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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
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