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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Minstrel Show
The Koran
Fatalist Absurdism
Romantics
2. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Lyricist
The Origin of the Cakewalk
3. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
Eugene O'Neill
Kordian (1962)
A Trip to Coontown
4. 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
Burlesque
Surrealism
Minstrel Show Structure
Shakuntala
5. 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
John Millington Synge
Romantics
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Adding Machine (1923)
6. 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
Operatic Musicals
rock musical
Expressionism
John Millington Synge
7. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
women could legally appear on stages in England
Noh drama and Kabuki
overture
Oscar Wilde
8. 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
women could legally appear on stages in England
Noh drama
Book
Gotthold Lessing
9. Thought that inner truths could be hinted at only through symbols; sought to replace the specific and concrete with the suggestive and metaphorical; usually had little plot or action and tended to baffle the audience
Symbolism
Hilarious Absurdism
Minstrel Show
Opera
10. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Fatalist Absurdism
Restoration
Faust
Noh drama and Kabuki
11. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Kyu
Mie pose
onnagata
Early European travelers and missionaries
12. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Faust
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Dance of the Forest
A Dream Play (1902)
13. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Showstopper
Operatic Musicals
overture
Revue (Musical Review)
14. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
Opera
Painted-face roles
The Adding Machine (1923)
15. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Sanskrit Drama
Broadway Shows
Noh drama
Ballad Operas
16. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Maxim Gorky
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Oscar Wilde
John Millington Synge
17. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Opera
Expressionism
Comedy of Manners
18. 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
Ha
Bertolt Brecht
Goethe
Shadow Theatre
19. 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
Hilarious Absurdism
The Koran
onnagata
Precolonial African Theatre
20. The sung words
Expressionism
Lyrics
Fatalist Absurdism
Realism
21. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Librettist
Lyricist
Characters in the Peking Opera
The Origin of the Cakewalk
22. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Africa
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Eugene Ionesco
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
23. 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
Sanskrit Drama
Noh drama and Kabuki
The Koran
Faust
24. 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
The Jazz Singer
Antonin Artaud
Shavian Comedies
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
25. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Alienation Effect
Ki
Oscar Wilde
26. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Reprise
Islamic Culture
Precolonial African Theatre
Ki
27. Writes the music
Composer
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Kafkaesque
musical comedy
28. In Sigmund Romberg's play the king young heir to the throne sacrifices his personal happiness for the good of the kingdom when he sorrowfully pulls himself away from his true love in order to marry a princess whom he does not love
The Student Prince
Non-Western Drama
women could legally appear on stages in England
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
29. 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
Eugene Ionesco
Voltaire
Variety Show
Alienation Effect
30. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Highly Stylized Gestures
Dance of the Forest
Shadow Theatre
musical
31. 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
Beaumarchais
Alienation Effect
Operetta
Comedy of Manners
32. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Jean-Paul Sartre
William Fox Talbot
The Black Crook
Vaudeville
33. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Melodrama
Faust
Avant-Garde
book musicals
34. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Poetic Realism
musical
Nell Gwynn
Non-Western Drama
35. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Emile Zola
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Librettist
36. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Off-Off-Broadway
Off Broadway
Jean-Paul Sartre
Verfremdung
37. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Minstrel Show
Broadway Shows
Ritual Theatre
Domestic Tragedies
38. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Problem plays
The Adding Machine (1923)
Bertolt Brecht
39. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
The Black Crook
Vaudeville
Existential Absurdism
Hilarious Absurdism
40. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Noh drama
Minstrel Show
The Jazz Singer
Vaudeville
41. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Romantic Playwrights
Book
John Millington Synge
Showstopper
42. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
Broadway Shows
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Hilarious Absurdism
43. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Naturalistic Plays
Kathakali
Precolonial African Theatre
non-Western Theatre
44. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Characters in the Peking Opera
overture
box set
45. 1. theatre has an actor who plays a character - theatre is artificial - and 2. theatre usually has a story with a conflict - conflict is key to all drama
Noh drama
Maxim Gorky
Naturalism
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
46. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Faust
Romantic Playwrights
musical
47. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Friedrich Nietzsche
Samuel Beckett
Aphra Behn
Shimpa
48. 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
Shadow Theatre
Realism
The Adding Machine (1923)
Painted-face roles
49. 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)
Shimpa
Early European travelers and missionaries
Revue (Musical Review)
Precolonial African Theatre
50. 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
Intermezzi
Naturalism
Reprise
Nell Gwynn