Federal Theatre Project
The year in which the FTP was founded.
What is 1931?
The country in which the Mustache Brothers live and perform.
What is Myanmar?
The medium for performance art.
This Jewish play was the first to show a kiss between two women on stage.
What is God of Vengeance?
A stylized German movement that showed conflict between man, money, and machines.
What is expressionism?
The goal of the FTP.
What is keeping theatre professionals employed until the economy improved?
What the Mustache Brothers mainly comment on.
What is politics?
The goal of performance art.
What is disrupting the 'normal'?
The author of God of Vengeance.
Who is Sholem Asch?
An Italian movement that dealt with politics, youth, violence, and manifestos.
What is futurism?
Plays that became popular during FTP that were about real things that were happening at the time.
What are living newspapers?
The place that the Mustache Brothers performed.
What is their own house?
The performance art discussed in class.
What is The Couple in the Cage?
The intended audience for God of Vengeance.
Who is everyone?
An illogical, unrealistic, random, and odd style that often has many different things happening at once with made up languages.
What is dadaism?
The number of people the FTP employed.
What is 15,000?
The reason some members of the Mustache Brothers were arrested.
What is negatively joking about politics?
The endings of performance art.
What is unpredictable?
What the company of God of Vengeance was arrested for.
What is obscenity?
A circus-like style with no legitimate conflict, dark humor, and comedic or absurd endings.
What is absurdism?
What FTP was initiated under.
What is the New Deal?
What tourists and the family say about the Mustache Brothers.
What is tirelessly optimistic?
The most unique and appealing part of performance art.
What is the audience is part of the happening?
What the God of Vengeance playwright wrote women as.
What is realistic, strong, and struggling?
A fantastic style that includes unnatural or irrational juxtapositions that often includes symbolism.
What is surrealism?