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Theatre Basics
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1. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
dance musicals
Ha
Naturalism
Ballad Operas
2. Earliest form for photography
overture
Western Drama
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Daguerreotype
3. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
Maxim Gorky
Kordian (1962)
overture
4. 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
Comedy of Manners
Operetta
Blaise Pascal
Oscar Wilde
5. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Peking Opera
Early European travelers and missionaries
Gotthold Lessing
First Public Opera House
6. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Music
Mie pose
Kordian (1962)
Romantics
7. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Eugene Ionesco
Kyu
Lyrics
Bread and Puppet Theatre
8. Only cost a nickel
Kordian (1962)
Nickelodeons
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Music
9. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Operetta
Theatre of Cruelty
Composer
The Adding Machine (1923)
10. 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
dance musicals
Precolonial African Theatre
Naturalistic Plays
Ziegfield Follies
11. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Islamic Culture
Ha
Theatre of Cruelty
Goethe
12. Known for life-like sets that used hand-painted screens and gas-powered lighting effects to stage realistic sunrises and storm clouds; invented the DAGUERREO-TYPE - which was an early form of photography
rock musical
Reprise
Louis Daguerre
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
13. 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
Ballad Operas
Naturalistic Plays
Anton Chekhov
George Bernard Shaw
14. 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
overture
William Fox Talbot
Henrik Ibsen
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
15. What western theatre is often called:
Minstrel Show
Lyrics
Aristotelian
The Adding Machine (1923)
16. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
Music
Kordian (1962)
Domestic Tragedies
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
17. 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
Domestic Tragedies
Non-Western Drama
Sean O'Casey
First Public Opera House
18. Elaborate geometrical designs were used for these roles which included supernatural beings - warriors - and bandits; the color of the make-up indicated the character's personality
Painted-face roles
Dadaism
box set
onnagata
19. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Andre Antoine
Painted-face roles
Romantics
Revue (Musical Review)
20. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
women could legally appear on stages in England
The Student Prince
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
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
A Trip to Coontown
Comedy of Manners
Kabuki
Expressionism
22. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Variety Show
Faust
Surrealism
Lorraine Handsberry
23. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Symbolism
Natyasastra
Shimpa
Jean-Paul Sartre
24. 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
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
The Interpretation of Dreams
Natyasastra
Lyricist
25. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
well-made plays
non-Western Theatre
Comic opera
26. Known for life-like sets that used hand-painted screens and gas-powered lighting effects to stage realistic sunrises and storm clouds; invented the DAGUERREO-TYPE - which was an early form of photography
Louis Daguerre
Restoration
Romantic Playwrights
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
27. One of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment - French poet - essayist - and playwright whose writing often got him in trouble with the church; built a theatre on his own estate so he could freely present his plays
Anton Chekhov
Voltaire
Verfremdung
Antonin Artaud
28. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Romantics
Faust
The Black Crook
Africa
29. 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
Natyasastra
Eugene Ionesco
Wole Soyinka
Lyricist
30. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Composer
Opera
Alienation Effect
Minstrel Show Structure
31. Book - music - and lyrics
dance musicals
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
3 components of Musical Scripts
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
32. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
rock musical
Non-Western Drama
Japanese Theatre
Eugene Ionesco
33. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
musical
Peking Opera
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Jazz Singer
34. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)
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35. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
rock musical
women could legally appear on stages in England
Intermezzi
Hilarious Absurdism
36. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Painted-face roles
Librettist
The Black Crook
Naturalistic Plays
37. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Shimpa
Jo
Opera
Ha
38. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Western Drama
Characters in the Peking Opera
Noh drama and Kabuki
The Communist Manifesto
39. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Alienation Effect
Symbolism
Showstopper
40. 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
Daguerreotype
The Communist Manifesto
Regional Theatre
Bunraku movements
41. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Romantic Playwrights
Expressionism
Gotthold Lessing
The Living Theatre
42. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Little Theatre Movement
Beaumarchais
43. What western theatre is often called:
Maxim Gorky
box set
The Interpretation of Dreams
Aristotelian
44. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
First Public Opera House
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Problem plays
Communists took control
45. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Problem plays
Western Drama
Little Theatre Movement
Fourth Room
46. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
rock musical
Avant-Garde
Lyrics
Maxim Gorky
47. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Romantics
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Dadaism
Bunraku movements
48. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Goethe
The Black Crook
John Millington Synge
Lorraine Handsberry
49. 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
First Public Opera House
Goethe
The Adding Machine (1923)
Shadow Theatre
50. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Harold Pinter
Kathakali
Opera