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Theatre Basics
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1. First part of a Noh Play - usually a chance meeting between two characters - introductions are made and the characters engage in a question-and-answer sequence that reveals the protagonist's concern
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
The Koran
Jukebox musicals
Jo
2. 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
Minstrel Show
box set
Communists took control
Friedrich Nietzsche
3. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Communists took control
Samuel Beckett
Opera
Reprise
4. What western theatre is often called:
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Aristotelian
Japanese Theatre
A Trip to Coontown
5. 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
Western Drama
Japanese Theatre
Anton Chekhov
The Student Prince
6. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Existential Absurdism
Daguerreotype
Noh drama
Dadaism
7. 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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8. A sudden - striking pose (often with their eyes crossed - chin sharply turned - and big toe pointed towards the sky) in Kabuki accompanied by several powerful beats of wooden clappers
Minstrel Show
Mie pose
book musicals
Japanese Theatre
9. Records of this type of theatre are fragmentary - but we do know that it grew out of regional religious rituals related to Confucianism - Taoism - and Buddhism - and ritual dances performed during the Shang dynasty
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Chinese Theatre
Ritual Theatre
book musicals
10. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Kabuki
Composer
dance musicals
Louis Daguerre
11. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Regional Theatre
Lorraine Handsberry
The Living Theatre
Showstopper
12. 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
Domestic Tragedies
The Adding Machine (1923)
box set
13. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Kathakali
Symbolism
Sentimental Comedies
Ballad Operas
14. Proclaimed 'God is dead...and we have killed him.'; felt taht absence of God was a tragedy - but believed human beings needed to accept the tragedy and move forward in a world that was unjust and meaningless
Friedrich Nietzsche
Faust
dance musicals
3 components of Musical Scripts
15. 'The Father of Realism'; was initially a Romantic writer and his early plays were verse dramas largely based on Norwegian history and folk literature; plays presented complex - sometimes distrubing - views of human society; A Doll's House (1879) - Gh
Realism
Henrik Ibsen
Symbolism
Melodrama
16. 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'
A Dream Play (1902)
Das Kapital
Problem plays
The Adding Machine (1923)
17. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Existential Absurdism
Romantic Playwrights
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Minstrel Show
18. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Shimpa
dance musicals
musical
Little Theatre Movement
19. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Kabuki
onnagata
A Trip to Coontown
Dance of the Forest
20. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Sentimental Comedies
Total Theatre
Restoration
Broadway Shows
21. 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)
Noh drama
Fatalist Absurdism
George Bernard Shaw
Maxim Gorky
22. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Japanese Theatre
Ziegfield Follies
Avant-Garde
Opera
23. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Straight Plays
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Oscar Wilde
Intermezzi
24. Built in Venice in 1637
First Public Opera House
Western Drama
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Kordian (1962)
25. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Noh drama and Kabuki
Happenings
non-Western Theatre
26. Three parts of a Noh play
Lyrics
Aphra Behn
Non-Western Drama
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
27. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Highly Stylized Gestures
Wole Soyinka
Samuel Beckett
Ritual Theatre
28. 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
Dadaism
Absurdism
Precolonial African Theatre
Bread and Puppet Theatre
29. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Fourth Room
Goethe
Poetic Realism
Vaudeville
30. 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
Hilarious Absurdism
Early European travelers and missionaries
Dadaism
Antonin Artaud
31. Writes the book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Librettist
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
well-made plays
32. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Performance Art
Mie pose
Eugene Ionesco
Existential Absurdism
33. A robust and spectacular version of Noh; named after the characters for 'song' - 'dance' - and 'skill'; created by a woman named Okuni - owner of a brothel
Shakespeare's King John
Kabuki
George Bernard Shaw
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
34. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
Poetic Realism
Dance of the Forest
The Adding Machine (1923)
35. 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
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
women could legally appear on stages in England
A Trip to Coontown
36. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Opera
Western Drama
overture
Early European travelers and missionaries
37. 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
rock musical
dance musicals
Antonin Artaud
38. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Friedrich Nietzsche
First Public Opera House
Ballad Operas
Naturalistic Plays
39. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Chinese Theatre
Harold Pinter
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
40. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
Dance of the Forest
overture
John Millington Synge
41. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
Japanese Theatre
The Enlightenment
Islamic Culture
42. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Precolonial African Theatre
Communists took control
Noh drama
43. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Opera
Reprise
Samuel Beckett
Chinese Theatre
44. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Characters in the Peking Opera
Japanese Theatre
Aristotelian
45. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
3 components of Musical Scripts
Kordian (1962)
Fourth Room
Precolonial African Theatre
46. 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
Early European travelers and missionaries
Broadway Shows
Composer
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
47. 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
William Fox Talbot
Islamic Culture
Voltaire
Librettist
48. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Composer
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Jean-Paul Sartre
Absurdism
49. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Music
Verfremdung
Communists took control
Off Broadway
50. 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
Antonin Artaud
The Student Prince
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
non-Western Theatre