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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Naturalistic Plays
Performance Art
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Reprise
2. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Characters in the Peking Opera
Shimpa
Minstrel Show Structure
3. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Off Broadway
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Kordian (1962)
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
4. 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
Anton Chekhov
Antonin Artaud
Wole Soyinka
5. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
John Millington Synge
Early European travelers and missionaries
Book
Music
6. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
The Adding Machine (1923)
box set
Melodrama
7. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
Shadow Theatre
Jo
Straight Plays
8. A sudden - striking pose (often with their eyes crossed - chin sharply turned - and big toe pointed towards the sky) in Kabuki accompanied by several powerful beats of wooden clappers
Peking Opera
Bunraku movements
Mie pose
Voltaire
9. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Total Theatre
Poetic Realism
Hilarious Absurdism
Eugene O'Neill
10. Sarcastic label of Scribe's plays; the sympathetic protagonist suffers at the hands of an evil antagonist in the course of intense action - suspense - and contrived play devices; ending is always happy and the loose ends are neatly tied up
book musicals
well-made plays
Nickelodeons
Highly Stylized Gestures
11. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Melodrama
Bertolt Brecht
The Student Prince
12. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Blaise Pascal
book musicals
Das Kapital
13. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Absurdism
book musicals
Samuel Beckett
Kordian (1962)
14. 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
Characters in the Peking Opera
Vaudeville
Music
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
15. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
musical
William Fox Talbot
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Characters in the Peking Opera
16. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Highly Stylized Gestures
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Domestic Tragedies
Verfremdung
17. 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
Wole Soyinka
non-Western Theatre
well-made plays
Ken Saro-Wiwa
18. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Realism
Ki
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
19. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Performance Art
Friedrich Nietzsche
Noh drama
Eugene Ionesco
20. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Andre Antoine
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Man and Superman (1903)
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
21. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Regional Theatre
Wole Soyinka
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Bread and Puppet Theatre
22. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Jazz Singer
women could legally appear on stages in England
23. Studied the history of class conflict
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Anton Chekhov
The Communist Manifesto
Oscar Wilde
24. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Communists took control
Melodrama
Nell Gwynn
Music
25. 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
Sanskrit Drama
The Living Theatre
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Naturalistic Plays
26. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Peking Opera
Nell Gwynn
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Kabuki
27. 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
Painted-face roles
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ziegfield Follies
Shimpa
28. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Early European travelers and missionaries
Sean O'Casey
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Showstopper
29. 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)
Hilarious Absurdism
Shimpa
Andre Antoine
The Koran
30. Writes the book
George Bernard Shaw
Jo
Librettist
Nickelodeons
31. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Naturalistic Plays
Harold Pinter
Hilarious Absurdism
A Dream Play (1902)
32. 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
Peking Opera
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Off-Off-Broadway
33. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ha
Little Theatre Movement
Reprise
Comedy of Manners
34. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Hilarious Absurdism
Opera
onnagata
book musicals
35. What western theatre is often called:
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Maxim Gorky
Aristotelian
overture
36. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
dance musicals
book musicals
Comedy of Manners
Sean O'Casey
37. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Total Theatre
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Painted-face roles
Islamic Culture
38. 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
Fatalist Absurdism
Fatalist Absurdism
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Friedrich Nietzsche
39. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Composer
Mie pose
Off Broadway
Ken Saro-Wiwa
40. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Burlesque
Communists took control
Reprise
Theatre of Cruelty
41. 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
Denis Diderot
Comedy of Manners
Off-Off-Broadway
Regional Theatre
42. 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
Shakespeare's King John
A Trip to Coontown
Total Theatre
The Interpretation of Dreams
43. 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
Eugene Ionesco
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Blaise Pascal
Japanese Theatre
44. 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
William Fox Talbot
Broadway Shows
Fatalist Absurdism
Theatre of Cruelty
45. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Adding Machine (1923)
Comedy of Manners
46. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Lorraine Handsberry
Japanese Theatre
The Jazz Singer
Minstrel Show Structure
47. Type of theatre that grew out of ritual - incorporated acting - music - storytelling - poetry - dance - costumes - and lots of masks to create a theatre that combined ritual and ceremony with drama
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Librettist
Precolonial African Theatre
Goethe
48. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Sentimental Comedies
Reprise
Happenings
Islamic Culture
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)
John Millington Synge
Hilarious Absurdism
Ziegfield Follies
onnagata
50. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Expressionism
Nell Gwynn
Off-Off-Broadway
Melodrama