7 - B

Question 1

most prevalent of isms in western theatre

Answer 1

realism

Question 2

what were the roots of the isms in the 19th century

Answer 2

Culture and technology shifts

Question 3

What shift was related to realism

Answer 3

Shift to science and political figures

• Sigmund Freud
• Charles Darwin

stories about everyday people’s problems

Question 4

Three writers of realism

Answer 4

• Anton Chekhov
• Henrik Ibsen
• Stanislovaski

Question 5

Who wrote the Seagull?

Answer 5

Chekhov

Question 6

When and where was the realism movement started

Answer 6

France 1860

Question 7

Three general precepts of realism

Answer 7

1. Truth resides in material objects we perceived to all 5 senses (truth is verified through science)
2. The scientific method would solve everything
3. Human problems were the highest, were the home of science

Question 8

Art to better humanity

Answer 8

Realism

Question 9

Aesthetic distance

Answer 9

Ability to observe a work of art with a degree of detachment and objectivity

Question 10

Duke of Saxe Meiningen

Answer 10

First modern director

Realism

Question 11

Ability to observe a work with a degree of detachment and objectivity

Answer 11

Aesthetic distance

Question 12

Practitioners of realism, two playwrights

Answer 12

Chekhov and Ibsen

Question 13

Outspoken advocate of neaturalism

Answer 13

Andre Antoine

Question 14

Sought to challenge conservative European culture

And best playwright of this genre

Answer 14

French Absurdist

Samuel Beckett

Question 15

Most radical reaction to realism

Answer 15

Theatre of cruelty

Question 16

Addressed underrepresentation of women in theatre

Answer 16

Feminist theatre

Question 17

Creators of living theatre

Answer 17

Julian Beck and Judith Malina

Question 18

Spur of the moment theatre events

Answer 18

Happenings

Question 19

Pioneer of performance art

Answer 19

Spalding Gray

Question 20

3 people involved in major development to emergence of realism

Answer 20

August Comte
Charles Darwin
Karl Max

Question 21

Who wrote the seagull

Answer 21

Anton Chekhov

Question 22

Pioneered use of technology to bring realism to the stage

Answer 22

David Belasco

Question 23

Write plays with characters that reaccess personal values when faced with extreme circumstances

Answer 23

Jean Paul Sarte

Question 24

Who wrote bald soprano

Answer 24

Eugene Ionesco

Question 25

“Addressed first of all to the ____ rather than to the mind”

Answer 25

Senses

Question 26

Who wrote the Heidi chronicles

Answer 26

Wendy Wasserstein

Question 27

Silent plays with characters, plot, and story

Answer 27

Mimodramas

Question 28

Movement bursting out of immobility to create moving sculptures

Answer 28

Statuary mime

Question 29

Who created open theatre

Answer 29

Joseph Chaikin

Question 30

Relies on actual primary sources

Answer 30

Docudrama

Question 31

___ wanted to create ___ that were primal and poetic

Answer 31

Artuad Spectacles

Question 32

Samuel Beckets most famous absurdist play

Answer 32

Waiting for Godot

Question 33

Antoine was primary director of

Answer 33

Theatre Libre

Question 34

Theatre reflects the ___ and ideas of the culture that produces it

Answer 34

values