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Question: Robert Wilson’s productions juxtapose visual images; often of a variety of styles, cultures and historical periods, out of which each spectator constructs his or her own associations and meanings
Choices:
True
False
Question: Which BEST describes some of the ideas and practices of Postmodernism?
Choices:
Mingling of elements from disparate styles, periods, or cultures
Realistic elements blended with fragmented, suggested scenery
A blending of music, song, and dance
There are many stylistic categories and each is clearly defined
Question: Environmental theatre blurs the distinctions between acting space and audience space
Choices:
True
False
Question: Which was the first play by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway?
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Raisin in the Sun
The Colored Museum
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Night Mother
Question: What type of dramatic structure does How I Learned to Drive use?
Choices:
An episodic plot structure in which the action moves forward and backwards in time through associations structured through a central metaphor of a driving lesson
An absurdist structure in which a state of being rather than a dramatic question is explored
A climatic plot structure with a late point of attack which begins on the day of Lil’Bit’s high school graduation
Question: Which is considered an important factor in the revival of the American musical?
Choices:
All of these
The Disney corporation producing musicals
The 42nd Street Development Project
Adapting movies into musicals
Question: Josef Svoboda is among those typically credited with
Choices:
Increasing the quick transformable quality of stage scenery
The use of multiple screens of varied sizes hung at varied distances from the audience on which different images were projected
All of these
None of these
The incorporation of film with live performers
Question: Off-Broadway theatres were founded as a way to produce plays that the typical Broadway audiences probably wouldn’t come see
Choices:
True
False
Question: Which Off-Off Broadway theatre offers plays free of charge in central park?
Choices:
LaMama
The Circle in the Square
The New York Shakespeare Festival
The Manhattan Theatre Club
Question: Which theatre became the prototype for regional theaters in the U.S.?
Choices:
The Goodman
The Guthrie
Theatre ‘47
Actors’ Theatre of Louisville
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