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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
William Fox Talbot
Romantic Playwrights
Voltaire
2. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Problem plays
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Burlesque
3. 1. theatre has an actor who plays a character - theatre is artificial - and 2. theatre usually has a story with a conflict - conflict is key to all drama
Islamic Culture
Emile Zola
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Shadow Theatre
4. 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
Eugene O'Neill
Performance Art
Louis Daguerre
Noh drama
5. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Kathakali
musical comedy
women could legally appear on stages in England
Minstrel Show Structure
6. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Western Drama
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Nickelodeons
Romantic Playwrights
7. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Romantic Playwrights
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Broadway Shows
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
8. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Nell Gwynn
Total Theatre
Straight Plays
Daguerreotype
9. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ta'ziyeh
Beaumarchais
Shadow Theatre
Ki
10. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
overture
The Enlightenment
Comedy of Manners
Islamic Culture
11. 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
Kafkaesque
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Black Crook
Communists took control
12. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
William Fox Talbot
Absurdism
Fourth Room
Intermezzi
13. Built in Venice in 1637
Shakuntala
First Public Opera House
Romantic Playwrights
Andre Antoine
14. 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
Fatalist Absurdism
Regional Theatre
Composer
Nell Gwynn
15. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Reprise
Beaumarchais
Andre Antoine
The Interpretation of Dreams
16. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Sentimental Comedies
Poetic Realism
Ziegfield Follies
Regional Theatre
17. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
dance musicals
Anton Chekhov
Dance of the Forest
Ritual Theatre
18. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Henrik Ibsen
The Black Crook
Verfremdung
19. 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
Verfremdung
Goethe
Ta'ziyeh
musical
20. The sung words
Showstopper
Realism
Lyrics
Opera
21. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Little Theatre Movement
Book
A Dream Play (1902)
Louis Daguerre
22. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Fourth Room
Operetta
Revue (Musical Review)
Denis Diderot
23. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Fourth Room
Kabuki
Burlesque
Symbolism
24. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Naturalistic Plays
Maxim Gorky
musical comedy
Avant-Garde
25. 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
Operatic Musicals
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
The Jazz Singer
Painted-face roles
26. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Jazz Singer
non-Western Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
Kyu
27. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Book
Eugene O'Neill
Reprise
Non-Western Drama
28. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Happenings
musical comedy
Painted-face roles
Voltaire
29. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Lorraine Handsberry
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Louis Daguerre
non-Western Theatre
30. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Melodrama
A Dream Play (1902)
Voltaire
Shavian Comedies
31. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Realism
William Fox Talbot
Poetic Realism
Painted-face roles
32. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Anton Chekhov
Harold Pinter
Restoration
Romantics
33. 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
Anton Chekhov
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Characters in the Peking Opera
Painted-face roles
34. Composed and produced by Bob Cole - lyrics by Billy Johnson; story of a con man and used minstrel stereotypes and spoofed Chinatown; in one scene a young black man sings about he and his date were denied entry to a nightclub cuz He was black and this
Expressionism
A Trip to Coontown
musical
Jo
35. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Ki
Total Theatre
The Black Crook
Nell Gwynn
36. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Little Theatre Movement
Opera
Noh drama and Kabuki
Shavian Comedies
37. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Sentimental Comedies
Friedrich Nietzsche
dance musicals
Peking Opera
38. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bertolt Brecht
Goethe
Reprise
39. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
non-Western Theatre
Surrealism
Daguerreotype
Jean-Paul Sartre
40. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
dance musicals
Fourth Room
women could legally appear on stages in England
Variety Show
41. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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42. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Maxim Gorky
Wole Soyinka
Symbolism
Shakespeare's King John
43. 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
Early European travelers and missionaries
Mie pose
A Trip to Coontown
Melodrama
44. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Eugene Ionesco
Western Drama
Nickelodeons
45. 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)
Aphra Behn
Dance of the Forest
Shimpa
Shadow Theatre
46. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Kordian (1962)
First Public Opera House
women could legally appear on stages in England
The Enlightenment
47. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Variety Show
Eugene Ionesco
48. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Precolonial African Theatre
49. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Jukebox musicals
Noh drama
Opera
Ta'ziyeh
50. 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
Lyricist
Operatic Musicals
Jean-Paul Sartre