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Theatre Basics
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1. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Verfremdung
Expressionism
Precolonial African Theatre
Operatic Musicals
2. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Showstopper
Lorraine Handsberry
3. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Problem plays
Ziegfield Follies
Burlesque
Oscar Wilde
4. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Avant-Garde
Music
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Shadow Theatre
5. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
The Adding Machine (1923)
Comic opera
Mie pose
Ki
6. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
dance musicals
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Regional Theatre
Natyasastra
7. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
Islamic Culture
Oscar Wilde
3 components of Musical Scripts
8. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Goethe
Happenings
Regional Theatre
Little Theatre Movement
9. Writes the book
Librettist
Melodrama
The Adding Machine (1923)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
10. In Sigmund Romberg's play the king young heir to the throne sacrifices his personal happiness for the good of the kingdom when he sorrowfully pulls himself away from his true love in order to marry a princess whom he does not love
Eugene Ionesco
The Student Prince
Burlesque
Shimpa
11. The German equivalent to Diderot; was a playwright - critic - and Enlightenment philosopher Who wrote tragedies and comedies about the middle-class; his greatest play was Nathan the Wise
Samuel Beckett
Gotthold Lessing
A Trip to Coontown
Romantic Playwrights
12. 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
Jo
Operatic Musicals
3 components of Musical Scripts
Natyasastra
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
Aphra Behn
box set
Natyasastra
Off Broadway
14. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Denis Diderot
Early European travelers and missionaries
Communists took control
Alienation Effect
15. The German equivalent to Diderot; was a playwright - critic - and Enlightenment philosopher Who wrote tragedies and comedies about the middle-class; his greatest play was Nathan the Wise
Precolonial African Theatre
Gotthold Lessing
Restoration
Comedy of Manners
16. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
non-Western Theatre
Non-Western Drama
The Black Crook
Composer
17. Type of Islamic theatre which is created by lighting two-dimensional figures and casting their shadows on a screen; the audience watches the silhouettes while a narrator tells a story
Shadow Theatre
The Living Theatre
Librettist
rock musical
18. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Comic opera
Jukebox musicals
Kabuki
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
19. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Daguerreotype
Peking Opera
Noh drama and Kabuki
Kafkaesque
20. '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
Emile Zola
Henrik Ibsen
Intermezzi
Louis Daguerre
21. 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
Painted-face roles
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
22. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Romantic Playwrights
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Kabuki
Opera
23. Islam's holy book - contains a warning about 'graven images' similar to the one in the Bible - prohibition applies to dolls - statues - portraits - and people playing a character
Symbolism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Eugene Ionesco
The Koran
24. Sarcastic label of Scribe's plays; the sympathetic protagonist suffers at the hands of an evil antagonist in the course of intense action - suspense - and contrived play devices; ending is always happy and the loose ends are neatly tied up
Goethe
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
well-made plays
Noh drama
25. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
William Fox Talbot
Africa
non-Western Theatre
Book
26. 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
Ki
Symbolism
Intermezzi
Mie pose
27. 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
Nell Gwynn
Kafkaesque
non-Western Theatre
Composer
28. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Restoration
Non-Western Drama
Painted-face roles
The Living Theatre
29. 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
Sean O'Casey
Romantic Playwrights
The Interpretation of Dreams
30. The men who play female roles are called:
Dance of the Forest
Minstrel Show
onnagata
Emile Zola
31. Only cost a nickel
Voltaire
Nickelodeons
The Communist Manifesto
Painted-face roles
32. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Domestic Tragedies
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Kyu
Surrealism
33. 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
Romantics
Characters in the Peking Opera
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Wole Soyinka
34. 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
Lyricist
box set
Domestic Tragedies
Ha
35. 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
Shavian Comedies
Total Theatre
Burlesque
36. Attacked the evils and restrictions of society; tried to reveal the higher reality of the unconscious mind with fantastic imagery and contradictory images; performances were often violent and cruel as they tried to shock the audience into the realiza
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Ritual Theatre
Surrealism
Variety Show
37. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Ballad Operas
Existentialism
Aphra Behn
Hilarious Absurdism
38. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Minstrel Show Structure
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Ta'ziyeh
Kathakali
39. Filled with characters who cannot resist an argument about social issues; no character is exempt from talking politics and theorizing about moral - artistic or religious reform
Shavian Comedies
Happenings
Precolonial African Theatre
Ha
40. 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
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Shadow Theatre
Kyu
Intermezzi
41. 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
Existential Absurdism
overture
Peking Opera
42. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Shakespeare's King John
women could legally appear on stages in England
Precolonial African Theatre
Hilarious Absurdism
43. The sung words
Fourth Room
Chinese Theatre
Lyrics
Verfremdung
44. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
Hilarious Absurdism
Operatic Musicals
Dadaism
Ballad Operas
45. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
John Millington Synge
Absurdism
A Dream Play (1902)
Bunraku movements
46. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
First Public Opera House
Opera
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
William Fox Talbot
47. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Romantic Playwrights
Kabuki
Expressionism
William Fox Talbot
48. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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49. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Revue (Musical Review)
Communists took control
Naturalistic Plays
Opera
50. 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
Dadaism
Kathakali
Showstopper
Friedrich Nietzsche