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Question: Eugene O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape” is an example of an “Epic Theatre” play
Choices:
True
False
Question: Ibsen’s dramas were considered controversial because:
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They challenged existing moral values and social norms
They focused on lower-class characters and unsavory life-styles
They sensationalized violence through elaborate spectacle
Question: Who is usually considered the first director, in the modern sense?
Choices:
Konstantin Stanislavsky
Richard Wagner
George II, duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Emile Zola
Question: Which are playwrights whose works characterized American psychological realism of the early postwar years?
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Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams
Elia Kazan and Jo Mielziner
Samuel Beckett and Oscar Hammerstein
Thornton Wilder and Robert Edmund Jones
Question: Which is associated with Bertolt Brecht’s Epic Theatre?
Choices:
The use of fragmented scenery and unmasked lighting instruments
All of these
None of these
The interplay of theatrical elements, with each making its own statement
Creating “alienation,” so that the audience watches actively and critically
Question: What musical is often cited as the first to fully integrate music, story, dance and visual elements to support the dramatic action?
Choices:
Les Miserables
Oklahoma
Cats
Of Thee I Sing
Question: Realism and naturalism were based on the idea that character is determined by heredity and environment
Choices:
True
False
Question: Stanislavsky believed that on stage the actor should be free to improvise spontaneously
Choices:
True
False
Question: The independent theatre movement:
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a. Got around the censorship laws governing public performance by staging “private” performances
Staged popular melodramas on stages specially equipped for aquatic or equine effects
Staged public performances of cutting edge dramas by young, unpublished writers
Question: The Federal Theatre Project
Choices:
Was a nationwide program that aimed to provide jobs and Americans with free, adult, uncensored theatre
Was limited to the state of California where the liberal state legislature strongly supported it
Was sponsored by the government during the economic boom of the early 1920s
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