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Theatre Basics
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1. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
First Public Opera House
Realism
The Enlightenment
2. Filled with characters who cannot resist an argument about social issues; no character is exempt from talking politics and theorizing about moral - artistic or religious reform
Emile Zola
Shavian Comedies
The Interpretation of Dreams
Minstrel Show
3. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Lorraine Handsberry
Maxim Gorky
Communists took control
onnagata
4. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Off-Off-Broadway
Total Theatre
Jukebox musicals
Natyasastra
5. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Restoration
Ki
Beaumarchais
6. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Hilarious Absurdism
Natyasastra
Emile Zola
musical comedy
7. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Emile Zola
Broadway Shows
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Nickelodeons
8. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Natyasastra
Expressionism
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
musical
9. 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'
Total Theatre
Problem plays
Henrik Ibsen
The Interpretation of Dreams
10. The men who play female roles are called:
Poetic Realism
Lyricist
Painted-face roles
onnagata
11. 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
Existentialism
Blaise Pascal
Ha
book musicals
12. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Western Drama
Das Kapital
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ballad Operas
13. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Natyasastra
Operatic Musicals
Noh drama
Theatre of Cruelty
14. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Burlesque
Western Drama
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Dance of the Forest
15. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
Chinese Theatre
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Melodrama
16. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Ki
The Interpretation of Dreams
Shakuntala
Restoration
17. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Characters in the Peking Opera
rock musical
Ta'ziyeh
Ziegfield Follies
18. Proclaimed 'God is dead...and we have killed him.'; felt taht absence of God was a tragedy - but believed human beings needed to accept the tragedy and move forward in a world that was unjust and meaningless
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Louis Daguerre
Friedrich Nietzsche
Characters in the Peking Opera
19. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Communists took control
Beaumarchais
Minstrel Show
20. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Denis Diderot
Total Theatre
Highly Stylized Gestures
Western Drama
21. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
well-made plays
Melodrama
Fatalist Absurdism
Realism
22. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Romantics
Aphra Behn
Bertolt Brecht
Jo
23. 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)
Revue (Musical Review)
Sanskrit Drama
Samuel Beckett
Man and Superman (1903)
24. 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
William Fox Talbot
Louis Daguerre
Romantics
Kafkaesque
25. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
First Public Opera House
Total Theatre
Oscar Wilde
non-Western Theatre
26. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Showstopper
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Lyrics
The Koran
27. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
overture
Comedy of Manners
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Africa
28. 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
The Communist Manifesto
Early European travelers and missionaries
Emile Zola
29. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
3 components of Musical Scripts
The Enlightenment
Realism
Performance Art
30. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Aristotelian
The Jazz Singer
Intermezzi
Operatic Musicals
31. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Kafkaesque
Domestic Tragedies
The Enlightenment
3 components of Musical Scripts
32. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Burlesque
Ki
Eugene Ionesco
Vaudeville
33. 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
Ziegfield Follies
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Ziegfield Follies
34. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Romantic Playwrights
Regional Theatre
The Living Theatre
The Student Prince
35. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Voltaire
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Ha
Operatic Musicals
36. Only cost a nickel
Shimpa
Nickelodeons
Opera
Man and Superman (1903)
37. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
Beaumarchais
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Dadaism
Henrik Ibsen
38. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Fourth Room
Naturalistic Plays
Kabuki
Bread and Puppet Theatre
39. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
Mie pose
Voltaire
Absurdism
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
40. 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
Kafkaesque
well-made plays
Showstopper
Expressionism
41. 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
Operetta
musical comedy
Das Kapital
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
42. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Ki
Operatic Musicals
Happenings
Poetic Realism
43. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Romantic Playwrights
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Noh drama and Kabuki
Eugene O'Neill
44. 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
Hilarious Absurdism
musical comedy
Wole Soyinka
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
45. 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
Jean-Paul Sartre
Beaumarchais
Existentialism
Reprise
46. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Hilarious Absurdism
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Adding Machine (1923)
Existential Absurdism
47. Writes the lyrics
Minstrel Show Structure
Eugene O'Neill
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Lyricist
48. 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
Communists took control
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Broadway Shows
Comedy of Manners
49. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
book musicals
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Poetic Realism
well-made plays
50. 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
Samuel Beckett
Melodrama
Daguerreotype