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Theatre Basics
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1. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Andre Antoine
Avant-Garde
Bertolt Brecht
Eugene O'Neill
2. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
onnagata
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Naturalistic Plays
Man and Superman (1903)
3. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
The Adding Machine (1923)
Restoration
well-made plays
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
4. Writes the book
Andre Antoine
Ballad Operas
Librettist
Islamic Culture
5. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
onnagata
Music
6. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Theatre of Cruelty
Off-Off-Broadway
Aphra Behn
7. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Broadway Shows
Fatalist Absurdism
Shakuntala
Lyricist
8. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Africa
onnagata
Domestic Tragedies
Faust
9. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Das Kapital
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
10. 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
Performance Art
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Opera
Wole Soyinka
11. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
Louis Daguerre
Operatic Musicals
The Origin of the Cakewalk
12. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Fourth Room
First Public Opera House
Kabuki
Variety Show
13. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Librettist
Jo
Bertolt Brecht
musical
14. 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
Naturalism
Jukebox musicals
Shavian Comedies
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
15. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
onnagata
women could legally appear on stages in England
Chinese Theatre
16. Proclaimed 'God is dead...and we have killed him.'; felt taht absence of God was a tragedy - but believed human beings needed to accept the tragedy and move forward in a world that was unjust and meaningless
Little Theatre Movement
Reprise
Friedrich Nietzsche
Kyu
17. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Romantic Playwrights
Romantics
Ritual Theatre
Goethe
18. 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
Sanskrit Drama
Burlesque
Kabuki
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
19. 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
Existentialism
Operatic Musicals
musical
Non-Western Drama
20. The sung words
Ziegfield Follies
rock musical
Lorraine Handsberry
Lyrics
21. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Interpretation of Dreams
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shakespeare's King John
Emile Zola
22. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Romantic Playwrights
Showstopper
Ritual Theatre
Sentimental Comedies
23. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Natyasastra
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Ziegfield Follies
24. 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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25. 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)
Fourth Room
Louis Daguerre
Expressionism
26. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Verfremdung
Romantic Playwrights
Emile Zola
Jo
27. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Vaudeville
Kathakali
Avant-Garde
Das Kapital
28. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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29. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Fourth Room
musical comedy
Ki
musical
30. 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
John Millington Synge
Romantics
Surrealism
Natyasastra
31. 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'
Highly Stylized Gestures
Alienation Effect
Problem plays
John Millington Synge
32. Most popular type of theatre during the Restoration; often featured great wit and wordplay and told stories about sexual gratification - bedroom escapades - and humankind's unrefined nature when it comes to sex
Comedy of Manners
Ki
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Maxim Gorky
33. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Anton Chekhov
The Black Crook
Kordian (1962)
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
34. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
The Enlightenment
Hilarious Absurdism
Daguerreotype
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
35. 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
Ha
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Emile Zola
Dadaism
36. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Western Drama
Off Broadway
Poetic Realism
Ha
37. 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
Goethe
Poetic Realism
musical comedy
Music
38. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ha
Showstopper
Shakespeare's King John
Jukebox musicals
39. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
Existentialism
Wole Soyinka
Chinese Theatre
40. 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
Das Kapital
Eugene Ionesco
Kathakali
41. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Africa
Ta'ziyeh
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Domestic Tragedies
42. 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
Vaudeville
musical comedy
The Interpretation of Dreams
Anton Chekhov
43. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
John Millington Synge
Intermezzi
3 components of Musical Scripts
Man and Superman (1903)
44. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Denis Diderot
dance musicals
Naturalistic Plays
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
45. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Shadow Theatre
Eugene O'Neill
Kathakali
Intermezzi
46. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Characters in the Peking Opera
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Expressionism
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
47. 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
Noh drama
Intermezzi
3 components of Musical Scripts
Kafkaesque
48. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Fourth Room
Minstrel Show Structure
A Dream Play (1902)
Characters in the Peking Opera
49. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Noh drama
Kordian (1962)
Voltaire
50. Form of theatre that mixed traditional African ritual theatre and Western-style drama; encouraged African nationalism - glorified Africa's past - and advanced African customs - rituals - and culture; also dealt with serious political themes and appla
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Off-Off-Broadway
Total Theatre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau