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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Anton Chekhov
Verfremdung
Expressionism
Realism
2. 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
William Fox Talbot
Comic opera
Existentialism
First Public Opera House
3. 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
musical
Noh drama
Vaudeville
Japanese Theatre
4. 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
Shimpa
rock musical
Beaumarchais
Avant-Garde
5. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Interpretation of Dreams
Beaumarchais
Naturalism
Melodrama
6. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
First Public Opera House
musical
Communists took control
Romantic Playwrights
7. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Variety Show
Natyasastra
John Millington Synge
Goethe
8. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Blaise Pascal
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Africa
George Bernard Shaw
9. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Ritual Theatre
Peking Opera
Poetic Realism
George Bernard Shaw
10. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Aphra Behn
Opera
Opera
book musicals
11. 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
Early European travelers and missionaries
Regional Theatre
Book
Ta'ziyeh
12. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Natyasastra
Antonin Artaud
box set
Naturalism
13. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Maxim Gorky
The Adding Machine (1923)
Realism
rock musical
14. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Enlightenment
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Hilarious Absurdism
15. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Daguerreotype
Faust
The Adding Machine (1923)
16. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
The Student Prince
Sentimental Comedies
Antonin Artaud
John Millington Synge
17. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
musical
Characters in the Peking Opera
First Public Opera House
Little Theatre Movement
18. 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
Precolonial African Theatre
The Jazz Singer
Melodrama
19. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
Avant-Garde
Ballad Operas
3 components of Musical Scripts
20. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Absurdism
Broadway Shows
21. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
Alienation Effect
Absurdism
Antonin Artaud
22. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Lorraine Handsberry
The Jazz Singer
3 components of Musical Scripts
Comedy of Manners
23. 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
Avant-Garde
Minstrel Show Structure
Shadow Theatre
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
24. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
Jukebox musicals
Dadaism
Performance Art
dance musicals
25. 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
Surrealism
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Naturalistic Plays
Reprise
26. What western theatre is often called:
A Trip to Coontown
Denis Diderot
Shadow Theatre
Aristotelian
27. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Characters in the Peking Opera
Alienation Effect
Lorraine Handsberry
Painted-face roles
28. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Book
Kafkaesque
Problem plays
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
29. 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
Eugene O'Neill
Off-Off-Broadway
musical comedy
30. Three parts of a Noh play
Domestic Tragedies
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Sentimental Comedies
Jean-Paul Sartre
31. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Goethe
Peking Opera
Kyu
Off Broadway
32. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Wole Soyinka
Straight Plays
Sanskrit Drama
Revue (Musical Review)
33. 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
Nickelodeons
Highly Stylized Gestures
The Communist Manifesto
Total Theatre
34. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Showstopper
Little Theatre Movement
Off Broadway
Broadway Shows
35. '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
Nell Gwynn
musical
Reprise
36. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Variety Show
Chinese Theatre
Japanese Theatre
The Jazz Singer
37. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Sentimental Comedies
Domestic Tragedies
Japanese Theatre
Western Drama
38. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Islamic Culture
Jo
Emile Zola
39. 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
Blaise Pascal
Alienation Effect
Denis Diderot
onnagata
40. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Melodrama
Voltaire
Emile Zola
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
41. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Painted-face roles
Dadaism
Noh drama
Verfremdung
42. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Naturalism
Little Theatre Movement
Realism
Comic opera
43. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Characters in the Peking Opera
Kathakali
rock musical
Shimpa
44. Greatest of the Sturm und Drang playwrights; was also a critic - journalist - painter - biologist - statesman - poet - novelist - philosopher - scientist - and the manager of the Duke of Weimar's playhouse
Louis Daguerre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Goethe
box set
45. Earliest form for photography
Noh drama and Kabuki
John Millington Synge
Fourth Room
Daguerreotype
46. 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
Samuel Beckett
Romantics
Ha
Total Theatre
47. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
well-made plays
Western Drama
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Realism
48. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Domestic Tragedies
Shakespeare's King John
Burlesque
Bunraku movements
49. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Music
Shakuntala
Africa
Dadaism
50. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Lorraine Handsberry
Opera
Ki
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