Group Theatre
Group theatre strived to create this kind of theatre
What is socially conscious theatre?
The writer of Indecent
Who is Paula Vogel?
An art form that brings visual art to life and usually portrays a meaning
What is performance art?
A form of theatre in which immigrants bring their performance traditions with them
What is Immigrant Theatre?
A project during the New Deal that’s purpose was to create jobs for unemployed theatrical people during the Great Depression
What is The Federal Theatre Project?
This popular acting method came about because of Group Theatre
What is Method Acting?
Play that Indecent was based on which sparked major controversy and got people arrested for “obscenity”
What is God of Vengeance?
Performance art is a way to bring art, performance, and peaceful _____ together
What is protest?
The musical that dramatizes the Jewish pogrom
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
An independent federal agency that is the largest funder of the arts and arts education nationwide
What is the National Endowment for the Arts?
These people founded Group Theatre in NY in 1931
Who is Lee Strrasberg, Cheryl Crawford and Harold Clurman?
Religion that Indecent is representing onstage
What is Judaism?
A performance art piece in which two Amerindians visit the west in a cage by artists Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña in which a majority of the audience were exposed for having a very western viewpoint
What is the Couple in the Cage?
The play written by Paula Vogel based on God of Vengeance, a play that sparked major controversy surrounding Jewish culture and immigrant theatre
What is Indecent?
These were set up in 23 cities throughout the US and provided employment to hundreds of black actors, directors, theatre technicians, and playwrights
What are Negro Theatre Units?
Group theatre produced this popular play
What is The House of Connelly?
The writer of God of Vengeance
Who is Sholem Asch?
A performance art piece in Zurich that included shouting, dancing, reading poems, singing, and so much more that was the start of Dada.
What is Cabaret Voltaire?
A type of Jewish immigrant theatre that took place on the Lower East Side of NY
What is Yiddish Theatre?
Theater that is an effort to manipulate the audience’s beliefs and values through the use of symbols
What is AgitProp Theatre?
Group theatre wasn’t successful because they too _____.
What is idealistic?
Indecent was the winner of two of these major Drama awards
What are the Tony Awards?
Performance Art usually requires the _____ to participate
What is the Audience?
The busiest immigration inspection station which led to so much immigrant theatre being held in New York
What is Ellis Island?
The Vassar professor and director of Federal Theatre
Who is Hallie Flannagan?