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Theatre Basics

Subject : performing-arts
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1. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South






2. Built in Venice in 1637






3. A medley of the show's songs played as a preview; usually the beginning of a traditional musical; lets the audience know that it's time to stop talking because the performance is about to begin






4. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)






5. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera






6. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse






7. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot






8. 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






9. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet






10. 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






11. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals






12. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions






13. 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






14. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts






15. Writes the lyrics






16. 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






17. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew






18. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue






19. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream






20. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata






21. Plays without music






22. The orchestrated melodies






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






24. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show






25. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi






26. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)






27. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities






28. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx






29. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past






30. 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






31. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist






32. 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






33. The German equivalent to Diderot; was a playwright - critic - and Enlightenment philosopher Who wrote tragedies and comedies about the middle-class; his greatest play was Nathan the Wise






34. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist






35. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company






36. 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






37. Plays without music






38. 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






39. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions






40. 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






41. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)






42. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)

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43. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism






44. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue






45. The German equivalent to Diderot; was a playwright - critic - and Enlightenment philosopher Who wrote tragedies and comedies about the middle-class; his greatest play was Nathan the Wise






46. Writes the book






47. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays






48. Goethe's most famous Romantic play






49. 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






50. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre







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