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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 is the Haitian voodoo priest called?
2. What group is led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina?
3. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?
4. 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"?
5. The author writes of an actor who studied the part of Hamlet for how many years and never played it because the director died before it was finished?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss the playwright's role, as established by the author.
2. How does the author define "The Holy Theatre"?
3. What role does the critic play in the world of theatre?
4. How is "The Happening" similar to the Haitian voodoo ritual?
5. What does the author say in discussing the removal of the symbolic curtain in the theatre?
6. Describe the difference between the Pekin Opera Company and the Formosa Opera Company.
7. What are the director's principle responsibilities in the process of creating/producing theatre?
8. Describe Brook's "Theatre of Cruelty." Whose concepts and theories was this based upon?
9. What playwright does the author write of whose work transcends the absurd?
10. What has happened to "ritual" in today's culture, as described by the author?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the author of The Empty Space. What are his major contributions to the theatre? What makes him an innovative figure in the artistic community?
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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