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Theatre Basics
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1. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
musical
Jean-Paul Sartre
Andre Antoine
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Absurdism
Opera
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Fourth Room
3. Writes the music
First Public Opera House
Emile Zola
Faust
Composer
4. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
The Student Prince
Librettist
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Happenings
5. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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6. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Burlesque
Avant-Garde
Opera
The Jazz Singer
7. 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)
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Restoration
Kabuki
Samuel Beckett
8. Islam's holy book - contains a warning about 'graven images' similar to the one in the Bible - prohibition applies to dolls - statues - portraits - and people playing a character
Kordian (1962)
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
The Koran
musical
9. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Burlesque
Faust
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
book musicals
10. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Fourth Room
Aphra Behn
Opera
11. 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
Sanskrit Drama
Poetic Realism
book musicals
Maxim Gorky
12. The men who play female roles are called:
3 components of Musical Scripts
Shadow Theatre
Minstrel Show
onnagata
13. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Dance of the Forest
Music
Fatalist Absurdism
Aphra Behn
14. 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
Reprise
Lorraine Handsberry
Showstopper
Friedrich Nietzsche
15. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
book musicals
Kordian (1962)
16. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Total Theatre
Lorraine Handsberry
Ha
Ki
17. 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
Kafkaesque
Western Drama
Africa
Happenings
18. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
Shadow Theatre
Reprise
Natyasastra
19. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Showstopper
Restoration
Ritual Theatre
Sanskrit Drama
20. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Alienation Effect
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Off Broadway
non-Western Theatre
21. 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
Operatic Musicals
Book
Natyasastra
Kordian (1962)
22. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Mie pose
Voltaire
non-Western Theatre
Absurdism
23. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
women could legally appear on stages in England
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Shakespeare's King John
24. 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
Lorraine Handsberry
Bunraku movements
Minstrel Show
overture
25. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
John Millington Synge
Happenings
dance musicals
Jukebox musicals
26. 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
Kafkaesque
Symbolism
Africa
Faust
27. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Wole Soyinka
Comic opera
Broadway Shows
The Origin of the Cakewalk
28. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Melodrama
Natyasastra
Variety Show
29. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Comic opera
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
The Communist Manifesto
Hilarious Absurdism
30. 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
Showstopper
Emile Zola
Alienation Effect
31. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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32. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Romantic Playwrights
William Fox Talbot
Off Broadway
Domestic Tragedies
33. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Kyu
Lorraine Handsberry
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Melodrama
34. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Ritual Theatre
Comedy of Manners
Kabuki
Verfremdung
35. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Peking Opera
Painted-face roles
Non-Western Drama
Operatic Musicals
36. 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
Problem plays
The Interpretation of Dreams
Andre Antoine
Voltaire
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
Jean-Paul Sartre
Sean O'Casey
musical
Surrealism
38. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Jo
book musicals
Melodrama
39. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Restoration
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Opera
40. 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
Das Kapital
Librettist
Variety Show
41. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Poetic Realism
box set
Regional Theatre
42. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Japanese Theatre
Chinese Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
Avant-Garde
43. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Peking Opera
Dance of the Forest
Shimpa
44. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
The Adding Machine (1923)
Natyasastra
non-Western Theatre
Naturalistic Plays
45. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Anton Chekhov
Andre Antoine
John Millington Synge
well-made plays
46. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Naturalistic Plays
Wole Soyinka
Verfremdung
47. Writes the lyrics
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Existentialism
Bunraku movements
Lyricist
48. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Little Theatre Movement
John Millington Synge
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Verfremdung
49. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Burlesque
Regional Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Early European travelers and missionaries
50. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Ki
Highly Stylized Gestures
Poetic Realism
Shakuntala
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