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

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the history and conventional way of working as a theatre.

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Postmodern playwrights and directors are mainly concerned with

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the discontinuity of meaning.

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

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postmodern theatre attempts to illuminate the received truths of realism.

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

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dada

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

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nonlinear theatre

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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.

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The Open Theatre

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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?

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August Wilson

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

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Women are more under-represented today in theatre than at any point since the 1650s.

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

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Teatro Campesino

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

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Stuff Happens

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

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plays which dramatize the life of the ancient playwrights account for a quarter of the productions off Broadway

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The emergence of spectacular theatre was facilitated mainly by

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advanced theatre technology

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

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Christopher Marlowe was killed in a duel with a government official defending his right to stage Doctor Faustus.

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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?

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dance theatre

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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

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Off-Broadway

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Which of the following is NOT true of nonprofit theatres?

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"Nonprofit" means that no one makes a profit; therefore, actors, stage designers, and all members involved in the production receive no salaries.

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Which of the following is true of performance art?

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Performance art creates a provocative association of unexpected impressions around a given theme.

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

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

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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?

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Robert Wilson

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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?"

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Peter Brook

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

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Karen Finley

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Which of the following is NOT true of Broadway performances?

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The "Great White Way" has offered breakthrough teaching and acting positions through government-funded mentorships and apprenticeships.

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What description best characterizes the Borderlands Theatre?

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Bilingual productions for the local Mexican-American community with minimal staging

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

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include speeches in different languages.

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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?

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include speeches in different languages.

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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.

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True

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

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False

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

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True

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

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True

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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.

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True

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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.

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False

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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.

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True

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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.

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True

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

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True

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

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False

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