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Theatre Basics
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1. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
John Millington Synge
Total Theatre
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Restoration
2. 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
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Oscar Wilde
Sentimental Comedies
3. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Faust
Highly Stylized Gestures
Happenings
4. 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
overture
Showstopper
Performance Art
5. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Ken Saro-Wiwa
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Intermezzi
6. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Dadaism
Burlesque
Communists took control
Absurdism
7. 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
Opera
Dance of the Forest
Realism
Performance Art
8. 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
Non-Western Drama
Blaise Pascal
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ritual Theatre
9. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Verfremdung
Sanskrit Drama
Domestic Tragedies
Japanese Theatre
10. Records of this type of theatre are fragmentary - but we do know that it grew out of regional religious rituals related to Confucianism - Taoism - and Buddhism - and ritual dances performed during the Shang dynasty
Off-Off-Broadway
Chinese Theatre
Islamic Culture
Antonin Artaud
11. 1. theatre has an actor who plays a character - theatre is artificial - and 2. theatre usually has a story with a conflict - conflict is key to all drama
Ziegfield Follies
Sentimental Comedies
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Ballad Operas
12. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Highly Stylized Gestures
Off Broadway
Anton Chekhov
Natyasastra
13. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Black Crook
Man and Superman (1903)
Jo
Sentimental Comedies
14. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
Lyrics
Sean O'Casey
Voltaire
15. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Jo
Avant-Garde
3 components of Musical Scripts
George Bernard Shaw
16. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Revue (Musical Review)
The Student Prince
Aphra Behn
Existential Absurdism
17. Based off the idea that before a problem can be solved - society must first understand that the problem exists; 'attack the message - not the messenger'
Broadway Shows
Eugene Ionesco
Painted-face roles
Problem plays
18. 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
First Public Opera House
Alienation Effect
Surrealism
Nell Gwynn
19. 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
The Black Crook
Absurdism
Lorraine Handsberry
20. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Denis Diderot
Kyu
Kabuki
21. 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
Ta'ziyeh
Symbolism
Precolonial African Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
22. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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23. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Comic opera
Beaumarchais
Domestic Tragedies
Ritual Theatre
24. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
women could legally appear on stages in England
Ballad Operas
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
25. 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
Comic opera
Librettist
Symbolism
Emile Zola
26. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Little Theatre Movement
Burlesque
Eugene Ionesco
Peking Opera
27. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Eugene Ionesco
The Enlightenment
Composer
non-Western Theatre
28. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Voltaire
Poetic Realism
Eugene Ionesco
Melodrama
29. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Characters in the Peking Opera
Fatalist Absurdism
George Bernard Shaw
The Interpretation of Dreams
30. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Little Theatre Movement
Fourth Room
Man and Superman (1903)
onnagata
31. 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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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
Operetta
Off Broadway
Shimpa
Denis Diderot
33. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Burlesque
Ken Saro-Wiwa
A Dream Play (1902)
dance musicals
34. The sung words
Lyrics
Surrealism
Alienation Effect
William Fox Talbot
35. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
well-made plays
Western Drama
Painted-face roles
36. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Opera
Gotthold Lessing
Kafkaesque
Das Kapital
37. 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
Peking Opera
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Gotthold Lessing
Denis Diderot
38. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
overture
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Opera
The Living Theatre
39. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
First Public Opera House
Islamic Culture
Ziegfield Follies
Antonin Artaud
40. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Existential Absurdism
Kafkaesque
Western Drama
Lyricist
41. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Sanskrit Drama
dance musicals
Kordian (1962)
Aristotelian
42. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
The Jazz Singer
Bunraku movements
Opera
Ha
43. 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
Regional Theatre
Fourth Room
Nell Gwynn
Sentimental Comedies
44. 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
Problem plays
Jukebox musicals
well-made plays
Voltaire
45. Three parts of a Noh play
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Hilarious Absurdism
Composer
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
46. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Shadow Theatre
Oscar Wilde
Verfremdung
Faust
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
Noh drama
Book
Ziegfield Follies
Shimpa
48. 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
Wole Soyinka
Shavian Comedies
Opera
Bread and Puppet Theatre
49. 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
Sanskrit Drama
Vaudeville
The Jazz Singer
Antonin Artaud
50. 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
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Poetic Realism
Wole Soyinka
Kyu