THE 101 Chapter 10 – Flashcards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 classical plays?

The artist Marina Abramovic, who had a recent retrospective of her work entitled "The Artist is Present," is a key innovator in the genre of:

Which of the following is NOT true of nonprofit theatres?

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?

This production of Silviu Pucarete's has been running sold-out shows for five yeaers in the Romanian town of Sibiu:

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 description best characterizes the Borderlands Theatre?

An early example of theatre becoming a global art is:

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

If you were to mount a site-specific production of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet, you would stage it where?

Which of the following is NOT true of Broadway performances?

The term "dangerous theatre" is highly ironic: this movement's plays are straightforward fun and avoid any political or physical altercations.

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

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

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.

Yasmina Reza, while respected by critics, has failed to have any major commercial success.

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.