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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 "theater is based upon age-old traditions which have preserved intact the secrets of using gestures, intonations, and harmonies in relation to the senses"?
2. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?
3. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."
4. Artaud writes that true theater arises out of an organized what?
5. What is the title of the painting which Artaud holds in great esteem in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Artaud relate theater to the painting from "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
2. How does Artaud draw the comparison between the theater and a plague?
3. What is the meaning behind the title of "The Theater and Its Double"?
4. What is the link between art and culture in the Occidental theater? How must this change, according to Artaud?
5. What does Artaud write of civilization and culture in his Preface?
6. What good does the author assert comes from both plagues and theater?
7. How does Artaud describe the gestures of the Balinese Theater? How are they "understandable?"
8. What replaces the playwright in the Balinese Theater? How is this figure described?
9. How does the author describe the effects of a plague on civilization?
10. In what reference does Artaud comment on Plato in "The Alchemical Theater"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the concept of "archetypes." What is an archetype? How does Artaud envision their use in the theater?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the elements of Artaud's theories and Theater of Cruelty as they appear in today's world. Where can we see examples of Artaud's ideas in employment today?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the role of spoken language in Oriental Theater and Occidental Theater. What are the differences? What did Artaud make of these?
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