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Theatre Basics
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1. A production of British actor Charles Kean; had realistic costumes - set and props that he had researched to make sure they were historically correct
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2. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Sentimental Comedies
Fourth Room
Surrealism
Lyrics
3. 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
Nell Gwynn
Bertolt Brecht
Noh drama
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
4. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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5. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Denis Diderot
Variety Show
Beaumarchais
6. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
dance musicals
The Interpretation of Dreams
Opera
Shimpa
7. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
A Trip to Coontown
Burlesque
Ki
Naturalistic Plays
8. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
musical comedy
book musicals
Early European travelers and missionaries
Goethe
9. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Anton Chekhov
Poetic Realism
Chinese Theatre
Comedy of Manners
10. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Burlesque
Showstopper
Straight Plays
Avant-Garde
11. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Western Drama
Variety Show
Jo
12. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
William Fox Talbot
Eugene Ionesco
Burlesque
13. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Kathakali
book musicals
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Aristotelian
14. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Das Kapital
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Poetic Realism
dance musicals
15. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Shimpa
Romantic Playwrights
16. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Operetta
Chinese Theatre
Noh drama and Kabuki
Book
17. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
Chinese Theatre
Off Broadway
Painted-face roles
18. 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
Restoration
Aristotelian
Aristotelian
Bertolt Brecht
19. 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
Non-Western Drama
Surrealism
Total Theatre
Daguerreotype
20. Plays without music
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Millington Synge
Straight Plays
Theatre of Cruelty
21. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Lyrics
Sanskrit Drama
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
22. 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
Communists took control
A Trip to Coontown
Painted-face roles
Lorraine Handsberry
23. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Nickelodeons
Librettist
24. Studied the history of class conflict
Bunraku movements
Louis Daguerre
The Communist Manifesto
Samuel Beckett
25. 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
Eugene Ionesco
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
The Origin of the Cakewalk
The Student Prince
26. One of the most popular Kabuki and Bunraku playwrights - who - like Shakespeare - wrote crowd-pleasing plays that combined poetry and prose in dramatic tales of comedy - tragedy - love - and war
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Book
Japanese Theatre
Islamic Culture
27. 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
Shadow Theatre
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Naturalism
Japanese Theatre
28. 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
Lyricist
Natyasastra
Blaise Pascal
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
29. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Faust
Ritual Theatre
Eugene Ionesco
Comedy of Manners
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
Kyu
Antonin Artaud
Painted-face roles
Denis Diderot
31. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Noh drama and Kabuki
Lorraine Handsberry
Kabuki
Lyricist
32. A production of British actor Charles Kean; had realistic costumes - set and props that he had researched to make sure they were historically correct
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33. 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
Anton Chekhov
Emile Zola
Minstrel Show
Early European travelers and missionaries
34. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Happenings
The Interpretation of Dreams
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Kordian (1962)
35. 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)
Shimpa
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Noh drama
Western Drama
36. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
non-Western Theatre
Islamic Culture
Romantics
37. 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
Book
Western Drama
rock musical
Antonin Artaud
38. 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
Sentimental Comedies
Wole Soyinka
Noh drama
Antonin Artaud
39. 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)
Aristotelian
Problem plays
Samuel Beckett
Communists took control
40. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
Harold Pinter
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Goethe
41. The orchestrated melodies
Fourth Room
The Communist Manifesto
Music
Shakuntala
42. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Intermezzi
First Public Opera House
onnagata
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
43. 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
Harold Pinter
Opera
Early European travelers and missionaries
Precolonial African Theatre
44. 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
musical comedy
Ha
Gotthold Lessing
Precolonial African Theatre
45. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
John Millington Synge
Regional Theatre
Ritual Theatre
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
46. 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
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Minstrel Show Structure
box set
Showstopper
47. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Maxim Gorky
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Jo
book musicals
48. 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
Avant-Garde
Realism
Dance of the Forest
George Bernard Shaw
49. 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
Revue (Musical Review)
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
non-Western Theatre
Natyasastra
50. Most popular type of theatre during the Restoration; often featured great wit and wordplay and told stories about sexual gratification - bedroom escapades - and humankind's unrefined nature when it comes to sex
Minstrel Show Structure
Comedy of Manners
Daguerreotype
Music