Genres
This Latinx playwright often wrote and directed in the style of environmental theatre.
Who was Maria Irene Fornes?
This is Dr. McCabe's favorite play.
What is By the Bog of Cats?
This is Dr. McCabe's favorite playwright.
Who is Marina Carr?
These shows are adapted from films.
What is a "Movical"?
This culture has a particularly strong performance tradition and can cite theatre practitioners including Hubert Ogunde and Wole Soyinka as members.
What is the Yoruban culture?
This is the term for musicals which do not necessarily strictly follow a standard, clear plot and are often instead more focused around a particular theme.
What are concept musicals?
This issue overshadows the characters' lives and interactions in Athol Fugard's play 'MASTER HAROLD'... and the boys.
What was apartheid?
This playwright worked with international organizations and produced a play based on interviews from survivors of violent conflict and genocide.
Who is Lynn Nottage?
Storytellers in Africa are often known as this.
What is a griot?
This theatre is known for larger-than-life, politically-active shows and puppets.
What is Bread and Puppet?
Caryl Churchill's play Cloud 9 belongs to this genre.
What is feminist theatre?
This rock musical was visionary and dealt with many taboo social topics of its time, including but not limited to STIs, drug use, prostitution, sexualities, and gender identities.
What is Rent?
This First Nations playwright included an historical figure in their non-linear play.
Who is Daniel David Moses?
These are the terms for the styles frequently employed by Suzan-Lori Parks in her plays, as seen in The America Play.
What are rep and rev / rest?
Due to controversies surrounding the individuals known unofficially as the "NEA Four", the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer fund this.
Who are solo performance artists?
This genre, developed around the time/shortly after World War II, is known for its bleak outlook on the human condition.
What is Absurdism?
Fences by August Wilson is part of a series of plays known by these title(s).
What is the American / American Century / Pittsburgh Cycle?
Paula Vogel structured one of her plays around lessons of this nature.
What are driving lessons / How I Learned to Drive ?
These accolades are presented to off-Broadway productions.
What is an OBIE Award?
This theatre organization once employed thousands of theatre practitioners of all specialties across the United States during the Great Depression.
What is the Federal Theatre Project?
This genre involves non-traditional shows that are often site-specific, situated in the practitioner's body, and may not be formally classified as "theatre" as we know it.
What is Performance Art?
This group helped clean up Times Square when it began producing musicals on Broadway.
What is Disney?
This practitioner developed a "third language" in Arabic drama in Egypt during the twentieth century.
Who was Tawfiq al-Hakim?
These are skits or sketches influenced by Cesar Chavez's work and performed with a bold, exaggerated acting style after being developed from improvisations with farm workers and frequently performed on the back of flatbed trucks.
What are Actos?
This group is focused on promoting First Nations theatre and performance, including Daniel David Moses' play Almighty Voice and His Wife.
What is Native Earth Performing Arts?