1. What are some of the physical aspects of the alienation effect?
(a) Sun lighting.
(b) Placards and visible spotlights.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Realistic furniture.

2. According to Brook, "We can try to capture the invisible but we must not lose touch" with what?
(a) Money.
(b) Reality.
(c) Common sense.
(d) The audience.

3. The author writes that, "All through the world theatre audiences are ______".
(a) Dwindling.
(b) Suffering.
(c) Expanding.
(d) Struggling.

4. "Occasion, Event, Happening--the words are..." what?
(a) Interchangeable.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Positive.
(d) Opposing.

5. What era was a thriving point for Jouvet and Bérard, Jean-Louis Barrault, Clave at the ballet, Don Juan, Amphitryon, La Folk de Chaillot, Carmen, and others?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1800s.
(d) The 1940s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told the author, "My search is based on the director and the actor. You base yours on the director, actor, audience. I accept that this is possible, but for me it is too indirect"?

2. Which production of Genet's did the author direct in Paris where it was necessary to mix actors of very different backgrounds?

3. The theatre has often been called what?

4. For which Shakespearean play is it true that "as long as scholars could not decide whether this play was a comedy or not, it never got played"?

5. "Just as in life the wearing of old clothes can start as defiance and turn into a posture, so ______ can become an end in itself."

(see the answer key)

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