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Theatre Basics
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1. Writes the lyrics
Regional Theatre
The Interpretation of Dreams
Lyricist
Naturalism
2. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ballad Operas
Expressionism
Bunraku movements
3. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
dance musicals
Emile Zola
Comedy of Manners
musical
4. 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
Ha
Communists took control
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Poetic Realism
5. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Music
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Opera
Jukebox musicals
6. 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
musical comedy
Ta'ziyeh
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lyrics
7. 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 Structure
The Living Theatre
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Ziegfield Follies
8. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Existential Absurdism
Hilarious Absurdism
Off-Off-Broadway
Comedy of Manners
9. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Daguerreotype
Reprise
Andre Antoine
Kyu
10. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Romantics
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Reprise
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
Dadaism
Theatre of Cruelty
Naturalistic Plays
The Interpretation of Dreams
12. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Eugene Ionesco
Fatalist Absurdism
The Interpretation of Dreams
Louis Daguerre
13. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Oscar Wilde
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Variety Show
14. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Showstopper
Melodrama
Sanskrit Drama
Poetic Realism
15. 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
Sentimental Comedies
Anton Chekhov
Problem plays
The Living Theatre
16. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
women could legally appear on stages in England
Verfremdung
A Dream Play (1902)
Shakespeare's King John
17. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Realism
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
The Enlightenment
Restoration
18. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
The Communist Manifesto
Nickelodeons
Romantic Playwrights
Africa
19. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Romantic Playwrights
Shakespeare's King John
Existential Absurdism
Revue (Musical Review)
20. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
The Adding Machine (1923)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Ziegfield Follies
Shakuntala
21. 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'
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Off Broadway
Shakuntala
Problem plays
22. 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'
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Revue (Musical Review)
Problem plays
Kordian (1962)
23. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Wole Soyinka
Kordian (1962)
Eugene Ionesco
musical comedy
24. 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
Expressionism
onnagata
Broadway Shows
Eugene Ionesco
25. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Revue (Musical Review)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Ki
Naturalistic Plays
26. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God; not a negative - for without God humans can create their own existences - purpose and meaning
Existentialism
The Adding Machine (1923)
A Dream Play (1902)
Ki
27. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Western Drama
Goethe
Shadow Theatre
Nickelodeons
28. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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29. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Africa
Sentimental Comedies
Jo
Maxim Gorky
30. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
overture
Revue (Musical Review)
Book
31. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
non-Western Theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Revue (Musical Review)
book musicals
32. Earliest form for photography
Naturalism
John Millington Synge
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Daguerreotype
33. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Antonin Artaud
Alienation Effect
Ha
Kathakali
34. 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
overture
Blaise Pascal
Kabuki
Gotthold Lessing
35. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Kyu
Little Theatre Movement
Minstrel Show
Japanese Theatre
36. 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
Andre Antoine
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
box set
Wole Soyinka
37. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Domestic Tragedies
Painted-face roles
Oscar Wilde
38. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Characters in the Peking Opera
Bertolt Brecht
Minstrel Show Structure
Ballad Operas
39. Writes the book
Librettist
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Denis Diderot
Comic opera
40. A production of British actor Charles Kean; had realistic costumes - set and props that he had researched to make sure they were historically correct
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41. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Ritual Theatre
Minstrel Show Structure
Theatre of Cruelty
Kathakali
42. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Faust
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Romantics
Natyasastra
43. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
Realism
Off-Off-Broadway
Eugene Ionesco
Alienation Effect
44. A true-to-life interior containing a room or rooms with the fourth wall removed so that the audience has the feeling of looking in on the characters' private lives
box set
Natyasastra
Existentialism
onnagata
45. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Intermezzi
Sentimental Comedies
Comic opera
Characters in the Peking Opera
46. 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
Performance Art
Samuel Beckett
Natyasastra
Restoration
47. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Opera
Burlesque
Aphra Behn
The Black Crook
48. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Islamic Culture
The Communist Manifesto
Realism
Comic opera
49. The men who play female roles are called:
A Dream Play (1902)
Aristotelian
onnagata
Melodrama
50. The sung words
Lyrics
Das Kapital
Fourth Room
Opera