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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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2. Light opera - differs from 'grand opera' because it has a frivolous - comic theme - some spoken dialogue - a melodramatic story - and usually a little dancing; The Mikado (1885)
Happenings
Operetta
Showstopper
The Jazz Singer
3. 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
Non-Western Drama
The Student Prince
Kabuki
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
4. 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
Bunraku movements
Lorraine Handsberry
non-Western Theatre
Precolonial African Theatre
5. 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
The Jazz Singer
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Symbolism
Vaudeville
6. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Lorraine Handsberry
Dance of the Forest
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Harold Pinter
7. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
Wole Soyinka
Henrik Ibsen
Hilarious Absurdism
8. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Eugene O'Neill
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Restoration
Shakuntala
9. 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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10. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Communists took control
musical comedy
Operetta
Ha
11. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Minstrel Show
Islamic Culture
Ha
Alienation Effect
12. The sung words
Happenings
Lyrics
Das Kapital
Expressionism
13. What western theatre is often called:
Wole Soyinka
Mie pose
Ziegfield Follies
Aristotelian
14. 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
well-made plays
The Student Prince
rock musical
Expressionism
15. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Showstopper
Vaudeville
Hilarious Absurdism
Performance Art
16. 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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17. Studied the history of class conflict
musical
Ki
The Communist Manifesto
Ha
18. The sung words
Lyrics
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Oscar Wilde
dance musicals
19. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Voltaire
Minstrel Show
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
20. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
Fourth Room
The Black Crook
Emile Zola
21. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Naturalistic Plays
First Public Opera House
3 components of Musical Scripts
Burlesque
22. 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
Broadway Shows
Lorraine Handsberry
Antonin Artaud
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
23. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Emile Zola
Naturalistic Plays
Sanskrit Drama
Painted-face roles
24. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Existential Absurdism
Early European travelers and missionaries
Antonin Artaud
25. 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
Sentimental Comedies
Painted-face roles
Africa
Emile Zola
26. 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
Expressionism
George Bernard Shaw
Shadow Theatre
Ziegfield Follies
27. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
3 components of Musical Scripts
Noh drama
The Communist Manifesto
28. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Comedy of Manners
Total Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
Dance of the Forest
29. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Man and Superman (1903)
Oscar Wilde
Voltaire
The Adding Machine (1923)
30. 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
Africa
Beaumarchais
Wole Soyinka
Ziegfield Follies
31. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
dance musicals
Characters in the Peking Opera
Louis Daguerre
The Living Theatre
32. Writes the lyrics
Verfremdung
Minstrel Show Structure
Noh drama
Lyricist
33. 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
Opera
Verfremdung
Mie pose
Ballad Operas
34. 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
Regional Theatre
Islamic Culture
The Black Crook
Opera
35. 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
Lyrics
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Gotthold Lessing
36. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Friedrich Nietzsche
Anton Chekhov
Chinese Theatre
37. 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
Islamic Culture
Kafkaesque
Early European travelers and missionaries
Sean O'Casey
38. 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
Sanskrit Drama
Straight Plays
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Kyu
39. Writes the book
box set
musical comedy
William Fox Talbot
Librettist
40. 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
The Koran
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Total Theatre
41. 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
Eugene Ionesco
Jo
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Natyasastra
42. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Man and Superman (1903)
Book
musical comedy
Verfremdung
43. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Anton Chekhov
Intermezzi
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Ki
44. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
Regional Theatre
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Blaise Pascal
45. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)
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46. 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
Intermezzi
Regional Theatre
overture
Romantics
47. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Symbolism
Man and Superman (1903)
Shavian Comedies
Faust
48. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Opera
Daguerreotype
Broadway Shows
The Interpretation of Dreams
49. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Shadow Theatre
Ki
Aphra Behn
George Bernard Shaw
50. 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
Maxim Gorky
Precolonial African Theatre
Romantic Playwrights