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Theatre Basics
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1. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Interpretation of Dreams
Nell Gwynn
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
The Origin of the Cakewalk
2. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Noh drama and Kabuki
John Millington Synge
Verfremdung
Existentialism
3. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Ritual Theatre
Aphra Behn
women could legally appear on stages in England
Minstrel Show
4. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Surrealism
Aphra Behn
The Living Theatre
Antonin Artaud
5. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Louis Daguerre
The Adding Machine (1923)
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Realism
6. 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
Emile Zola
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Noh drama
7. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
well-made plays
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
A Trip to Coontown
Painted-face roles
8. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Ritual Theatre
onnagata
Ziegfield Follies
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
overture
Romantic Playwrights
Peking Opera
Henrik Ibsen
10. A dialogue that captures the incoherence - broken language - and pauses of modern speech; usually marked by surreal distortion and impending danger; from writing of Franz Kafka
The Enlightenment
Kafkaesque
Romantic Playwrights
Samuel Beckett
11. 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
book musicals
overture
Reprise
Natyasastra
12. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Ta'ziyeh
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Sentimental Comedies
13. 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
Wole Soyinka
Kathakali
Communists took control
Natyasastra
14. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
box set
Minstrel Show
Book
Louis Daguerre
15. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Denis Diderot
The Student Prince
Ballad Operas
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
16. 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
Communists took control
musical comedy
A Dream Play (1902)
Theatre of Cruelty
17. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Music
Anton Chekhov
The Jazz Singer
Bread and Puppet Theatre
18. Africa's greatest living playwright; born in Nigeria; plays combine symbolism - mysticism - beautiful dialogue - and they make strong political points; plays are deeply rooted in African myths - dance - and rituals but also influenced by Western dram
Avant-Garde
Librettist
Wole Soyinka
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
19. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
overture
Noh drama
Lorraine Handsberry
20. 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
Painted-face roles
box set
Das Kapital
Shakespeare's King John
21. 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
Bunraku movements
Friedrich Nietzsche
Precolonial African Theatre
Dadaism
22. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Kabuki
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
First Public Opera House
Islamic Culture
23. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
3 components of Musical Scripts
A Dream Play (1902)
Denis Diderot
Ballad Operas
24. 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
Lorraine Handsberry
Jo
Naturalism
The Adding Machine (1923)
25. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Intermezzi
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Romantic Playwrights
Minstrel Show Structure
26. 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
box set
Absurdism
overture
Lorraine Handsberry
27. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Voltaire
Aristotelian
Andre Antoine
Kabuki
28. Book - music - and lyrics
Comic opera
3 components of Musical Scripts
Problem plays
Fourth Room
29. The men who play female roles are called:
Beaumarchais
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Ritual Theatre
onnagata
30. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Henrik Ibsen
rock musical
Japanese Theatre
The Koran
31. 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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32. 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
Romantic Playwrights
The Enlightenment
Early European travelers and missionaries
33. 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
Oscar Wilde
Wole Soyinka
Absurdism
Reprise
34. Light opera - differs from 'grand opera' because it has a frivolous - comic theme - some spoken dialogue - a melodramatic story - and usually a little dancing; The Mikado (1885)
Natyasastra
Operetta
Problem plays
Opera
35. 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
Africa
musical
Louis Daguerre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
36. Writes the music
Composer
Lyricist
Wole Soyinka
Shakuntala
37. 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
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Precolonial African Theatre
box set
Regional Theatre
38. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
Emile Zola
Naturalistic Plays
Sentimental Comedies
39. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
The Enlightenment
Andre Antoine
Fatalist Absurdism
The Student Prince
40. 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
The Enlightenment
Daguerreotype
Voltaire
Opera
41. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
non-Western Theatre
Noh drama and Kabuki
Ziegfield Follies
Peking Opera
42. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Characters in the Peking Opera
Happenings
Kyu
Africa
43. The men who play female roles are called:
Variety Show
Early European travelers and missionaries
Natyasastra
onnagata
44. 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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45. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Beaumarchais
The Jazz Singer
The Student Prince
Kyu
46. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Composer
Eugene Ionesco
Little Theatre Movement
Symbolism
47. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
3 components of Musical Scripts
Operatic Musicals
Natyasastra
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
48. 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
Highly Stylized Gestures
Noh drama
Realism
Aristotelian
49. 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
Ritual Theatre
Ha
Sanskrit Drama
Henrik Ibsen
50. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Operatic Musicals
Faust
Dadaism
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)