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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Shavian Comedies
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
2. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
The Origin of the Cakewalk
women could legally appear on stages in England
Jean-Paul Sartre
Operetta
3. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Noh drama and Kabuki
Sentimental Comedies
Variety Show
Romantics
4. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
musical comedy
Kafkaesque
Opera
5. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Problem plays
Das Kapital
The Enlightenment
rock musical
6. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
book musicals
Shimpa
Early European travelers and missionaries
Jo
7. 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
musical comedy
Performance Art
Shavian Comedies
Expressionism
8. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
The Interpretation of Dreams
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Shimpa
non-Western Theatre
9. 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
Highly Stylized Gestures
Painted-face roles
The Student Prince
Natyasastra
10. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Naturalistic Plays
Faust
Mie pose
11. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Goethe
Existential Absurdism
Africa
Emile Zola
12. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Wole Soyinka
Aphra Behn
Antonin Artaud
Little Theatre Movement
13. The sung words
Lyrics
Samuel Beckett
Sean O'Casey
Communists took control
14. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Absurdism
Happenings
book musicals
Librettist
15. No spoken dialogue - entirely sung; comes from the Latin word 'work' and may have originally meant 'works in music' or 'musical works for the stage'; first operas were in Italy in late 1500s
Andre Antoine
The Koran
Kafkaesque
Opera
16. 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
Noh drama and Kabuki
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kabuki
Gotthold Lessing
17. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Bertolt Brecht
Absurdism
overture
18. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Shavian Comedies
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Variety Show
19. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Wole Soyinka
Off-Off-Broadway
20. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Opera
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Anton Chekhov
Emile Zola
21. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
women could legally appear on stages in England
Jean-Paul Sartre
rock musical
Aphra Behn
22. No spoken dialogue - entirely sung; comes from the Latin word 'work' and may have originally meant 'works in music' or 'musical works for the stage'; first operas were in Italy in late 1500s
Hilarious Absurdism
Avant-Garde
3 components of Musical Scripts
Opera
23. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Romantic Playwrights
Goethe
A Dream Play (1902)
The Jazz Singer
24. 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
Emile Zola
Regional Theatre
The Black Crook
The Koran
25. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
The Adding Machine (1923)
Hilarious Absurdism
Operetta
Theatre of Cruelty
26. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Realism
Peking Opera
Jukebox musicals
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
27. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Intermezzi
Shimpa
Gotthold Lessing
Friedrich Nietzsche
28. 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
musical comedy
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
The Student Prince
overture
29. 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
Chinese Theatre
Fatalist Absurdism
box set
Showstopper
30. 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)
Henrik Ibsen
George Bernard Shaw
First Public Opera House
Japanese Theatre
31. A popular form of stage entertainment from the 1880s to the 1940s; included a dozen or so slapstick comedy routines - song-and-dance numbers - magic acts and juggling or acrobatic performances
Vaudeville
Shakespeare's King John
box set
Andre Antoine
32. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
A Trip to Coontown
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Domestic Tragedies
Characters in the Peking Opera
33. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Faust
Chinese Theatre
Voltaire
Performance Art
34. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
The Living Theatre
Realism
Kyu
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
35. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Noh drama
Comic opera
Jukebox musicals
Noh drama
36. Plays without music
Louis Daguerre
Straight Plays
The Jazz Singer
The Living Theatre
37. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
Off-Off-Broadway
Natyasastra
Restoration
38. The sung words
Book
Lyrics
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Africa
39. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
William Fox Talbot
Realism
Shadow Theatre
George Bernard Shaw
40. 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
Realism
Poetic Realism
Aphra Behn
Natyasastra
41. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Bread and Puppet Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Hilarious Absurdism
42. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Shimpa
Melodrama
John Millington Synge
Vaudeville
43. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Mie pose
Symbolism
Restoration
Off Broadway
44. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
well-made plays
Precolonial African Theatre
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Variety Show
45. 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
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Existential Absurdism
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
46. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Dance of the Forest
Highly Stylized Gestures
Kathakali
Hilarious Absurdism
47. The artist imposes his own internal state onto the outside world itself; expressionism is a subjective account of an objective perception; expressionist plays use deliberate set distortion
Expressionism
George Bernard Shaw
Jean-Paul Sartre
Denis Diderot
48. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Hilarious Absurdism
well-made plays
musical
Bread and Puppet Theatre
49. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Performance Art
rock musical
book musicals
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
50. 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
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Minstrel Show Structure
Emile Zola
Theatre of Cruelty