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Theater
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Fine Art
Undergraduate 1
05/11/2009

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What is the core of drama?
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conflict
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· What ancient philosopher was accused for corruption?
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Plato
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What play was the one with the opening word a profanity? It caused a lot of uproar…
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Ubu Roi
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· What kind of art is theater?
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Performing Art
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What kind of theater is Wicked?
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Commercial Theater
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Who used plays to attack parttheid in South Africa?
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Athol Fuggard
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Who said “good theater fortifies us”?
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Aristotle
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In the 1960’s, LIVING THEATER produced what kind of theater?
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Expiremental
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· Theater comes from Theatron-meaning what?
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seeing-place
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what theaters don’t pay dividends or taxes?
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non profit theaters
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What is the playwrights pay?
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royalities
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What demands minor voices be heard?
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Theater of protest
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Who makes it their primary focus to give a voice to ALL groups
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o NEA – national endowment for the arts
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Who wanted SPECT-ACTORS instead of SPECTATORS?
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Augusto Boal
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What play focused on cultural stereotypes of the east?
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M Butterfly
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Which musical challenged the acting of Asians with white actors
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Miss Siagon
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Who founded el teatro campesino?
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Luis Valdez
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Who wrote the Pittsburgh cycle?
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August Wilson
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Who was the 1st latino to win a Pulitzer prize for drama?
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Nilo Cruz
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What took place during the 1920s-30s
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Harlem Renaissance
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What was the first chicano on broadway, and who was it by?
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Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez
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What is it called when you know something’s not real but you sit down and continue to believe and watch it anyway
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Suspension of Disbelief
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Who was against who in actor place riots?
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Charles mcready (brit) vs Edwin forrest (American)
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What type of theater do actors NEVER acknowledge audience?
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Representational
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What is discriminating, scholarly analysis of a play
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Criticism
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Know Goethe’s steps (which one wont belong)
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Term
What is also known as the imaginary wall?
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4th wall
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who wanted the audience to step back, be critical, and remain disengaged?
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Bertlot Brect
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Know aristotles 6 elements –which one wont belong
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Term
What developed a passive audience and representational theater?
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Realism
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Who is not a member of the creative team?
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stage manager
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Who is not at the production meeting?
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actors
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Who conducts tech rehearsals and runs stage cues
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stage manager
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Who walks around like they own the place with the prompt book
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stage manager
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Who is also known as the primary artist
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playwright
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Who basically does EVERYTHING… she listed off soo much stuff
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tech director
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What kind of ‘tech’ is when the members go cue to cue
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dry tech
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Backstory also means…
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exposition
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What means ‘one who builds’
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wrights
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· What is the overall statement or understanding about life in the play?
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theme
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What is also known as the falling action?
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denoument
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What is it called when actors can re-live something while they act because of their past experiences?
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emotional memory
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Who was the first actor to speak solo lines?
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thespis
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In those olden days… crowd scenes usually contained actors…
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like pulled from the street people
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Who is known as the Father of modern Acting?
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Stanislovsky
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· What is basically everything we know about a character classified as?
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given cirmcumstances
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What is the little one minute try out.. a bunch of people come
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cattle call
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What is another name for the literary advisor?
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dramaturg
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Who ruled actors as head of state?..
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duke of saxon mennigan
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What is it known as when someone enters or exits the stage every little time?
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french scene
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Which playwright got mad when they were deciding in court if they could change his plays? (I think that’s what the situation was
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samuel beckett
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Who associated with the Moscow Art Theater?
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stanislovsky
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In the play, what is the primary symbol or metaphor throughout the entire thing?
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production concept
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What is also known as the picture frame theater
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proscenium theater
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· What is any part that extends past the edge of the stage known as?
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apron
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What are the side of the stages called?
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wings
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What are the little curtains at the top of the stage to hide the ceiling known as
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teasers
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What is theater in the round known as?
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arena
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What type of theater is the Mabee?
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thrust
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What are the little sheets of color that cover the lights?
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gels
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What is the long metal pole
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batten
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What is the opaque/transparent light used.. like an invisible screen
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scrim
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What is the dark ugly theater in germany, she said like ‘german nightmares’…
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expressionism
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· Who had the 1st Egyptian passion play and what was it?
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orisis abidos
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· Who was the god of wine and fertility?
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dionysus
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Who wrote Oresteira (spelling?)
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Aeschylus
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Who wrote Oedipus Rex
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sophocles
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What was the lil wheel barrel thing they wheeled out dead people in theaters called
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ecclyma
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Who was not a roman playwright?
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maximus
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What were biblical plays known as?
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mystery
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Who was the first female playwright? She was a nun
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Hro...
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What was the most famous morality play?
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everyman
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What is the thing that tells how stage makeup should be done… rehearsals should be ran… etc all the theater stuff..
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Natya Shastrya
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What was Onnogata in the Japanese Kabuki theater?
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using males to play female roles
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What are the 3 unities?
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time place action
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What was the outdoor permanent theater called
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the theater
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What was the name of shakespeares company?
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Lord Chamberlain's men
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What theater caught fire and burned down? Henry the 8th was in there
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The Globe
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What is the motto of the Globe theater?
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All the world's a stage
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Who wrote Fuente Ovejuna and thousands of others?
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Lope de Vega
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Where did the French Neo-classical perform when there wasn’t room in theaters
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Tennis Courts
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Who wrote Le Cid?
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Pierre Cornel
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Who was the father of Realism?
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Ipsom?
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Who was a doctor as well as part of the Moscow Art Theater?
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Chekhov
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What is also known as “slice of life”?
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Naturalism
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· What type of theater had performances in real rooms with the 4th wall removed?
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box sets
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· Who wrote the spring awakening? I think this was the one with a lot of sexual content or considered pornographic or something
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Frank Wedekin
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Who was associated with alienation effect?
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Bertolt Brecht
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Who wrote waiting for godot, endgame…
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Samuel Beckett
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Who wrote the hairy ape?
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Eugene O'Niell
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What is ‘a play without music’ known as?
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Straight play
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· What type of theater agitated the masses and used gruesome stuff? Like right there where people could watch it?
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Theater of Cruelty
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· What type of musicals have really well developed plots and storylines?
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Book musicals
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What was the 1st American musical? Comedy and drama!
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showboat
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What is the song in the play that comes on 2 times?
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reprise
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What is the MAIN DRAMATIC QUESTION of trifles?
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will men find evidence to convict her
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· who wrote Iphegenia ?
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charles mead
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Who wrote Blood wedding?
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lorca
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