CHAPTER 11 Theatre Today MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS Please choose the best answer for the following questions. 1. The theatre may be considered a conservative institution because it conserves or preserves a. a consistent ideology characteristic of political parties. b. the history and conventional way of working as a theatre. c. the political and economic views of the time. d. the moral attitudes of a select group of people. Answer: b 2. Postmodern playwrights and directors
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The Human Situation on Stage: Merce Cunningham‚ Theodor Adorno‚ and the Category of Expression Carrie Noland Dance Research Journal‚ Volume 42‚ Number 1‚ Summer 2010‚ pp. 46-60 (Article) Published by University of Illinois Press DOI: 10.1353/drj.0.0063 For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/drj/summary/v042/42.1.noland.html Access Provided by University of Manchester at 07/08/10 10:18PM GMT Photo 1. Merce Cunningham in his Sixteen Dances for Soloist
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In Louise Nowra’s COSI‚ a semi-autobiographical drama‚ Nowra reveals that there is as much madness in the outside world as exists in an asylum. COSI reveals to the reader that madness does not discriminate; lunacy is no psychological construct and that madness is the perception of normality versus abnormality whereby no boundaries exist. Through the use of COSI Nowra is able to compare the delirium of the outside word to that of the mental institutes during the 1970’s‚ drawing upon the themes of
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Theatre 100 Final Exam Review Drake Union tour Remember the major rooms and theatres we toured Lecture #9: Sarah Ruhl & contemporary theatre Brecht- Epic theatre • Alienate audience to THINK‚ not FEEL • Use history to comment on present • Remind audience they are in theatre: open stagecraft‚ musical numbers‚ puppets‚ narrators‚ film Samuel Beckett & Absurdism • Characters in bizarre situations • Circular/static blots- things often repeat • Sparse language- talking past each other
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Points Awarded 90.00 Points Missed 0.00 Percentage 100% 1. What is a theatre critic? A) someone who has a very limited knowledge of the theatre B) someone who never likes anything C) someone who does not appreciate theatre as an art form D) someone who observes theatre and then analyzes and comments on it Points Earned: 2.0/2.0 Correct Answer(s): D 2. Which of the following is NOT an appropriate space for an off-off Broadway production? A) church B) warehouse C) basement
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times‚ made from silks and linens transporting you to the 1600�s‚ recreating the Globe�s theatre original productions. Staging was used effectively during this performance and continuously broke the fourth wall but not for the same effect as Brecht would have intended‚ instead to engage the audience. The theatre had a proscenium arch‚ end-on stage but interestingly the director had chosen to use thrust staging where the audience where placed on all three sides of the stage. This was created
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Roland Barthes The Death of the Author In his story Sarrasine‚ Balzac‚ speaking of a castrato disguised as a woman‚ writes this sentence: "It was Woman‚ with her sudden fears‚ her irrational whims‚ her instinctive fears‚ her unprovoked bravado‚ her daring and her delicious delicacy of feeling" Who is speaking in this way? Is it the story’s hero‚ concerned to ignore the castrato concealed beneath the woman? Is it the man Balzac‚ endowed by his personal experience with a philosophy of Woman? Is it
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Peter Shaffer’s Equus is neither great theatre nor bad psychology‚ but it has elements of both. It is an exhilarating play: a remarkable blend of delayed exposition and theatrical effect‚ of melodrama and circus‚ which has inspired huge ticket sales and adoring critical reviews. And it is that increasingly rare serious drama which capitalizes on lurid events while maintaining a devotion to ‘‘ideas.’’ Yet‚ in spite of its wide popular acclaim‚ Equus is difficult to sort out even when all the clues
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------------------------------------------------- Ballad From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For other uses‚ see Ballad (disambiguation). A ballad is a form of verse‚ often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas‚Australia and North Africa. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheetbroadsides. The form
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Progress Without People. Toronto: Between the Lines. _____________ (1997) Religion of Technology. New York: Oxford Books. Robins‚ Kevin and Frank Webster (1999) Times of the Technoculture. London and New York: Routledge. Silberman‚ M . (2000)‚ Bertolt Brecht on Film and Radio. London: M etheun. Simpson‚ Lorenzo C. (1995) Technology‚ Time‚ and the Conversations of M odernity. New York and London: Routledge. Slouka‚ M ark (1995) War of the Worlds. New York: Harper and Row. Stoll‚ Clifford (1995) Silicon
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