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Theatre Basics
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1. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
dance musicals
women could legally appear on stages in England
Existential Absurdism
Sanskrit Drama
2. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Intermezzi
Intermezzi
3. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Reprise
Romantics
non-Western Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
4. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wole Soyinka
Sentimental Comedies
5. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Andre Antoine
The Jazz Singer
Shakuntala
Bunraku movements
6. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Nell Gwynn
Domestic Tragedies
Communists took control
Straight Plays
7. 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
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Western Drama
Shadow Theatre
Mie pose
8. 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
Poetic Realism
Precolonial African Theatre
Existential Absurdism
Dance of the Forest
9. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
The Living Theatre
Lyricist
Nell Gwynn
Alienation Effect
10. 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
Poetic Realism
Showstopper
overture
Communists took control
11. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Blaise Pascal
Wole Soyinka
Problem plays
12. Grew up in poverty and put himself through medical school and set up free clinics in Russia to help the poor; The Seagull (1896) - Uncle Vanya (1899) Three Sisters (1901) & The Cherry Orchard (1904); placed on stage the lazy chaos of lives crushed by
Anton Chekhov
women could legally appear on stages in England
Friedrich Nietzsche
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
13. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Sean O'Casey
Samuel Beckett
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
14. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Reprise
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Existential Absurdism
15. 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
Eugene O'Neill
Gotthold Lessing
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
16. 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
Eugene Ionesco
Voltaire
Expressionism
Ken Saro-Wiwa
17. History plays about major political events of the past - domestic plays about the loves and lives of merchants and townspeople - and dance-dramas about the world of spirits and animals
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Islamic Culture
Gotthold Lessing
Highly Stylized Gestures
18. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Minstrel Show
Shakuntala
Henrik Ibsen
Lorraine Handsberry
19. 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)
Poetic Realism
Noh drama and Kabuki
Kyu
Shimpa
20. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Aphra Behn
Romantic Playwrights
Shadow Theatre
21. Writes the music
Happenings
Composer
Kabuki
George Bernard Shaw
22. 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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23. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Domestic Tragedies
Mie pose
Harold Pinter
24. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
A Trip to Coontown
The Adding Machine (1923)
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Voltaire
25. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Romantic Playwrights
Domestic Tragedies
Kordian (1962)
Bread and Puppet Theatre
26. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Anton Chekhov
Denis Diderot
Ha
27. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Variety Show
Naturalism
Little Theatre Movement
dance musicals
28. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Alienation Effect
onnagata
Bertolt Brecht
29. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Jo
Andre Antoine
Poetic Realism
Blaise Pascal
30. What western theatre is often called:
Broadway Shows
Comic opera
Aristotelian
Noh drama
31. 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
Existential Absurdism
Comic opera
Opera
Surrealism
32. 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
Shakespeare's King John
Composer
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
33. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Alienation Effect
box set
musical comedy
Blaise Pascal
34. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
The Jazz Singer
Peking Opera
Gotthold Lessing
Bread and Puppet Theatre
35. 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
Eugene Ionesco
Shadow Theatre
Absurdism
women could legally appear on stages in England
36. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Comedy of Manners
Ki
Comedy of Manners
Louis Daguerre
37. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Problem plays
The Interpretation of Dreams
Alienation Effect
Hilarious Absurdism
38. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
dance musicals
Performance Art
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
39. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Aristotelian
Dance of the Forest
Louis Daguerre
Oscar Wilde
40. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Happenings
Maxim Gorky
Bertolt Brecht
Communists took control
41. 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
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Dadaism
Louis Daguerre
42. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Sean O'Casey
The Enlightenment
A Dream Play (1902)
Total Theatre
43. 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
Revue (Musical Review)
Minstrel Show Structure
Precolonial African Theatre
Alienation Effect
44. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Africa
The Living Theatre
rock musical
The Interpretation of Dreams
45. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Noh drama
Librettist
Jukebox musicals
46. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Expressionism
Intermezzi
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Showstopper
47. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Friedrich Nietzsche
Samuel Beckett
48. 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
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Highly Stylized Gestures
Wole Soyinka
Painted-face roles
49. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Performance Art
Problem plays
Shadow Theatre
Nell Gwynn
50. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Andre Antoine
Ziegfield Follies
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Chinese Theatre
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