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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Earliest form for photography
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Emile Zola
Gotthold Lessing
Daguerreotype
2. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
The Interpretation of Dreams
Emile Zola
The Living Theatre
3. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Music
Fatalist Absurdism
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Librettist
4. Only cost a nickel
Nickelodeons
Sentimental Comedies
Aphra Behn
Jean-Paul Sartre
5. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Kafkaesque
Reprise
Existential Absurdism
Restoration
6. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Africa
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
7. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Chinese Theatre
Islamic Culture
dance musicals
Bunraku movements
8. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Revue (Musical Review)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Sean O'Casey
Opera
9. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
box set
musical comedy
Fourth Room
10. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
The Living Theatre
Kordian (1962)
Kabuki
Restoration
11. 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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12. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Ken Saro-Wiwa
musical
Naturalism
The Communist Manifesto
13. The orchestrated melodies
Poetic Realism
Music
Anton Chekhov
Noh drama and Kabuki
14. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Painted-face roles
Comic opera
Operetta
The Origin of the Cakewalk
15. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
The Jazz Singer
Shakuntala
Oscar Wilde
Total Theatre
16. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Hilarious Absurdism
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Das Kapital
17. 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
Africa
First Public Opera House
Existential Absurdism
18. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Oscar Wilde
Domestic Tragedies
The Black Crook
non-Western Theatre
19. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Domestic Tragedies
Characters in the Peking Opera
Hilarious Absurdism
Kabuki
20. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Shakuntala
Total Theatre
Communists took control
A Dream Play (1902)
21. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Louis Daguerre
Melodrama
22. 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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23. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
overture
Comedy of Manners
Poetic Realism
The Koran
24. Greatest of the Sturm und Drang playwrights; was also a critic - journalist - painter - biologist - statesman - poet - novelist - philosopher - scientist - and the manager of the Duke of Weimar's playhouse
Bunraku movements
Goethe
Shakespeare's King John
Symbolism
25. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
musical comedy
Alienation Effect
A Dream Play (1902)
Kyu
26. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Louis Daguerre
Das Kapital
Early European travelers and missionaries
27. 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
The Jazz Singer
The Student Prince
Oscar Wilde
Book
28. Writes the music
Dance of the Forest
Kafkaesque
Shimpa
Composer
29. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
Painted-face roles
Beaumarchais
Noh drama
30. 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
Fatalist Absurdism
Aphra Behn
Wole Soyinka
Anton Chekhov
31. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Early European travelers and missionaries
Revue (Musical Review)
Showstopper
Voltaire
32. 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
Faust
Emile Zola
Kabuki
Realism
33. 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 Broadway
Existentialism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
34. 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
Romantic Playwrights
3 components of Musical Scripts
Existentialism
Non-Western Drama
35. 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)
Kordian (1962)
Samuel Beckett
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Jukebox musicals
36. 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
The Adding Machine (1923)
Voltaire
well-made plays
Dance of the Forest
37. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Ken Saro-Wiwa
38. 'The Father of Realism'; was initially a Romantic writer and his early plays were verse dramas largely based on Norwegian history and folk literature; plays presented complex - sometimes distrubing - views of human society; A Doll's House (1879) - Gh
Henrik Ibsen
John Millington Synge
Existentialism
Straight Plays
39. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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40. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
women could legally appear on stages in England
The Adding Machine (1923)
A Trip to Coontown
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
41. 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)
Painted-face roles
Opera
Shimpa
Louis Daguerre
42. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Avant-Garde
3 components of Musical Scripts
Ballad Operas
well-made plays
43. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Sentimental Comedies
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Lorraine Handsberry
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
44. 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
Denis Diderot
Blaise Pascal
George Bernard Shaw
Kafkaesque
45. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Peking Opera
Sanskrit Drama
Antonin Artaud
Shadow Theatre
46. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Happenings
47. Built in Venice in 1637
First Public Opera House
Ki
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Oscar Wilde
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
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Reprise
onnagata
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
49. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Ritual Theatre
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Restoration
50. Most popular type of theatre during the Restoration; often featured great wit and wordplay and told stories about sexual gratification - bedroom escapades - and humankind's unrefined nature when it comes to sex
Highly Stylized Gestures
Comedy of Manners
Sentimental Comedies
Hilarious Absurdism