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When, where, and who wrote the Good Woman of Setzuan written?
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Denmark, 1941, Brecht
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Represented deteriorism of morality under capatilism (Shen Te's evil cousin)
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Shui Ta
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The theme of Good Woman of Setzuan
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society created out of economic facting
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Conflict of Good Woman of Setzuan
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Shen Te forced to do evil in order to do good
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Time period of Good Woman of Setzuan and how do we know this?
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WW2, because Shen Te's husband is a pilot
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"When water is scarce, I have to go long ways to get it and when it's plentiful, I have no income" reflects _______
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the stock market
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historification is an exotic place to show what?
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how society can change
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Song and dance in a play are good examples of _________
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alienation
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Brecht used historification, alienation, and _______to describe his thatre
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epic
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Good Woman of Setzuan, Mother Courage, adn ___________are examples of epic theatre
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Galileo
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Was a propenent of new music, and was a composer of most of Brecht's plays like the three penny opera.
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Kurt Weill
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French playwright Antonin Artaud produced Le Cenci (his only play), had a great impact on theatre by using theatre cruelty (attacking the audience) Where did he spend the majority of his life?
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in an insane asylum
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Marate Sade was written by
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Peter Weiss
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Peter Brook directed Marat Sade which was an example of Artuad's Theater __________
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cruelty
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Th art of walking
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Noh
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Bunraku is also known as _______theatre
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puppet
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Kabuki originated as an all-(male or female) class before
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female
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Chinese Opera is called Peking (aka ________) opera
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Beiging
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The monkey king is known as what personality type
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practical joker
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Chinese Opera, which is an all gender type of theate, was either a romance or _______storyline
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quest
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This style doesn't do contemporary, modern plays.
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Chinese Opera
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Minkstreky is a stereotype of this type of lives for blacks.
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plantation
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An arena is round, a thrust has three sides, and a this type of theater has out front seating
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proscerium
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__________players reproduced Broadway playes in Harlem
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Lafayette
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The little theatre movement started by producing plays at this square in NYC.
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Washington Square
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Broadway had to have a minimum of this many contracts per play
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14
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Off-broadway plays were performed in Greenwich Village with a max of ______seats
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299
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Off-off broadway was originated in Cafe Cino, with a max of ___seats
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99
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Cafe La Mama was an off-offbroadway production by _________
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Ellen Stewart
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________founded th African Drove Company
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William Brown
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Ira Aldridge acted with Edmond King and wrote __________
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The Black Doctor
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Othello and _______III were the two most popular plays of African Theatre
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Richard
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W.E.B. Dubois belived theatre should be "about, by, for, and never black", was the first african american out of Hharvard and founded the ________
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NAACP
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This african american playwright said "I was born black and female" and wrote Raisin in the Sun
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Lorraine Hansberry
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The style of roosters
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Magic realism
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Inventor of "choreo poem", wrote 10 play cylce (Joe Torres Come and Gone)
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August Wilson
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axiel movement is performed _________
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while standing still
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Climatic movement of roosters
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Angela ressurected into new life
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Amini Baraka advocated destruction of _____domination while writing in the 60s(a militant)
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Euroamerican
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Costume design elements of shape include mind, shape, mass, texture, and _______
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color
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most dangerous place in theatre
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costume shop
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evocative does what?
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sparks the imagination
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Churman, Crawford, and Strashers are all names of ________ theatre
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Group
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Group theatre practiced art, adopted Berris Loslkey's method, and had how long of a membership
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lifelong
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Tenesse Williams acted in eat on a hot tin rood and _______menagerie
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glass
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The method utilized sense of memory, transformation, and _______
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improv
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Arthur Miller wrote _______and was part of selective realism
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Death of a Salesman
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Edward Albee was a major part of selective realism and wrote
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who's afraid of virginia woolf
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Elia Kazan was one of the first to testify to
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the house of un-american activities
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The most important scenic designer, used visual metaphors, and stidied w/robert edmond jones
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jo mielziner
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Luigi Pirandello wrote this play thinking there is no ultimate truth
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Six characters in search of an author
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Existentialism is that god doesnt exist...what two names are invovled here
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jean paul sartre and alber camus
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Waiting for Godot is an example of _______, where nothing seems to happen
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Theatre of the Absurd
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Beckett wrote
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Happy Days
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Beckett won the nobel piece prize focusing on the essential, the minimal, and the unadorned adn was famous for
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waiting for godot, endgame, krapp's last tape
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who created a chorus line based on experiences as a gypsy
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Michael Bennet
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A Chorus line had the longest running play til
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Cats
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the first american musical was ________
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the black crook
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Over there was written by ________Jones
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Little Johnny
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based on shaw's pygmalion, julie andrews starred in it, rex harrison as henry higgings, and learner and low
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my fair lady
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Porgy and bess signigiant on how they portrayed __________
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blacks
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Based on a book by Edna Ferber, and was a risk for producer florenz ziegfeld
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show boat
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Rogers and Hammerstein integrated music, story, lyrics, and dance in this musical
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oklahoma
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Music by leanord bernstein, book by stephen sondheim and is a musical production of romeo and julietq
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west side story
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