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Theatre Basics
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1. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Comic opera
Romantic Playwrights
Highly Stylized Gestures
rock musical
2. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Librettist
Little Theatre Movement
musical comedy
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
3. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Shakespeare's King John
Fourth Room
A Dream Play (1902)
The Interpretation of Dreams
4. 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
Peking Opera
Hilarious Absurdism
musical comedy
Goethe
5. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Lorraine Handsberry
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Ki
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
6. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
A Trip to Coontown
Characters in the Peking Opera
The Interpretation of Dreams
Shadow Theatre
7. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
musical
Minstrel Show
Lorraine Handsberry
8. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Operetta
Samuel Beckett
Verfremdung
The Living Theatre
9. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Faust
Communists took control
Comedy of Manners
Jean-Paul Sartre
10. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
The Student Prince
Anton Chekhov
Comic opera
Blaise Pascal
11. 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
The Koran
Kafkaesque
Sean O'Casey
Louis Daguerre
12. Result of western influence - a toned down version of Kabuki - told stories of everyday life - particularly those of women - women played women's parts (whereas Kabuki was all male)
Andre Antoine
Shimpa
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Communists took control
13. Earliest form for photography
Kyu
Daguerreotype
Noh drama and Kabuki
Melodrama
14. 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
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Jo
Nell Gwynn
The Communist Manifesto
15. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Painted-face roles
Emile Zola
Henrik Ibsen
A Trip to Coontown
16. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
A Dream Play (1902)
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Ki
Minstrel Show
17. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Eugene O'Neill
Highly Stylized Gestures
Louis Daguerre
Beaumarchais
18. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
Nickelodeons
The Student Prince
Friedrich Nietzsche
19. 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
Emile Zola
Regional Theatre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Henrik Ibsen
20. 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
William Fox Talbot
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Surrealism
Book
21. Writes the book
Librettist
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Shimpa
rock musical
22. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Henrik Ibsen
Reprise
Comic opera
Kordian (1962)
23. 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
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Harold Pinter
Lyricist
Denis Diderot
24. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Romantic Playwrights
Total Theatre
overture
Highly Stylized Gestures
25. 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
Precolonial African Theatre
Peking Opera
A Trip to Coontown
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
26. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Samuel Beckett
Eugene Ionesco
Japanese Theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
27. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Voltaire
Romantics
The Black Crook
Kordian (1962)
28. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Jukebox musicals
Regional Theatre
Daguerreotype
Kathakali
29. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Sentimental Comedies
Romantic Playwrights
30. 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
Expressionism
Characters in the Peking Opera
Total Theatre
Man and Superman (1903)
31. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Faust
box set
Book
Shakuntala
32. The sung words
Fatalist Absurdism
Lyrics
Kordian (1962)
The Communist Manifesto
33. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Melodrama
Kordian (1962)
Performance Art
Dance of the Forest
34. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Natyasastra
Nell Gwynn
Western Drama
Operatic Musicals
35. 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
Fatalist Absurdism
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Theatre of Cruelty
Kyu
36. Studied the history of class conflict
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
The Living Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
37. The sung words
Kathakali
Lyrics
Absurdism
Wole Soyinka
38. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Theatre of Cruelty
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Peking Opera
Denis Diderot
39. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Absurdism
Domestic Tragedies
The Enlightenment
Faust
40. 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
Showstopper
Showstopper
Eugene Ionesco
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)
Music
First Public Opera House
Ballad Operas
rock musical
42. In Sigmund Romberg's play the king young heir to the throne sacrifices his personal happiness for the good of the kingdom when he sorrowfully pulls himself away from his true love in order to marry a princess whom he does not love
Ki
The Student Prince
Lyrics
Noh drama
43. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Romantic Playwrights
The Enlightenment
Shavian Comedies
Happenings
44. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Showstopper
Opera
Existentialism
Alienation Effect
45. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Existentialism
The Black Crook
Kathakali
Kordian (1962)
46. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Off Broadway
Characters in the Peking Opera
Dadaism
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
47. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Existentialism
Faust
book musicals
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
48. A German poet - director and playwright who challenged traditional ideas about theatre; became a communist after watching policement shoot 4 unarmed civilians; The Life of Galileo (1938) - Mother Courage and her Children (1939) & The Caucasian Chalk
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Characters in the Peking Opera
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Bertolt Brecht
49. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Ballad Operas
John Millington Synge
well-made plays
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
50. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Wole Soyinka
Jo
William Fox Talbot
Kafkaesque