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Theatre Basics
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1. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Denis Diderot
Opera
musical comedy
Intermezzi
2. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
William Fox Talbot
Realism
Showstopper
Noh drama and Kabuki
3. The orchestrated melodies
Bertolt Brecht
Straight Plays
Music
First Public Opera House
4. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
musical comedy
The Black Crook
Daguerreotype
Aristotelian
5. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Off Broadway
Existential Absurdism
Composer
Alienation Effect
6. Writes the music
Dance of the Forest
Composer
Characters in the Peking Opera
Maxim Gorky
7. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Romantics
William Fox Talbot
Daguerreotype
Blaise Pascal
8. 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
Dadaism
Peking Opera
non-Western Theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
9. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Shavian Comedies
Naturalistic Plays
Comedy of Manners
George Bernard Shaw
10. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
non-Western Theatre
Comic opera
11. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Highly Stylized Gestures
Shakuntala
Domestic Tragedies
Broadway Shows
12. 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
Shavian Comedies
musical comedy
Shadow Theatre
well-made plays
13. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
The Living Theatre
Intermezzi
Burlesque
Intermezzi
14. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Performance Art
Naturalistic Plays
The Living Theatre
Ken Saro-Wiwa
15. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Showstopper
Lorraine Handsberry
Noh drama
Hilarious Absurdism
16. Writes the lyrics
Problem plays
Aristotelian
Lyricist
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
17. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Daguerreotype
Fourth Room
Performance Art
Minstrel Show Structure
18. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Performance Art
Shakespeare's King John
Emile Zola
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
19. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Little Theatre Movement
Ballad Operas
Precolonial African Theatre
Highly Stylized Gestures
20. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Henrik Ibsen
Peking Opera
Librettist
Shimpa
21. 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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22. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Early European travelers and missionaries
Noh drama
Librettist
Kyu
23. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Avant-Garde
Aristotelian
Lorraine Handsberry
rock musical
24. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Performance Art
Ha
Expressionism
25. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
The Communist Manifesto
Fourth Room
Ziegfield Follies
Nell Gwynn
26. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Vaudeville
Bunraku movements
Kathakali
Sanskrit Drama
27. 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
Shakespeare's King John
Librettist
overture
Expressionism
28. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
The Student Prince
Eugene Ionesco
Mie pose
Alienation Effect
29. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Jukebox musicals
Hilarious Absurdism
Sean O'Casey
The Student Prince
30. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Antonin Artaud
Harold Pinter
Showstopper
31. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Highly Stylized Gestures
Blaise Pascal
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Sentimental Comedies
32. 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
Jo
Gotthold Lessing
Operatic Musicals
Vaudeville
33. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Theatre of Cruelty
Burlesque
Revue (Musical Review)
Anton Chekhov
34. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Book
Aristotelian
Lyricist
Off-Off-Broadway
35. 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
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Existentialism
Eugene O'Neill
Minstrel Show
36. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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37. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Poetic Realism
Daguerreotype
Domestic Tragedies
Communists took control
38. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
musical
Melodrama
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Burlesque
39. The sung words
Early European travelers and missionaries
George Bernard Shaw
Lyrics
Painted-face roles
40. 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
box set
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Harold Pinter
Blaise Pascal
41. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Existential Absurdism
Fourth Room
Revue (Musical Review)
Domestic Tragedies
42. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Ritual Theatre
Kordian (1962)
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
43. Built in Venice in 1637
Problem plays
First Public Opera House
Ha
Lorraine Handsberry
44. 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
Lorraine Handsberry
Shimpa
Natyasastra
Sentimental Comedies
45. 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
Ha
Shakespeare's King John
Shavian Comedies
Denis Diderot
46. 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
Sentimental Comedies
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Denis Diderot
Anton Chekhov
47. Islam's holy book - contains a warning about 'graven images' similar to the one in the Bible - prohibition applies to dolls - statues - portraits - and people playing a character
The Koran
book musicals
Naturalistic Plays
Absurdism
48. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Realism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Total Theatre
Sean O'Casey
49. 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
box set
Problem plays
Hilarious Absurdism
Minstrel Show
50. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Dadaism
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Operatic Musicals
Intermezzi