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Theatre Basics
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1. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Communists took control
Burlesque
Islamic Culture
Kafkaesque
2. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Vaudeville
Aphra Behn
Fatalist Absurdism
The Communist Manifesto
3. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Shakuntala
Antonin Artaud
Lorraine Handsberry
4. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Naturalism
Off Broadway
Broadway Shows
5. 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
Aphra Behn
The Interpretation of Dreams
Minstrel Show Structure
Wole Soyinka
6. The sung words
Lyrics
Kabuki
A Trip to Coontown
Andre Antoine
7. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Gotthold Lessing
Communists took control
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Romantics
8. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Non-Western Drama
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
9. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Faust
Book
Sentimental Comedies
10. A repetition of the song - sometimes with new lyrics - sometimes with the same lyrics but with new meaning or subtext in order to make a dramatic point
Reprise
Das Kapital
Shakespeare's King John
Beaumarchais
11. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Gotthold Lessing
The Interpretation of Dreams
Restoration
non-Western Theatre
12. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Nickelodeons
Little Theatre Movement
Comic opera
13. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
Sentimental Comedies
Lyrics
Vaudeville
14. 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
Voltaire
Shakuntala
A Trip to Coontown
15. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Domestic Tragedies
Aphra Behn
16. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
3 components of Musical Scripts
Henrik Ibsen
Ballad Operas
Surrealism
17. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
Communists took control
Goethe
box set
18. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Wole Soyinka
Off-Off-Broadway
The Adding Machine (1923)
George Bernard Shaw
19. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
women could legally appear on stages in England
Performance Art
Existential Absurdism
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
20. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Gotthold Lessing
Librettist
Noh drama
Bunraku movements
21. A robust and spectacular version of Noh; named after the characters for 'song' - 'dance' - and 'skill'; created by a woman named Okuni - owner of a brothel
Kabuki
Friedrich Nietzsche
Intermezzi
Nickelodeons
22. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Andre Antoine
First Public Opera House
Verfremdung
Realism
23. Known for life-like sets that used hand-painted screens and gas-powered lighting effects to stage realistic sunrises and storm clouds; invented the DAGUERREO-TYPE - which was an early form of photography
Louis Daguerre
Denis Diderot
Antonin Artaud
Vaudeville
24. 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
Communists took control
musical
Eugene O'Neill
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
25. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Intermezzi
Librettist
Western Drama
Shakuntala
26. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Showstopper
Aristotelian
onnagata
Operatic Musicals
27. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Noh drama
Dance of the Forest
The Interpretation of Dreams
Existential Absurdism
28. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Off Broadway
Lyricist
Emile Zola
onnagata
29. 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
Librettist
Eugene Ionesco
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Expressionism
30. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Wole Soyinka
musical comedy
Ta'ziyeh
Naturalistic Plays
31. 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
Kafkaesque
Japanese Theatre
Natyasastra
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
32. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Aristotelian
Minstrel Show Structure
Africa
The Adding Machine (1923)
33. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Aphra Behn
Alienation Effect
Librettist
Romantic Playwrights
34. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Sentimental Comedies
women could legally appear on stages in England
Bertolt Brecht
The Adding Machine (1923)
35. Writes the music
Composer
Anton Chekhov
Faust
Western Drama
36. 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
The Interpretation of Dreams
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Enlightenment
rock musical
37. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
The Adding Machine (1923)
Lyrics
Opera
Sentimental Comedies
38. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Kabuki
Domestic Tragedies
Lorraine Handsberry
Ki
39. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Off Broadway
Noh drama and Kabuki
Existential Absurdism
40. '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
Louis Daguerre
Henrik Ibsen
rock musical
Alienation Effect
41. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Nell Gwynn
Jo
Comic opera
42. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Dadaism
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Denis Diderot
Oscar Wilde
43. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Theatre of Cruelty
Absurdism
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Kathakali
44. 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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45. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Non-Western Drama
musical
Variety Show
Naturalism
46. 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
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Regional Theatre
Music
Blaise Pascal
47. 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
Painted-face roles
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Opera
The Communist Manifesto
48. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Interpretation of Dreams
Henrik Ibsen
Harold Pinter
49. Earliest form for photography
Japanese Theatre
Poetic Realism
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Daguerreotype
50. Records of this type of theatre are fragmentary - but we do know that it grew out of regional religious rituals related to Confucianism - Taoism - and Buddhism - and ritual dances performed during the Shang dynasty
Lorraine Handsberry
Little Theatre Movement
Chinese Theatre
non-Western Theatre