Terms
This is the study of history and historical writing.
What is historiography?
This type of theatre was associated with modernity, hyper-masculinity, and violence.
What is Futurism?
This person was a founder of the Provincetown Players.
Who was Susan Glaspell?
This play is within the genre of Symbolism.
What is The Intruder?
This maps out a "traditional" or well-made dramatic structure.
What is Freytag's Pyramid?
This person may help with research, lobby displays, translation, and new play development.
What is a Dramaturg?
This theatrical genre exaggerates elements to produce strong feelings and emotions in its audience.
What is Expressionism?
This person is associated with Dadaism.
Who was Tristan Tzara?
This person wrote The Good Woman of Setzuan.
Who was Bertolt Brecht?
International tours by an early predecessor of this Irish theatre influenced Eugene O'Neill, amongst other names in the Little Theatre Movement.
What is the Abbey Theatre?
This acting style imparts a specific attitude or mood together with a set of gestures.
What is Gestus/Gest?
Dream-like images and random juxtapositions characterize this theatrical genre.
What is Surrealism?
These sisters were involved in the Little Theatre Movement.
Who were Edna & Norma St. Vincent Millay?
This play would be particularly challenging to stage, with its use of, amongst other things, multiple scorpions and oversized body parts.
What is The Breasts of Tiresias?
This is a declaration of the aims, goals, and purposes of a movement.
What is a Manifesto?
This is a feeling of distancing caused in the audience that a playwright or director purposefully inserts into their play or production.
What is Alienation Effect/Estrangement Effect?
In this theatrical genre, meanings are expressed using specific imagery.
What is Symbolism?
This person was known as a playboy and wrote Snow in Midsummer.
Who was Guan Hanqing?
The Machinal is a play within this genre.
What is Expressionism?
Most of your sources for your research paper will belong to this category.
What are Secondary Sources?
These "tile districts" were neighborhoods focusing on amusements, including performance, in Northern China.
What were Wazi?
This type of theatre, in which only one performer sang, was performed in Northern China.
What is Zaju?
This person was an American theatrical designer (scenic, lighting, and costume.)
Who was Robert Edmond Jones?
What are Sintesi?
This person was an English modernist theatre designer as well as a director.
Who was Edward Gordon Craig?