Intro To Theatre Test One

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The purpopse of theatre is to entertain, conver and artistic message, and...

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teach

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which of the following elements affects the relationships in a theatrical space?

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formality, size, and audience arrangement

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In theatre we have recognizable patters, but they must be__________, otherwise they're just ___.

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meaningful, coincidence

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A citizen in Ancient Greece meant

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enfranchised males

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which of the following were most important to Greek society?

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religion, civic duty

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Dionysus is the god of?

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Wine and fertility

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An___ is a cart used to wheel out dead bodies on the ancient Greek stage.

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Eccyclema

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Where was the Theatre of Dionysus located?

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on the south slope of the Acropolis

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How many plays were contributed by each playwright at a theatrical competition?

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Three comedies and one satyr play

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Select the letter which names the playwrights in order from oldest to most recent:

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Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides

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Who was considered the most 'modern' of these writers?

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Euripides

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Which of the following was not a Greek tehatricdal convention?

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different costumes for each character

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Who took responsibility for the pagent wagons in the processionals?

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the guilds

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Which of the following is not a technical aspect of dramatic action?

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artistic

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After we moved into the Elizabethan era, what did teatre focus on?

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legends, historical chronicles, and classic stories

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The Elizabethan era can be pinpointed as the time that theatre became?

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commerical

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Which theatre was widely considered the first permanent purpose-built theatre?

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the theatre

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which was not true about Elizabethan theatre?

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they didn't have to worry about censors

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what were the spectators who watched from the Yard called?

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groundlings

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Seating on four sides of the stage

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Arena/ in the round

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clearly makred division between the stage and the audience

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procenium

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props and furniture used more than scenery, so audience can see from many angles

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arena/ in the round

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seating on three sides

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thrust

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seating can be arranged in many configurations

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flexible

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has a fly system

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procenium

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lots of possibilites for innofaction, like actors using same space as audience

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flexible

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similar to a standard stage, but moves the actors deeper into the audience

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thrust

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these plays were the first performed on the steps of the church, and were allegories spoken in the vernacular

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morality

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performed in a processional, these plays were not officially connected to the church

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mystery

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these were performed in church, in latin, by church officials

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liturgical

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these plays were also called miracle plays or passion plays

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saints

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the exit of the chorus was called the

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exodos

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the interactions between characters were called

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episode

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the entrance of the chorus was called the

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parados

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the first portion of the play was called the

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prologue

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te part wehre the chorus sang and danced was clled an

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ode

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T/F: A street or a warehouse could be theatrical spaces, as well as traditional theatres

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True

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T/F: Dionysus was the son of Zues and another god.

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False

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T/F: We know for sure that women did not participate in a ny part of the City Dionysia

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Fales

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T/F: A Machina is a literary convention, not a stage convention

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False

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T/F: Elizabethan professional theatres supported themselves only with their ticket sales

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False

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T/F: There was no froof over the center of The Globe theatres

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Truse

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T/F: Theatre and Cinema both rely on audience/actor reciprocity

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False

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T/F: One benefit of cinema is that it can more easily focus the audience's attention.

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True

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Eric Bently described teatre as __ performs ___ for ___

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A, B, C

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The most important part of the process for playwrights is

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rewriting

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the producer is mainly concerned with ___ so that s/he can profice the ___ necessary to put on a play.

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finances, resources

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In addition to production duties, a producer may also be concerned with:

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selecting a season, fundrasing

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Which is not a standard obligation for a director?

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researching the historical period

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this type of audition is a superficial "narrowing down" of the actors, and someone could be sent home based on physical appearance:

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open call

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stage images are visual compositions that reflect

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situation, emotion, relationship

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which is not one of the three types of movement we discussed?

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upstang/downstage

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Who would be responsible for researching the historical period of the play?

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dramaturg

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it's a designer's job to read the play for meaning, and also for

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cues

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the most important thing a set design must do is provide

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opportunities

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what function do all the design areas have in common?

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they set the mood and atmosphere

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a set design must combine ___ and ___

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function, appearance

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"whings' are what kind of soft scenery unity?

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draperies

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this kind of soft scenery unity can be opaque or transparent

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scrim

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what is a basic framed unit called

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flat

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which design element's major tast is to establish a character's economic status, time, and place?

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costume

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to change a light's intensity means to change its

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brightness

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what kind of sound is a doorbell

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reinforcement of action

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acting is an exstension of human behavior, an __ and __ of how people move, speak and interact

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imitation, augmentation

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the three main areas an actor would approach in training are

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voice, movement, scene study

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the are of the stage closest to the audience is

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downstage

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What is the term for Stanislavski's method/technique of acting

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emotion memory

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what does an actor's Ethical connection to a charater mean?

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the coices they make in crisis

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If you wanted to make a comment on how deep an actor's voice was, you would refer to

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pitch

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romantics felst that truth could be found in

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the details

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which of the following was not an aspect of melodrama

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they are all aspects of melodrama

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realism was concerned with the influence of ___ and ___ on characters

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heredity, environment

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the realists wrote mostly about __ subjects

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contemporary

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What two authors influenced the advent of Realism

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Freuid and Darwin

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Realists and Naturalists sought to understand human behavior in terms of natural __ and ___

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cause, affect

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the major argument against realism was that it was gratuitous and disqusting. the realists countered by saying that:

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they focused on what actually happened, trugh, reality

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rejected all established forms in favor of entirelly new forms

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futurism

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truth isn't rational and can't be represented, favored metaphor

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symbolism

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replaced logic, reason and unity with chance and illogic

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dadaism

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T/F: Expressionist productions often had the actors performing mechanized or robotic movement

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True

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T/F: The emergence of cinema circa 1929 was interesting, but it didn't really have a big affect on theatre

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Falso

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T/F: Expressionist production approach took care not to reflect the character's condidion in the settingq

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False

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T/F: The Group Theatre was modeled on Stanslavsky's Moskow Art Theatre and Method Acting technique

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True

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T/F: The NEA subsidizes art through limited term grants, not guaranteed support

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True

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T/F: The United States considers subsidization of art to be a cultural responsibility

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False

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T/F: Brecht's production technique asked that all the design elements worked together to be a cohesive whole, instead of being fragmented

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False

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T/F: Absurdism denied human beings ability to make rational choices

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True

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T/F: Bertolt Brecht was strongly influenced by communism

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True

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The domant form after WWI continued to be

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simplified realism

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Elia Kazan halped to define the production style of phychological realism, which included skeletal sets that allowed

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easy shifts of time and space

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Expressionism emerged in 1910 in

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Germany

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___ was a form of theatre theory that preceded Absurdism and denied the existance of God and universal rules of moral conduct

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Existentialism

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Karen Finley and four other performance artists had their NEA grants vetoed because of claims of

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Indecency

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Max Reinhardt's directing style was known for

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recreating original audience-actor spatial relationships

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The 'well-made play' format requires that the play has

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believable resolution, clear exposition

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This theatre artist was the first to use the incandescent electric lamp in his lighting design around 1879

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Adolph Appia

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Theatre of Cruely was called by this title because

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the audience members were likely to be forced to confront unpleasant personal impulses

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Theatre of Cruely focused mostly on:

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internal, unconscious impulse

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to achieve Brecht's ideal of alienation, a production must

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inturrupt the audience's emotional involvement

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Brecht's theory of theatre asked audiences to be __ about the play they were seeing.

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critical

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What did the Expressionists see as the force destroying the human spirit?

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materialism and industrialism

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The Federal Theatre Project produced theatre about the world around them called:

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Living Newspaper

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The NEA stands for

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National Endowment for the Arts

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Two notable playwrights of psychological realism were

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miller and williams