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Theatre Basics
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1. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Symbolism
Comedy of Manners
Poetic Realism
Ken Saro-Wiwa
2. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kafkaesque
Lyricist
Maxim Gorky
3. Wrote 'high comedies' which were cerebral socially relevant plays that had an intellectual scope so vast they forced audiences to reassess their values; Man and Superman (1903) & The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Henrik Ibsen
George Bernard Shaw
Noh drama
4. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Interpretation of Dreams
Straight Plays
The Living Theatre
Mie pose
5. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Voltaire
A Dream Play (1902)
Reprise
Aristotelian
6. A robust and spectacular version of Noh; named after the characters for 'song' - 'dance' - and 'skill'; created by a woman named Okuni - owner of a brothel
Wole Soyinka
Communists took control
Kabuki
women could legally appear on stages in England
7. 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
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Lyrics
Opera
Aphra Behn
8. The men who play female roles are called:
Blaise Pascal
John Millington Synge
Ha
onnagata
9. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Expressionism
Man and Superman (1903)
Comic opera
Restoration
10. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Peking Opera
Lyrics
Naturalistic Plays
Verfremdung
11. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Composer
non-Western Theatre
Opera
Kathakali
12. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Off-Off-Broadway
Kathakali
Burlesque
Existential Absurdism
13. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Eugene Ionesco
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
rock musical
14. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Aphra Behn
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Oscar Wilde
Comedy of Manners
15. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Kathakali
The Black Crook
Poetic Realism
Straight Plays
16. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Highly Stylized Gestures
Operatic Musicals
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Antonin Artaud
17. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Man and Superman (1903)
Emile Zola
Showstopper
Characters in the Peking Opera
18. 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
Jukebox musicals
The Student Prince
The Communist Manifesto
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
19. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Comedy of Manners
Restoration
Gotthold Lessing
Kyu
20. 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
well-made plays
The Black Crook
Mie pose
Aphra Behn
21. 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
Regional Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
Off Broadway
Alienation Effect
22. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Naturalism
Africa
Man and Superman (1903)
William Fox Talbot
23. Term used to describe performances that mix theatre - visual arts - music - dance - gesture and rituals; often use multimedia effects - sounds and lighting effects to make a point and allow the audience to understand its deeper implications; often re
Maxim Gorky
Anton Chekhov
Fatalist Absurdism
Performance Art
24. 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
Noh drama and Kabuki
Total Theatre
Japanese Theatre
Painted-face roles
25. 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
Comedy of Manners
Poetic Realism
Broadway Shows
rock musical
26. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Broadway Shows
Variety Show
Alienation Effect
The Enlightenment
27. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
John Millington Synge
Kafkaesque
Absurdism
Naturalism
28. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Kabuki
Wole Soyinka
Problem plays
Showstopper
29. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Bunraku movements
Jean-Paul Sartre
Broadway Shows
Peking Opera
30. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
The Koran
Sentimental Comedies
First Public Opera House
Hilarious Absurdism
31. A popular form of stage entertainment from the 1880s to the 1940s; included a dozen or so slapstick comedy routines - song-and-dance numbers - magic acts and juggling or acrobatic performances
Sentimental Comedies
A Trip to Coontown
Realism
Vaudeville
32. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Ritual Theatre
Man and Superman (1903)
Bertolt Brecht
Absurdism
33. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Ziegfield Follies
Kordian (1962)
overture
Burlesque
34. 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
Performance Art
Oscar Wilde
Louis Daguerre
well-made plays
35. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Restoration
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Living Theatre
Western Drama
36. '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
Straight Plays
Henrik Ibsen
Ritual Theatre
Voltaire
37. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Jukebox musicals
Eugene O'Neill
Total Theatre
38. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Non-Western Drama
Shakuntala
Variety Show
Antonin Artaud
39. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Alienation Effect
Chinese Theatre
Wole Soyinka
Communists took control
40. Plays without music
Straight Plays
Ballad Operas
Minstrel Show
Verfremdung
41. Earliest form for photography
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Japanese Theatre
Samuel Beckett
Daguerreotype
42. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Burlesque
Japanese Theatre
Africa
Opera
43. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Peking Opera
The Jazz Singer
Ha
Opera
44. A German poet - director and playwright who challenged traditional ideas about theatre; became a communist after watching policement shoot 4 unarmed civilians; The Life of Galileo (1938) - Mother Courage and her Children (1939) & The Caucasian Chalk
The Living Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Broadway Shows
45. 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
Happenings
Friedrich Nietzsche
Revue (Musical Review)
Communists took control
46. Grew up in poverty and put himself through medical school and set up free clinics in Russia to help the poor; The Seagull (1896) - Uncle Vanya (1899) Three Sisters (1901) & The Cherry Orchard (1904); placed on stage the lazy chaos of lives crushed by
Japanese Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
Anton Chekhov
Bunraku movements
47. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Off Broadway
musical
Maxim Gorky
Poetic Realism
48. 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
Opera
Reprise
overture
Existentialism
49. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Romantic Playwrights
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Enlightenment
Shavian Comedies
50. 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
Operetta
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Goethe
Japanese Theatre