Yiddish Theatre
Writer and Star of very double coded sitcom, Seinfeld.
Who is Jerry Seinfeld?
The play by Henrik Ibsen where a woman is treated like a decorative object by her husband, eventually leaving him.
What is A Doll’s House?
This movement can be recognized by its dark humor, cliches, irrational solutions and meaningless existence.
What is Absurdism?
A performance art piece that featured Indigenous people in a cage and commented on colonialism.
What is Couple in a Cage?
The play Indecent was based on.
What is God of Vengeance?
A theatre genre relying on cultural inflection, dark humor, and self deprecation.
What is Jewish Comedy?
A type of realism where the artists leave perspective entirely out of it, instead creating with objectivity.
What is Naturalistic Drama?
Beginning in 1909 Italy, this genre was very political and commented on industrialisation.
What is Futurism?
A type of art/theatre that has no defined form or space it takes up, but involves the actors playing themselves, rather than characters, to make a point.
What is performance art?
Used to symbolize ashes to ashes, dust to dust in Indecent.
What is sand?
A media choice that Jewish audiences understand to be Jewish, but Gentile audiences interpret as secular.
What is double coding?
French founder and pioneer of naturalism.
Who is Emile Zola?
This person developed Epic Theatre.
Who is Bertolt Brecht?
These actors performed in Couple in a Cage.
Who are Guillermo Gómez -Peña and Coco Fusco?
The language the Indecent characters were meant to be speaking when they spoke without an accent.
What is Hebrew?
The Jewish fool that is born that way, and won’t change.
Who is the Schlemiel?
French words for naturalistic documentaries.
What is cinema verite?
The most prominent playwright in Expressionism.
Who is Georg Kaiser?
The people that thought Couple in a Cage was for real and assumed Indiginous people were savages.
What are racists?
The year Indecent debuted on Broadway.
What is 2017?
A comic circuit that visited the Catskills and other Jewish locations that started many performance careers.
What is the Borscht Belt?
This French theatre invented the convention of the fourth wall.
What is Theatre Liberte?
This Greek playwright founded Theatre of Cruelty, inspired by his distaste of classic realism and his own experiences with mental illness.
Who is Antonin Artaud?
The practice of showing off bodies and lives of different races and cultures in a defamatory manner for people to watch and judge.
What is a human zoo?
The playwright of God of Vengeance.
Who is Sholem Asch?