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Theatre Basics
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1. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Noh drama and Kabuki
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Jean-Paul Sartre
Alienation Effect
2. No protagonist; deals with a family of characters who tell many stories at once; the fact that characters on stage take no action may inspire audience members to be motivated for the opposite in real life
Man and Superman (1903)
Maxim Gorky
Total Theatre
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
3. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Fourth Room
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Revue (Musical Review)
Japanese Theatre
4. One of the most important French philosophers of the Age of Reason - wrote and edited the first encyclopedia; was also a dramatist who penned books on the techniques of acting; authored The Paradox of Acting - a book that attached the pompous declama
non-Western Theatre
well-made plays
Denis Diderot
The Living Theatre
5. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Jukebox musicals
The Black Crook
non-Western Theatre
6. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
The Living Theatre
Performance Art
overture
7. Writes the book
Off-Off-Broadway
Librettist
Off-Off-Broadway
The Adding Machine (1923)
8. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Off Broadway
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
9. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Andre Antoine
Hilarious Absurdism
Shadow Theatre
Absurdism
10. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Lorraine Handsberry
Gotthold Lessing
The Adding Machine (1923)
musical
11. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Shakespeare's King John
Librettist
12. French Enlightenment playwright; was an inventor and thinker who spent countless hours at the leading intellectual salons of France; most famous plays are The Barber of Seville - and The Marriage of Figaro - his plays reflect the attitudes of the Enl
Beaumarchais
Minstrel Show Structure
Kathakali
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
13. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
rock musical
Precolonial African Theatre
Romantics
Shavian Comedies
14. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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15. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Communists took control
Absurdism
The Jazz Singer
Music
16. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Louis Daguerre
Ki
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Opera
17. Based off the idea that before a problem can be solved - society must first understand that the problem exists; 'attack the message - not the messenger'
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Emile Zola
Symbolism
Problem plays
18. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Jean-Paul Sartre
Restoration
Minstrel Show
Antonin Artaud
19. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Romantics
musical comedy
A Dream Play (1902)
20. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Burlesque
Revue (Musical Review)
Shadow Theatre
Voltaire
21. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Fatalist Absurdism
Ta'ziyeh
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
22. 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
Little Theatre Movement
Kabuki
Goethe
Off Broadway
23. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Maxim Gorky
Ziegfield Follies
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Shakespeare's King John
24. Comedies forced Victorian society to reexamine its hypocrisies; Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) - A WOman of No Importance (1893) - An Ideal Husband (1894); advocated 'art for art's sake'; The Importance of Being Ernest
Reprise
Lorraine Handsberry
Oscar Wilde
Music
25. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
The Koran
Book
A Dream Play (1902)
Regional Theatre
26. History plays about major political events of the past - domestic plays about the loves and lives of merchants and townspeople - and dance-dramas about the world of spirits and animals
Fatalist Absurdism
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Straight Plays
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
27. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Domestic Tragedies
Expressionism
box set
Happenings
28. A dialogue that captures the incoherence - broken language - and pauses of modern speech; usually marked by surreal distortion and impending danger; from writing of Franz Kafka
women could legally appear on stages in England
Minstrel Show Structure
Kafkaesque
Western Drama
29. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Kabuki
Nickelodeons
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Fourth Room
30. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Alienation Effect
Nell Gwynn
Natyasastra
The Interpretation of Dreams
31. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Burlesque
Western Drama
Broadway Shows
Romantics
32. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Communists took control
Problem plays
Comedy of Manners
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
33. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Variety Show
Poetic Realism
Painted-face roles
Denis Diderot
34. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Voltaire
women could legally appear on stages in England
Opera
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
35. Grew up in poverty and put himself through medical school and set up free clinics in Russia to help the poor; The Seagull (1896) - Uncle Vanya (1899) Three Sisters (1901) & The Cherry Orchard (1904); placed on stage the lazy chaos of lives crushed by
Voltaire
Shadow Theatre
Anton Chekhov
Mie pose
36. Most famous of the absurdist playwrights; best considered a fatalist - although work is sometimes hilarious and can ask existential questions; Endgame (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Happy Days (1961); Waiting for Godot (1953)
Restoration
Samuel Beckett
The Koran
book musicals
37. In Sigmund Romberg's play the king young heir to the throne sacrifices his personal happiness for the good of the kingdom when he sorrowfully pulls himself away from his true love in order to marry a princess whom he does not love
The Living Theatre
The Student Prince
Aristotelian
John Millington Synge
38. 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)
Anton Chekhov
Shavian Comedies
Surrealism
Shimpa
39. Term used to describe performances that mix theatre - visual arts - music - dance - gesture and rituals; often use multimedia effects - sounds and lighting effects to make a point and allow the audience to understand its deeper implications; often re
Alienation Effect
Composer
Western Drama
Performance Art
40. 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
Jo
Emile Zola
Naturalism
Comedy of Manners
41. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Characters in the Peking Opera
Faust
Chinese Theatre
The Jazz Singer
42. 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
Sanskrit Drama
book musicals
box set
Painted-face roles
43. The artist imposes his own internal state onto the outside world itself; expressionism is a subjective account of an objective perception; expressionist plays use deliberate set distortion
Expressionism
Early European travelers and missionaries
Comic opera
Opera
44. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
Dadaism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happenings
Kafkaesque
45. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Performance Art
Bunraku movements
Straight Plays
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
46. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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47. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Wole Soyinka
Book
Off-Off-Broadway
48. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Existentialism
Operatic Musicals
Japanese Theatre
Regional Theatre
49. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Existential Absurdism
dance musicals
rock musical
Restoration
50. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Chinese Theatre
dance musicals
Maxim Gorky
Little Theatre Movement