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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Jo
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Bread and Puppet Theatre
2. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Naturalistic Plays
Oscar Wilde
well-made plays
Ritual Theatre
3. 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
Reprise
book musicals
Realism
Shavian Comedies
4. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Verfremdung
Shavian Comedies
Kyu
Anton Chekhov
5. 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
Samuel Beckett
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Operatic Musicals
Realism
6. Earliest form for photography
musical
Daguerreotype
Noh drama
Communists took control
7. Elaborate geometrical designs were used for these roles which included supernatural beings - warriors - and bandits; the color of the make-up indicated the character's personality
Painted-face roles
Harold Pinter
Existential Absurdism
Dadaism
8. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Operatic Musicals
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Broadway Shows
Romantics
9. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Noh drama and Kabuki
Lyrics
well-made plays
Communists took control
10. 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
Anton Chekhov
Intermezzi
Kathakali
The Koran
11. Only cost a nickel
Bertolt Brecht
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
A Trip to Coontown
Nickelodeons
12. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
rock musical
Anton Chekhov
Book
13. '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
Off-Off-Broadway
The Jazz Singer
Henrik Ibsen
Naturalism
14. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Alienation Effect
Kathakali
Expressionism
15. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Existential Absurdism
Total Theatre
Painted-face roles
Dadaism
16. 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
Lyrics
Antonin Artaud
Africa
Theatre of Cruelty
17. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Domestic Tragedies
The Jazz Singer
Fatalist Absurdism
Burlesque
18. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Adding Machine (1923)
book musicals
Vaudeville
The Interpretation of Dreams
19. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Kyu
Book
Opera
20. Earliest form for photography
Aphra Behn
Daguerreotype
Gotthold Lessing
Aristotelian
21. 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
The Enlightenment
Friedrich Nietzsche
Goethe
Painted-face roles
22. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Minstrel Show Structure
Ballad Operas
Regional Theatre
overture
23. A production of British actor Charles Kean; had realistic costumes - set and props that he had researched to make sure they were historically correct
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24. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sean O'Casey
Wole Soyinka
Bunraku movements
25. 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
Non-Western Drama
Shavian Comedies
Islamic Culture
Domestic Tragedies
26. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Theatre of Cruelty
Book
The Living Theatre
Naturalism
27. 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
Nickelodeons
Vaudeville
John Millington Synge
Existential Absurdism
28. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Librettist
Maxim Gorky
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Bunraku movements
29. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Fatalist Absurdism
Lorraine Handsberry
Minstrel Show
Problem plays
30. 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
Romantics
overture
Lyrics
Straight Plays
31. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Romantic Playwrights
Sentimental Comedies
Burlesque
well-made plays
32. 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
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ritual Theatre
Shadow Theatre
Natyasastra
33. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Absurdism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Antonin Artaud
Dance of the Forest
34. Writes the music
Composer
women could legally appear on stages in England
Wole Soyinka
Jean-Paul Sartre
35. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Variety Show
Antonin Artaud
box set
36. 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
Nickelodeons
Noh drama and Kabuki
Problem plays
37. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Nell Gwynn
Romantic Playwrights
Japanese Theatre
William Fox Talbot
38. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Opera
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Communists took control
39. Studied the history of class conflict
Aphra Behn
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
The Communist Manifesto
40. 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
Regional Theatre
Symbolism
Shavian Comedies
women could legally appear on stages in England
41. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Symbolism
Characters in the Peking Opera
Dadaism
Symbolism
42. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Burlesque
Noh drama and Kabuki
Aphra Behn
Lorraine Handsberry
43. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Absurdism
The Student Prince
Happenings
Revue (Musical Review)
44. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Dance of the Forest
book musicals
Reprise
Burlesque
45. The artist imposes his own internal state onto the outside world itself; expressionism is a subjective account of an objective perception; expressionist plays use deliberate set distortion
dance musicals
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Daguerreotype
Expressionism
46. 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
Sean O'Casey
Alienation Effect
Voltaire
A Trip to Coontown
47. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Jukebox musicals
Japanese Theatre
Opera
Gotthold Lessing
48. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Harold Pinter
Showstopper
Lorraine Handsberry
overture
49. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Romantic Playwrights
Voltaire
Kafkaesque
Absurdism
50. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Burlesque
Natyasastra
Little Theatre Movement
William Fox Talbot