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Theatre Basics

Subject : performing-arts
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1. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered






2. Type of Islamic theatre which is created by lighting two-dimensional figures and casting their shadows on a screen; the audience watches the silhouettes while a narrator tells a story






3. 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






4. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show






5. 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






6. This happened for the first time during the Restoration






7. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods






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






9. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)






10. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters






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






12. Thought that inner truths could be hinted at only through symbols; sought to replace the specific and concrete with the suggestive and metaphorical; usually had little plot or action and tended to baffle the audience






13. 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






14. 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






15. Feature the work of a director-choreographer






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






17. 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






18. 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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19. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism






20. Earliest form for photography






21. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays






22. 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






23. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling






24. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans






25. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court






26. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)






27. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre






28. 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






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






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






31. 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






32. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved






33. What western theatre is often called:






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






35. A dialogue that captures the incoherence - broken language - and pauses of modern speech; usually marked by surreal distortion and impending danger; from writing of Franz Kafka






36. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot






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






38. 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'






39. 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






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






41. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time






42. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene






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






44. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods






45. Writes the music






46. French Enlightenment playwright; was an inventor and thinker who spent countless hours at the leading intellectual salons of France; most famous plays are The Barber of Seville - and The Marriage of Figaro - his plays reflect the attitudes of the Enl






47. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)






48. 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






49. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays






50. The men who play female roles are called: