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Theatre Basics
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1. Writes the book
Sentimental Comedies
Variety Show
Librettist
Eugene Ionesco
2. 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
The Origin of the Cakewalk
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Alienation Effect
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
3. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Western Drama
John Millington Synge
Oscar Wilde
Noh drama
4. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Emile Zola
Nell Gwynn
Symbolism
George Bernard Shaw
5. Earliest form for photography
Romantic Playwrights
Opera
Showstopper
Daguerreotype
6. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
The Enlightenment
The Adding Machine (1923)
musical
Wole Soyinka
7. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Andre Antoine
Denis Diderot
Poetic Realism
Melodrama
8. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Off-Off-Broadway
Gotthold Lessing
Noh drama
Noh drama and Kabuki
9. 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
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Straight Plays
Revue (Musical Review)
Comic opera
10. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Fatalist Absurdism
A Trip to Coontown
Verfremdung
The Interpretation of Dreams
11. Sarcastic label of Scribe's plays; the sympathetic protagonist suffers at the hands of an evil antagonist in the course of intense action - suspense - and contrived play devices; ending is always happy and the loose ends are neatly tied up
Naturalism
Sean O'Casey
Burlesque
well-made plays
12. 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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13. Term used to describe performances that mix theatre - visual arts - music - dance - gesture and rituals; often use multimedia effects - sounds and lighting effects to make a point and allow the audience to understand its deeper implications; often re
Problem plays
Performance Art
Eugene Ionesco
George Bernard Shaw
14. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Reprise
Absurdism
Total Theatre
15. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Jo
The Origin of the Cakewalk
The Enlightenment
Eugene O'Neill
16. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
The Enlightenment
The Communist Manifesto
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Harold Pinter
17. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Natyasastra
Naturalistic Plays
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Restoration
18. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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19. 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
Expressionism
Vaudeville
non-Western Theatre
Minstrel Show
20. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Samuel Beckett
Harold Pinter
Kathakali
Librettist
21. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Comic opera
Faust
Showstopper
Peking Opera
22. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Surrealism
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Happenings
George Bernard Shaw
23. 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
musical
Operatic Musicals
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire
24. Built in Venice in 1637
Shimpa
Poetic Realism
First Public Opera House
Ken Saro-Wiwa
25. 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
Chinese Theatre
3 components of Musical Scripts
Antonin Artaud
Andre Antoine
26. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Kyu
Naturalism
The Black Crook
George Bernard Shaw
27. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Total Theatre
Off Broadway
Shakuntala
Maxim Gorky
28. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Jukebox musicals
Maxim Gorky
Jo
Ziegfield Follies
29. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Composer
Sanskrit Drama
George Bernard Shaw
30. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
Sean O'Casey
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Denis Diderot
31. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Andre Antoine
Revue (Musical Review)
William Fox Talbot
Noh drama and Kabuki
32. 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
Symbolism
The Koran
Book
box set
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
Existential Absurdism
Comic opera
Wole Soyinka
Blaise Pascal
34. 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
Opera
book musicals
Louis Daguerre
Domestic Tragedies
35. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Lyrics
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
onnagata
women could legally appear on stages in England
36. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
The Koran
Librettist
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
37. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Regional Theatre
The Jazz Singer
Ballad Operas
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
38. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Faust
Shakespeare's King John
Romantics
Ballad Operas
39. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Little Theatre Movement
Naturalism
Variety Show
40. 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
Shadow Theatre
Problem plays
Natyasastra
Existential Absurdism
41. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Mie pose
Intermezzi
Naturalism
rock musical
42. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
musical
Theatre of Cruelty
Shakuntala
Western Drama
43. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Beaumarchais
Oscar Wilde
Ken Saro-Wiwa
44. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Precolonial African Theatre
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Broadway Shows
Book
45. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Realism
Off-Off-Broadway
The Living Theatre
Total Theatre
46. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Louis Daguerre
Harold Pinter
Highly Stylized Gestures
Realism
47. '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
Romantics
Samuel Beckett
The Interpretation of Dreams
Henrik Ibsen
48. Based off the idea that before a problem can be solved - society must first understand that the problem exists; 'attack the message - not the messenger'
Beaumarchais
Problem plays
Kordian (1962)
women could legally appear on stages in England
49. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Poetic Realism
Henrik Ibsen
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
musical
50. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Domestic Tragedies
Opera
The Student Prince
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