THAR 281 1nd EditionExam # 2 Study Guide Lectures: 9-13Lecture 14 (March 27)Who coined the term Absurdism?What are the 4 characteristics of Absurdism?Who is Edward Albee?Who is Harold Pinter?What is the comedy of menace?What is a Pinter pause?Who is Samuel Beckett?Lecture 15 (April 1)What are the initial steps in creating a musical?What is the audition process?What is a triple threat?What is the point of callbacks?Can an actor be called back more than once?What are rehearsals?What things are needed to open a show?Lecture 16 (April 3)Why did Broadway decline?Who is Kander and Ebb?Who is Stephan Sondheim?Who is Andrew Webber?What is the Chorus line?Why is Sweeney Todd significant?Lecture 17 (April 8)What is important about African American theatres?What is the most famous Latino theatre?What do Asian American theatres struggle for?What is the Boys in the Band?Who is August Wilson?Who is Carol Churchill?April 10 – class cancelledLecture 18 (April 15)What does Chicago theatre have?What is the second city?Who is Sam Shepard?Who is David Mamet?Who is Wendy Wasserstein?What is significant about the British during this period?What is the plot in phantom of the opera?What was the AIDS crisis?What two people are important to the AIDS crisis?How does Broadway return?Lecture 19 (April 17)Who is Lynn Nottage?Who is Rajiv Joseph?Who is Tracy Letts?What is August Osage County about?What is postmodernism?Who is Anne Bogart?What is the SITI Company?What two methods did the SITI use to train actors?April 22 – these notes are not on the testKnow the plays assigned in class and significant people and their
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