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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 the Preface, Artaud contends we must "break through ________ in order to touch life to create or recreate the theater."
2. Artaud asserts that in the Occidental version of theater, _____ are everything.
3. What should we do with poetry, according to Artaud?
4. Artaud states that in the Oriental theater, forms assume and extend their "sense and their significations on all possible levels; or, if you will, they set up ______ not on a single level, but on every level of the mind at once."
5. Of what does Artaud say needs not to change before theater is renewed, but the reverse is true?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the author's feelings about psychology and the theater? What of poetry?
2. What must occur for the theater to be restored, according to the author?
3. What did Saint-Remys do following his dream of the plague?
4. How does Artaud describe the gestures of the Balinese Theater? How are they "understandable?"
5. In what reference does Artaud comment on Plato in "The Alchemical Theater"?
6. What replaces the playwright in the Balinese Theater? How is this figure described?
7. What commonality does Artaud assert between Alchemy and the theater?
8. What is the "perversion" of the theater of the west, according to the author?
9. What painting does Artaud describe in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
10. What does Artaud say in reference to totems in his Preface?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the painting "The Daughters of Lot." What does Artaud intimate this painting means in terms 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 concept of "archetypes." What is an archetype? How does Artaud envision their use in the theater?
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