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Theatre Basics
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1. Writes the music
Composer
Faust
onnagata
Opera
2. 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
Off Broadway
Natyasastra
Aphra Behn
box set
3. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Naturalistic Plays
Ballad Operas
Opera
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
Highly Stylized Gestures
Bertolt Brecht
Maxim Gorky
Goethe
5. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Jukebox musicals
The Interpretation of Dreams
Dadaism
Bertolt Brecht
6. 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
Shavian Comedies
Bertolt Brecht
A Dream Play (1902)
Intermezzi
7. Only cost a nickel
Nickelodeons
musical
Composer
Surrealism
8. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
musical comedy
Communists took control
Broadway Shows
Denis Diderot
9. 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
The Student Prince
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Expressionism
10. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Characters in the Peking Opera
Das Kapital
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
well-made plays
11. 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
Maxim Gorky
Expressionism
Comedy of Manners
Regional Theatre
12. 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
Sentimental Comedies
Avant-Garde
Aphra Behn
13. 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
Kafkaesque
John Millington Synge
Revue (Musical Review)
Broadway Shows
14. 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 Cherry Orchard (1904)
Poetic Realism
Noh drama
Characters in the Peking Opera
15. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Performance Art
Operatic Musicals
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Opera
16. 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
Shavian Comedies
George Bernard Shaw
The Student Prince
Regional Theatre
17. 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'
Problem plays
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Gotthold Lessing
Aristotelian
18. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Avant-Garde
Variety Show
Blaise Pascal
Ha
19. 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
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Jean-Paul Sartre
Poetic Realism
Louis Daguerre
20. 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
box set
overture
Highly Stylized Gestures
Western Drama
21. 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
Expressionism
Precolonial African Theatre
Emile Zola
22. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Anton Chekhov
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Revue (Musical Review)
Off Broadway
23. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Librettist
Eugene O'Neill
Romantic Playwrights
Fatalist Absurdism
24. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
Ha
Avant-Garde
Non-Western Drama
Denis Diderot
25. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
musical
Dance of the Forest
Jean-Paul Sartre
Antonin Artaud
26. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Happenings
Problem plays
Sean O'Casey
Bunraku movements
27. 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
Librettist
Reprise
Goethe
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
28. Writes the lyrics
box set
Lyricist
Jukebox musicals
Straight Plays
29. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
musical
Domestic Tragedies
Das Kapital
30. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Antonin Artaud
Minstrel Show Structure
Noh drama
Jean-Paul Sartre
31. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Vaudeville
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Lyrics
dance musicals
32. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Sean O'Casey
Jean-Paul Sartre
John Millington Synge
William Fox Talbot
33. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Fourth Room
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Restoration
The Jazz Singer
34. 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
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Revue (Musical Review)
John Millington Synge
Reprise
35. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Naturalistic Plays
Nell Gwynn
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Interpretation of Dreams
36. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Existentialism
Shavian Comedies
Alienation Effect
Ha
37. 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
women could legally appear on stages in England
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Expressionism
The Adding Machine (1923)
38. Three parts of a Noh play
Total Theatre
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Samuel Beckett
The Jazz Singer
39. 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'
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Problem plays
Beaumarchais
Friedrich Nietzsche
40. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Variety Show
Alienation Effect
The Communist Manifesto
William Fox Talbot
41. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
non-Western Theatre
Kafkaesque
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Africa
42. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Poetic Realism
Kathakali
Blaise Pascal
43. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Intermezzi
Book
Restoration
Opera
44. 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
Total Theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Operatic Musicals
Intermezzi
45. 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
Symbolism
Noh drama and Kabuki
Vaudeville
Shadow Theatre
46. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
The Black Crook
Comedy of Manners
Happenings
47. 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
Kabuki
Operatic Musicals
The Communist Manifesto
The Origin of the Cakewalk
48. Plays without music
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Straight Plays
Western Drama
49. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
John Millington Synge
onnagata
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Ziegfield Follies
50. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Henrik Ibsen
Reprise
Total Theatre
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