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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Japanese Theatre
Regional Theatre
Shimpa
Non-Western Drama
2. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Reprise
Sanskrit Drama
Intermezzi
Avant-Garde
3. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Kathakali
book musicals
Lyrics
4. Writes the music
Naturalism
Composer
Nickelodeons
musical
5. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Goethe
Lorraine Handsberry
musical comedy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Avant-Garde
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Maxim Gorky
7. Writes the lyrics
Ritual Theatre
book musicals
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Lyricist
8. One of the most important French philosophers of the Age of Reason - wrote and edited the first encyclopedia; was also a dramatist who penned books on the techniques of acting; authored The Paradox of Acting - a book that attached the pompous declama
Denis Diderot
musical
Andre Antoine
Henrik Ibsen
9. What western theatre is often called:
Surrealism
Beaumarchais
Aristotelian
Harold Pinter
10. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
Noh drama
musical comedy
Existential Absurdism
11. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Shakuntala
Eugene Ionesco
Ballad Operas
Kafkaesque
12. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Intermezzi
Characters in the Peking Opera
musical
Maxim Gorky
13. Composed and produced by Bob Cole - lyrics by Billy Johnson; story of a con man and used minstrel stereotypes and spoofed Chinatown; in one scene a young black man sings about he and his date were denied entry to a nightclub cuz He was black and this
well-made plays
Burlesque
Shakespeare's King John
A Trip to Coontown
14. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Ritual Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
Absurdism
well-made plays
15. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Shadow Theatre
Non-Western Drama
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Highly Stylized Gestures
16. 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
Jukebox musicals
Off Broadway
Friedrich Nietzsche
Anton Chekhov
17. 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 Interpretation of Dreams
Surrealism
Noh drama and Kabuki
18. 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
Verfremdung
Surrealism
Highly Stylized Gestures
Poetic Realism
19. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Performance Art
Natyasastra
Ki
Comic opera
20. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Restoration
William Fox Talbot
Off Broadway
A Dream Play (1902)
21. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
A Trip to Coontown
Ki
Bertolt Brecht
Ta'ziyeh
22. 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
Music
Fatalist Absurdism
The Enlightenment
Comedy of Manners
23. 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
Jukebox musicals
The Student Prince
Sean O'Casey
Chinese Theatre
24. 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
Surrealism
Harold Pinter
Theatre of Cruelty
The Adding Machine (1923)
25. 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
The Student Prince
Islamic Culture
non-Western Theatre
Precolonial African Theatre
26. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
Islamic Culture
Jukebox musicals
Das Kapital
27. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Hilarious Absurdism
Surrealism
Bunraku movements
Emile Zola
28. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Anton Chekhov
29. Only cost a nickel
Variety Show
Expressionism
Nickelodeons
Sanskrit Drama
30. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
Performance Art
Performance Art
Bertolt Brecht
31. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Kathakali
Mie pose
Naturalistic Plays
A Dream Play (1902)
32. 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
Realism
Andre Antoine
Kabuki
Wole Soyinka
33. French Enlightenment playwright; was an inventor and thinker who spent countless hours at the leading intellectual salons of France; most famous plays are The Barber of Seville - and The Marriage of Figaro - his plays reflect the attitudes of the Enl
Beaumarchais
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Man and Superman (1903)
Happenings
34. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Symbolism
Avant-Garde
Peking Opera
Ha
35. 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
Symbolism
Reprise
Sentimental Comedies
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
36. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
The Living Theatre
book musicals
Avant-Garde
Alienation Effect
37. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Kathakali
Kyu
Japanese Theatre
Comic opera
38. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Nell Gwynn
Ta'ziyeh
Faust
Showstopper
39. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Black Crook
Verfremdung
Comedy of Manners
The Jazz Singer
40. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Kordian (1962)
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Bertolt Brecht
dance musicals
41. '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
The Student Prince
Henrik Ibsen
Ki
rock musical
42. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Blaise Pascal
Kyu
Existential Absurdism
Music
43. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Lyricist
Kabuki
Minstrel Show Structure
44. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Emile Zola
Maxim Gorky
Nell Gwynn
Precolonial African Theatre
45. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
Emile Zola
Kyu
Performance Art
46. Studied the history of class conflict
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Communist Manifesto
Existential Absurdism
Happenings
47. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Communists took control
musical comedy
rock musical
The Enlightenment
48. 1. theatre has an actor who plays a character - theatre is artificial - and 2. theatre usually has a story with a conflict - conflict is key to all drama
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Henrik Ibsen
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Realism
49. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Straight Plays
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Emile Zola
Bunraku movements
50. No protagonist; deals with a family of characters who tell many stories at once; the fact that characters on stage take no action may inspire audience members to be motivated for the opposite in real life
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
non-Western Theatre
Aphra Behn
The Cherry Orchard (1904)