we continue with our practice test so look
at the slide here first question which play
by david mamet won the pulitzer in nineteen
eighty four a american buffalo b the duck
variations c glengarry glen ross d oleanna
next question name the playwright here in
this play thelma who is a widow and jessie
who is divorced live together in a spick and
span house on a country road somewhere in
the new south there are no money problems
nights are spent in such relaxed pursuits
as crocheting and watching television choose
the right answer a suzan lori parks b john
guare c wendy wasserstein d marsha norman
next one next question number three abe lincoln
at illinois is a play by a maxwell anderson
b robert e sherwood c sidney howard d jesse
lynch williams next question number four in
which tennessee williams play do we find big
daddy brick and maggie a the rose tattoo b
camino real c baby doll d cat on a hot tin
roof big daddy brick and maggie which play
this o neill play had three parts homecoming
the hunted and the haunted which one identify
the play a desire under the elms b the iceman
cometh c mourning becomes electra d the hairy
ape
and next question is also based on the same
play o neill bases this play which has three
parts homecoming the hunted and the haunted
on the myth of a ulysses b achilles c oedipus
d orpheus number seven jitney the piano lesson
radio golf and fences are plays by a john
guare b august wilson c angus wilson d tony
kushner who wrote all these well known plays
number eight awake and sing till the day i
die paradise lost and golden boy are plays
by a tennessee williams b clifford odets c
dashiell hammett d lillian hellman
next question nine identify the playwright
this is a plot summary of a famous play you
have to tell us the play playwright a young
and charismatic black con man claiming to
be the son of sidney poitier makes his way
into the sympathetic living rooms of a few
of new york citys white wealthy elite and
makes them question their preconceptions and
comfortable lives ouisa and flan the plays
central duo and two married art dealers find
themselves victims of an intrusion after offering
a young man who appears to have been mugged
in central park shelter in their apartment
sidney poitier a man claiming to be the son
of sidney poitier the great actor ouisa and
flan new york city which play or so therefore
i want you to identify the playwright
you may know know the play but do you know
the do you remember the name of the playwright
a edward albee b tony kushner c lorraine hansberry
d john guare next one the play that we just
talked about ouisa and flan and sidney poitiers
son the black con artists the play is an example
of a so which theory postcolonialism b feminism
c slasher horror d postmodernism pastiche
number eleven ah identify the play when the
play opens it is introduced and narrated by
the stage manager who welcomes the audience
to the fictional town of grovers corners new
hampshire early on a may morning in nineteen
o one in the opening scene the stage is largely
empty except for some tables and chairs that
represent the homes of the gibbs and webb
families the setting of most of the action
in act one the set remains sparse throughout
the rest of the play a cat on a hot tin roof
b our town c a memory of two mondays d the
childrens hour which play is it number twelve
identify the playwright he wrote la turista
angel city cowboy mouth a collaboration with
his one time partner patti smith among many
others and a screenplay for wim wenderss paris
texas in nineteen seventy nine he won the
pulitzer prize for his three act play buried
child who is the playwright a david hwang
b mark harris c tony kushner d sam shepard
thirteen which playwright collaborated on
the film verdict the film verdict starring
paul newman a paddy chayefsky b david david
mamet c marsha norman d arthur miller number
fourteen identify the playwright this playwright
wrote the crystal stair a play about a struggling
black family in chicago which was later renamed
a raisin in the sun a line from a langston
hughes poem who is the playwright a james
baldwin b marsha norman c lorraine hansberry
d amiri baraka next one identify the playwright
now these quotes are attributed to someone
artists dont talk about art artists talk about
work if i have anything to say to young writers
its stop thinking of writing as art think
of it as work television is democracy at its
ugliest we no longer live in a world of nations
and ideologies the world is a college of corporations
inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws
of business there is no america there is no
democracy there is only i b m and i t t and
a t and t and dupont and dow and union carbide
and exxon those these those are the nations
of the world today who said that a david hare
b paddy [cha/chayefsky] chayefsky david mamet
john guare
next identify the play the characters are
generically named a b and c the setting of
act one is a wealthy bedroom french in feeling
the residence of a dying matriarchal figure
in her nineties
who is attended by her companion b who is
fifty two the play opens with c twenty six
years old and as young lawyer arguing with
a about her true age a three tall women b
american dream c [lit/little] the little foxes
d madame butterfly seventeen the play corresponds
to the genre that we just talked about a b
c a theater of cruelty b theater of the absurd
c epic theatre d burlesque the play which
we had just seen a b c so this play corresponds
to the genre of theater of cruelty theatre
of the absurd epic theatre burlesque which
one number eighteen scoundrel time is a book
by a arthur miller b ben hecht c lillian hellman
d clifford odets
number nineteen identify the play imagination
cant create anything new can it it only recycles
bits and pieces from the world and reassembles
them into visions so when we thing we have
[esc/escaped] escaped the unbearable ordinariness
and well untruthfulness of our lives its really
only the same old ordinariness and falseness
rearranged into the appearance of novelty
and truth nothing unknown is knowable dont
you think its depressing a angel city b house
of games c angels in america d american dream
number twenty eighteen happenings in six parts
is a play by a edward albee b allan kaprow
c sam shepard d amiri baraka eighteen happenings
in six parts
next one number twenty one he is the frontline
producer who popularized the alternative theater
movement he is credited with the new york
shakespeare festival for forty years and staged
classics in the park he [sta/staged] staged
a shakespeare in central park who is he choose
the correct response a sam shepard b richard
foreman c joseph papp d jean van italie next
one number twenty two director elizabeth lecompte
is associated with a the wooster group b group
theatre c federal theater project d manhattan
theatre club
number twenty three this play is set in an
early summer morning in nineteen twelve in
harry hopes saloon the majority of the customers
sleep slumped over their tables rocky the
night bartender gives larry slade a former
syndicalist anarchist a drink of whiskey larry
notes how their group has a touching credulity
concerning tomorrows the pipe dream gives
life to the misbegotten lot he on the other
hand has buried his pipe dreams retiring to
the grandstand of philosophical detachment
to await his death identify the play a the
emperor jones b the night of the iguana c
the price d the iceman cometh number twenty
four this plays themes and characters foreshadow
the play that we have just talked about a
streetcar named desire b our town c death
of a salesman d bus stop
ah the summary that we just read the saloon
the bartender the customers the play sort
of foreshadows which of these great plays
number twenty five konstantin stanislavskys
acting techniques were later refined by dash
who used the theory of method acting to hone
the skills of several great american stage
and film actors refined by who which of these
greats a harold clurman b lee strasberg c
bertolt brecht d orson welles now all these
are great theater practitioners so who or
which one among these revisited stanislavskys
ah our and refashioned them into and they
so called method acting practiced by several
great american stage and film actors
next one number twenty six german dramatists
august strindberg and frank wedekind provided
the major inspiration for dash in the theater
a expressionism b realism c musicals d feminism
number twenty seven the term theatre of the
absurd was coined by dash in his book theater
of the absurd you have to identify the the
author a lee strasberg b jean genet c eugene
ionesco d martin esslin number twenty eight
the term the death of character which emphasizes
on fragmented characters with fluid identities
was given by theater critic a elinor fuchs
b julian beck c judith malina d antonin artaud
number twenty nine an artistic composition
particularly a dance drama form especially
literary or dramatic that for the sake of
laughter vulgarizes serious material or treats
ordinary material with mock dignity a farce
b burlesque c tap dance d epic number thirty
the practitioners of this theater used experimental
techniques and avowedly non commercial means
to try to awaken nineteen sixtys america to
alternative political and social conditions
a wooster group b woodstock nation d guerrilla
theater d black theater now ah first one is
c glengarry glen ross for which david mamet
won the pulitzer in nineteen eighty four glengarry
glen ross is a sort of homage to arthur millers
death of a salesman
it is about the lives of ah a group of salesmen
who are trying to sell bonds insurance real
estate ah properties and all that and they
are all under ah forever under the threat
of losing their jobs or losing their commission
so running after mortgages big cars big houses
so thats a typical what miller did in the
fortys mamet does for the eightys nothing
has changed ah number two is d jessie thelma
they are two characters its a just a two character
um play night mother by marsha norman answer
is d number three b abe lincoln in illinois
it is a play by robert e sherwood first [produzed/produced]
produced in nineteen thirty eight and published
in nineteen thirty nine with an extended commentary
by the playwright the play won ah the pulitzer
prize in nineteen thirty nine
ah for those who are appearing for the international
types of ah exams this is an important play
this could be an important work ah so all
these play that won the pulitzer or you know
ah the nobel of course and all these ah sorry
the even the works of literature winning nobel
and booker and a various awards they are extremely
important and relevant ah abe lincoln in illinois
is a about lincolns life and career from his
early unsuccessful days as a postmaster in
new salem illinois through his initial forays
into local politics his relationship with
mary todd his wife and his debates with stephen
douglas and culminates with his election to
the presidency and imminent departure for
washington d c
so that is his life in abe lincoln so its
not about his assassination and the civil
war his life in before he became the president
number four big daddy brick maggie unforgettable
characters cat on a hot tin roof by tennessee
williams number d answer responses d and number
five the homecoming the haunted the ah hunted
and the haunted ah sorry five c c [mon/mourning]
mourning becomes electra by eugene o neill
and question six was also based on this so
c o neill bases this play on the theme of
[oe/oedipus] oedipus a word about eugene o
neill who lived from nineteen eighty eight
to nineteen fifty three often regarded as
one of the foremost playwrights of the twentieth
century
ah he was the third son of the popular irish
american actor james o neill and mary ellen
[quinn/quinlan] quinlan ah we have been talking
about this in long days journey into night
so remember this o neill play ah bases his
that play on his actor father and on his family
as an infant eugene was taken on tours while
his father performed in monte cristo and this
fact is also given ah lot of emphasis in long
days journey into night and he played this
role around four thousand times thats a record
both the melodrama and his the fathers portrayal
of the romantic hero impacted several of o
neills later tragedies including ah a touch
of the poet
which was a nineteen fifty eight and of course
long days journey into night which was fifty
six one according to several scholars and
academics long days journey into into night
is one of is the greatest american play ever
you may refute but many regarded as one of
the great ah if not the best then one of the
greatest ever ah a word about his another
great play emperor jones which was a nineteen
twenty play ah its distinct for being the
first play to ah offer a role to a black actor
and its set in a west indian island with a
blend of realism and expressionism remember
o neill was one of the first mainstream theater
practitioner to bring [express/expressionism]
expressionism on american stage in nineteen
twenty four he came up with two controversial
plays
controversial because of the theme of incest
desired under the elms and oedipal tragedy
ah and all gods chillun got wings which centers
on the marriage of a young black lawyer and
a white woman so again you can imagine in
those days it must have created quite a furor
ah his foray into the nonrealistic theatre
resulted in the grade god brown which is a
nineteen twenty six play he also wrote strange
interlude nineteen twenty eight which has
ah an account of a womans life where the characters
revealed their inner lives through interior
monologue and thought asides again he uses
plenty of expressionistic devices and of course
there is the iceman cometh nineteen forty
six where he presents a play that is devoid
of action
and to an extent anticipates samuel becketts
waiting for godot which came in nineteen fifty
three here they rate for the iceman hickey
which was nineteen forty six o neill was awarded
nobel prize for literature in nineteen thirty
six it doesnt happen every day a playwright
doesnt win a nobel every day ok so we have
to consider that as well number seven is b
so ah radio golf and jitney and piano lesson
and fences are plays by august wilson not
angus wilson number eight awaken sing till
the day i die paradise lost golden boy are
plays by odets clifford odets an important
playwright of the thirties and the forties
answer is b and number nine is sidney poitiers
a man claiming to be sidney poitiers son walks
into the lives of the wealthy elite the white
elites and central park manhattan
so their six degrees of separation answer
is d john guare his six degrees of separation
and the play the next question is an example
is belongs to the genre of postmodernism pastiche
slash pastiche so answer is d ten d number
eleven is b our town by thornton wilder we
talked about [thou/thornton] thornton wilder
in another context the other day he collaborated
with alfred hitchcock on the screenplay of
shadow of a doubt which is again about a small
town thornton wilder was considered sort of
an expert on a small town way of life and
setting number twelve is d sam shepard american
playwright and actor whose plays ah usually
blind images of the american west with pop
motif science fiction and other elements of
pop and youth culture
he is also a great actor particularly in the
days of heaven and the right stuff number
thirteen is b david mamet collaborated on
the film verdict and number fourteen is c
lorraine hansberry raisin in the sun number
fifteen is b paddy chayefsky ah an extremely
important playwright from america he died
at the age fifty eight perhaps ah he is not
ah given so much of attention in our system
but nevertheless an extremely important playwright
ah in america ah and who also collaborated
on several television screenplays also on
film screen plays number sixteen is a three
tall women by edward albee and we were talking
about the genre so it is b
number seventeen is b theater of the absurd
number eighteen is c its scoundrel time is
a book by lillian hellman based on her experience
with the mccarthy regime how when many people
were blacklisted writers intellectuals ah
were blacklisted under the label ah of being
antinational antiamerican by h u a c we have
talked about that a word about lillian hellman
she was born ah in nineteen o five in new
orleans and as we know people talk about o
neill and clifford odets and arthur miller
but she is also one of the most important
playwrights ever one of the ah i mean truly
one of the greatest woman playwright of all
time
now lillian was surrounded by the reformed
jews ok she was born jew ah but um the reform
jews the thing about reform jews was ah their
stand on the jewish identity was quite different
from eastern european immigrants in the northern
cities reform jews you should know this reject
the notion that jews constituted a nation
of their own and instead they hold their own
national identity to be located in the place
they live in this way these the so called
reform jews they became americans thats their
identity lillian hellman spent two years at
new york university from nineteen twenty two
to twenty four and ah brief extant at columbia
university she took a upper position as a
manuscript reader for a new york based publisher
ah she also worked as a theatrical play reader
in new york
and she was a scenario reader for m g m in
hollywood also her major works as she has
been writing since the twentys in nineteen
thirty three and in early thirty four she
published two stories in the american spectator
and also in new yorker so um in fact what
she wrote in american expatiators expatiator
were like very slight humorous ah nothing
serious they were in the mode of what new
yorker generally publishes so some of her
greatest plays are ah little foxes which is
sort of staged and restaged over and again
and also ah the childrens are she has written
several books also and i recommend that you
read the scoundrel times in order to understand
ah america during the thirties and the forties
number nineteen is c angels in america by
tony kushners and number twenty is b allan
kaprow number twenty one is c joseph papp
and number twenty two is a director elizabeth
lecompte is associated with the wooster group
it is the most you have to know that wooster
group is the experimental theatrical group
ah productions deconstructed and revisited
works by arthur miller thornton wilder and
o neill by splicing these texts with varied
material including a technological inclusion
of video images and amplified voice also notable
among experimental theater groups in america
are the postmodern juggling troops such as
the flying karamazov
and the works by the wooster group member
called spalding gray well known for his autobiographical
monologues i will write it on the board flying
karamazovs spalding gray all these are parts
of wooster group this is a sort of american
theater experimental theater group we have
to go through all these things say its not
going to be easy if you want to know more
about these various movements and this is
your first exposure to these groups and these
names you have to look them up please please
do some work on your own as well ok this is
a wonderful platform for self learning so
make the most of it
number twenty three is d the iceman cometh
the play set which is set in a saloon and
number twenty four is c this plays themes
and characters foreshadow death of a salesman
by arthur miller number twenty five is b konstantin
stanislavskys acting techniques were used
by lee strasberg and his method acting and
which he used to hone the skills of several
great american stage and film actors in including
marlon brando including james deen including
ah monte clifford ah clift sorry and down
to al pacino de niro dustin hoffman and jack
nicholson method acting number twenty six
is a german dramatist august strindberg and
frank wedekind provided the major inspiration
for expressionism in the theater
and number twenty seven d the [ther/term]
the term theatre of the absurd was coined
by martin esslin in theater of the absurd
remember in the eighteen ninetys [frech/french]
french dramatist several of whom had intellectual
connections with the modernists they sort
of spearheaded this new way in the world of
theater the samuel becketts had served as
secretary for james joyce fernando ah arrable
was a member of andre bretons surrealistic
circle we have done all these names and eugene
ionesco was fascinated by the works of alfred
jerry so most of these names have been discussed
before but let me write alfred jerry here
and this is eugene ionesco
now jerry is king ubu u b u king ubu is one
of the most revolutionary work presented at
the symbolist theater de oeuvre is what is
ah so this play has been now is now recognized
as a precursor of the new modernist theatre
movement and this theater modernist theater
movement has other ah acolytes as well georgina
eugene ionesco samuel beckett and fernando
arable ah these people wrote what is today
known as the theatre of the absurd coined
by the term is coined by ah martin esslin
was coined by a martin esslin in his book
theater of the [abs/absurd] absurd in [nin/nineteen]
nineteen sixty one you have to consider how
the non realistic characters and settings
of these plays naturally posed as at the coming
of symbolism a challenge to traditional approaches
to acting and scenic design so thats the beauty
of [thea/theater] the theater of the absurd
it challenged the traditional way of acting
traditional sets traditional dialogue traditional
plot as well
many a time you would find it find that nothing
is happening life has become unbearably monotonous
but thats the state of life according to the
absentees number twenty eight is a the term
the death of character emphasizes on fragmented
characters given to us by the theater critic
elinor fuchs now so number twenty eight is
a and number [twe/twenty] twenty nine is b
[burlex/burlesque] sorry burlesque which is
an artistic composition sort of burlesque
shows are still organized in several parts
of the world its a sort of stage entertainment
developed in the united states that came to
be designed for exclusively male patronage
a catered slapstick sketches it had ah jokes
which are not very decent chorus numbers solo
dances in the united states burlesques were
introduced in eighteen sixty eight by a company
of english coral girls ok and burlesque shows
of the nineteenth century was patterned after
the popular minstrel show moving from one
place to another but it was done on a larger
scale number thirty is c guerrilla theater
so ah thats it for week six we have covered
american novel american theatre american poetry
and we will soon move on to world literature
ah literary theory criticism and also asian
writing ah also writings from our own country
ok so this is what we are going to do for
the next two weeks
thank you
