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Theatre Basics
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1. A sudden - striking pose (often with their eyes crossed - chin sharply turned - and big toe pointed towards the sky) in Kabuki accompanied by several powerful beats of wooden clappers
overture
Mie pose
Ritual Theatre
Wole Soyinka
2. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Noh drama and Kabuki
Revue (Musical Review)
Jukebox musicals
Problem plays
3. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
Comic opera
William Fox Talbot
Vaudeville
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
4. Plays without music
Revue (Musical Review)
Straight Plays
Kafkaesque
Chinese Theatre
5. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
Bunraku movements
Comic opera
Man and Superman (1903)
6. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Antonin Artaud
The Interpretation of Dreams
Shadow Theatre
Nickelodeons
7. 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
Wole Soyinka
Symbolism
Chinese Theatre
rock musical
8. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
First Public Opera House
Aristotelian
Bertolt Brecht
Harold Pinter
9. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Das Kapital
Jukebox musicals
Absurdism
Minstrel Show
10. 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
Absurdism
musical
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Comic opera
11. Book - music - and lyrics
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Shakuntala
3 components of Musical Scripts
Comic opera
12. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Verfremdung
The Jazz Singer
13. 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
Das Kapital
Alienation Effect
The Koran
14. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Realism
Louis Daguerre
Avant-Garde
3 components of Musical Scripts
15. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
A Dream Play (1902)
The Black Crook
Minstrel Show
Alienation Effect
16. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
Fatalist Absurdism
17. 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
Minstrel Show
Intermezzi
Opera
Daguerreotype
18. 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
Shadow Theatre
Existential Absurdism
Antonin Artaud
Opera
19. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
well-made plays
Western Drama
The Adding Machine (1923)
John Millington Synge
20. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Comic opera
The Jazz Singer
Total Theatre
Ha
21. Only cost a nickel
Nickelodeons
Bread and Puppet Theatre
The Black Crook
Sentimental Comedies
22. 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
Eugene O'Neill
Kyu
Minstrel Show Structure
Bertolt Brecht
23. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
Shadow Theatre
musical
The Black Crook
24. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
First Public Opera House
musical comedy
Showstopper
The Jazz Singer
25. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Friedrich Nietzsche
Happenings
Theatre of Cruelty
Shimpa
26. 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
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Precolonial African Theatre
Daguerreotype
Ta'ziyeh
27. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Voltaire
Eugene O'Neill
Ballad Operas
Showstopper
28. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Koran
musical comedy
Gotthold Lessing
29. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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30. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Romantics
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
women could legally appear on stages in England
31. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
The Student Prince
Verfremdung
George Bernard Shaw
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
32. 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'
Problem plays
Romantic Playwrights
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Louis Daguerre
33. 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
Kordian (1962)
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Non-Western Drama
A Dream Play (1902)
34. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Verfremdung
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Chinese Theatre
35. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Opera
Ki
Music
Little Theatre Movement
36. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Man and Superman (1903)
Opera
Naturalism
Das Kapital
37. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Blaise Pascal
A Dream Play (1902)
Kyu
Antonin Artaud
38. 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
Voltaire
Sanskrit Drama
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Surrealism
39. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Little Theatre Movement
The Black Crook
Eugene Ionesco
First Public Opera House
40. First part of a Noh Play - usually a chance meeting between two characters - introductions are made and the characters engage in a question-and-answer sequence that reveals the protagonist's concern
The Living Theatre
Existentialism
Jo
Kabuki
41. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Samuel Beckett
Ballad Operas
Dance of the Forest
Poetic Realism
42. A true-to-life interior containing a room or rooms with the fourth wall removed so that the audience has the feeling of looking in on the characters' private lives
Characters in the Peking Opera
Performance Art
box set
The Adding Machine (1923)
43. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Minstrel Show
Communists took control
The Communist Manifesto
Nell Gwynn
44. 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
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
box set
Dadaism
Expressionism
45. 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
Eugene O'Neill
Happenings
Natyasastra
Revue (Musical Review)
46. 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
Dance of the Forest
Comedy of Manners
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Straight Plays
47. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
Problem plays
Lyrics
Vaudeville
48. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Romantic Playwrights
Africa
dance musicals
Dance of the Forest
49. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Avant-Garde
Romantic Playwrights
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Voltaire
50. 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
Characters in the Peking Opera
Opera
Kabuki
Revue (Musical Review)