Weeks 8 - 9 - 10 - 11
This is the theatrical genre that sought to replicated life exactly as it is onstage.
What is Naturalism?
This is the name for the theatrical genre that can be described as a "naturalistic horror show."
What is Grand Guignol?
This type of theatre centers around a social issue that the playwright wishes the audience to debate.
What is a Problem Play?
This small theatre staged original works by Susan Glaspell and Eugene O'Neill.
What is the Provincetown Players?
This is the realism-based Russian theatre where Meyerhold received his initial theatrical training.
What is the Moscow Art Theatre?
This genre emphasized the inner psychological motivations of the characters.
What is Realism?
This is Ireland's national theatre.
What is the Abbey Theatre?
This is how the sisters in Riders to the Sea know that the drowned body belongs to their brother.
What is the number of stitches in a hand-knot stocking?
This character is the unseen and unheard protagonist of the play Trifles.
Who is Mrs. Minnie Wright?
This theatrical genre emphasizes efficiency and minimalism in its designs, especially as the designs pertain to costuming and sets.
What is Constructivism?
This person wrote La Dame aux Camelias (Camille.)
Who is Alexandre Dumas, fils?
This playwright wrote works that included early feminist themes, though he himself did not consider himself a feminist, nor did he want to speak to women's groups who contacted him after the premiere of some of his plays.
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
This play has the "door slam heard 'round the world."
What is A Doll's House?
This found object was likely the tipping point for Mrs. Minnie Wright to strangle her husband.
What is a dead song bird with a broken neck?
This type of physical actor training used industrial terms to apply the efficiency of machines to the efficiency of actor movement.
What is Biomechanics?
This is what the title character dies from in Dumas, fils' play La Dame aux Camelias (Camille.)
What is tuberculosis/consumption?
This is the movement that ultimately resulted in the formation of the Abbey Theatre.
What is the Irish Literary Renaissance?
These two things factored into the Grand Guignol theatrical form losing popularity by the mid-twentieth century.
What are World War II and later focus on psychological drama rather than physical horror?
This genre was popular in Russia before Realism.
What is Melodrama?
This person is known as the Father of Modern Acting.
Who is Constantin Stanislavski?
This is the social purpose that William Wells Brown had when he toured with his play.
What is Abolition?
She is nicknamed "the most assassinated woman in the world."
Who is Paula Maxa?
This term means "Grand Guignol" in French.
What are Big Puppets?
This person co-founded the Moscow Art Theatre with Constantin Stanislavski.
Who is Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko?
Who is Firs?