Modern African Theatre
The Marriage of Anansewa by Efua Sutherland has a character based on which African trickster?
Anansi
Tayeb Saddiki was known from bringing indigenous storytelling elements like al-halqa (the circle) to the stage. What country was he from?
Morocco
What 1990s production was an attempt at collaboration between the Israeli Jerusalem Khan Theatre and the Palestinian Al Kasaba Theatre?
Romeo and Juliet
Which country's theatre in 1812 passed an ordinance saying: "That no White Person be admitted to that part of the Theatre allotted to Persons of Colour, nor shall any person of Colour be admitted to those parts of the house allotted to the Whites"
Jamaica
At the turn of the 20th century (1800s-1900s) many eastern nations used which style of European theatre as a means of modernization?
Realism
What was the dividing of Africa amongst the European nations in the late 19th, early 20th century called?
Scramble for Africa
Tawfiq al-Hakim, an Egyptian playwright, was known for writing "theatre of ideas," plays that were meant to be _____ rather than staged.
read
Fateh Azzam is the author of which play?
Baggage
John Moody, who recruited a professional company to play in Jamaica in the 1700s, was from which country?
Ireland
Which playwright, known for his work A Doll's House, was often performed in Asia in the 1900s?
Henrik Ibsen
In Wole Soyinka's play Death and the King's Horseman, what ritual does Elesin Oba have to perform?
Suicide
Kateb Yacine, an Algerian playwright, refused to write in which language, instead promoting the use of the indigenous Amazigh languages?
French
Which play that we have learned about re-enacts the 1948 Catastrophe (displacement of over 800,000 Palestinians during Arab-Israeli War)?
Baggage
What British theatre style did Jamaicans mix with African stories, music, and dance in the 1940s to make their own?
Panto
Name one communist Asian country that used theatre as a form of pro-government propaganda.
China
North Korea
Vietnam
What play is considered Athol Fugard's most autobiographic?
"Master" Harold...and the boys
What was the name of the wave of pro-democracy uprisings across North Africa & the Middle East?
Arab Spring
DAILY DOUBLE!
Traveler
Which play by Cuban playwright José Triana tells the story of children who murder their parents?
Night of the Assassins
Following WWII, which country banned certain Bunraku and Kabuki plays in Japan for being too nationalistic?
U.S.
The play The Trial of Dedan Kimathi is about the leader of what group of Kenyan freedom fighters?
Mau Mau
The wave of pro-democracy uprisings across North Africa & the Middle East that began in 2010 started in which country?
Tunisia
What theatre festival in the 1960s, created by Syrian artists, brought playwrights and actors together from across the Arab world?
Damascus Festival
Which Caribbean playwright won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for his lyrical, post-colonial works?
Derek Wallcott
DAILY DOUBLE!
His parents