View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Immediate Theatre, part 2 (p 134 to 157).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author writes, "What has not been appreciated sufficiently is that the freedom of movement of the ____ theatre was not only a matter of scenery."
(a) Elizabethan.
(b) French.
(c) Pagan.
(d) Brechtian.

2. Who does the author describe as perhaps the most idiosyncratic of all theatre artists?
(a) Designers.
(b) Directors.
(c) Actors.
(d) Critics.

3. Who theorized the "Theatre of Cruelty"?
(a) Jerzy Grotowski.
(b) Bertolt Brecht.
(c) Antoine Artaud.
(d) Merce Cunningham.

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

5. From which of Shakespeare's plays is the line, "Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day", which the author uses as an example in "The Immediate Theatre"?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) A Winter's Tale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What director/playwright was rooted in the cabaret?

2. "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."

3. In the cinema, who, according to the author, has single-handedly brought about a revolution by showing how relative the reality of a photographed scene can be?

4. What is the third element for creating and defining theatre, according to the author, described as the life that an audience brings into the theatre every time a play is performed?

5. "By using language illogically, by introducing the ridiculous in speech and the fantastic in behaviour, an author of the __________ opens up for himself another vocabulary."

(see the answer key)

This section contains 255 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample