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Theatre Basics
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1. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Aphra Behn
Peking Opera
Restoration
Minstrel Show
2. One of the most important French philosophers of the Age of Reason - wrote and edited the first encyclopedia; was also a dramatist who penned books on the techniques of acting; authored The Paradox of Acting - a book that attached the pompous declama
Ritual Theatre
Denis Diderot
musical
Friedrich Nietzsche
3. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Early European travelers and missionaries
Man and Superman (1903)
Ballad Operas
Andre Antoine
4. First part had musical numbers with little comic dialogue; second part was full of songs - dance and standup routines; third part featured a one-act play
Minstrel Show Structure
Broadway Shows
Islamic Culture
Samuel Beckett
5. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
Fourth Room
Broadway Shows
Realism
Showstopper
6. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Vaudeville
Existential Absurdism
Variety Show
Operetta
7. 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
The Communist Manifesto
women could legally appear on stages in England
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
8. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Black Crook
Japanese Theatre
William Fox Talbot
9. 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
Expressionism
Harold Pinter
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
The Enlightenment
10. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Andre Antoine
Harold Pinter
Kordian (1962)
Lyrics
11. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Avant-Garde
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
John Millington Synge
12. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Straight Plays
rock musical
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
The Adding Machine (1923)
13. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Islamic Culture
Chinese Theatre
Burlesque
Straight Plays
14. 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
Eugene O'Neill
The Jazz Singer
Gotthold Lessing
Burlesque
15. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
A Dream Play (1902)
Communists took control
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Ritual Theatre
16. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Absurdism
Chinese Theatre
Showstopper
Precolonial African Theatre
17. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Characters in the Peking Opera
musical comedy
Librettist
Ken Saro-Wiwa
18. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Domestic Tragedies
overture
A Trip to Coontown
19. 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)
Samuel Beckett
Emile Zola
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Natyasastra
20. One of the most popular Kabuki and Bunraku playwrights - who - like Shakespeare - wrote crowd-pleasing plays that combined poetry and prose in dramatic tales of comedy - tragedy - love - and war
Noh drama
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Koran
Variety Show
21. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto
Realism
First Public Opera House
Early European travelers and missionaries
22. 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
Natyasastra
Maxim Gorky
Non-Western Drama
Jean-Paul Sartre
23. 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
Beaumarchais
Dadaism
Highly Stylized Gestures
Faust
24. Earliest form for photography
Absurdism
Daguerreotype
non-Western Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
25. Studied the history of class conflict
The Origin of the Cakewalk
onnagata
Mie pose
The Communist Manifesto
26. A permanent - professional theatre outside NYC; founded in 1947 by Margo Jones; stage new plays alongside commercial hits and historical plays; appeal to the intellectual audiences that Hollywood seldom serves
Eugene Ionesco
Regional Theatre
Voltaire
Samuel Beckett
27. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Theatre of Cruelty
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Comic opera
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
28. A permanent - professional theatre outside NYC; founded in 1947 by Margo Jones; stage new plays alongside commercial hits and historical plays; appeal to the intellectual audiences that Hollywood seldom serves
Faust
Regional Theatre
Sentimental Comedies
Jukebox musicals
29. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Jazz Singer
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Restoration
Off Broadway
30. 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
non-Western Theatre
Reprise
Opera
Lorraine Handsberry
31. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
Eugene Ionesco
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Existentialism
32. One of the most important French philosophers of the Age of Reason - wrote and edited the first encyclopedia; was also a dramatist who penned books on the techniques of acting; authored The Paradox of Acting - a book that attached the pompous declama
Variety Show
The Living Theatre
Denis Diderot
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
33. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Showstopper
Voltaire
Absurdism
34. 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)
Revue (Musical Review)
Operetta
Straight Plays
Highly Stylized Gestures
35. One of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment - French poet - essayist - and playwright whose writing often got him in trouble with the church; built a theatre on his own estate so he could freely present his plays
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Samuel Beckett
Voltaire
Kordian (1962)
36. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Opera
Alienation Effect
Peking Opera
Performance Art
37. 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
Reprise
Surrealism
Problem plays
Comedy of Manners
38. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
onnagata
Bertolt Brecht
Painted-face roles
Verfremdung
39. 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
Jean-Paul Sartre
Dadaism
Minstrel Show Structure
Oscar Wilde
40. The men who play female roles are called:
Highly Stylized Gestures
Sentimental Comedies
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
onnagata
41. Form of drama that dominated theatre in India for a thousand years; named for the ancient Indian language in which its plays are performed; combine the natural and the supernatural - the believable and unbelievable
George Bernard Shaw
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
Sanskrit Drama
42. 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
Surrealism
Shakespeare's King John
Broadway Shows
Reprise
43. 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
Kabuki
Domestic Tragedies
Goethe
Book
44. 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
Anton Chekhov
Early European travelers and missionaries
Henrik Ibsen
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
45. Three parts of a Noh play
Nell Gwynn
Kordian (1962)
onnagata
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
46. What western theatre is often called:
Existential Absurdism
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Aristotelian
47. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Emile Zola
Aphra Behn
Minstrel Show
Beaumarchais
48. The sung words
Minstrel Show Structure
Japanese Theatre
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Lyrics
49. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
onnagata
Melodrama
Operatic Musicals
50. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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