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WTH2 - Exam 2
World Theatre History 2 - Exam 2
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 3
05/07/2013

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Term
Abbey Theatre
(T/F)
Definition
1st Theatre in Ireland
Promoted Irish Artists & Writers
Term
Expressionism & Surrealism
(T/F)
Definition
Expressionism & Surrealism were becoming popular BUT not as important as Realism
ANSWER: FALSE
Term
"The Bluebird"
(T/F)
Definition
by Maeterlinck
Term
A Good Example of Expressionism
(T/F)
Definition
"Metropolis"
Term
Eugene O'Neill's Father, James O'Neill was Famous for...
(T/F)
Definition
"Count of Monte Cristo"
Term
The Styles of Eugene O'Neill's plays
(T/F)
Definition
Expressionism, Realism, & Symbolism
(He did more than one!)
Term
"The Theatre & It's Double"
(T/F)
Definition
by Antonin Artaud
It's a book (just a book, not a play.)
Term
Did Antonin Artaud care about social change?
(T/F)
Definition
NO!!
He's a surrealist.
Term
"Three Penny Opera"
(T/F)
Definition
Originally "The Beggars Opera"
Became "Sweeney Todd"
Term
The Intent of Alienation Effect
(T/F)
Definition
Not trying to entertain the audience.
Remind the Audience they are watching a play.
Term
George Kaiser
(T/F or Matching)
Definition
German Expressionist Playwright
Term
Name of the theatre group that got into hot political water with "One Third of a Nation"
(T/F or Matching)
Definition
NOT THE LIVING NEWSPAPER
Term
Lafayette Players
(Matching)
Definition
African American Stock Company
(Not Asian)
Term
Marlin Brando
(Matching)
Definition
Actor Known for "Street Car Named Desire"
METHOD style of acting
Term
Pirandello
(Matching)
Definition
Italian Dramatist
Wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author"
Term
Eva Le Gallienne
(Matching)
Definition
Part of the Theatre Guild
Term
Hallie Flanagan
(Matching)
Definition
Director of the Federal Theatre Project
Term
Lee Strasberg
(Matching)
Definition
Founded the Group Theatre
Created the Actor's Studio
Term
Lady Gregory
(Matching)
Definition
Managed the Abbey Theatre
Term
Elmer Rice
(Matching)
Definition
Playwright
Wrote "The Adding Machine"
Term
Robert Edmund Jones
(Matching)
Definition
Scenic, Costume, & Lighting Designer during the Little Theatre Movement
Created a New Idea for Stagecraft
Term
Orson Wells
(Matching)
Definition
Directed "Citizen Kane" and "War of the Worlds"
Wrote "Voodoo Macbeth"
Term
Eugene O'Neill
(Matching)
Definition
Member of the Province town Players
Term
Afred Jarry
(Matching)
Definition
Wrote "Ubu Roi"
Term
Elements of Expressionism
(MC)
Definition
Not Realistic/Naturalistic
Not having to do with photographic reality
Term
Antonin Artaud
(MC)
Definition
Theatre of Cruelty
Term
New Stagecraft Movement:
When and Famous Designers?
(MC)
Definition
1920s-1950s
Appia & Craig, Mielziner, Oenslager
Term
Surrealism
(MC)
Definition
Surrealism aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control.
Truth buried deep in psyche & Conscious mind must be subverted = Freud
Dali - dreamlike
Term
Group Theatre
(MC)
Definition
Founded by Clurman, Strasberg, Crawford
NYC
Realistic Writing Style
Created the American Method of acting
Term
Berliner Ensemble
(MC)
Definition
Founded by Brecht
International, toured a lot
One of the most famous theatres in the 1920's
Still going on today
Term
Paul Robeson
(MC)
Definition
Became famous by being the 1st black performer to do an all black music concert onstage on Broadway
Term
Federal Theatre Project
Why did they stop getting funded?
(MC)
Definition
They were pointing fingers at the government.
They weren't being conservative with their plays.
Term
Adolphe Appia
(MC)
Definition
Swiss Architect & Designer
Term
Gordon Craig
(MC)
Definition
20th Century (NOT 19th Century)
"Ubermarionette" - total control over everything.
Term
Aphra Behn
(Comprehensive)
Definition
Spy, writer, actor
Earned living by writing plays & novels
Term
Argand Lamp
(Comprehensive)
Definition
10x as bright as a candle
spotlight
19th Century (1800's NOT 1700's)
Term
Local Color
(Comprehensive)
Definition
distinctive, picturesque scene
Romanticism
Used colored gauze to change color of light
Term
Strindberg
(Comprehensive)
Definition
Wrote a lot of different types - Naturalism, Symbolism, Expressionism
(MORE THAN JUST TWO)
Term
Father of Modern Drama
(Comprehensive)
Definition
Henrik Ibsen
Well made play
Social issues
characterization
wrote "Hedda Gabler"
Term
Neoclassic Unity
(Comprehensive)
Definition
Time
Place
Action
Term
Elements of Italianate Scenery that were adopted in the 17th Century English Theatre
(Comprehensive)
Definition
Prospective Painting
Stock Sets
Proscenium Arch
Term
Wagner
(Comprehensive)
Definition
German Director of Operas
Inspiried Appia
Unified Sets - Levels
Term
Theatres that developed during the independent theatre movement
(Comprehensive)
Definition
The Theatre Libre,
The Court Theatre,

PROVINCETOWN PLAYHOUSE
- Ibsen & Strindberg
- Everyone was payed equally
-(shareholding company)
Term
Romanticism & Melodrama - demanded new methods of staging:
(Comprehensive)
Definition
No-stock sets
yes - special effects
yes - choreographer
diaorama & panorama
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