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Theatre Basics
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1. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Fatalist Absurdism
Ha
Shakespeare's King John
William Fox Talbot
2. Most famous of the absurdist playwrights; best considered a fatalist - although work is sometimes hilarious and can ask existential questions; Endgame (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Happy Days (1961); Waiting for Godot (1953)
Characters in the Peking Opera
Natyasastra
Samuel Beckett
The Living Theatre
3. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Poetic Realism
The Enlightenment
A Dream Play (1902)
Noh drama
4. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Painted-face roles
Noh drama
Kordian (1962)
Absurdism
5. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Gotthold Lessing
Expressionism
Ritual Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
6. 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
Eugene O'Neill
Blaise Pascal
Off-Off-Broadway
overture
7. 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
Andre Antoine
Sanskrit Drama
Peking Opera
Little Theatre Movement
8. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Avant-Garde
Communists took control
Kordian (1962)
Friedrich Nietzsche
9. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Emile Zola
Dadaism
Realism
Performance Art
10. 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
Kordian (1962)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Beaumarchais
Bunraku movements
11. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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12. 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
Comic opera
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lorraine Handsberry
13. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Composer
Kathakali
Sentimental Comedies
14. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Revue (Musical Review)
Noh drama
The Living Theatre
15. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Western Drama
Aphra Behn
William Fox Talbot
Little Theatre Movement
16. 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
Shadow Theatre
Domestic Tragedies
Comedy of Manners
Mie pose
17. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Intermezzi
Kyu
Characters in the Peking Opera
Happenings
18. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Denis Diderot
Dadaism
Aristotelian
Showstopper
19. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Kafkaesque
The Koran
20. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Expressionism
The Enlightenment
book musicals
Faust
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
Kafkaesque
Friedrich Nietzsche
Operatic Musicals
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
22. 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
Fatalist Absurdism
Friedrich Nietzsche
Total Theatre
well-made plays
23. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Kabuki
dance musicals
Book
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
24. The sung words
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Romantics
Off Broadway
Lyrics
25. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Daguerreotype
Broadway Shows
Comedy of Manners
26. One of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment - French poet - essayist - and playwright whose writing often got him in trouble with the church; built a theatre on his own estate so he could freely present his plays
Absurdism
Fourth Room
Shakespeare's King John
Voltaire
27. Writes the music
Composer
Variety Show
Andre Antoine
Operatic Musicals
28. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Off Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
Jo
Verfremdung
29. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Book
Romantic Playwrights
Noh drama
musical comedy
30. 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
Anton Chekhov
book musicals
Existentialism
Goethe
31. 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)
Little Theatre Movement
Comic opera
Eugene O'Neill
Shimpa
32. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Opera
Little Theatre Movement
Operetta
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
33. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Poetic Realism
Intermezzi
A Dream Play (1902)
Naturalism
34. 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
Shakespeare's King John
Jukebox musicals
Daguerreotype
35. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Showstopper
Kyu
Mie pose
Eugene O'Neill
36. 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
Poetic Realism
Total Theatre
Fourth Room
Kordian (1962)
37. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Ritual Theatre
dance musicals
Hilarious Absurdism
women could legally appear on stages in England
38. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
The Koran
Bertolt Brecht
Avant-Garde
Anton Chekhov
39. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Revue (Musical Review)
Total Theatre
Composer
Hilarious Absurdism
40. 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
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Islamic Culture
Shimpa
41. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Reprise
Off Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
A Trip to Coontown
42. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Ta'ziyeh
Ballad Operas
Existential Absurdism
Ken Saro-Wiwa
43. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Eugene O'Neill
Intermezzi
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Dadaism
44. 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
Romantics
Goethe
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Expressionism
45. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Oscar Wilde
Highly Stylized Gestures
women could legally appear on stages in England
musical
46. Writes the book
Romantic Playwrights
Naturalism
Variety Show
Librettist
47. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Jazz Singer
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Restoration
Naturalism
48. The men who play female roles are called:
Romantics
onnagata
Blaise Pascal
Ritual Theatre
49. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
The Black Crook
Off-Off-Broadway
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Man and Superman (1903)
50. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
Japanese Theatre
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
The Communist Manifesto