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Theatre Basics
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performing-arts
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1. 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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2. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Islamic Culture
Dance of the Forest
Mie pose
3. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Shakespeare's King John
The Student Prince
Avant-Garde
Ken Saro-Wiwa
4. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Shakespeare's King John
box set
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Variety Show
5. Writes the music
Composer
Precolonial African Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Islamic Culture
6. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Burlesque
Domestic Tragedies
Shadow Theatre
Shakespeare's King John
7. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Chinese Theatre
Highly Stylized Gestures
Chinese Theatre
8. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Black Crook
Maxim Gorky
Dance of the Forest
Revue (Musical Review)
9. '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
Melodrama
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Henrik Ibsen
10. The sung words
Fourth Room
Comedy of Manners
Lyrics
Islamic Culture
11. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Showstopper
Jo
Naturalistic Plays
12. 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)
George Bernard Shaw
Das Kapital
Naturalistic Plays
Chinese Theatre
13. The orchestrated melodies
women could legally appear on stages in England
Music
Shavian Comedies
Non-Western Drama
14. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Early European travelers and missionaries
Variety Show
Naturalism
Ta'ziyeh
15. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Librettist
Domestic Tragedies
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
dance musicals
16. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Vaudeville
Broadway Shows
Faust
17. What western theatre is often called:
Aristotelian
Symbolism
A Dream Play (1902)
Restoration
18. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Absurdism
The Student Prince
Shakespeare's King John
Highly Stylized Gestures
19. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Vaudeville
Comic opera
Total Theatre
Sean O'Casey
20. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
The Student Prince
The Interpretation of Dreams
Denis Diderot
Nell Gwynn
21. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
The Black Crook
Existential Absurdism
The Interpretation of Dreams
Vaudeville
22. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
women could legally appear on stages in England
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Total Theatre
23. 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
Shadow Theatre
3 components of Musical Scripts
Man and Superman (1903)
well-made plays
24. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
non-Western Theatre
Minstrel Show Structure
Aphra Behn
Opera
25. 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
Chinese Theatre
Goethe
Beaumarchais
onnagata
26. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Little Theatre Movement
Characters in the Peking Opera
Gotthold Lessing
The Living Theatre
27. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
The Adding Machine (1923)
Problem plays
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Verfremdung
28. 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'
Problem plays
Antonin Artaud
Ki
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
29. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Sean O'Casey
Kathakali
Shadow Theatre
30. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Happenings
Ballad Operas
Early European travelers and missionaries
Harold Pinter
31. Only cost a nickel
Louis Daguerre
Sanskrit Drama
Nickelodeons
Sentimental Comedies
32. 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)
Reprise
Shimpa
Emile Zola
Noh drama
33. 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
Shavian Comedies
Reprise
Harold Pinter
Nickelodeons
34. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Communists took control
Kyu
Burlesque
Oscar Wilde
35. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Wole Soyinka
Domestic Tragedies
Japanese Theatre
Noh drama and Kabuki
36. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Harold Pinter
Bunraku movements
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Emile Zola
37. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Fatalist Absurdism
Reprise
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
38. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
Emile Zola
Performance Art
Africa
39. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
musical
Absurdism
Comedy of Manners
Chinese Theatre
40. 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
Dance of the Forest
Oscar Wilde
non-Western Theatre
George Bernard Shaw
41. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Non-Western Drama
Ken Saro-Wiwa
42. 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
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Beaumarchais
William Fox Talbot
The Koran
43. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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44. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Anton Chekhov
Eugene Ionesco
The Jazz Singer
45. Writes the music
Symbolism
William Fox Talbot
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Composer
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)
Sean O'Casey
rock musical
Regional Theatre
Ken Saro-Wiwa
47. 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
Ha
Hilarious Absurdism
Louis Daguerre
Revue (Musical Review)
48. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Ha
Vaudeville
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Regional Theatre
49. 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
Kordian (1962)
Painted-face roles
Total Theatre
Nell Gwynn
50. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Absurdism
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Book