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Theatre Basics

Subject : performing-arts
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1. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene






2. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time






3. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres






4. 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)






5. 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






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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






9. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters






10. 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






11. 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






12. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect






13. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa






14. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot






15. Type of theatre that grew out of ritual - incorporated acting - music - storytelling - poetry - dance - costumes - and lots of masks to create a theatre that combined ritual and ceremony with drama






16. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)






17. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866






18. Only cost a nickel






19. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden






20. First part of a Noh Play - usually a chance meeting between two characters - introductions are made and the characters engage in a question-and-answer sequence that reveals the protagonist's concern






21. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable






22. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like






23. 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






24. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays

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25. 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






26. Three parts of a Noh play






27. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)






28. 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






29. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life






30. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show






31. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress






32. 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






33. 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






34. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)

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35. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress






36. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show






37. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata






38. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible






39. 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






40. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream






41. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way






42. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays

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43. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays






44. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights






45. 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






46. 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






47. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends






48. 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






49. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals






50. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)

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