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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. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?
2. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?
3. Who, according to the author, "was trained to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in himself."
4. What group is led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina?
5. Of what play does the author write, "The optimism of the lady buried in the ground is not a virtue, it is the element that blinds her to the truth of her situation"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What role does the critic play in the world of theatre?
2. How can one produce Shakespeare and not fall into the realm of "Deadly" theatre?
3. How does the author compare the "deadly theatre" to the "deadly bore?"
4. What similarity ties the three artists whom the author discusses in "The Holy Theatre"?
5. What metaphor does the author use for the theatre in the first section of the book, and what is his meaning?
6. What is a "deadly" actor, and what contributes to this?
7. Describe the difference between the Pekin Opera Company and the Formosa Opera Company.
8. Describe Brook's "Theatre of Cruelty." Whose concepts and theories was this based upon?
9. What is "The Living Theatre"?
10. What American dancer does the author discuss, and what does his work entail?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the role of the director of the theatre. How does this person create an open environment? How does he/she best work with the designer? The actor?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the role of the actor in the creation of theatre. How does one best approach this role? What is the actor's relationship with the director? With the audience?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the role of ritual within art. How does the author feel ritual's place has diminished in contemporary society? How do we attain ritual in art?
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