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Theatre Basics
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1. Africa's greatest living playwright; born in Nigeria; plays combine symbolism - mysticism - beautiful dialogue - and they make strong political points; plays are deeply rooted in African myths - dance - and rituals but also influenced by Western dram
Dadaism
women could legally appear on stages in England
Wole Soyinka
Off-Off-Broadway
2. Composed and produced by Bob Cole - lyrics by Billy Johnson; story of a con man and used minstrel stereotypes and spoofed Chinatown; in one scene a young black man sings about he and his date were denied entry to a nightclub cuz He was black and this
A Trip to Coontown
Harold Pinter
Western Drama
Das Kapital
3. Form of theatre that mixed traditional African ritual theatre and Western-style drama; encouraged African nationalism - glorified Africa's past - and advanced African customs - rituals - and culture; also dealt with serious political themes and appla
Total Theatre
Antonin Artaud
Kathakali
Ken Saro-Wiwa
4. One of the most popular Kabuki and Bunraku playwrights - who - like Shakespeare - wrote crowd-pleasing plays that combined poetry and prose in dramatic tales of comedy - tragedy - love - and war
The Living Theatre
Minstrel Show Structure
Lyricist
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
5. A production of British actor Charles Kean; had realistic costumes - set and props that he had researched to make sure they were historically correct
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6. A true-to-life interior containing a room or rooms with the fourth wall removed so that the audience has the feeling of looking in on the characters' private lives
Characters in the Peking Opera
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
box set
7. First part had musical numbers with little comic dialogue; second part was full of songs - dance and standup routines; third part featured a one-act play
Hilarious Absurdism
Minstrel Show Structure
Man and Superman (1903)
Naturalism
8. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
Shavian Comedies
Non-Western Drama
Absurdism
Existentialism
9. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Opera
Aphra Behn
First Public Opera House
Harold Pinter
10. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Poetic Realism
Precolonial African Theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Burlesque
11. One of the most valuable historical records of Indian theatre; an encyclopedic book of dramatic theory and practice; has 37 chapters and covers every aspect of classical Indian drama - also a treatise on dramatic theory and philosophy - states that t
Kordian (1962)
Poetic Realism
Natyasastra
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
12. First part had musical numbers with little comic dialogue; second part was full of songs - dance and standup routines; third part featured a one-act play
Beaumarchais
overture
Minstrel Show Structure
Straight Plays
13. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Melodrama
Melodrama
Restoration
Beaumarchais
14. Greatest of the Sturm und Drang playwrights; was also a critic - journalist - painter - biologist - statesman - poet - novelist - philosopher - scientist - and the manager of the Duke of Weimar's playhouse
Kabuki
Peking Opera
Goethe
Fatalist Absurdism
15. The sung words
musical
Lyrics
Sentimental Comedies
overture
16. Result of western influence - a toned down version of Kabuki - told stories of everyday life - particularly those of women - women played women's parts (whereas Kabuki was all male)
Comic opera
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Shimpa
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
17. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Comic opera
Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
well-made plays
18. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Noh drama and Kabuki
Lyricist
Showstopper
19. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Poetic Realism
Shakespeare's King John
Intermezzi
The Jazz Singer
20. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Shavian Comedies
Andre Antoine
Antonin Artaud
William Fox Talbot
21. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
The Living Theatre
The Living Theatre
Fourth Room
Hilarious Absurdism
22. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Regional Theatre
Burlesque
box set
23. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Communists took control
Off-Off-Broadway
Music
Nell Gwynn
24. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God; not a negative - for without God humans can create their own existences - purpose and meaning
Existentialism
The Student Prince
Blaise Pascal
Western Drama
25. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Sanskrit Drama
book musicals
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Blaise Pascal
26. A production of British actor Charles Kean; had realistic costumes - set and props that he had researched to make sure they were historically correct
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27. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God; not a negative - for without God humans can create their own existences - purpose and meaning
Problem plays
Existentialism
Opera
Gotthold Lessing
28. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Highly Stylized Gestures
Communists took control
Noh drama
Revue (Musical Review)
29. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Ki
Man and Superman (1903)
Shavian Comedies
Wole Soyinka
30. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Samuel Beckett
Romantic Playwrights
Noh drama and Kabuki
Natyasastra
31. Studied the history of class conflict
The Adding Machine (1923)
Romantics
Nickelodeons
The Communist Manifesto
32. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Peking Opera
Total Theatre
Vaudeville
33. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Kathakali
Vaudeville
rock musical
Faust
34. Islam's holy book - contains a warning about 'graven images' similar to the one in the Bible - prohibition applies to dolls - statues - portraits - and people playing a character
The Koran
Japanese Theatre
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
35. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Symbolism
Romantic Playwrights
Variety Show
Wole Soyinka
36. A permanent - professional theatre outside NYC; founded in 1947 by Margo Jones; stage new plays alongside commercial hits and historical plays; appeal to the intellectual audiences that Hollywood seldom serves
Regional Theatre
Opera
The Communist Manifesto
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
37. One of the most valuable historical records of Indian theatre; an encyclopedic book of dramatic theory and practice; has 37 chapters and covers every aspect of classical Indian drama - also a treatise on dramatic theory and philosophy - states that t
Problem plays
Composer
Natyasastra
A Trip to Coontown
38. Type of theatre that grew out of ritual - incorporated acting - music - storytelling - poetry - dance - costumes - and lots of masks to create a theatre that combined ritual and ceremony with drama
Harold Pinter
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Communists took control
Precolonial African Theatre
39. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ta'ziyeh
The Interpretation of Dreams
Surrealism
40. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
book musicals
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Ballad Operas
Friedrich Nietzsche
41. 1. theatre has an actor who plays a character - theatre is artificial - and 2. theatre usually has a story with a conflict - conflict is key to all drama
Minstrel Show Structure
Total Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
42. A popular form of stage entertainment from the 1880s to the 1940s; included a dozen or so slapstick comedy routines - song-and-dance numbers - magic acts and juggling or acrobatic performances
Jukebox musicals
Non-Western Drama
Comedy of Manners
Vaudeville
43. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Vaudeville
Naturalism
The Koran
Romantics
44. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Andre Antoine
Non-Western Drama
Kafkaesque
45. Most popular type of theatre during the Restoration; often featured great wit and wordplay and told stories about sexual gratification - bedroom escapades - and humankind's unrefined nature when it comes to sex
Man and Superman (1903)
Nickelodeons
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Comedy of Manners
46. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Voltaire
Ha
Eugene Ionesco
The Origin of the Cakewalk
47. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Fourth Room
Opera
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Shavian Comedies
48. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Domestic Tragedies
dance musicals
Denis Diderot
Fourth Room
49. The orchestrated melodies
Avant-Garde
Music
John Millington Synge
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
50. A medley of the show's songs played as a preview; usually the beginning of a traditional musical; lets the audience know that it's time to stop talking because the performance is about to begin
Noh drama and Kabuki
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Theatre of Cruelty
overture