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Theatre Basics
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1. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Bunraku movements
box set
Domestic Tragedies
Communists took control
2. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Romantics
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
3. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Shavian Comedies
Characters in the Peking Opera
Lyricist
non-Western Theatre
4. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Japanese Theatre
Off Broadway
dance musicals
Verfremdung
5. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Mie pose
Shadow Theatre
Comedy of Manners
6. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
musical
Ken Saro-Wiwa
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Mie pose
7. Filled with characters who cannot resist an argument about social issues; no character is exempt from talking politics and theorizing about moral - artistic or religious reform
Restoration
Fatalist Absurdism
Shavian Comedies
Kyu
8. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Domestic Tragedies
musical comedy
Kordian (1962)
Harold Pinter
9. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Book
Dadaism
Surrealism
10. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Lyricist
Aphra Behn
Opera
rock musical
11. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Showstopper
Bertolt Brecht
Kordian (1962)
Bread and Puppet Theatre
12. 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
Antonin Artaud
Hilarious Absurdism
Precolonial African Theatre
overture
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
Kathakali
Eugene O'Neill
A Trip to Coontown
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
14. 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
Total Theatre
Louis Daguerre
Early European travelers and missionaries
Domestic Tragedies
15. Plays without music
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Straight Plays
Comedy of Manners
16. 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
Painted-face roles
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Natyasastra
Lyrics
17. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Precolonial African Theatre
Burlesque
Chinese Theatre
Beaumarchais
18. '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
Henrik Ibsen
Happenings
Total Theatre
Aphra Behn
19. 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
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
William Fox Talbot
Voltaire
20. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Highly Stylized Gestures
Noh drama
Mie pose
Ki
21. 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
Fatalist Absurdism
Kyu
Painted-face roles
Natyasastra
22. History plays about major political events of the past - domestic plays about the loves and lives of merchants and townspeople - and dance-dramas about the world of spirits and animals
Performance Art
Mie pose
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Regional Theatre
23. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Book
Blaise Pascal
Samuel Beckett
24. French philosopher often called the Father of the Romantic movement; argued that people could find happiness in a 'state of nature' and that they should learn from nature rather than the artificial and corrupted teachings of society
Operatic Musicals
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Poetic Realism
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
25. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Kordian (1962)
rock musical
Kabuki
Ballad Operas
26. 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
Symbolism
A Trip to Coontown
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bunraku movements
27. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
The Black Crook
Andre Antoine
Little Theatre Movement
Fourth Room
28. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Bunraku movements
Voltaire
Revue (Musical Review)
Aphra Behn
29. The sung words
Lyrics
Lorraine Handsberry
Hilarious Absurdism
Highly Stylized Gestures
30. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Japanese Theatre
31. 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
Oscar Wilde
Realism
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Existentialism
32. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Henrik Ibsen
Aphra Behn
Romantic Playwrights
women could legally appear on stages in England
33. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Dance of the Forest
Total Theatre
Naturalism
Little Theatre Movement
34. A true-to-life interior containing a room or rooms with the fourth wall removed so that the audience has the feeling of looking in on the characters' private lives
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Japanese Theatre
Dance of the Forest
box set
35. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Shakespeare's King John
Anton Chekhov
Minstrel Show
Lyricist
36. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Aristotelian
Goethe
Existentialism
Happenings
37. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
John Millington Synge
Total Theatre
overture
dance musicals
38. Writes the book
Librettist
Gotthold Lessing
Existential Absurdism
Jean-Paul Sartre
39. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
A Dream Play (1902)
Hilarious Absurdism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Off Broadway
40. 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
Ritual Theatre
Painted-face roles
Shakuntala
The Black Crook
41. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Sanskrit Drama
book musicals
Man and Superman (1903)
42. 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
Early European travelers and missionaries
Fatalist Absurdism
Kafkaesque
Jean-Paul Sartre
43. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Origin of the Cakewalk
The Enlightenment
Anton Chekhov
Off-Off-Broadway
44. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Aristotelian
Man and Superman (1903)
Operetta
45. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Natyasastra
John Millington Synge
Early European travelers and missionaries
Broadway Shows
46. 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
Vaudeville
Realism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
47. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Book
book musicals
Burlesque
Naturalism
48. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Bertolt Brecht
Western Drama
49. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Burlesque
Beaumarchais
Broadway Shows
Painted-face roles
50. 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'
Problem plays
Highly Stylized Gestures
Expressionism
Bertolt Brecht
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