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In The Octoroon, this is the (then) recent invention that reveals M'Closky's guilt in the murder of little Paul. |
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The Octoroon was given a happy ending, one wherein Zoe marries George, when the play was performed in |
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In M. Butterfly, Song Lee is a Beijing opera performer, but this character's other job is |
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In M. Butterfly, the trial scene(s) near the end of the play, in which we see both Song Lee and Gallimard testify in court, take place in |
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Dutchman takes place aboard this form of transportation, familiar to all New Yorkers. |
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Fefu and Her Friends is by |
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How many male characters appear onstage in Fefu and Her Friends? |
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In Black Elk Speaks, the tribal designation to which Black Elk and Crazy Horse belong is |
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This character in Black Elk Speaks is praised as a great military tactician, especially for planning the defeat of Custer's forces at the Little Big Horn. |
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Melodrama was the most popular ("legitimate") theatrical form in the commercial theatres of 19th century Europe and the U.S. |
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Lorraine Hansberry was one of the active leaders of the Black Arts Movement. |
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At the end of Dutchman, the audience gets to watch Lula repent of her crime. |
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During the mid-sixties, Amiri Baraka was a Marxist-Leninist, but later abandoned that position for Black nationalism. |
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Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America, has been influenced by both Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin. |
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Toward the end of Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches, Prior is visited by the ghosts of two ancestors; one from medieval times and one from the 17th century. |
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U.S. theatre scholars and historians have always acknowledged the performance traditions of the indigenous peoples of this continent as the beginnings of American theatre history. |
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In Angels in America, Roy wants Joe to take a job in the Reagan administration's Justice Department in order to protect his (Roy's) interests, both private and political. |
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In Fefu and Her Friends, the audience never sees any male characters, but the presence of Fefu's husband is made manifest in that Fefu fires a shotgun at him. |
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According to your instructor, Fefu and Her Friends is a play that is always staged very conventionally. |
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In his subsequent plays, Tony Kushner has concentrated exclusively the gay male experience in the United States. |
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In Dutchman, Lula is suggestively eating a banana when Clay first sees her. |
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