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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:
John Millington Synge
Intermezzi
Islamic Culture
Expressionism
2. 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)
Emile Zola
Samuel Beckett
Naturalism
Kathakali
3. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Revue (Musical Review)
Denis Diderot
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Andre Antoine
4. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
book musicals
Performance Art
Absurdism
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
5. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Alienation Effect
Friedrich Nietzsche
Andre Antoine
Bread and Puppet Theatre
6. 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'
Oscar Wilde
Problem plays
Dadaism
Bertolt Brecht
7. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
well-made plays
non-Western Theatre
book musicals
Romantic Playwrights
8. 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
Goethe
Intermezzi
Shavian Comedies
Non-Western Drama
9. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Sean O'Casey
Precolonial African Theatre
Bunraku movements
Regional Theatre
10. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Vaudeville
Happenings
musical
Revue (Musical Review)
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
Emile Zola
Restoration
Romantics
Dadaism
12. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Characters in the Peking Opera
Ritual Theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Western Drama
13. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Emile Zola
Eugene Ionesco
Hilarious Absurdism
Natyasastra
14. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Poetic Realism
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Peking Opera
15. 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
Non-Western Drama
Opera
Surrealism
Revue (Musical Review)
16. 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
Daguerreotype
Eugene Ionesco
The Koran
Friedrich Nietzsche
17. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Western Drama
Wole Soyinka
Ziegfield Follies
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
18. 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
John Millington Synge
Louis Daguerre
Performance Art
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
19. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
onnagata
Shakuntala
Burlesque
Ballad Operas
20. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Faust
Eugene Ionesco
The Enlightenment
Jo
21. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Voltaire
Das Kapital
Blaise Pascal
well-made plays
22. 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
Jukebox musicals
Total Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
Voltaire
23. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Melodrama
Sentimental Comedies
Western Drama
Dance of the Forest
24. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Maxim Gorky
Expressionism
Minstrel Show
Friedrich Nietzsche
25. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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26. 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
Total Theatre
The Koran
Western Drama
Shakespeare's King John
27. 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
Composer
Surrealism
Naturalism
Operatic Musicals
28. One of the most important French philosophers of the Age of Reason - wrote and edited the first encyclopedia; was also a dramatist who penned books on the techniques of acting; authored The Paradox of Acting - a book that attached the pompous declama
Early European travelers and missionaries
Denis Diderot
Noh drama and Kabuki
Existentialism
29. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Burlesque
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Comedy of Manners
Japanese Theatre
30. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
The Communist Manifesto
non-Western Theatre
Avant-Garde
31. Most popular type of theatre during the Restoration; often featured great wit and wordplay and told stories about sexual gratification - bedroom escapades - and humankind's unrefined nature when it comes to sex
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
The Interpretation of Dreams
Friedrich Nietzsche
Comedy of Manners
32. '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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Eugene Ionesco
rock musical
Henrik Ibsen
33. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
The Living Theatre
Avant-Garde
Communists took control
Absurdism
34. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Friedrich Nietzsche
Comedy of Manners
Chinese Theatre
35. 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)
Noh drama
William Fox Talbot
Shimpa
Denis Diderot
36. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
Variety Show
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Romantics
37. 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
The Communist Manifesto
Non-Western Drama
Gotthold Lessing
Broadway Shows
38. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Off-Off-Broadway
Opera
Absurdism
The Interpretation of Dreams
39. 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
Operetta
Lyricist
Natyasastra
Africa
40. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Minstrel Show
Operatic Musicals
Natyasastra
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
41. Light opera - differs from 'grand opera' because it has a frivolous - comic theme - some spoken dialogue - a melodramatic story - and usually a little dancing; The Mikado (1885)
Samuel Beckett
Blaise Pascal
Hilarious Absurdism
Operetta
42. Only cost a nickel
Happenings
Nickelodeons
rock musical
Straight Plays
43. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Peking Opera
Symbolism
Total Theatre
rock musical
44. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Ritual Theatre
women could legally appear on stages in England
45. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Kafkaesque
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Fourth Room
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
46. Writes the lyrics
Absurdism
Naturalistic Plays
Lyricist
Friedrich Nietzsche
47. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Avant-Garde
Comedy of Manners
non-Western Theatre
Fourth Room
48. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Peking Opera
Shakuntala
Book
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
49. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Nickelodeons
Ballad Operas
Romantics
Eugene O'Neill
50. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Minstrel Show
Librettist
Non-Western Drama