Defintion
a group of white performers in black face that grew in popularity around the 1820’s
What is the Ethiopian Delineators?
Who is the 'Father of Realism'?
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
the first black play ever published
What is The Escape?
I will also accept A Leap for Freedom.
Who wrote the Origin of Species?
Who is Charles Darwin?
List three absurdist playwrights?
Who is..
Samuel Beckett
Eugene Ionesco
Harold Pinter
Jean-Paul Sartre
an african-american form of performance where they circle around with songs and dance
What is a ring shout?
Whose main influence is in Epic Theatre?
Who is Bertolt Brecht?
in 2001, she was the first black woman to win a pulitzer prize
Who is Suzan Lori-Parks?
Who wrote the Seagull?
Who is Anton Chekov?
List three expressionist playwrights?
Who is...
August Strindberg
Elmer Rice
Eugene O'Neill
a queer-coded fashion subgenre
What is fop or dandy?
Who was the one of the earliest and most famous of the commedia dell’arte companies?
Who was iGelosi?
the first interracial Broadway collaboration
What is Street Scene?
Who was the human theorist that brought forth ideas of the human conscience as well as self preservation and procreation?
Who is Sigmund Freud?
List three black works discussed in class?
What is...
Fences
The Piano Lesson
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
The Drama of King Shotaway
The Escape AKA A Leap for Freedom
In Dahomey
Rachel
Raisin in the Sun
Dutchman and the Slave
In the Wine Time
Goin' a Buffalo
The Gentleman Caller
The Talking of Miss Janie
The Wiz
Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death!
What is any work that is experimental, innovative, or unconventional?
What is Avant-Garde?
Who were the two types society that commedia dell'arte influenced by?
Who were scholarly society and street performers?
a black playwright that had notable works like Fences and The Piano Lesson
Who is August Wilson?
Which playwright put forth the ideas of the Theory of the Grotesque?
Who is Victor Hugo?
List the four main changing influences of Realism?
What/Who are...
Photography
Lighting
Sigmund Freud
Charles Darwin
the first openly trans playwright
Who is Jo Clifford?
Who founded the Moscow Art Theatre?
Who are Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Dranchenko.
Thearte was _______ until the 20th century.
What is censored?
Who wrote Pygmalion (My Fair Lady)?
Who is George Bernard Shaw?
List the four theatres that were producing realism and naturalism.
Who are...
Theatre Libre -Free Theatre
Freie Buhne- Free Stage
The English Independent Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre