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Theatre Basics
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1. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
Denis Diderot
box set
Goethe
2. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Minstrel Show
Maxim Gorky
Absurdism
Intermezzi
3. 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
Aristotelian
Voltaire
Comedy of Manners
Performance Art
4. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Existential Absurdism
Kafkaesque
Kyu
Peking Opera
5. 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
The Student Prince
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Oscar Wilde
Kabuki
6. The artist imposes his own internal state onto the outside world itself; expressionism is a subjective account of an objective perception; expressionist plays use deliberate set distortion
Kordian (1962)
Expressionism
The Enlightenment
well-made plays
7. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Nickelodeons
rock musical
Book
Lorraine Handsberry
8. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Harold Pinter
Maxim Gorky
Romantic Playwrights
Precolonial African Theatre
9. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
3 components of Musical Scripts
Revue (Musical Review)
Fourth Room
10. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Regional Theatre
Kathakali
Opera
Ballad Operas
11. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Broadway Shows
Off Broadway
Little Theatre Movement
musical comedy
12. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Jukebox musicals
Kyu
Happenings
Ken Saro-Wiwa
13. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Avant-Garde
John Millington Synge
Operatic Musicals
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
14. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Jean-Paul Sartre
George Bernard Shaw
Naturalistic Plays
15. 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
Existentialism
Theatre of Cruelty
A Dream Play (1902)
Samuel Beckett
16. 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
overture
Maxim Gorky
Natyasastra
Non-Western Drama
17. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Louis Daguerre
Theatre of Cruelty
Peking Opera
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
18. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Lyrics
Avant-Garde
well-made plays
Shavian Comedies
19. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Variety Show
William Fox Talbot
Aphra Behn
Straight Plays
20. 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)
Ki
Shimpa
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Jean-Paul Sartre
21. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Friedrich Nietzsche
women could legally appear on stages in England
The Interpretation of Dreams
box set
22. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Happenings
Romantics
Mie pose
Gotthold Lessing
23. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Sentimental Comedies
Absurdism
box set
24. 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
Hilarious Absurdism
The Enlightenment
Beaumarchais
Emile Zola
25. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Aristotelian
John Millington Synge
Noh drama and Kabuki
Islamic Culture
26. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Sean O'Casey
Early European travelers and missionaries
Eugene O'Neill
Ballad Operas
27. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Painted-face roles
Oscar Wilde
John Millington Synge
Highly Stylized Gestures
28. 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)
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Theatre of Cruelty
Sanskrit Drama
George Bernard Shaw
29. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Kathakali
The Interpretation of Dreams
Early European travelers and missionaries
Friedrich Nietzsche
30. 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
Jukebox musicals
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
women could legally appear on stages in England
31. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Minstrel Show
Melodrama
Opera
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
32. 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
Western Drama
Highly Stylized Gestures
Kyu
33. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Off-Off-Broadway
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Reprise
Oscar Wilde
34. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Ha
Africa
Showstopper
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
35. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Lorraine Handsberry
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Variety Show
Expressionism
36. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Sanskrit Drama
Melodrama
women could legally appear on stages in England
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
37. 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 Drama
book musicals
Andre Antoine
Kathakali
38. 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
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Comic opera
Gotthold Lessing
Kabuki
39. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Kabuki
Sean O'Casey
Highly Stylized Gestures
Natyasastra
40. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Japanese Theatre
Existentialism
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Off-Off-Broadway
41. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Sean O'Casey
Hilarious Absurdism
Voltaire
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
42. Composed and produced by Bob Cole - lyrics by Billy Johnson; story of a con man and used minstrel stereotypes and spoofed Chinatown; in one scene a young black man sings about he and his date were denied entry to a nightclub cuz He was black and this
Emile Zola
A Trip to Coontown
Showstopper
3 components of Musical Scripts
43. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Islamic Culture
Little Theatre Movement
Broadway Shows
musical comedy
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. 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)
Variety Show
Lorraine Handsberry
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
46. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Wole Soyinka
Vaudeville
musical
Andre Antoine
47. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fourth Room
Broadway Shows
Opera
48. 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)
Shimpa
Surrealism
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Total Theatre
49. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Andre Antoine
box set
book musicals
Sean O'Casey
50. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Domestic Tragedies
Burlesque
Bertolt Brecht
non-Western Theatre