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Theatre Basics
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1. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Alienation Effect
Poetic Realism
Kathakali
Librettist
2. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Off-Off-Broadway
Noh drama and Kabuki
Shadow Theatre
Anton Chekhov
3. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Denis Diderot
Islamic Culture
Das Kapital
onnagata
4. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Operetta
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Opera
box set
5. Earliest form for photography
Maxim Gorky
Daguerreotype
Domestic Tragedies
The Jazz Singer
6. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Western Drama
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Reprise
Eugene O'Neill
7. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
onnagata
Hilarious Absurdism
Louis Daguerre
Friedrich Nietzsche
8. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Kyu
Melodrama
The Living Theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
9. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Dadaism
Blaise Pascal
Chinese Theatre
Emile Zola
10. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
musical
Voltaire
11. 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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12. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Restoration
Jo
Denis Diderot
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
13. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Kafkaesque
Faust
Africa
Das Kapital
14. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Daguerreotype
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
overture
Little Theatre Movement
15. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Fourth Room
Communists took control
Broadway Shows
Kathakali
16. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Ziegfield Follies
Existential Absurdism
Total Theatre
Sentimental Comedies
17. 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
Voltaire
Ziegfield Follies
John Millington Synge
Denis Diderot
18. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Eugene Ionesco
Goethe
Lorraine Handsberry
19. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
rock musical
Jean-Paul Sartre
well-made plays
Hilarious Absurdism
20. Three parts of a Noh play
Kordian (1962)
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Ritual Theatre
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
21. 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
Showstopper
well-made plays
Hilarious Absurdism
Ken Saro-Wiwa
22. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Naturalism
non-Western Theatre
Verfremdung
Oscar Wilde
23. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Intermezzi
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
The Interpretation of Dreams
Little Theatre Movement
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
Broadway Shows
Sean O'Casey
Domestic Tragedies
Theatre of Cruelty
25. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Off-Off-Broadway
Shadow Theatre
Regional Theatre
Chinese Theatre
26. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Existential Absurdism
Operetta
Surrealism
Noh drama
27. 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
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Islamic Culture
Reprise
28. 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)
Samuel Beckett
Dadaism
Precolonial African Theatre
Lyrics
29. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Emile Zola
Nell Gwynn
Comic opera
overture
30. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Opera
Comedy of Manners
Lorraine Handsberry
31. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Bertolt Brecht
Highly Stylized Gestures
Fourth Room
Lyricist
32. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Theatre of Cruelty
Precolonial African Theatre
Little Theatre Movement
Lyricist
33. 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
Variety Show
Comedy of Manners
Theatre of Cruelty
Ha
34. 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
overture
Burlesque
Jo
Eugene Ionesco
35. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Voltaire
Alienation Effect
Broadway Shows
Oscar Wilde
36. 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
Fourth Room
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Andre Antoine
Ritual Theatre
37. 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
The Enlightenment
Gotthold Lessing
The Communist Manifesto
Nickelodeons
38. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Ballad Operas
Natyasastra
Ziegfield Follies
Kordian (1962)
39. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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40. 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
Characters in the Peking Opera
Existentialism
Opera
Islamic Culture
41. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Opera
dance musicals
Japanese Theatre
Man and Superman (1903)
42. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Showstopper
The Communist Manifesto
Chinese Theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
43. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
overture
Bunraku movements
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
44. 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
Lorraine Handsberry
Louis Daguerre
Opera
Romantic Playwrights
45. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Interpretation of Dreams
Symbolism
Romantic Playwrights
The Koran
46. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
dance musicals
overture
The Adding Machine (1923)
47. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Kathakali
Fatalist Absurdism
Vaudeville
Sentimental Comedies
48. 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
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Oscar Wilde
The Living Theatre
Lorraine Handsberry
49. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Symbolism
Islamic Culture
Japanese Theatre
Bread and Puppet Theatre
50. 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 Student Prince
Henrik Ibsen
Vaudeville
Lorraine Handsberry
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