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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Samuel Beckett
Lorraine Handsberry
The Interpretation of Dreams
Harold Pinter
2. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
First Public Opera House
Characters in the Peking Opera
3. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
A Dream Play (1902)
Voltaire
Kyu
Romantic Playwrights
4. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Domestic Tragedies
Kathakali
Gotthold Lessing
Restoration
5. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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6. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Little Theatre Movement
Noh drama
Shavian Comedies
Performance Art
7. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Opera
Bread and Puppet Theatre
non-Western Theatre
8. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Intermezzi
Comic opera
dance musicals
Bertolt Brecht
9. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Straight Plays
Denis Diderot
Daguerreotype
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
10. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
The Black Crook
Regional Theatre
Lorraine Handsberry
Das Kapital
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
Africa
First Public Opera House
Lyricist
overture
12. Plays without music
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Straight Plays
Book
A Trip to Coontown
13. 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
Intermezzi
Aphra Behn
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
The Adding Machine (1923)
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
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Regional Theatre
Ki
Hilarious Absurdism
15. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Highly Stylized Gestures
Aristotelian
Naturalism
Emile Zola
16. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Highly Stylized Gestures
Lyrics
The Living Theatre
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
17. 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
Sentimental Comedies
Sanskrit Drama
Domestic Tragedies
Kafkaesque
18. Thought that inner truths could be hinted at only through symbols; sought to replace the specific and concrete with the suggestive and metaphorical; usually had little plot or action and tended to baffle the audience
Andre Antoine
Intermezzi
Gotthold Lessing
Symbolism
19. 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
Romantic Playwrights
Oscar Wilde
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Verfremdung
20. 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
Natyasastra
The Living Theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Kabuki
21. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
The Communist Manifesto
Maxim Gorky
musical comedy
Kordian (1962)
22. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Hilarious Absurdism
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Natyasastra
23. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Kyu
Off Broadway
Reprise
Realism
24. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
Hilarious Absurdism
book musicals
Denis Diderot
25. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
Goethe
Jukebox musicals
Intermezzi
26. 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)
Operetta
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
The Enlightenment
onnagata
27. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Samuel Beckett
Nickelodeons
Gotthold Lessing
The Interpretation of Dreams
28. 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
Chinese Theatre
Nickelodeons
Wole Soyinka
Naturalistic Plays
29. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Romantic Playwrights
Jukebox musicals
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
30. Earliest form for photography
Emile Zola
Intermezzi
Early European travelers and missionaries
Daguerreotype
31. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Ta'ziyeh
Noh drama and Kabuki
Ki
32. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Ha
Librettist
Romantics
33. 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
Natyasastra
Total Theatre
Naturalistic Plays
Naturalism
34. Only cost a nickel
Nickelodeons
Romantics
musical
Kafkaesque
35. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Ta'ziyeh
Off-Off-Broadway
Maxim Gorky
Sanskrit Drama
36. 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
Revue (Musical Review)
Operatic Musicals
Total Theatre
Regional Theatre
37. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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38. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Fatalist Absurdism
book musicals
Maxim Gorky
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
39. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Book
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Sentimental Comedies
Little Theatre Movement
40. Records of this type of theatre are fragmentary - but we do know that it grew out of regional religious rituals related to Confucianism - Taoism - and Buddhism - and ritual dances performed during the Shang dynasty
Natyasastra
The Communist Manifesto
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Chinese Theatre
41. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Existential Absurdism
Ziegfield Follies
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Poetic Realism
42. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
Characters in the Peking Opera
Theatre of Cruelty
Revue (Musical Review)
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
43. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Jukebox musicals
The Koran
Variety Show
Alienation Effect
44. 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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45. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Oscar Wilde
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Ki
46. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Librettist
Mie pose
Broadway Shows
47. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Alienation Effect
Realism
women could legally appear on stages in England
Regional Theatre
48. 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
Daguerreotype
Expressionism
Realism
Jo
49. 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
Problem plays
The Jazz Singer
George Bernard Shaw
50. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ta'ziyeh
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Reprise