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Theatre Basics
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1. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
box set
Realism
2. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Composer
Naturalistic Plays
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Vaudeville
3. Writes the book
Western Drama
Librettist
Kyu
The Black Crook
4. 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
Ziegfield Follies
Sentimental Comedies
Librettist
The Koran
5. Sarcastic label of Scribe's plays; the sympathetic protagonist suffers at the hands of an evil antagonist in the course of intense action - suspense - and contrived play devices; ending is always happy and the loose ends are neatly tied up
Romantics
Intermezzi
well-made plays
box set
6. 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
Kyu
Non-Western Drama
John Millington Synge
7. The orchestrated melodies
Naturalistic Plays
Music
Oscar Wilde
Dance of the Forest
8. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Comic opera
The Adding Machine (1923)
Ziegfield Follies
Andre Antoine
9. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Reprise
Problem plays
Japanese Theatre
Composer
10. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Ballad Operas
book musicals
Kordian (1962)
Reprise
11. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Restoration
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
3 components of Musical Scripts
Sean O'Casey
12. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Absurdism
The Adding Machine (1923)
Nickelodeons
Avant-Garde
13. 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
Surrealism
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Bunraku movements
14. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Hilarious Absurdism
Restoration
Kabuki
Faust
15. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Ziegfield Follies
Shakespeare's King John
Romantic Playwrights
Off Broadway
16. Comedies forced Victorian society to reexamine its hypocrisies; Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) - A WOman of No Importance (1893) - An Ideal Husband (1894); advocated 'art for art's sake'; The Importance of Being Ernest
Restoration
Romantic Playwrights
The Black Crook
Oscar Wilde
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
Reprise
Opera
Absurdism
Romantics
18. 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
Peking Opera
Painted-face roles
Anton Chekhov
The Koran
19. 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
Off-Off-Broadway
Non-Western Drama
Symbolism
Islamic Culture
20. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Dance of the Forest
Aphra Behn
Antonin Artaud
Aristotelian
21. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Existential Absurdism
Shakuntala
Sentimental Comedies
Nickelodeons
22. 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
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Fourth Room
Operetta
Beaumarchais
23. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
overture
Comic opera
Reprise
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
24. 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
Faust
Henrik Ibsen
Lorraine Handsberry
Gotthold Lessing
25. No protagonist; deals with a family of characters who tell many stories at once; the fact that characters on stage take no action may inspire audience members to be motivated for the opposite in real life
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Noh drama
Goethe
Composer
26. 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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27. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
onnagata
Verfremdung
Daguerreotype
Broadway Shows
28. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Gotthold Lessing
Dance of the Forest
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Alienation Effect
29. 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 Communist Manifesto
onnagata
Performance Art
The Student Prince
30. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Restoration
Absurdism
Operatic Musicals
Kathakali
31. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
box set
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Faust
32. Book - music - and lyrics
Kafkaesque
Early European travelers and missionaries
3 components of Musical Scripts
Bertolt Brecht
33. 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)
William Fox Talbot
Operetta
Domestic Tragedies
Antonin Artaud
34. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Shakuntala
dance musicals
Jukebox musicals
35. 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
Opera
Opera
Mie pose
Operatic Musicals
36. The sung words
Romantics
Lyrics
Noh drama and Kabuki
Sentimental Comedies
37. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
The Communist Manifesto
Vaudeville
rock musical
Lorraine Handsberry
38. The men who play female roles are called:
Poetic Realism
Blaise Pascal
Henrik Ibsen
onnagata
39. 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
Kyu
Poetic Realism
Ballad Operas
40. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Opera
Goethe
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Jo
41. 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
musical
Comedy of Manners
Performance Art
Absurdism
42. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Surrealism
Opera
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
43. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Opera
Faust
Ki
Ritual Theatre
44. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Oscar Wilde
Expressionism
Blaise Pascal
Absurdism
45. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Aphra Behn
Ta'ziyeh
Samuel Beckett
Jo
46. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Bunraku movements
Lorraine Handsberry
Man and Superman (1903)
The Interpretation of Dreams
47. Only cost a nickel
The Adding Machine (1923)
Variety Show
Composer
Nickelodeons
48. 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
Domestic Tragedies
Lorraine Handsberry
Peking Opera
49. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Vaudeville
Surrealism
Lorraine Handsberry
Poetic Realism
50. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Poetic Realism
Shadow Theatre
overture
The Adding Machine (1923)