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What is Symbolist Theatre?
This dream-like movement made use of chanted dialogue and scrim to get at truth through irrationality
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Who is Adolphe Appia?
He was a Swiss designer known for introducing three dimensional sets made of platforms and steps
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What is Greece?
The birthplace of theatre
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What are mansions?
These were areas of the church used as specific scene locations
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What is Showboat?
This was the proto-American musical, which combined a socially relevant story with music
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What is Futurism?
This aggressive Italian movement celebrated speed and machinery, calling for World War -- until they got one
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Who is Edward Gordon Craig?
This English designer sought to replace actors with puppets
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What is Italy?
The birthplace of the Renaissance
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What is pageant theatre?
People lined up for days to watch this traveling form of guild-sponsored theatre
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Who is Leonard Bernstein?
He wrote the music for West Side Story
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What is Epic Theatre?
This form of social theatre pioneered by Brecht used alienation to create distance between audience and spectacle
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Who is Richard Wagner?
This composer helped pioneer the concept of the director
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What is France?
The birthplace of neoclassicism
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Who is the Devil?
The most popular character of medieval theatre
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Who is Richard Rodgers?
The grandfather of A LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA's Adam Guettel, and also the most important music writer of 20th century theatre
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What is Theatre of the Absurd?
This critic-applied name refers to a group of playwrights whose comedies were inspired by the existentialist writings of Albert Camus
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Who is Edwin Booth?
He was the most famous American actor of the nineteenth century, but was later overshadowed by his brother
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What is England?
Its capital city once banned theatre within its city limits during the golden age of playwriting
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What is the Quem Quaeritis?
Just in time for Easter, this was the Latin phrase for "Whom do you seek" that launched medieval theatre
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Who is Stephen Sondheim?
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1980s musical about a pointillist painter
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What is Theatre of Cruelty?
A French movement launched by Artaud, this movement sought to shake up audiences with challenging works
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Who is Sarah Bernhardt?
Pioneering French actress who became the biggest star of her generation, admired by audiences worldwide
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What is Germany?
The birthplace of dramaturgy, and home to "the smartest man in Europe"
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What is the Hell Mouth?
This large piece of scenery began in the church, but would go on to inspire Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Who is Oscar Hammerstein?
He was the most important lyricist of the first half of the 20th century, and mentored the most important lyricist of the second half
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