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Theatre Basics

Subject : performing-arts
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1. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients






2. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays






3. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:






4. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood






5. 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






6. The German equivalent to Diderot; was a playwright - critic - and Enlightenment philosopher Who wrote tragedies and comedies about the middle-class; his greatest play was Nathan the Wise






7. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:






8. 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






9. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers






10. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet






11. 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






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






13. 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






14. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God






15. 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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16. Three parts of a Noh play






17. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)






18. 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)






19. 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






20. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances






21. 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






22. 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






23. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts






24. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866






25. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic






26. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism






27. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear






28. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South






29. Wrote 'high comedies' which were cerebral socially relevant plays that had an intellectual scope so vast they forced audiences to reassess their values; Man and Superman (1903) & The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)






30. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs






31. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream






32. Filled with characters who cannot resist an argument about social issues; no character is exempt from talking politics and theorizing about moral - artistic or religious reform






33. 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






34. Earliest form for photography






35. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered






36. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)






37. The orchestrated melodies






38. Most famous surrealist and was a French writer and director; studied Asian religions - mysticism - and ancient cultures; declared theatre should should wake the nerves and heart; argued that proscenium arch theatres create a barrier between the audie






39. Type of Islamic theatre which is created by lighting two-dimensional figures and casting their shadows on a screen; the audience watches the silhouettes while a narrator tells a story






40. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual






41. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear






42. 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






43. 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






44. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)






45. Goethe's most famous Romantic play






46. 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






47. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities






48. 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






49. Would agitate the masses - attack the spectators' sensibilities and purge people of their destructive tendencies; wanted stylized - ritualized performances - not realism - which they felt restricted the theatre to the study of psychological problems






50. 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







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