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Worksheets19th and 20th Century Playwrights & Theater
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which concept asks actors to imagine themselves in a character’s circumstances to enhance realistic performance?
Brechtian Alienation distancing performers and audience
Stanislavsky’s Magic If imagining character circumstances
Absurdist paradox rejecting coherent motivation
Boal’s Forum method inviting audience interventions
Brechtian Alienation primarily aims to achieve which audience effect?
Deep empathy with fictional characters
Critical detachment and social reflection
Immersive realism through sensory detail
Cathartic release through tragic unity
Which movement grew after World War II from struggles with meaning and existence?
Naturalism focusing environmental determinism
Existentialism questioning life’s meaning
Neoclassicism emphasizing rational order
Romanticism celebrating individual passion
Absurdist playwrights such as Ionesco and Beckett are best known for works that
follow linear plots with clear resolutions
apply Stanislavsky realism without symbolism
use nonsense to expose human futility
prioritize spectacle over political critique
Which practitioners developed influential acting schools linked to realistic methods?
Stella Adler Lee Strasberg Sanford Meisner
Aristotle Sophocles Euripides Aeschylus
Eugene Ionesco Samuel Beckett Edward Albee
Bertolt Brecht Robert Wilson Augusto Boal
In Rhinoceros by Ionesco the town’s citizens turning into rhinoceroses metaphorically represent
religious salvation guiding moral renewal
collective conformity crushing social order
natural evolution toward animal instincts
scientific progress improving human society
Which pairing correctly matches figure to concept?
Brecht to Magic If technique
Beckett to Method acting studios
Boal to Theatre of the Oppressed
Stanislavsky to Alienation effect
Which modern theatre style features a single performer presenting multiple characters or perspectives onstage?
Broadway musical with chorus lines
Solo Performance Works with one performer
Documentary theatre with large casts
Ethnodrama using community ensembles
Anna Deavere Smith’s hallmark method involves which primary technique for building scripts?
Verbatim interviews crafted into monologues
Original fictional narratives devised alone
Adaptations of classic Greek tragedies
Improvised scenes from workshop groups
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 centers on the aftermath of what catalyst?
Assassination of a public figure
Broadway strike shutting theatres
Acquittal of Rodney King case officers
Banking crisis and foreclosures
Which play contains the line, “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”?
A Streetcar Named Desire by Williams
A Doll’s House by Ibsen
The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde
Fences by August Wilson
Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House primarily tells the story of which theme?
Feminist awakening of Nora’s character
Comic identities and mistaken personas
Apartheid’s impacts on daily life
Black American family and fences
Molière is best known for satirical comedies critiquing which target?
Ancient Roman politics
French society’s hypocrisies
British aristocratic manners
American frontier myths
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest chiefly warns about what?
Risks of censorship in Victorian art
Perils of industrialization on workers
Dangers of assuming multiple identities
Hazards of gambling and debts
Athol Fugard’s plays primarily address which sociopolitical system?
Colonial rule in India
Feudal class hierarchies
Apartheid and racial segregation
Soviet communist oversight
Lorraine Hansberry is best known for which play linked to a Langston Hughes poem?
The Piano Lesson
A Raisin in the Sun
Seven Guitars
Gem of the Ocean
August Wilson’s cycle focuses on which central subject across his works?
Black American experience and history
Satire of royal courts in Europe
Immigrant struggles in New York
Women’s suffrage and rights
Which August Wilson play tells the story of Troy Maxson and his family?
Fences about Troy and family
Jitney set at a car service
King Hedley II in the 1980s
Radio Golf with real estate
Which title is NOT written by August Wilson?
The Misanthrope by Molière
Seven Guitars by Wilson
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by Wilson
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by Wilson
Which pairing correctly matches playwright to thematic focus?
Wilde—Harlem Renaissance portraits
Molière—Soviet political satire
Ibsen—American frontier expansion
Fugard—Apartheid segregation focus
