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Theatre Basics
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1. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Ziegfield Follies
Kordian (1962)
Emile Zola
Ballad Operas
2. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Goethe
Fatalist Absurdism
Broadway Shows
Fourth Room
3. 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
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Fatalist Absurdism
Precolonial African Theatre
Hilarious Absurdism
4. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Louis Daguerre
Henrik Ibsen
Surrealism
Das Kapital
5. 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
Off-Off-Broadway
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Intermezzi
Painted-face roles
6. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Variety Show
Sean O'Casey
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
The Interpretation of Dreams
7. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Hilarious Absurdism
Highly Stylized Gestures
Book
George Bernard Shaw
8. Plays without music
Das Kapital
Straight Plays
Regional Theatre
Realism
9. The orchestrated melodies
Music
First Public Opera House
Ballad Operas
Minstrel Show
10. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Sanskrit Drama
Africa
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Kathakali
11. 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
Kyu
Shakuntala
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Denis Diderot
12. 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
Mie pose
Kabuki
A Trip to Coontown
13. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
Composer
Ki
Jo
14. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Poetic Realism
Domestic Tragedies
A Trip to Coontown
Theatre of Cruelty
15. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ki
Intermezzi
Absurdism
16. Would agitate the masses - attack the spectators' sensibilities and purge people of their destructive tendencies; wanted stylized - ritualized performances - not realism - which they felt restricted the theatre to the study of psychological problems
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Theatre of Cruelty
William Fox Talbot
Denis Diderot
17. 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
Composer
Kyu
3 components of Musical Scripts
Reprise
18. A permanent - professional theatre outside NYC; founded in 1947 by Margo Jones; stage new plays alongside commercial hits and historical plays; appeal to the intellectual audiences that Hollywood seldom serves
Noh drama and Kabuki
Regional Theatre
Noh drama
non-Western Theatre
19. 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
Ki
The Enlightenment
Precolonial African Theatre
Mie pose
20. 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
Total Theatre
Mie pose
Minstrel Show Structure
Aphra Behn
21. 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
The Black Crook
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fourth Room
Romantics
22. 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
The Living Theatre
Domestic Tragedies
Kabuki
Sanskrit Drama
23. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
A Trip to Coontown
Straight Plays
Dadaism
24. 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
Wole Soyinka
The Koran
Denis Diderot
women could legally appear on stages in England
25. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Jo
Nickelodeons
26. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
musical comedy
Melodrama
Comic opera
Kathakali
27. Type of Islamic theatre - religious drama of Iran which allowed for actors - both professional and amateur - and has been performed in open-air playing spaces and on some occasions in specially constructed indoor stages for hundreds of years
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28. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Shakuntala
Problem plays
Aristotelian
29. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
Intermezzi
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Gotthold Lessing
30. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Eugene Ionesco
Jo
Beaumarchais
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
31. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Africa
Kordian (1962)
Intermezzi
Antonin Artaud
32. Writes the lyrics
Regional Theatre
Lyricist
Shavian Comedies
Book
33. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Enlightenment
Little Theatre Movement
The Communist Manifesto
34. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Shimpa
Dadaism
Off-Off-Broadway
Realism
35. A dialogue that captures the incoherence - broken language - and pauses of modern speech; usually marked by surreal distortion and impending danger; from writing of Franz Kafka
Minstrel Show
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Kafkaesque
Surrealism
36. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
A Dream Play (1902)
Aphra Behn
Louis Daguerre
37. Plays without music
William Fox Talbot
Straight Plays
well-made plays
Theatre of Cruelty
38. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Revue (Musical Review)
Lyricist
Man and Superman (1903)
Andre Antoine
39. 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
Verfremdung
Mie pose
Performance Art
Romantics
40. 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
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Wole Soyinka
Broadway Shows
41. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
A Dream Play (1902)
Surrealism
Andre Antoine
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
42. 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)
Showstopper
The Adding Machine (1923)
Samuel Beckett
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
43. 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)
Vaudeville
Operetta
First Public Opera House
Theatre of Cruelty
44. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Gotthold Lessing
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Jo
Das Kapital
45. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Harold Pinter
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Shavian Comedies
dance musicals
46. Composed and produced by Bob Cole - lyrics by Billy Johnson; story of a con man and used minstrel stereotypes and spoofed Chinatown; in one scene a young black man sings about he and his date were denied entry to a nightclub cuz He was black and this
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
A Trip to Coontown
Vaudeville
47. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
musical comedy
Friedrich Nietzsche
Jo
48. 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
Kordian (1962)
Gotthold Lessing
Romantics
The Living Theatre
49. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Aphra Behn
Precolonial African Theatre
3 components of Musical Scripts
Precolonial African Theatre
50. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Kyu
Precolonial African Theatre
Africa
Shakuntala