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Theatre Basics
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1. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Performance Art
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Ki
Naturalistic Plays
2. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Dance of the Forest
Lorraine Handsberry
Nell Gwynn
Africa
3. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Little Theatre Movement
George Bernard Shaw
dance musicals
Comic opera
4. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Theatre of Cruelty
Jukebox musicals
Reprise
musical comedy
5. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Off-Off-Broadway
Faust
Hilarious Absurdism
Shadow Theatre
6. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Expressionism
Wole Soyinka
Kyu
The Black Crook
7. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Absurdism
Ritual Theatre
Operetta
Blaise Pascal
8. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Emile Zola
Jean-Paul Sartre
Off Broadway
The Student Prince
9. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Burlesque
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
William Fox Talbot
Goethe
10. 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)
Faust
George Bernard Shaw
Lorraine Handsberry
Nell Gwynn
11. 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
George Bernard Shaw
Dance of the Forest
Opera
12. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Lyricist
non-Western Theatre
Kathakali
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
13. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
Librettist
Composer
Anton Chekhov
14. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Noh drama and Kabuki
The Adding Machine (1923)
Dance of the Forest
15. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Lorraine Handsberry
Jean-Paul Sartre
16. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Japanese Theatre
Ki
Characters in the Peking Opera
17. 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
Africa
Voltaire
Nell Gwynn
Little Theatre Movement
18. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Aristotelian
Lyricist
Kordian (1962)
Comedy of Manners
19. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Characters in the Peking Opera
musical
Man and Superman (1903)
Chinese Theatre
20. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
non-Western Theatre
Islamic Culture
Broadway Shows
Kabuki
21. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
Louis Daguerre
Man and Superman (1903)
The Jazz Singer
22. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Bertolt Brecht
Naturalistic Plays
Ziegfield Follies
Peking Opera
23. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
rock musical
Mie pose
Ki
Communists took control
24. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Noh drama and Kabuki
Avant-Garde
Operatic Musicals
25. The orchestrated melodies
Oscar Wilde
Music
onnagata
Das Kapital
26. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Kabuki
Theatre of Cruelty
Shakuntala
Oscar Wilde
27. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Alienation Effect
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Africa
The Communist Manifesto
28. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Nickelodeons
non-Western Theatre
Maxim Gorky
Noh drama
29. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Man and Superman (1903)
Mie pose
Total Theatre
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
30. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Ki
Harold Pinter
The Black Crook
Opera
31. '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
Romantic Playwrights
Early European travelers and missionaries
Henrik Ibsen
musical comedy
32. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Japanese Theatre
Avant-Garde
Islamic Culture
33. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
The Living Theatre
Problem plays
Emile Zola
Bunraku movements
34. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Lyrics
Shakespeare's King John
Reprise
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
35. 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
Broadway Shows
Revue (Musical Review)
Kabuki
Peking Opera
36. A repetition of the song - sometimes with new lyrics - sometimes with the same lyrics but with new meaning or subtext in order to make a dramatic point
Reprise
Kafkaesque
Comic opera
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
37. 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
Communists took control
Wole Soyinka
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Intermezzi
38. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Aphra Behn
Verfremdung
musical
Voltaire
39. A dialogue that captures the incoherence - broken language - and pauses of modern speech; usually marked by surreal distortion and impending danger; from writing of Franz Kafka
Precolonial African Theatre
The Black Crook
Shavian Comedies
Kafkaesque
40. 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
Peking Opera
Beaumarchais
overture
Reprise
41. 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
Expressionism
Off-Off-Broadway
Operatic Musicals
Performance Art
42. 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
Operetta
Kafkaesque
Anton Chekhov
Bertolt Brecht
43. 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
Oscar Wilde
Restoration
Goethe
Natyasastra
44. Book - music - and lyrics
Characters in the Peking Opera
3 components of Musical Scripts
Little Theatre Movement
Anton Chekhov
45. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Sentimental Comedies
Japanese Theatre
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
musical
46. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ha
Opera
Restoration
Reprise
47. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Sentimental Comedies
Comic opera
Emile Zola
Blaise Pascal
48. 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
Opera
Showstopper
Eugene O'Neill
Shadow Theatre
49. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Straight Plays
Revue (Musical Review)
Alienation Effect
overture
50. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
book musicals
Dance of the Forest
women could legally appear on stages in England