play last in his series of 10 shows |
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| most prominent asian american dramatist |
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| period began in 1660 when who was restored to the throne |
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| who closed theatre in 1642? |
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| choreographer turned director, won tony's for rogers follies and grand hotel |
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| Wrote Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll |
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| Fires in the Mirror written by |
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| died in 2008, wrote birthday party |
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| name some films adapted to musical after 2000 and suceeded |
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| shrek, legally blonde, the producers, etc |
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| name some films adapted to musical after 2000 that tanked |
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| 101 dalmations, spiderman, young frankenstein |
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| Brecht's style became known as |
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| who had an acting style opposite to stanislavski |
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| what is the most significant difference between Elizabethan and Restoration drama |
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| first female playwright to earn a living writing |
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| when did the restoration peroid begin |
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| in 1660 after Charles II was restored to the throne |
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| what were dominate forms of comedy in the restoration |
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| comedies of intrigue and manners |
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| who formed the acting group called The Kings Men |
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| Who had the monopoly on the theatre in london during the restoration |
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| What was unique about the theatres during the restoration |
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| the aprons were as large as the upstage area |
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| what type of payment system was used in the restoration |
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| who coined the term female wit |
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| who was a leading actor on the stage during the restoration |
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| who wrote the most heoric tragedy int he restoration |
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| who was the most prolific female wit |
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| the restoration ended when with the death of who |
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| this theatre was converted from a tennis court |
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| who wrote the country wife |
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| who abolished theatrebefore 1660 |
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| restoration theatre articheture was influenced most by... |
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| restoration comedy was most concened with |
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| which theatre did thomas killigrew nuild with the patent from Charles II |
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| Rembrandt and Bach demonstrated this style of art |
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| who were the masters of scenic design in italy and europe for 100 years |
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| who was an actor manager who called for a more natural style of acting |
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| diderot wrote several plays to demonstrate his idea of drame, name one |
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| the natural style or the proofs of virtue |
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| When william hallum went bankrupt, he sent some actors and his brother to start an acting company where? |
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| where was the first theatre in american built? |
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| which type of comedy reaffirms middle classmorality |
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| clarion and dumesnil were rivals due to... |
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| Clarion adopting a less declamatory more natural speaking style |
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| johann wolfgang von goeth's goetz von berlichingen is an example of |
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| david garrick managed which theatre |
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| who was instrumental in transforming the theatre at Weimar |
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| Richard Brinsley Sheridan went into politics after writing what play |
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| Local color was introduced into English scenic design by |
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| In Italy, a battle ensued over a realistic approac to commedia between these two peopl |
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| the 18th century was known as |
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| who wrote school for scandall |
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| richard brinsley sheridan |
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| a major early artistic style during the 18th century |
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| Goetz von Berlichingen was a strum und drang play bt |
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| who wrote the paradox of acting |
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| in school for scandal, lady sneerwell has snake leave a note alluding to a tryst with charles and who else |
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| what new for of entertainment originated from the english during the 18th century |
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| what family would become the first acting comany in america |
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| what is the frist noteworthy chicano play to move to broadway |
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| the dvd was produced how many years ago |
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| who was the most influential playwright of the 20th century? |
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| what theatre did august wilson found |
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| black horizon's theatre company in pittsburg |
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| who was the most noteworthy asian american playwright of the 20th century? |
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| Who wrote theatre of the oppressed, what nationality and profession |
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| Augusto Boal, brazillian director and theorist |
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| first female playwright to win the pulitzer in 1997 for how i learned to drive |
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| a theatre directed by elizabeth lecompte noted for deconstructing well known texts and tackle social issues |
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| who wrote the glengarry ross and oleanna |
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| most prominent african american performance artist currently working in the us. wrote twilight and fires in mirror |
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| known for monster in a box, monologuist discusses personal concerns to politics |
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| british invasion of 70's and 80's only countered by |
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| angels in america written by |
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| number of plays in august wilson's american cycle |
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| two american playwrights noted for work in film |
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| david mamet and sam shephard |
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| founded the rediculous tehatre company |
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| experimental company known for producing becket's plays directed by joanne akalaitis |
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| what was theatre like before the fall of the soviet union |
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| state sponsored avaiable and affordable but censored |
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| what was theatre like after the fall of the soviet union |
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| little funding but no censoring |
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| when in Havel's career was the memorandum published |
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| who got great acclaim in US after performing in NY at cafe la mama |
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| most of kantor's work was a rellion against... |
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| institutionalized approach to avant-garde theatre of the 50's and 60's |
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| What did Svboda believe about the set and actors |
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| the set should work with the actors as a whole |
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| nigerian playwright best known for play the swamp dwellser |
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| Timberlake Wertenbaker's our country's good is set where |
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| main theatre centers after the soviet untion |
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| st. petersberg and moscow |
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| who coined the phrase kinetic stage |
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| who wrote the cuttlefish and the water hen, director, scenic and visual artist |
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| Rozancrantaz and gildenstern are dead portray the charters while doing what |
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| theatre between 1946 and 1955 reflected the... with works by... |
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| social unrest.. arthur miller |
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| who introduced the concept of selective realism |
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| tennessee williams and arthur miller |
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| main character willie loman, written by tennessee williams, never known if ever sucessful. |
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| name two works by tennessee williams |
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| streetcar named desire, cat on a hot tin roof, death of a salesman |
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| heightens certain details of action while omitting others |
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| what was the drama in Who's afraid of virginia woolf before it was put on at what theatre |
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| it was rejected by several producers before it premiered at the schiller theatre in berlin |
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| who created enviornmental theatre |
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| was noted for his nonsensical language in his plays that demonstrated the futialiaty of communication |
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| Rinocourous and bald saprano |
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| who wrote children's hour and little foxes |
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| off broadway producer who opened the new york shakespeare festival and opened the public theatre |
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| julian beck and judith malina formed which theatre in 1946 |
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| a major movement in NY during 1946-1955 |
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| samuel beckett's work best described as which movement |
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| which were the first two regional theatres to open in 1949 |
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| the alley theatre and the arena stage theatre |
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| the most respected us director in the 40's and 50's |
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| south pacific and the king and i in the peroid '46-'55 were two musicals by... |
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| who wrote who's afraid of virginia woolfe |
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| director of the polish laboratory theatre |
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| the existential movement is best exemplified in this play by sarte |
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| martin esslin cointed this term in his book of the same name written in 1961 |
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| wrote caretaker and the birthday party |
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| 1967 american tribal love rock musical |
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| who developed the elevator stage and at what theater |
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| steele mackaye at the madison square theatre |
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| what movement had great impact ont he 19th centruy |
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| what show by who was said to be ahead of his time and introduced the antihero |
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| most famous russian actor of the time peroid |
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| best known for her work in theatre management |
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| these two actresses dominated the international stage in late 19th century |
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| sarah bernhardt and eleonora duse |
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| most predominant genre in the 19th centruy |
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| noted for his success in playing of the comic yankee |
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| one of the basicc elements of the well made play |
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| cause and effect develement |
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| george farquars best play |
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| major theatre artichet english restoration |
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| restoration actress from the slums to fame |
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| 2 most importatn philospohers in restoration |
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| who teamed up with johen gotched to improve german theatre |
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| who wrote the hamburg dramaturgy |
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| american buffalo was written by |
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| author costared in his own play bette and boo |
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| best known anglophone playwright |
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| Who was John Philip Kemble |
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| Ruled the English stage with his sister, Sarah Siddons |
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| american actor who managed the winter garden theatre in NY, gave shakespearian performances said to be unrivaled at the time |
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| who wrote metamora for edwin forrest |
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| who created the concept of the mystic chasm or gulf |
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| most violent theatre riot took place at |
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| who gets tied to the railroad tracks in under the gaslight |
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| what two developments besides the burgeoning middle class, technology and leisure time created such a great demand for theatre and entertainment in the 19th century |
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| industrialization and urbanization |
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| who wrote the inspector general |
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| who started the moscow art theatre |
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| stanislavski and nemirovich-danchenko |
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| the genere of comedy of manners lay dormant since sheridan's school for scandal untill it was revived by |
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| oscar wilde's lady windermere's fan |
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| humans are basically animals and will do anything to survive |
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| subject for naturalistic plays |
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| main proponent of naturalism in france |
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| checkov berated stanislavski for... |
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| neglecting the humor in his plays |
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| Dr. stockman attacked for finding the germs that were poising the water int he baths |
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| founded the theatre libre |
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| an african american theatre troupe that proved to white audiences that AA's were capable of producing serious drama |
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| written by chechov, reflects the changing class structure of turn of the century russia |
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| first professional american female playwright |
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| written by wilde after spending 2 years in prison for being romantically involved with lord alfred |
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| chairman on the board for freie buhne |
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| the father of modern drama |
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| stanislavski technique emphasizes... |
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| given circumstances, concentration and observation, through-line of the the role, |
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| the first auetur director |
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| best known for his constructivist settings |
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| why does Lopakhin want to destroy the cherry orchard in the cherry orchard |
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| it represents enslavement of his serf family aristocracy |
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| what major theatrical form was developed in china in the 19th century |
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| india native won the nobel prize for literature in 1913 |
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| strindberg had apsychotic episode after writing this play (cause he's crazy) |
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| the period between WWI and WWII offered |
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| escape from harsh realities and refelcted social upheavials |
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| how many times was brecht married, name one of his wives? |
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| twice, helene weigel was second wife |
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| group theatre's first original playwright |
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| which theatre artists had to flee germany to get away from the third reich |
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| max reinhart, erwin piscator and bertolt brecht |
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| which theatre did eva le gallienne run from 1926-1933 |
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| actors in the 20th century who started their careers in the 30's |
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| olivier, richardson, gielgud and barrymore |
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| acclaimed for his realistic acting of hamlet and richard the III |
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| expelled from the surrealist movement by andre breton |
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| one of the best known african american playwrights of the 1930's |
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| the company known for it's controversial living newspaper |
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| director who ran old vic and started theatres in canada and america |
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| agitation + propaganda- political theatre to push a political point of view |
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| problems with the federal theatre and his passion for justice led this playwright to write plays that would champion human liberties |
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| clifford odettes most important work |
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| eugene o'neills first play that won him acclaim |
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| the first and only playwright to recieve a nobel prize for literature |
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| premise of pirandells 6 characters in search of an author |
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| author created he characters but didn't give them a play so they are looking for someone to make a play for them to live |
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