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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Ballad Operas
The Jazz Singer
Natyasastra
2. 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
The Koran
Faust
Book
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
3. Wrote 'high comedies' which were cerebral socially relevant plays that had an intellectual scope so vast they forced audiences to reassess their values; Man and Superman (1903) & The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Louis Daguerre
The Communist Manifesto
George Bernard Shaw
Romantics
4. The orchestrated melodies
Problem plays
Music
dance musicals
Kafkaesque
5. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Early European travelers and missionaries
dance musicals
Verfremdung
The Adding Machine (1923)
6. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Painted-face roles
The Jazz Singer
Natyasastra
7. 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
Eugene Ionesco
Natyasastra
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Composer
8. 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
Sean O'Casey
Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism
Broadway Shows
9. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
The Adding Machine (1923)
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Lorraine Handsberry
10. 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
Natyasastra
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Communist Manifesto
Henrik Ibsen
11. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Kyu
Noh drama
Music
Man and Superman (1903)
12. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Jukebox musicals
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Off-Off-Broadway
Comedy of Manners
13. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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14. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
The Black Crook
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
A Trip to Coontown
Opera
15. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Kafkaesque
Bunraku movements
Natyasastra
Daguerreotype
16. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Shavian Comedies
Jo
Domestic Tragedies
Ki
17. A German poet - director and playwright who challenged traditional ideas about theatre; became a communist after watching policement shoot 4 unarmed civilians; The Life of Galileo (1938) - Mother Courage and her Children (1939) & The Caucasian Chalk
Bertolt Brecht
Early European travelers and missionaries
Daguerreotype
Little Theatre Movement
18. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Domestic Tragedies
Shadow Theatre
Restoration
The Living Theatre
19. 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'
musical
Alienation Effect
Problem plays
Minstrel Show
20. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Shadow Theatre
Composer
Shavian Comedies
Jean-Paul Sartre
21. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Natyasastra
well-made plays
The Adding Machine (1923)
women could legally appear on stages in England
22. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Romantic Playwrights
box set
Islamic Culture
Romantics
23. 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
The Enlightenment
Communists took control
Nickelodeons
Non-Western Drama
24. Form of theatre that mixed traditional African ritual theatre and Western-style drama; encouraged African nationalism - glorified Africa's past - and advanced African customs - rituals - and culture; also dealt with serious political themes and appla
Lyricist
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Total Theatre
non-Western Theatre
25. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Emile Zola
Blaise Pascal
Bread and Puppet Theatre
26. Book - music - and lyrics
The Student Prince
Jukebox musicals
3 components of Musical Scripts
Surrealism
27. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
women could legally appear on stages in England
dance musicals
Off Broadway
The Koran
28. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Noh drama
Existential Absurdism
women could legally appear on stages in England
29. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
overture
Aristotelian
Fourth Room
Shakuntala
30. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Western Drama
Little Theatre Movement
Symbolism
Burlesque
31. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Painted-face roles
A Dream Play (1902)
Kordian (1962)
Daguerreotype
32. 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
Kathakali
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Expressionism
William Fox Talbot
33. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Regional Theatre
Denis Diderot
The Living Theatre
Oscar Wilde
34. 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
Denis Diderot
Shavian Comedies
Lyricist
Mie pose
35. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
William Fox Talbot
Straight Plays
Kathakali
The Black Crook
36. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Restoration
Maxim Gorky
Naturalistic Plays
Eugene Ionesco
37. Plays without music
Total Theatre
Restoration
Shimpa
Straight Plays
38. 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
book musicals
Precolonial African Theatre
The Enlightenment
Kordian (1962)
39. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Andre Antoine
Faust
Wole Soyinka
Kyu
40. Term used to describe performances that mix theatre - visual arts - music - dance - gesture and rituals; often use multimedia effects - sounds and lighting effects to make a point and allow the audience to understand its deeper implications; often re
onnagata
Performance Art
Happenings
Precolonial African Theatre
41. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Ki
Existential Absurdism
Lorraine Handsberry
Islamic Culture
42. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Naturalistic Plays
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
George Bernard Shaw
43. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Happenings
Kabuki
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
box set
44. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Sentimental Comedies
Off-Off-Broadway
The Jazz Singer
First Public Opera House
45. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Characters in the Peking Opera
Ballad Operas
Burlesque
Melodrama
46. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Alienation Effect
Man and Superman (1903)
Bunraku movements
Antonin Artaud
47. 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
Ziegfield Follies
non-Western Theatre
Eugene Ionesco
The Koran
48. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Minstrel Show
Minstrel Show Structure
Islamic Culture
Voltaire
49. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Wole Soyinka
Bunraku movements
Precolonial African Theatre
A Trip to Coontown
50. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Naturalistic Plays
Comedy of Manners
Islamic Culture
Non-Western Drama
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