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Theatre Basics
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1. Studied the history of class conflict
Verfremdung
Nell Gwynn
Ziegfield Follies
The Communist Manifesto
2. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Opera
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
George Bernard Shaw
Intermezzi
3. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Minstrel Show
Kyu
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Total Theatre
4. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
The Adding Machine (1923)
Ritual Theatre
Mie pose
Eugene Ionesco
5. 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
Jo
Friedrich Nietzsche
Emile Zola
A Trip to Coontown
6. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Surrealism
Eugene Ionesco
Bread and Puppet Theatre
7. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Emile Zola
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Shadow Theatre
8. 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
Mie pose
Highly Stylized Gestures
Avant-Garde
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Eugene Ionesco
Ballad Operas
Revue (Musical Review)
women could legally appear on stages in England
10. 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
Voltaire
Noh drama
Shavian Comedies
Melodrama
11. 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)
George Bernard Shaw
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Samuel Beckett
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
12. 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
Nell Gwynn
rock musical
Louis Daguerre
Existentialism
13. The sung words
Lyrics
Jukebox musicals
Jukebox musicals
Andre Antoine
14. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
William Fox Talbot
The Communist Manifesto
Intermezzi
Vaudeville
15. 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
Natyasastra
dance musicals
Romantics
Poetic Realism
16. '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
Problem plays
Friedrich Nietzsche
3 components of Musical Scripts
Henrik Ibsen
17. 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)
Samuel Beckett
The Communist Manifesto
Theatre of Cruelty
Western Drama
18. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Vaudeville
Fatalist Absurdism
Symbolism
Samuel Beckett
19. Grew up in poverty and put himself through medical school and set up free clinics in Russia to help the poor; The Seagull (1896) - Uncle Vanya (1899) Three Sisters (1901) & The Cherry Orchard (1904); placed on stage the lazy chaos of lives crushed by
George Bernard Shaw
Anton Chekhov
non-Western Theatre
Ken Saro-Wiwa
20. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Alienation Effect
Existential Absurdism
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Absurdism
21. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Verfremdung
Absurdism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Realism
22. No spoken dialogue - entirely sung; comes from the Latin word 'work' and may have originally meant 'works in music' or 'musical works for the stage'; first operas were in Italy in late 1500s
Dance of the Forest
Louis Daguerre
Opera
Ken Saro-Wiwa
23. 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
Nell Gwynn
box set
Japanese Theatre
Kafkaesque
24. 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
Alienation Effect
Western Drama
The Koran
Realism
25. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Straight Plays
The Black Crook
Andre Antoine
26. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Chinese Theatre
Kyu
Restoration
Problem plays
27. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Off-Off-Broadway
musical comedy
musical
28. 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
Nell Gwynn
Jukebox musicals
Absurdism
Oscar Wilde
29. No spoken dialogue - entirely sung; comes from the Latin word 'work' and may have originally meant 'works in music' or 'musical works for the stage'; first operas were in Italy in late 1500s
Showstopper
Voltaire
Opera
3 components of Musical Scripts
30. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
women could legally appear on stages in England
The Interpretation of Dreams
Off-Off-Broadway
31. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
Problem plays
Shimpa
Non-Western Drama
Kafkaesque
32. 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
Nell Gwynn
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Shavian Comedies
33. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
Japanese Theatre
Book
Aphra Behn
34. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Samuel Beckett
A Dream Play (1902)
Verfremdung
Melodrama
35. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Ha
The Jazz Singer
Das Kapital
Japanese Theatre
36. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Total Theatre
Domestic Tragedies
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Revue (Musical Review)
37. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Blaise Pascal
Bread and Puppet Theatre
The Koran
The Origin of the Cakewalk
38. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Friedrich Nietzsche
Highly Stylized Gestures
Lorraine Handsberry
Hilarious Absurdism
39. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Burlesque
Jukebox musicals
40. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
The Black Crook
Non-Western Drama
Romantics
The Living Theatre
41. 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
Ritual Theatre
Highly Stylized Gestures
Lorraine Handsberry
42. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Ziegfield Follies
Melodrama
Minstrel Show
43. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Voltaire
non-Western Theatre
Communists took control
Bunraku movements
44. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Symbolism
Minstrel Show Structure
The Adding Machine (1923)
Mie pose
45. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Poetic Realism
Anton Chekhov
book musicals
Little Theatre Movement
46. 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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Expressionism
musical comedy
47. 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
Ha
Symbolism
Kabuki
Samuel Beckett
48. 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
Jo
Peking Opera
A Dream Play (1902)
Precolonial African Theatre
49. 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 actors' stylized performance techniques
Chinese Theatre
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Fourth Room
50. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Emile Zola
Hilarious Absurdism
Peking Opera
Das Kapital