Exam 10: Theatre Today

Which American playwright created works,including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,Fences,and The Piano Lesson,that portray different aspects of African American life in each decade of the twentieth century?

You are an artistic director of a brand new community theatre! You are overwhelmed by all the theatre genres to choose from.Explain how you will go about narrowing your season selections down.Think about budget,audience,board of directors,and so on.

Discuss the relationship between theatre and current news stories,describing their connection.What role does the political world play in theatre? Could you use the new wave of technology to explore current events in a production to reach all ages?

The variety of theatre introduced in the 1960s that denotes semi-professional or even amateur theatre in the New York/Manhattan area,often in locations such as church basements,YMCAs,and coffeehouses,is commonly known as off-off-Broadway.

What description best characterizes the Borderlands Theatre?

Which of the following is TRUE of performance art?

Discuss why the theatre of today truly represents our lives right now.Think of culture,politics,social media,social issues,and so on.Give examples from specific plays you are familiar with to further explain your ideas.

Which of the following plays was used in a work of applied drama at the San Quentin State Prison in 1957?

Athol Fugard is one of the world's most prominent playwrights from Australia.

Productions that consist almost entirely of expressive movement,dance,music,and light are referred to as physical theatre.

The term "dangerous theatre" is highly ironic: this movement's plays are straightforward and fun and avoid any political or physical altercations.

Professional theatres operating on significantly reduced budgets and located primarily in New York neighborhoods,some very near actual Broadway theatres,became collectively known in the 1950s as

Theatre Breaking Through Barriers employs actors ________ for all their productions.

Which of the following is NOT true of the role of women in the history of drama?

Consider some of the challenges involved in presenting "dangerous" theatre today,given that this type of theatre often engages with violent content.How might directors depict the violence of the modern world,while still acknowledging that audience members may have experienced their own traumas?

Where should a site-specific production of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet be mounted?

Shakespeare festivals,which began in the Great Depression and which now exist in every state,originated with summer stock productions.

Which region in Europe has been producing,according to many critics,the most exciting theatre of today,featuring subversive political ideas and artistic flamboyance conveyed through classical plays?

America does not embrace community theatre and looks down on it.

Theatre of community features works created for a community,by members of that same community,that often express,celebrate,and sometimes critique the culture of their creators.