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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Shakespeare's King John
A Dream Play (1902)
Naturalistic Plays
2. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Blaise Pascal
Andre Antoine
Ritual Theatre
overture
3. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Operatic Musicals
Das Kapital
women could legally appear on stages in England
4. 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
Shimpa
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Avant-Garde
Lyrics
5. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Japanese Theatre
Naturalistic Plays
Aphra Behn
Comedy of Manners
6. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Early European travelers and missionaries
Happenings
Jukebox musicals
Avant-Garde
7. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
musical comedy
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Existential Absurdism
Gotthold Lessing
8. Writes the music
Composer
Little Theatre Movement
Hilarious Absurdism
Existentialism
9. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Operatic Musicals
Romantics
Variety Show
Western Drama
10. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Ziegfield Follies
Kathakali
book musicals
Islamic Culture
11. No protagonist; deals with a family of characters who tell many stories at once; the fact that characters on stage take no action may inspire audience members to be motivated for the opposite in real life
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Peking Opera
A Trip to Coontown
Emile Zola
12. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Dadaism
Vaudeville
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ha
13. Most popular type of theatre during the Restoration; often featured great wit and wordplay and told stories about sexual gratification - bedroom escapades - and humankind's unrefined nature when it comes to sex
Fourth Room
3 components of Musical Scripts
Surrealism
Comedy of Manners
14. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Denis Diderot
Restoration
The Living Theatre
The Adding Machine (1923)
15. 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
Denis Diderot
Kafkaesque
Melodrama
Lyrics
16. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Fourth Room
A Trip to Coontown
The Student Prince
17. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Japanese Theatre
Faust
18. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
Ballad Operas
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Non-Western Drama
19. 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
Little Theatre Movement
William Fox Talbot
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
20. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God; not a negative - for without God humans can create their own existences - purpose and meaning
Comic opera
Noh drama
Existentialism
The Enlightenment
21. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
book musicals
The Black Crook
book musicals
Kyu
22. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Shakuntala
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Ritual Theatre
musical comedy
23. 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
Daguerreotype
Opera
Naturalistic Plays
Kafkaesque
24. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Fourth Room
Hilarious Absurdism
Beaumarchais
Eugene Ionesco
25. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
Precolonial African Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
William Fox Talbot
26. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Aphra Behn
Absurdism
Andre Antoine
First Public Opera House
27. Studied the history of class conflict
Naturalism
rock musical
The Communist Manifesto
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
28. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Comic opera
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Andre Antoine
Avant-Garde
29. 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)
box set
The Communist Manifesto
Little Theatre Movement
Operetta
30. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Das Kapital
musical comedy
Naturalistic Plays
Poetic Realism
31. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Noh drama and Kabuki
Highly Stylized Gestures
Straight Plays
Kafkaesque
32. 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)
Ki
Voltaire
The Interpretation of Dreams
Samuel Beckett
33. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Sean O'Casey
Poetic Realism
The Black Crook
Voltaire
34. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Opera
Nickelodeons
Vaudeville
Kordian (1962)
35. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Total Theatre
Western Drama
musical comedy
Ziegfield Follies
36. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
Japanese Theatre
Western Drama
Samuel Beckett
37. 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
Shimpa
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lyricist
38. 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
Realism
Japanese Theatre
Oscar Wilde
well-made plays
39. 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
non-Western Theatre
Comedy of Manners
overture
Precolonial African Theatre
40. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Ta'ziyeh
Romantic Playwrights
John Millington Synge
Problem plays
41. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
William Fox Talbot
Showstopper
Music
Voltaire
42. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Characters in the Peking Opera
Ziegfield Follies
Book
Existential Absurdism
43. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Opera
dance musicals
A Trip to Coontown
Broadway Shows
44. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Hilarious Absurdism
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Intermezzi
45. Plays without music
Domestic Tragedies
Off Broadway
Straight Plays
Alienation Effect
46. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Surrealism
Little Theatre Movement
Burlesque
Little Theatre Movement
47. 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
Faust
Chinese Theatre
Noh drama
Antonin Artaud
48. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
First Public Opera House
Henrik Ibsen
Maxim Gorky
Ballad Operas
49. 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
box set
Total Theatre
The Jazz Singer
Friedrich Nietzsche
50. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Symbolism
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Melodrama
Variety Show