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Theatre Basics
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1. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Regional Theatre
Emile Zola
Regional Theatre
Vaudeville
2. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Western Drama
book musicals
Das Kapital
Antonin Artaud
3. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Operatic Musicals
Sanskrit Drama
Kafkaesque
Anton Chekhov
4. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Islamic Culture
Book
Gotthold Lessing
Lorraine Handsberry
5. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Composer
Ritual Theatre
Minstrel Show
Comedy of Manners
6. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Alienation Effect
Bunraku movements
3 components of Musical Scripts
The Koran
7. 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
Voltaire
Domestic Tragedies
Ha
overture
8. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Alienation Effect
Symbolism
The Koran
Happenings
9. 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
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Opera
Noh drama and Kabuki
10. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Poetic Realism
dance musicals
Louis Daguerre
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
11. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Kabuki
Dadaism
dance musicals
A Trip to Coontown
12. 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
box set
William Fox Talbot
Mie pose
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
13. Book - music - and lyrics
Highly Stylized Gestures
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3 components of Musical Scripts
The Adding Machine (1923)
14. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Bertolt Brecht
Africa
15. '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
Henrik Ibsen
Emile Zola
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
rock musical
16. 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
Islamic Culture
Oscar Wilde
Beaumarchais
Revue (Musical Review)
17. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Gotthold Lessing
Intermezzi
Eugene O'Neill
Lyricist
18. 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
Shimpa
Jo
box set
Gotthold Lessing
19. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Opera
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
20. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Performance Art
Kyu
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Kathakali
21. 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
Comedy of Manners
Andre Antoine
Shadow Theatre
Antonin Artaud
22. 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
Jo
Sentimental Comedies
Ta'ziyeh
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
23. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Performance Art
Shavian Comedies
Characters in the Peking Opera
Poetic Realism
24. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Islamic Culture
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Opera
25. 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
Eugene Ionesco
Dadaism
Burlesque
Intermezzi
26. 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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27. One of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment - French poet - essayist - and playwright whose writing often got him in trouble with the church; built a theatre on his own estate so he could freely present his plays
Voltaire
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Faust
Andre Antoine
28. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Operatic Musicals
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
A Dream Play (1902)
Chinese Theatre
29. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Straight Plays
Showstopper
Ziegfield Follies
Islamic Culture
30. 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
box set
Mie pose
onnagata
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
31. 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'
Problem plays
Africa
Comedy of Manners
Regional Theatre
32. Form of theatre that mixed traditional African ritual theatre and Western-style drama; encouraged African nationalism - glorified Africa's past - and advanced African customs - rituals - and culture; also dealt with serious political themes and appla
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Expressionism
Total Theatre
Minstrel Show
33. 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
rock musical
Lorraine Handsberry
Vaudeville
34. 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
Romantics
Existential Absurdism
Happenings
Bertolt Brecht
35. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Mie pose
Absurdism
Ritual Theatre
Existential Absurdism
36. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
The Jazz Singer
Poetic Realism
Minstrel Show Structure
37. Only cost a nickel
Nickelodeons
Realism
Ritual Theatre
Aphra Behn
38. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Islamic Culture
Louis Daguerre
The Jazz Singer
39. Term used to describe performances that mix theatre - visual arts - music - dance - gesture and rituals; often use multimedia effects - sounds and lighting effects to make a point and allow the audience to understand its deeper implications; often re
Performance Art
Domestic Tragedies
Hilarious Absurdism
Lyricist
40. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Book
Bunraku movements
women could legally appear on stages in England
William Fox Talbot
41. Studied the history of class conflict
Hilarious Absurdism
Highly Stylized Gestures
First Public Opera House
The Communist Manifesto
42. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
dance musicals
The Jazz Singer
Kyu
musical comedy
43. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Naturalistic Plays
Ha
44. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
The Jazz Singer
Noh drama
Book
well-made plays
45. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Absurdism
Reprise
Music
46. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Restoration
Shakuntala
Bunraku movements
The Origin of the Cakewalk
47. Built in Venice in 1637
First Public Opera House
Kafkaesque
Ballad Operas
Bertolt Brecht
48. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Minstrel Show Structure
Communists took control
Happenings
Noh drama and Kabuki
49. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Chinese Theatre
Ha
Shimpa
rock musical
50. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
Painted-face roles
onnagata
Broadway Shows
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