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Theatre Basics

Subject : performing-arts
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1. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods






2. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots






3. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters






4. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine






5. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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






9. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet






10. 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






11. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients






12. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue






13. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern






14. In Sigmund Romberg's play the king young heir to the throne sacrifices his personal happiness for the good of the kingdom when he sorrowfully pulls himself away from his true love in order to marry a princess whom he does not love






15. The men who play female roles are called:






16. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre






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






18. 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






19. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities






20. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays






21. 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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22. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods






23. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:






24. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist






25. Studied the history of class conflict






26. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre






27. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres






28. Book - music - and lyrics






29. 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






30. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)






31. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi






32. 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






33. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine






34. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism






35. 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






36. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism






37. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)

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38. Light opera - differs from 'grand opera' because it has a frivolous - comic theme - some spoken dialogue - a melodramatic story - and usually a little dancing; The Mikado (1885)






39. 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






40. 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






41. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved






42. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)






43. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata






44. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre






45. Studied the history of class conflict






46. 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






47. 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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48. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion






49. 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






50. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866