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Theatre Basics
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1. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Adding Machine (1923)
Shakespeare's King John
The Jazz Singer
A Dream Play (1902)
2. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Off-Off-Broadway
Music
Shadow Theatre
Early European travelers and missionaries
3. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
The Jazz Singer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shadow Theatre
4. 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
The Enlightenment
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Vaudeville
5. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Voltaire
First Public Opera House
Sanskrit Drama
6. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Antonin Artaud
Noh drama and Kabuki
Little Theatre Movement
Denis Diderot
7. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Fatalist Absurdism
Existentialism
onnagata
Ha
8. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Surrealism
Noh drama and Kabuki
Surrealism
Kathakali
9. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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10. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Living Theatre
Emile Zola
Shadow Theatre
11. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Aristotelian
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Shadow Theatre
Islamic Culture
12. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Samuel Beckett
Book
William Fox Talbot
Romantics
13. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Expressionism
Communists took control
Precolonial African Theatre
Beaumarchais
14. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Problem plays
Ki
Expressionism
Beaumarchais
15. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Lyrics
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Eugene Ionesco
Broadway Shows
16. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God; not a negative - for without God humans can create their own existences - purpose and meaning
Existentialism
Shakespeare's King John
Bunraku movements
The Interpretation of Dreams
17. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Mie pose
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Book
John Millington Synge
18. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
William Fox Talbot
Music
Jo
Vaudeville
19. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Lorraine Handsberry
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Natyasastra
Hilarious Absurdism
20. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
non-Western Theatre
Alienation Effect
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
21. 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
Maxim Gorky
Realism
Gotthold Lessing
The Koran
22. 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
Minstrel Show
Opera
Non-Western Drama
The Living Theatre
23. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
Noh drama
Kordian (1962)
Aphra Behn
24. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Kordian (1962)
Verfremdung
Aphra Behn
Restoration
25. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Realism
Harold Pinter
Dadaism
Romantic Playwrights
26. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Minstrel Show
Lorraine Handsberry
3 components of Musical Scripts
The Origin of the Cakewalk
27. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Opera
women could legally appear on stages in England
Verfremdung
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
28. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
Straight Plays
overture
Total Theatre
29. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Comedy of Manners
Comic opera
Ritual Theatre
Fourth Room
30. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Absurdism
Realism
Off-Off-Broadway
Sentimental Comedies
31. 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
Oscar Wilde
The Living Theatre
Eugene Ionesco
overture
32. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Operatic Musicals
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Japanese Theatre
The Enlightenment
33. Writes the lyrics
Lyricist
Ziegfield Follies
Ki
Early European travelers and missionaries
34. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
The Communist Manifesto
The Enlightenment
non-Western Theatre
Oscar Wilde
35. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
A Dream Play (1902)
Dance of the Forest
Emile Zola
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
36. 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
Restoration
Andre Antoine
musical
Comedy of Manners
37. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Eugene Ionesco
Shakespeare's King John
Verfremdung
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
38. Grew up in poverty and put himself through medical school and set up free clinics in Russia to help the poor; The Seagull (1896) - Uncle Vanya (1899) Three Sisters (1901) & The Cherry Orchard (1904); placed on stage the lazy chaos of lives crushed by
Opera
box set
Realism
Anton Chekhov
39. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Problem plays
Western Drama
Absurdism
Romantic Playwrights
40. 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
Das Kapital
The Koran
Ritual Theatre
Shadow Theatre
41. What western theatre is often called:
Off-Off-Broadway
Aristotelian
Domestic Tragedies
Shakespeare's King John
42. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Restoration
Existential Absurdism
The Black Crook
Shakuntala
43. 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
John Millington Synge
Broadway Shows
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
44. A permanent - professional theatre outside NYC; founded in 1947 by Margo Jones; stage new plays alongside commercial hits and historical plays; appeal to the intellectual audiences that Hollywood seldom serves
Characters in the Peking Opera
Performance Art
Regional Theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
45. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Lorraine Handsberry
Existential Absurdism
Voltaire
Avant-Garde
46. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Mie pose
Anton Chekhov
47. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
overture
Minstrel Show
Precolonial African Theatre
Poetic Realism
48. 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
Nell Gwynn
Surrealism
Friedrich Nietzsche
Chinese Theatre
49. 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
Sanskrit Drama
Reprise
Shakespeare's King John
Early European travelers and missionaries
50. 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
Voltaire
The Black Crook
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Operatic Musicals