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Theatre Basics
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1. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Antonin Artaud
Fourth Room
Ta'ziyeh
Librettist
2. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Shakespeare's King John
The Adding Machine (1923)
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
3. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Eugene O'Neill
Blaise Pascal
Little Theatre Movement
Intermezzi
4. 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)
Non-Western Drama
Shimpa
Anton Chekhov
Henrik Ibsen
5. 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
Absurdism
Variety Show
Shimpa
Performance Art
6. 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
Antonin Artaud
Shimpa
well-made plays
Faust
7. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Wole Soyinka
Peking Opera
Expressionism
8. 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
Comic opera
Intermezzi
Jean-Paul Sartre
Expressionism
9. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Kathakali
Ritual Theatre
Composer
10. Attacked the evils and restrictions of society; tried to reveal the higher reality of the unconscious mind with fantastic imagery and contradictory images; performances were often violent and cruel as they tried to shock the audience into the realiza
Henrik Ibsen
Das Kapital
Characters in the Peking Opera
Surrealism
11. 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
Japanese Theatre
Vaudeville
Highly Stylized Gestures
Intermezzi
12. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Intermezzi
Lyrics
Verfremdung
Poetic Realism
13. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Composer
Andre Antoine
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Shakuntala
14. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
The Interpretation of Dreams
Operatic Musicals
Non-Western Drama
Book
15. 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
Precolonial African Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
Das Kapital
Problem plays
16. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
The Jazz Singer
Dadaism
musical
17. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Naturalism
The Black Crook
Das Kapital
Naturalistic Plays
18. Only cost a nickel
The Enlightenment
dance musicals
The Student Prince
Nickelodeons
19. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Mie pose
William Fox Talbot
Characters in the Peking Opera
Painted-face roles
20. 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
Harold Pinter
Noh drama and Kabuki
Jo
Nell Gwynn
21. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Expressionism
Off-Off-Broadway
Early European travelers and missionaries
Ki
22. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Bunraku movements
Minstrel Show Structure
rock musical
Comic opera
23. 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
Early European travelers and missionaries
Sanskrit Drama
First Public Opera House
A Trip to Coontown
24. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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25. Greatest of the Sturm und Drang playwrights; was also a critic - journalist - painter - biologist - statesman - poet - novelist - philosopher - scientist - and the manager of the Duke of Weimar's playhouse
Goethe
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Bertolt Brecht
Shavian Comedies
26. Three parts of a Noh play
The Adding Machine (1923)
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Kyu
Shimpa
27. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
Kafkaesque
The Interpretation of Dreams
Realism
28. 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
George Bernard Shaw
Natyasastra
The Communist Manifesto
Avant-Garde
29. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Kyu
non-Western Theatre
Kabuki
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
30. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Jazz Singer
The Enlightenment
Symbolism
Bunraku movements
31. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Nell Gwynn
Peking Opera
Composer
Book
32. 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
Vaudeville
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Living Theatre
dance musicals
33. 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
Characters in the Peking Opera
Faust
Kabuki
34. 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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35. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Absurdism
The Interpretation of Dreams
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Nell Gwynn
36. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Happenings
Showstopper
Composer
Absurdism
37. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Kordian (1962)
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Aristotelian
Kathakali
38. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Theatre of Cruelty
box set
A Dream Play (1902)
Fatalist Absurdism
39. 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
musical
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Ballad Operas
Book
40. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Romantics
The Interpretation of Dreams
A Dream Play (1902)
Fourth Room
41. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Hilarious Absurdism
Happenings
Antonin Artaud
42. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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43. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Highly Stylized Gestures
book musicals
Kathakali
The Living Theatre
44. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Off Broadway
Fatalist Absurdism
Hilarious Absurdism
45. 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
Reprise
Ballad Operas
Shadow Theatre
Realism
46. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Shavian Comedies
Lorraine Handsberry
Sean O'Casey
47. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Anton Chekhov
Non-Western Drama
Noh drama
Ritual Theatre
48. 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
Kafkaesque
3 components of Musical Scripts
Expressionism
Minstrel Show
49. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Opera
Kathakali
Broadway Shows
Happenings
50. 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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