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Theatre Basics
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1. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Avant-Garde
Melodrama
Straight Plays
Minstrel Show
2. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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3. 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
Emile Zola
The Adding Machine (1923)
Voltaire
4. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire
Lyricist
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
5. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Comic opera
Sanskrit Drama
Anton Chekhov
6. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Surrealism
Eugene O'Neill
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Ki
7. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
women could legally appear on stages in England
Bunraku movements
Ta'ziyeh
Japanese Theatre
8. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Anton Chekhov
Showstopper
Existential Absurdism
Blaise Pascal
9. Writes the music
Nell Gwynn
Realism
Ballad Operas
Composer
10. The men who play female roles are called:
Lyricist
onnagata
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
George Bernard Shaw
11. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Oscar Wilde
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Sentimental Comedies
book musicals
12. 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
Oscar Wilde
Comic opera
Peking Opera
Goethe
13. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Absurdism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Aphra Behn
A Dream Play (1902)
14. What western theatre is often called:
Communists took control
Aristotelian
Expressionism
The Communist Manifesto
15. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Maxim Gorky
Variety Show
16. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Noh drama
women could legally appear on stages in England
Chinese Theatre
Africa
17. Sarcastic label of Scribe's plays; the sympathetic protagonist suffers at the hands of an evil antagonist in the course of intense action - suspense - and contrived play devices; ending is always happy and the loose ends are neatly tied up
well-made plays
Fourth Room
Ballad Operas
Composer
18. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Interpretation of Dreams
Restoration
Off Broadway
The Origin of the Cakewalk
19. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Ki
Dance of the Forest
Performance Art
Alienation Effect
20. Earliest form for photography
Shakespeare's King John
Fatalist Absurdism
Daguerreotype
3 components of Musical Scripts
21. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Antonin Artaud
The Jazz Singer
Ki
Aristotelian
22. Earliest form for photography
Romantics
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
The Jazz Singer
Daguerreotype
23. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Early European travelers and missionaries
Happenings
24. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
The Living Theatre
Absurdism
Lorraine Handsberry
Reprise
25. 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
rock musical
Jo
Dadaism
Total Theatre
26. Most famous of the absurdist playwrights; best considered a fatalist - although work is sometimes hilarious and can ask existential questions; Endgame (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Happy Days (1961); Waiting for Godot (1953)
John Millington Synge
Comic opera
Samuel Beckett
Off-Off-Broadway
27. Writes the lyrics
Operetta
Lyricist
Reprise
Opera
28. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Harold Pinter
Precolonial African Theatre
musical comedy
Off Broadway
29. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
The Student Prince
Ziegfield Follies
Romantics
musical comedy
30. Africa's greatest living playwright; born in Nigeria; plays combine symbolism - mysticism - beautiful dialogue - and they make strong political points; plays are deeply rooted in African myths - dance - and rituals but also influenced by Western dram
Straight Plays
Kordian (1962)
Wole Soyinka
Chinese Theatre
31. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Alienation Effect
Wole Soyinka
Happenings
Shakuntala
32. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Domestic Tragedies
Beaumarchais
Lorraine Handsberry
33. 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
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
The Jazz Singer
Off-Off-Broadway
34. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Kabuki
Denis Diderot
35. No spoken dialogue - entirely sung; comes from the Latin word 'work' and may have originally meant 'works in music' or 'musical works for the stage'; first operas were in Italy in late 1500s
Hilarious Absurdism
well-made plays
Daguerreotype
Opera
36. Writes the lyrics
Fatalist Absurdism
Lyricist
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Nell Gwynn
37. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Communists took control
Expressionism
Highly Stylized Gestures
onnagata
38. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Blaise Pascal
Verfremdung
A Trip to Coontown
39. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Blaise Pascal
Avant-Garde
40. 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
Straight Plays
Man and Superman (1903)
Shadow Theatre
The Jazz Singer
41. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Romantic Playwrights
Sanskrit Drama
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Shakespeare's King John
42. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Vaudeville
musical comedy
Naturalism
Islamic Culture
43. 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
Operatic Musicals
John Millington Synge
Henrik Ibsen
Beaumarchais
44. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
The Jazz Singer
Communists took control
Music
45. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Sanskrit Drama
Showstopper
Naturalistic Plays
Emile Zola
46. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Eugene Ionesco
Japanese Theatre
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
The Black Crook
47. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
box set
Happenings
A Dream Play (1902)
Theatre of Cruelty
48. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Happenings
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Burlesque
Existentialism
49. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Ki
Ziegfield Follies
Revue (Musical Review)
50. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Jukebox musicals
Minstrel Show
Vaudeville
Ziegfield Follies