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Theatre Basics
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1. 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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2. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
George Bernard Shaw
Ki
Eugene Ionesco
Das Kapital
3. 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
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Precolonial African Theatre
Characters in the Peking Opera
Noh drama
4. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Comic opera
Shadow Theatre
Nell Gwynn
Poetic Realism
5. 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
Lyrics
Problem plays
Ritual Theatre
Beaumarchais
6. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Lorraine Handsberry
Kafkaesque
Lyricist
Sentimental Comedies
7. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
3 components of Musical Scripts
Harold Pinter
Aphra Behn
Off-Off-Broadway
8. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Little Theatre Movement
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Revue (Musical Review)
Shakuntala
9. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
Off Broadway
The Jazz Singer
Music
10. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Sentimental Comedies
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Peking Opera
Painted-face roles
11. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Off-Off-Broadway
Blaise Pascal
Shadow Theatre
Melodrama
12. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Dadaism
Naturalistic Plays
The Adding Machine (1923)
Off Broadway
13. 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
Africa
George Bernard Shaw
Daguerreotype
Natyasastra
14. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Harold Pinter
Alienation Effect
Naturalism
Intermezzi
15. Plays without music
Painted-face roles
Straight Plays
Shakuntala
Ballad Operas
16. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Bunraku movements
Mie pose
onnagata
Sentimental Comedies
17. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Noh drama
Fatalist Absurdism
William Fox Talbot
Shakuntala
18. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Lyricist
Chinese Theatre
The Interpretation of Dreams
Showstopper
19. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Early European travelers and missionaries
Theatre of Cruelty
Naturalism
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
20. Form of drama that dominated theatre in India for a thousand years; named for the ancient Indian language in which its plays are performed; combine the natural and the supernatural - the believable and unbelievable
Sanskrit Drama
Lyrics
Blaise Pascal
Hilarious Absurdism
21. 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
Painted-face roles
Sean O'Casey
A Dream Play (1902)
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
22. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Hilarious Absurdism
Naturalistic Plays
Faust
Off Broadway
23. 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
Fourth Room
Little Theatre Movement
A Trip to Coontown
book musicals
24. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
Lorraine Handsberry
rock musical
Painted-face roles
25. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Noh drama and Kabuki
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Gotthold Lessing
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
26. 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
Kafkaesque
Minstrel Show
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Maxim Gorky
27. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Kordian (1962)
Shavian Comedies
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
28. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Avant-Garde
Melodrama
Harold Pinter
29. First part of a Noh Play - usually a chance meeting between two characters - introductions are made and the characters engage in a question-and-answer sequence that reveals the protagonist's concern
Jo
Fatalist Absurdism
non-Western Theatre
Off Broadway
30. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Anton Chekhov
A Dream Play (1902)
Denis Diderot
Blaise Pascal
31. 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
Expressionism
The Student Prince
Louis Daguerre
Western Drama
32. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Voltaire
Regional Theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
George Bernard Shaw
33. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Book
Painted-face roles
Voltaire
The Interpretation of Dreams
34. 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
Emile Zola
Regional Theatre
Kordian (1962)
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
35. 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
box set
Chinese Theatre
William Fox Talbot
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
36. 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
Oscar Wilde
Dance of the Forest
Precolonial African Theatre
Total Theatre
37. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Gotthold Lessing
Shakespeare's King John
The Black Crook
Bertolt Brecht
38. '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
Eugene Ionesco
Samuel Beckett
Henrik Ibsen
musical
39. 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
Broadway Shows
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Maxim Gorky
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
40. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
The Koran
Alienation Effect
Performance Art
Little Theatre Movement
41. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Koran
The Enlightenment
Opera
42. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Composer
Book
Ballad Operas
Western Drama
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)
Man and Superman (1903)
John Millington Synge
Ki
Kabuki
44. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Chinese Theatre
Louis Daguerre
Western Drama
Bunraku movements
45. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Characters in the Peking Opera
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
The Enlightenment
46. 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
The Black Crook
Reprise
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Book
47. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Shadow Theatre
women could legally appear on stages in England
Faust
Natyasastra
48. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Sean O'Casey
Goethe
Fourth Room
49. 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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50. 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
Burlesque
Lyricist
rock musical