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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?

2. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?

3. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?

4. When did the author first go to Stratford?

5. Who from the Martha Graham company has evolved a ballet company whose daily exercises are a continual preparation for the shock of freedom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does "change" relate to the theatre and its success?

2. How does the author tie Haitian voodoo to the art of performance?

3. What role does the critic play in the world of theatre?

4. What has happened to "ritual" in today's culture, as described by the author?

5. How does the author define "The Holy Theatre"?

6. What are the four forms of theatre the author discusses, and where can they be found?

7. How does boringness contribute to people attending Deadly Theatre?

8. Describe the difference between the Pekin Opera Company and the Formosa Opera Company.

9. Who is the third theatre practitioner the author discusses regarding examples of Holy Theatre, and why?

10. What is the theory and concept behind "Theatre of Cruelty?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss "The Deadly Theatre." What does this term mean? How can we learn something from Deadly Theatre? What are the components of Deadly Theatre?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the playwright/theorist/director, Antoine Artaud. What is Artaud's contribution to the theatre? What is his influence on the author of The Empty Space?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the playwright/theorist/director, Bertolt Brecht. What innovations to the theatre did this figure create? How is he the most influential writer of the contemporary stage?

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