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| Question | Answer |
| Wrote "A Doll's House" Moved to Germany, where he wrote Hedda Gabler, creating one of theater's most notorious characters. By 1891. | Henrik Ibsen |
| American playwrights in the mid to late 20th century. Wrote The Odd Couple, God's Favorite, Biloxi Blues, Lost in Yonkers and Brighton Beach Memoirs. His style ranged from romantic comedy to farce to more serious dramatic comedy. | Neil Simon |
| Known for writing social satire. Wrote social comedies in the late 19th century. | Oscar Wilde |
| Mid to late 20th century French dramatist, leading exponent of Theatre of the Absurd. Wrote Rhinoceros | Eugene Ionesco |
| Wrote tales of knights, Ballads with elaborate costumes and scenery during the Spanish Golden Age. Lived in the late 16th and early 17th century | Lope de Vegas |
| He wrote Autos Sacramentales (Sacramental plays) when the Spanish Golden Age theatre was being defined by Lope de Vega, he developed it further, his work being regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theatre. one of Spain's foremost dramatists. | Calderon de la Barca |
| French playwright best-known as an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism during the late 19th century. | Emile Zola |
| Late 17th Century French Playwright . During the French Restoration of the 19th century, his comedies (The Misanthrope, The School for Wives, Tartuffe, The Miser, and The Imaginary Invalid) became popular. | Moliere |
| American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each work in the series is set in a different decade, and depicts comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the 20th century. | August Wilson |
| 20th century Greek-American writer, actor and director. Known for his love of Method Acting. One of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history. Product of the Group Theatre and The Actors Studio | Elia Kazan |
| A tragedian who was generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Jean Racine. | Corneille |
| 18th century playwright known for the Figaro Plays. | Beaumarchais |
| A 17th century french dramatist who was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" | Racine |
| 20th century, German-born American actress and drama teacher. Training through improvisation techniques to later use in characters wrote a book, Respect for Acting most notable role: Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? | Uta Hagen |
| 20th century American dramatist, educator and acting coach, Made improv popular as well as creative drama Developed exercises for actors to improve improvisation skills | Viola Spolin |
| American acting teacher & disciple of Stanislavski Developed a school of acting based in emotional memory/recall. "the Method" is considered the "father of method acting in America". | Strasberg |
| American acting teacher and disciple of Stanislavski who based her work on close attention to the text. Opened an actor's studio in NYC and LA | Stella Adler |
| Creator of Viewpoints | Anne Bogart |
| Theatre artist, theorist, and creator of the "Theatre of the Oppressed" Designs theatre events for the disenfranchised to encourage and support social change Form Theatre | Augusto Boal |
| Theatre artist, theorist, and creator of the "Theatre of the Oppressed" Designs theatre events for the disenfranchised to encourage and support social change Form Theatre | Augusto Boal |
| Pioneered Theatre of the Absurd - focused on existentialism, expressed what happens when human existence has no meaning or purpose - all communication breaks down, silence | Beckett |
| Restoration playwright who wrote Way of the World, which represented various characters of society in Comedy of Manners | Congreve |
| Trained with Stanislavksi Developed "the psychological gesture" | Checkov |
| Member of Group Theatre Think like the character, not like an actor Get out of the head and act naturally "live truthfully under imaginary circumstances," Repetition | Sanford Meisner |
| American Experimental and avant-garde theatre director | Wilson |
| 20th Century scenic designer Replaced flat scenery with 3D structures like steps, platforms, ramps Light used for angles and dimension | Appia |
| Traditionally the first actor, "chorus leader" Stepped apart from chorus and began to engage in dialogue with them, involved in beginning of tragedy form | Thespis |
| American playwright who wrote Madame Butterfly, The Girl of the Golden West Furthered Naturalism | Belasco |
| The 2 most popular Ibsen Plays are | A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler |
| Name 3 Neil Simon Plays | The Odd Couple, God's Favorite, Barefoot in The Park, Star Spangled Girl, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Last of The Red Hot Lovers |
| Oscar Wilde's most famous play | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Wrote the Rhinoceros | Ionesco |
| What Century and country was Ibsen | 19th - Norway/Germany |
| What Century and country was Neil Simon | 20th/USA |
| What Century and country was Wilde | Late 19th/ London England |
| What Century and country was Ionesco | 20th century/France |
| What Century and country was Beckett | 20th century/ France |
| What Century and country was Emile Zola | 19th/France |
| What Century and country was Moliere | 17th France |
| Father of Modern Acting; developed a highly influential method of actors training called the System Co-founder of Moscow Arts Theatre | Konstantin Stanislavksi |
| What Style was Zola famous for | naturalism |
| What style was Moliere famous for | Restoration |
| What style was Robert Wilson famous for (Not August Wilson) | Avant-gaurde |
| What Style was Pierre Corneille | Classicism |
| What style was congreve famous for | Restoration |
| What style was checkov | Romanticism |
| What style was Victor Hugo | Romanticism |
| What style was Racine famous for | Neoclassicicm |
| What style is Beckett | Absurdism |
| What style is Brecht | Epic |
| What did Adolphe Appia do? | Appia is best known for his many scenic designs for Wagner’s operas. He rejected painted two-dimensional sets for three-dimensional "living" sets because he believed that shade was as necessary as light |
| What is Lee Strasberg develop | The Method |
| Name 3 17th century playwrights | Cornielle, Racine, Moliere |
| Name an 18th century playwright | Beaumarchais |
| Name 3 19th Century playwright | Zola, Ibsen, Wilde |
| Name the romantic playwrights | Checkov, Hugo |
| Name the naturalism playwrights | Zola, Belasco, Ibsen |
| Name the restoration playwrights | Behn, Moliere, Congreve |
| Name absurdist playwrights | Ionesco, Beckett |
| Polish theatrical director & innovator of experimental theatre, the "theatre laboratory" and "poor theatre." Music by actors, avoided machinery, special effects, make-up, costume changes. | Jerry Grotowsky |
| What did Stanaslovki do | Father of modern acting, the system, the moscow art theatre |
| What did Jerry Grotowski do | Polish theatrical director & innovator of experimental theatre, the "theatre laboratory" and "poor theatre." Music by actors, avoided machinery, special effects, make-up, costume changes. |
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