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Theatre Basics
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1. Studied the history of class conflict
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Henrik Ibsen
The Communist Manifesto
Realism
2. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Characters in the Peking Opera
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Comedy of Manners
Kabuki
3. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Ha
Naturalistic Plays
Domestic Tragedies
Restoration
4. Most famous of the absurdist playwrights; best considered a fatalist - although work is sometimes hilarious and can ask existential questions; Endgame (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Happy Days (1961); Waiting for Godot (1953)
Absurdism
Blaise Pascal
Samuel Beckett
Straight Plays
5. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Broadway Shows
Shakuntala
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Composer
6. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Shadow Theatre
Kafkaesque
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
7. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Friedrich Nietzsche
Off Broadway
Existential Absurdism
William Fox Talbot
8. What western theatre is often called:
Aristotelian
Operatic Musicals
Problem plays
Book
9. Comedies forced Victorian society to reexamine its hypocrisies; Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) - A WOman of No Importance (1893) - An Ideal Husband (1894); advocated 'art for art's sake'; The Importance of Being Ernest
Oscar Wilde
women could legally appear on stages in England
Off-Off-Broadway
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
10. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Sean O'Casey
Blaise Pascal
onnagata
11. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Naturalistic Plays
Bertolt Brecht
Poetic Realism
The Communist Manifesto
12. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
A Dream Play (1902)
non-Western Theatre
Melodrama
Friedrich Nietzsche
13. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Shimpa
Operatic Musicals
musical comedy
The Koran
14. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
The Student Prince
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
The Adding Machine (1923)
Avant-Garde
15. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Domestic Tragedies
Intermezzi
Ki
Dance of the Forest
16. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Absurdism
The Koran
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Denis Diderot
17. 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
onnagata
Realism
Ballad Operas
Surrealism
18. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
3 components of Musical Scripts
rock musical
Problem plays
Peking Opera
19. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Verfremdung
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Minstrel Show Structure
Straight Plays
20. A robust and spectacular version of Noh; named after the characters for 'song' - 'dance' - and 'skill'; created by a woman named Okuni - owner of a brothel
Music
Kabuki
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Avant-Garde
21. 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
Blaise Pascal
box set
Islamic Culture
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
22. 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
Opera
Denis Diderot
A Trip to Coontown
Gotthold Lessing
23. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
The Interpretation of Dreams
Ki
overture
Burlesque
24. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Bunraku movements
Romantics
25. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Verfremdung
Nell Gwynn
Surrealism
non-Western Theatre
26. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
The Enlightenment
Lyrics
Shadow Theatre
musical comedy
27. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Ritual Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
Fourth Room
Shavian Comedies
28. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Hilarious Absurdism
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Early European travelers and missionaries
Librettist
29. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Romantics
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Painted-face roles
30. 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)
Theatre of Cruelty
George Bernard Shaw
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
musical
31. 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
Wole Soyinka
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Little Theatre Movement
Dadaism
32. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Ballad Operas
Little Theatre Movement
Music
33. Africa's greatest living playwright; born in Nigeria; plays combine symbolism - mysticism - beautiful dialogue - and they make strong political points; plays are deeply rooted in African myths - dance - and rituals but also influenced by Western dram
Wole Soyinka
Daguerreotype
Music
onnagata
34. Records of this type of theatre are fragmentary - but we do know that it grew out of regional religious rituals related to Confucianism - Taoism - and Buddhism - and ritual dances performed during the Shang dynasty
Chinese Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Avant-Garde
Shakuntala
35. The sung words
Lyrics
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Communists took control
onnagata
36. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
musical
Eugene Ionesco
Oscar Wilde
Alienation Effect
37. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Noh drama and Kabuki
Kyu
dance musicals
38. 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
Ki
Early European travelers and missionaries
Mie pose
Minstrel Show Structure
39. 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
Precolonial African Theatre
box set
Kathakali
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
40. 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
The Enlightenment
Kyu
Oscar Wilde
41. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Jo
Shakespeare's King John
Natyasastra
42. Only cost a nickel
Nickelodeons
musical comedy
George Bernard Shaw
Shimpa
43. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Dance of the Forest
Voltaire
Ziegfield Follies
44. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
Lorraine Handsberry
The Black Crook
Total Theatre
45. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Showstopper
Music
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Broadway Shows
46. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Eugene Ionesco
Noh drama
Eugene O'Neill
Intermezzi
47. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Nickelodeons
Happenings
Blaise Pascal
Music
48. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Operatic Musicals
Islamic Culture
musical
Ha
49. 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)
Alienation Effect
Off-Off-Broadway
George Bernard Shaw
well-made plays
50. Only cost a nickel
Islamic Culture
Kyu
Nickelodeons
Maxim Gorky