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Theatre Basics
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1. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Straight Plays
Ta'ziyeh
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Beaumarchais
2. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Nickelodeons
Lyricist
Ritual Theatre
Characters in the Peking Opera
3. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Man and Superman (1903)
Kyu
Realism
Kathakali
4. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Ha
Henrik Ibsen
Lyricist
Kordian (1962)
5. Writes the book
Hilarious Absurdism
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Librettist
Gotthold Lessing
6. Type of Islamic theatre - religious drama of Iran which allowed for actors - both professional and amateur - and has been performed in open-air playing spaces and on some occasions in specially constructed indoor stages for hundreds of years
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7. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Shavian Comedies
A Dream Play (1902)
Sean O'Casey
8. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Characters in the Peking Opera
box set
Regional Theatre
9. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
onnagata
Happenings
Goethe
The Living Theatre
10. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Lyricist
Hilarious Absurdism
Harold Pinter
Revue (Musical Review)
11. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Naturalism
women could legally appear on stages in England
Romantics
The Adding Machine (1923)
12. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
A Dream Play (1902)
Lyrics
Goethe
13. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
The Interpretation of Dreams
Kyu
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Painted-face roles
14. Most famous surrealist and was a French writer and director; studied Asian religions - mysticism - and ancient cultures; declared theatre should should wake the nerves and heart; argued that proscenium arch theatres create a barrier between the audie
Operatic Musicals
Dadaism
musical
Antonin Artaud
15. 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
Ki
Lyricist
Dadaism
Symbolism
16. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
John Millington Synge
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Music
17. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Romantics
Emile Zola
Bunraku movements
Avant-Garde
18. 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
Alienation Effect
Sean O'Casey
Minstrel Show Structure
Voltaire
19. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
The Jazz Singer
Eugene Ionesco
Emile Zola
Variety Show
20. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Black Crook
Fourth Room
Librettist
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
21. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Domestic Tragedies
Comedy of Manners
Operatic Musicals
Nell Gwynn
22. 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
musical
The Communist Manifesto
William Fox Talbot
Painted-face roles
23. 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
Fourth Room
Minstrel Show
Eugene Ionesco
24. '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
Straight Plays
Ki
John Millington Synge
25. Studied the history of class conflict
Dadaism
Japanese Theatre
women could legally appear on stages in England
The Communist Manifesto
26. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
William Fox Talbot
Mie pose
musical comedy
Noh drama and Kabuki
27. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Oscar Wilde
Nickelodeons
The Communist Manifesto
Japanese Theatre
28. 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
Reprise
musical
Early European travelers and missionaries
The Communist Manifesto
29. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Alienation Effect
Burlesque
dance musicals
Eugene Ionesco
30. 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
Ritual Theatre
Goethe
The Interpretation of Dreams
book musicals
31. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
Denis Diderot
Islamic Culture
Shadow Theatre
32. 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
Regional Theatre
Reprise
Book
Poetic Realism
33. Earliest form for photography
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Daguerreotype
Emile Zola
34. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
3 components of Musical Scripts
Western Drama
Intermezzi
Book
35. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Maxim Gorky
Shadow Theatre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Communists took control
36. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Ha
First Public Opera House
Samuel Beckett
Ritual Theatre
37. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Beaumarchais
Ha
Eugene Ionesco
Maxim Gorky
38. Would agitate the masses - attack the spectators' sensibilities and purge people of their destructive tendencies; wanted stylized - ritualized performances - not realism - which they felt restricted the theatre to the study of psychological problems
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Maxim Gorky
Total Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
39. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Non-Western Drama
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Music
40. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
The Interpretation of Dreams
book musicals
Alienation Effect
The Origin of the Cakewalk
41. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Nell Gwynn
Surrealism
Western Drama
42. 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
Music
Existentialism
Bertolt Brecht
Harold Pinter
43. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Lorraine Handsberry
Comic opera
Western Drama
Opera
44. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Domestic Tragedies
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Surrealism
45. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
musical comedy
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
dance musicals
Dance of the Forest
46. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Kabuki
Das Kapital
Naturalism
47. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Kafkaesque
The Adding Machine (1923)
Nell Gwynn
Verfremdung
48. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Harold Pinter
Off Broadway
Western Drama
Shimpa
49. 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
Lyricist
musical comedy
William Fox Talbot
Minstrel Show Structure
50. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Daguerreotype
Off-Off-Broadway
Harold Pinter
Burlesque