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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. In order to reinvent and modernize theater, it is necessary to get rid of what?
2. In "An Affective Athleticism," the author writes, "The actor is an athlete of the ____."
3. Artaud claims that "everything that ____ is a cruelty."
4. In his "Letters on Cruelty," Artaud writes of who, which "carts off vanquished princes and makes them his slaves"?
5. To whom does the author write his third letter from "Letters on Cruelty"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Artaud write of in his third letter of "Letters on Language," which follows the publication of his Manifesto?
2. Discuss Artaud's feelings about the cinema as he describes them in "The Theater of Cruelty."
3. Discuss the themes and content of the "Theater of Cruelty" based on the second manifesto. What is the spectacle like?
4. Describe how Artaud defines the images and movement of the "Theater of Cruelty" in his second manifesto.
5. What physically must an actor learn to localize in his body?
6. What must the actor control in order to relate emotions he wants to convey?
7. How does Artaud describe what "cruelty" is not referring to in his letters?
8. In Artaud's first letter in "Letters on Cruelty," who is he writing to and what is his principle subject?
9. Who is Hieronymous Bosch and why does Artaud write about him in "The Theater of Cruelty"?
10. Discuss the stage as described by Artaud in his First Manifesto.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the term "totemism." What does this word mean in the context of Artaud's vision of the theater?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the techniques of the actor as Artaud describes them in "An Affective Athleticism." What are the principle areas an actor should focus on in approaching training and a role?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the term "Mise en Scene." What does this term mean? How does Artaud describe it? Of what importance is it to The Theater of Cruelty?
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