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Theatre Basics
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1. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Lyrics
The Enlightenment
Ziegfield Follies
Maxim Gorky
2. The orchestrated melodies
Noh drama
Ki
Music
non-Western Theatre
3. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
Off Broadway
Book
Early European travelers and missionaries
4. '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
Henrik Ibsen
Existential Absurdism
Man and Superman (1903)
Operatic Musicals
5. 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
Antonin Artaud
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Melodrama
The Living Theatre
6. 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
Realism
Verfremdung
Kabuki
7. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
The Interpretation of Dreams
Book
8. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Performance Art
Hilarious Absurdism
William Fox Talbot
Islamic Culture
9. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Expressionism
Existential Absurdism
overture
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
10. Form of drama that dominated theatre in India for a thousand years; named for the ancient Indian language in which its plays are performed; combine the natural and the supernatural - the believable and unbelievable
Natyasastra
Sanskrit Drama
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shadow Theatre
11. French philosopher often called the Father of the Romantic movement; argued that people could find happiness in a 'state of nature' and that they should learn from nature rather than the artificial and corrupted teachings of society
Louis Daguerre
overture
Highly Stylized Gestures
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
12. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Naturalism
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Interpretation of Dreams
Showstopper
13. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Variety Show
The Interpretation of Dreams
3 components of Musical Scripts
14. 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)
Peking Opera
Antonin Artaud
Samuel Beckett
well-made plays
15. Type of Islamic theatre - religious drama of Iran which allowed for actors - both professional and amateur - and has been performed in open-air playing spaces and on some occasions in specially constructed indoor stages for hundreds of years
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16. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Restoration
Verfremdung
The Black Crook
Showstopper
17. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Communists took control
Ritual Theatre
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Lorraine Handsberry
18. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
Burlesque
Restoration
Blaise Pascal
19. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Little Theatre Movement
Africa
The Communist Manifesto
Reprise
20. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Vaudeville
Broadway Shows
Louis Daguerre
Emile Zola
21. 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
Painted-face roles
Samuel Beckett
Oscar Wilde
Goethe
22. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Voltaire
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
dance musicals
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
23. Book - music - and lyrics
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
3 components of Musical Scripts
Kordian (1962)
Henrik Ibsen
24. Studied the history of class conflict
First Public Opera House
Shimpa
Regional Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
25. 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)
Kabuki
Shimpa
Dance of the Forest
Aphra Behn
26. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Surrealism
Voltaire
Sentimental Comedies
Noh drama and Kabuki
27. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Western Drama
Absurdism
Avant-Garde
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
28. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
The Interpretation of Dreams
Islamic Culture
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Minstrel Show Structure
29. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Sentimental Comedies
Ziegfield Follies
Intermezzi
Straight Plays
30. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Existentialism
Characters in the Peking Opera
Sentimental Comedies
Kathakali
31. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Romantics
Nickelodeons
Shimpa
Expressionism
32. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Kafkaesque
Louis Daguerre
Little Theatre Movement
Highly Stylized Gestures
33. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Painted-face roles
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Nell Gwynn
The Living Theatre
34. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Bunraku movements
Kathakali
Ballad Operas
The Black Crook
35. 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
Anton Chekhov
Precolonial African Theatre
Natyasastra
Vaudeville
36. 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
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Opera
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Comedy of Manners
37. 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
The Enlightenment
Shadow Theatre
Andre Antoine
Lyrics
38. Writes the book
Dadaism
Librettist
Ta'ziyeh
Off Broadway
39. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Ta'ziyeh
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
A Trip to Coontown
Western Drama
40. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Expressionism
Africa
Revue (Musical Review)
Friedrich Nietzsche
41. 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
Kordian (1962)
Broadway Shows
Fourth Room
Mie pose
42. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Kafkaesque
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Mie pose
43. 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
Eugene O'Neill
Opera
The Communist Manifesto
box set
44. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Natyasastra
Off Broadway
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Friedrich Nietzsche
45. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Reprise
musical comedy
A Trip to Coontown
Absurdism
46. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Emile Zola
Poetic Realism
dance musicals
Naturalistic Plays
47. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
rock musical
Jean-Paul Sartre
Avant-Garde
Noh drama
48. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Bertolt Brecht
Poetic Realism
Man and Superman (1903)
Theatre of Cruelty
49. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Kathakali
Peking Opera
book musicals
Dadaism
50. Earliest form for photography
Avant-Garde
Absurdism
Daguerreotype
Book