Playwrights
Expressionism
Surrealism
Absurdism
Dadaism
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His plays, like A Streetcar Named Desire or The Glass Menagerie, are based the American experience, dissillusionment, and mental health.
Who is Tennessee Williams
200
Expressionism began in this European country.
What is Germany
200
Featuring the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions, and abstract exaggerations, Surrealism's most famous painting is called The Persistence of Memory, by this Spanish artist.
Who is Salvador Dali
200
Popular absurdist animated Netfilx TV series
What is BoJack Horseman?
200
This contemporary indie band was heavily inspired by Dada and utilized it in their music video for "Take Me Out"
What is Franz Ferdinand?
800
This playwright's most famous play, The Little Foxes, only had a year-long run on Broadway before it was banned due to content and themes.
Who is Lillian Hellman
800
This writer of The Hairy Ape disowned his daughter Oona for marrying Charlie Chaplin.
Who is Eugene O'Neill
800
A staple element of Surrealism, called the Theatre of Cruelty, was founded by this playwright.
Who is Antonin Artaud
800
This playwright is famous for his long, meaningful pauses - so much so that they have been named for him.
Who is Harold Pinter
800
Spawned in the aftermath of World War I, and before the tragedies of World War II, Dadaism rejected this, in art and in life.
What is meaning
1200
Contemporary absurdist British Playwright, famous for plays like Arcadia, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Who is Tom Stoppard
1200
August Strindberg was one of the first playwrights to employ the work of a theatre researcher and historian, also known as this.
What is a dramaturg
1200
This playwright is most famous for his plays The Rhinoceros, The Bald Soprano, and The Lesson.
Who is Eugene Ionesco
1200
This Absurdist American playwright wrote plays such as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which earned him three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
Who is Edward Albee
1200
The lack of structure and rules meant that for Dadaists, anything was possible, and nothing was off-limits. This led to modern poetry "jam sessions," where audiences applaud by doing this.
What is snapping
1600
This stalwart British realist playwright was famous for his high-class writing and commentary, as well as his plays, such as Pygmalion, on which My Fair Lady was based.
Who is George Bernard Shaw.
1600
This rock musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater is based heavily on a controversial expressionist play of the same name by Frank Wedekind, written in 1891.
What is Spring Awakening
1600
This Frenchman developed the artistic movement of Surrealism by reading the works of other famous French philosopher-playwrights, such as Jean-Paul Sartre.
Who is Albert Camus
1600
Most Absurdist plays are written with this tone, a combination of the two traditional theatre genres.
What is tragicomedy
1600
Some art techniques were developed through Dadaism that influenced theatre practitioners. Among them, this technique, which places together various objects, pictures, and text, to create a mood.
What is a collage
2000
This German playwright believed audiences should not have to "suspend their disbelief," and wrote plays that spoke directly to them.
Who is Bertolt Brecht
2000
Title and Author
What is The Scream by Edvard Munch
2000
This other major theatre practitioner who experimented with Surrealism wrote a play with the title The Play Without a Title in 1935.
Who is Federico Garcia Lorca
2000
Samuel Beckett wrote this famous play with only five characters, one of whom never appears on stage.
What is Waiting for Godot
2000
The most famous Dada play, called The Gas Heart, was written by this Romanian playwright around 1921
Who is Tristan Tzara