List of top Theatre Questions

Choose the correct chronological sequence of the western playwrights from among the following.
(A). Shakespeare
(B). Racine
(C). Calderon
(D). Congreve
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Choose the correct sequence of the Directors of National School of Drama from the following.
(A). Kirti Jain
(B). Ratan Thiyam
(C). Mohan Maharshi
(D). B.M Shah
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The Plot structure graph of Gustov Freytag operates between:
(A) Space and Tension
(B) Space and Time
(C) Space and Line
(D) Tension and Time
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Who among the following earlier dramatized Jean Racine’s version of the myth ’Phaedra’ ?
(A) Moliere
(B) Euripides
(C) Jean Regnard
(D) Seneca
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Match List I with List II:

List I		List II
(A)	Well-made play	(I) Garcia LorcaScribe
(B)	Realistic Expressionism	(II) Tennessee Williams
(C)	Social Realism	(III) Synge
(D)	Poetic Realism	(IV) Eugine

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Match List I with List II:

List I		List II
(A)	Symbolism	(I) Peter Sellers
(B)	Surrealism	(II) Samuel Beckett
(C)	Absurdism	(III) Pirandello
(D)	Theatricalism	(IV) Maeterlink

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Who among the following were co-founders of Living Theatre?
(A) Julian Beck
(B) Joseph Chaikin
(C) Judith Malina
(D) Richard Schechner
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Which among the following themes were explored by the play ’Zoo Story’ ?
(A) Isolation
(B) Loneliness
(C) Miscommunication
(D) Social disparity
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On whom the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos the then Governor of Madras bestowed the title of an Indian Garrik for his performance in Shakuntala

An exploration of a distinct identity through not just a rediscovery of the two thousand year old Sanskrit drama production methods and natyashastra but also through the traditional and folk theatre surviving in different forms and languages all over the country What is being referred here

Who said Dramatic performance is a set of signs

What is the text which employs the written text only as one element in a multicoded multidimensional and pluralistic new textual system

Who wrote the book Indian Method in Acting

Identify the Mime Expert from the following

Who initiated Third Theatre and later called it the Free Theatre economically free with no ticket policy and rejection of sponsorship

What immediately follows the exposition and initiates the rising action

Who among the following is the theatre music expert

What is the contemporary form in which the conversation replaces action

A speech or piece of business added to a play by an author or a director after the completion of the script is known as

Who wrote the play Wedding Album

Who said In reproducing and acting out the histories of colonial exploitation and domination modern Indian drama became an invigorating arena for the interplay of anti-colonial struggles and change

What is the meaning of the Greek word Melos

As an art form what is drama