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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Revue (Musical Review)
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Jean-Paul Sartre
Kabuki
2. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
The Black Crook
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
well-made plays
3. The men who play female roles are called:
Kafkaesque
A Trip to Coontown
onnagata
The Living Theatre
4. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Communists took control
Ki
Precolonial African Theatre
Man and Superman (1903)
5. 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
Kafkaesque
Gotthold Lessing
The Black Crook
A Trip to Coontown
6. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Theatre of Cruelty
Librettist
Shadow Theatre
7. Wrote 'high comedies' which were cerebral socially relevant plays that had an intellectual scope so vast they forced audiences to reassess their values; Man and Superman (1903) & The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
musical comedy
Naturalism
George Bernard Shaw
Jukebox musicals
8. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
Hilarious Absurdism
Straight Plays
Early European travelers and missionaries
9. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Opera
Aristotelian
10. 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
Oscar Wilde
Reprise
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Non-Western Drama
11. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Sanskrit Drama
book musicals
Variety Show
women could legally appear on stages in England
12. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Existential Absurdism
Kafkaesque
Domestic Tragedies
box set
13. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Symbolism
Existential Absurdism
Ritual Theatre
14. 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
Romantics
Man and Superman (1903)
well-made plays
Oscar Wilde
15. 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)
Problem plays
Operetta
Off Broadway
Verfremdung
16. 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
Comedy of Manners
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Off-Off-Broadway
A Trip to Coontown
17. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Japanese Theatre
book musicals
Lyricist
Friedrich Nietzsche
18. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Africa
Communists took control
Shimpa
Hilarious Absurdism
19. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Jo
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Kyu
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
20. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Ta'ziyeh
John Millington Synge
Realism
Verfremdung
21. 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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22. 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
well-made plays
onnagata
Ziegfield Follies
Opera
23. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Bunraku movements
Samuel Beckett
Noh drama and Kabuki
Melodrama
24. 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
Das Kapital
Henrik Ibsen
Theatre of Cruelty
Ha
25. Built in Venice in 1637
Fatalist Absurdism
Denis Diderot
The Koran
First Public Opera House
26. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Aristotelian
Hilarious Absurdism
Friedrich Nietzsche
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
27. 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
non-Western Theatre
The Jazz Singer
Friedrich Nietzsche
book musicals
28. The sung words
The Black Crook
The Koran
Lyrics
non-Western Theatre
29. 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)
Andre Antoine
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Samuel Beckett
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
30. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Romantics
The Koran
Islamic Culture
Oscar Wilde
31. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Intermezzi
Happenings
Anton Chekhov
well-made plays
32. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
women could legally appear on stages in England
Romantic Playwrights
William Fox Talbot
Kyu
33. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Off Broadway
Naturalistic Plays
Beaumarchais
Lyricist
34. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Little Theatre Movement
Chinese Theatre
Peking Opera
Maxim Gorky
35. 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
Intermezzi
Kyu
Denis Diderot
non-Western Theatre
36. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
rock musical
Japanese Theatre
Domestic Tragedies
Alienation Effect
37. Three parts of a Noh play
Emile Zola
Poetic Realism
Highly Stylized Gestures
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
38. 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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Librettist
John Millington Synge
39. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Revue (Musical Review)
Little Theatre Movement
The Interpretation of Dreams
Vaudeville
40. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
The Enlightenment
rock musical
Kabuki
Peking Opera
41. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
musical comedy
well-made plays
Fatalist Absurdism
Expressionism
42. 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
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
musical comedy
Reprise
Naturalism
43. Form of drama that dominated theatre in India for a thousand years; named for the ancient Indian language in which its plays are performed; combine the natural and the supernatural - the believable and unbelievable
Fatalist Absurdism
Sanskrit Drama
women could legally appear on stages in England
Vaudeville
44. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Absurdism
Minstrel Show
Sanskrit Drama
Ziegfield Follies
45. 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
Chinese Theatre
onnagata
Louis Daguerre
Restoration
46. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Jazz Singer
Wole Soyinka
Showstopper
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
47. 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
Straight Plays
Ballad Operas
Jo
Expressionism
48. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Avant-Garde
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Off-Off-Broadway
Little Theatre Movement
49. Writes the music
Composer
musical comedy
Performance Art
Shimpa
50. 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
Operatic Musicals
Avant-Garde
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
well-made plays