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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Ritual Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Eugene O'Neill
The Koran
2. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Comedy of Manners
Reprise
Surrealism
Ki
3. 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
Burlesque
Gotthold Lessing
Existentialism
4. First part had musical numbers with little comic dialogue; second part was full of songs - dance and standup routines; third part featured a one-act play
Noh drama and Kabuki
Variety Show
Blaise Pascal
Minstrel Show Structure
5. 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
Melodrama
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Vaudeville
Lyricist
6. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Opera
Jean-Paul Sartre
Andre Antoine
7. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Japanese Theatre
Maxim Gorky
Existential Absurdism
8. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Lyrics
The Student Prince
Romantic Playwrights
Revue (Musical Review)
9. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
musical comedy
George Bernard Shaw
Ziegfield Follies
10. 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'
3 components of Musical Scripts
Composer
Problem plays
The Koran
11. 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
Shavian Comedies
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Composer
12. 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
Oscar Wilde
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Existentialism
Romantics
13. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Ballad Operas
Western Drama
musical comedy
musical
14. 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
The Communist Manifesto
Librettist
Das Kapital
15. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Henrik Ibsen
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Performance Art
The Black Crook
16. Book - music - and lyrics
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
3 components of Musical Scripts
Communists took control
17. 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
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
The Koran
Kyu
Jean-Paul Sartre
18. Built in Venice in 1637
First Public Opera House
Realism
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Western Drama
19. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
The Living Theatre
The Black Crook
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Noh drama and Kabuki
20. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Lorraine Handsberry
Sentimental Comedies
Africa
Ken Saro-Wiwa
21. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Eugene O'Neill
Happenings
John Millington Synge
Romantic Playwrights
22. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Sentimental Comedies
Emile Zola
Ha
23. 'The Father of Realism'; was initially a Romantic writer and his early plays were verse dramas largely based on Norwegian history and folk literature; plays presented complex - sometimes distrubing - views of human society; A Doll's House (1879) - Gh
Minstrel Show Structure
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Henrik Ibsen
Non-Western Drama
24. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Islamic Culture
Revue (Musical Review)
Broadway Shows
Denis Diderot
25. 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
Islamic Culture
Non-Western Drama
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
26. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Highly Stylized Gestures
Ballad Operas
Ritual Theatre
Ta'ziyeh
27. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sean O'Casey
Characters in the Peking Opera
Ki
28. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Blaise Pascal
Nell Gwynn
Ha
29. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Nell Gwynn
The Koran
Ballad Operas
Hilarious Absurdism
30. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Kathakali
Operatic Musicals
onnagata
Ziegfield Follies
31. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Ta'ziyeh
Shakuntala
overture
Existentialism
32. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Japanese Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Opera
Daguerreotype
33. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Avant-Garde
Burlesque
34. 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
Domestic Tragedies
Highly Stylized Gestures
Precolonial African Theatre
Dance of the Forest
35. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Sentimental Comedies
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
The Black Crook
Peking Opera
36. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Minstrel Show
Voltaire
Man and Superman (1903)
Noh drama
37. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Eugene O'Neill
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Poetic Realism
38. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Fourth Room
Voltaire
Africa
Non-Western Drama
39. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Wole Soyinka
Revue (Musical Review)
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Comedy of Manners
40. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Problem plays
Nell Gwynn
Composer
Antonin Artaud
41. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Opera
Alienation Effect
Minstrel Show Structure
Avant-Garde
42. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
The Student Prince
Jean-Paul Sartre
Emile Zola
Aphra Behn
43. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
musical
Off Broadway
Vaudeville
Fourth Room
44. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
non-Western Theatre
Total Theatre
Andre Antoine
45. Studied the history of class conflict
A Dream Play (1902)
The Communist Manifesto
well-made plays
Andre Antoine
46. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
overture
Fatalist Absurdism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Kyu
47. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
Eugene O'Neill
Characters in the Peking Opera
Realism
Highly Stylized Gestures
48. Comedies forced Victorian society to reexamine its hypocrisies; Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) - A WOman of No Importance (1893) - An Ideal Husband (1894); advocated 'art for art's sake'; The Importance of Being Ernest
Oscar Wilde
Chinese Theatre
Bread and Puppet Theatre
box set
49. The men who play female roles are called:
3 components of Musical Scripts
Western Drama
Blaise Pascal
onnagata
50. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Intermezzi
Noh drama and Kabuki
Ta'ziyeh
Ken Saro-Wiwa