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Theatre Basics
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1. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Dadaism
Happenings
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
First Public Opera House
2. One of the most popular Kabuki and Bunraku playwrights - who - like Shakespeare - wrote crowd-pleasing plays that combined poetry and prose in dramatic tales of comedy - tragedy - love - and war
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Mie pose
Symbolism
Kabuki
3. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Symbolism
The Koran
Romantics
Performance Art
4. 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)
Theatre of Cruelty
George Bernard Shaw
Comic opera
Variety Show
5. The sung words
Lyrics
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Music
Mie pose
6. 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
Variety Show
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Kafkaesque
Absurdism
7. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Composer
Kordian (1962)
Showstopper
Kafkaesque
8. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Gotthold Lessing
The Jazz Singer
Ha
non-Western Theatre
9. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Voltaire
Ziegfield Follies
Japanese Theatre
George Bernard Shaw
10. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
Anton Chekhov
Henrik Ibsen
Opera
11. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Operatic Musicals
Bertolt Brecht
The Black Crook
Avant-Garde
12. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Lorraine Handsberry
Jukebox musicals
Intermezzi
The Enlightenment
13. 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
Kathakali
Bunraku movements
Sanskrit Drama
Wole Soyinka
14. 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)
Operetta
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Africa
Operatic Musicals
15. 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
Early European travelers and missionaries
George Bernard Shaw
Regional Theatre
Dadaism
16. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Henrik Ibsen
Burlesque
Shadow Theatre
Highly Stylized Gestures
17. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Noh drama
dance musicals
Romantic Playwrights
Ken Saro-Wiwa
18. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Non-Western Drama
Ta'ziyeh
Ballad Operas
Showstopper
19. Grew up in poverty and put himself through medical school and set up free clinics in Russia to help the poor; The Seagull (1896) - Uncle Vanya (1899) Three Sisters (1901) & The Cherry Orchard (1904); placed on stage the lazy chaos of lives crushed by
Nell Gwynn
Anton Chekhov
Total Theatre
Noh drama
20. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Problem plays
Communists took control
Aphra Behn
Mie pose
21. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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22. Book - music - and lyrics
Domestic Tragedies
3 components of Musical Scripts
Sentimental Comedies
Verfremdung
23. 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
Operetta
Das Kapital
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Lyrics
24. 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
Oscar Wilde
Beaumarchais
Western Drama
Intermezzi
25. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
William Fox Talbot
Africa
Characters in the Peking Opera
overture
26. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Das Kapital
Gotthold Lessing
Noh drama and Kabuki
Revue (Musical Review)
27. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Avant-Garde
Symbolism
overture
Happenings
28. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Harold Pinter
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Noh drama and Kabuki
Romantic Playwrights
29. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Shavian Comedies
Performance Art
Avant-Garde
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
30. Most famous surrealist and was a French writer and director; studied Asian religions - mysticism - and ancient cultures; declared theatre should should wake the nerves and heart; argued that proscenium arch theatres create a barrier between the audie
Minstrel Show Structure
Antonin Artaud
The Black Crook
Oscar Wilde
31. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Jukebox musicals
Painted-face roles
Ziegfield Follies
Fourth Room
32. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
A Dream Play (1902)
Sentimental Comedies
Minstrel Show Structure
Communists took control
33. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Harold Pinter
Absurdism
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Operatic Musicals
34. Built in Venice in 1637
Regional Theatre
The Enlightenment
First Public Opera House
Problem plays
35. One of the most valuable historical records of Indian theatre; an encyclopedic book of dramatic theory and practice; has 37 chapters and covers every aspect of classical Indian drama - also a treatise on dramatic theory and philosophy - states that t
Painted-face roles
women could legally appear on stages in England
Music
Natyasastra
36. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
3 components of Musical Scripts
Africa
Louis Daguerre
Avant-Garde
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
Gotthold Lessing
The Communist Manifesto
Mie pose
Lyrics
38. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Chinese Theatre
Fatalist Absurdism
Comic opera
Ballad Operas
39. One of the most valuable historical records of Indian theatre; an encyclopedic book of dramatic theory and practice; has 37 chapters and covers every aspect of classical Indian drama - also a treatise on dramatic theory and philosophy - states that t
Aristotelian
Ziegfield Follies
Natyasastra
Jo
40. Plays without music
A Dream Play (1902)
Straight Plays
Antonin Artaud
Sentimental Comedies
41. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
Realism
Jo
Shakespeare's King John
42. 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
Oscar Wilde
Das Kapital
Noh drama and Kabuki
Ziegfield Follies
43. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Kyu
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Intermezzi
Book
44. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Jean-Paul Sartre
Kyu
Expressionism
Samuel Beckett
45. Writes the music
A Dream Play (1902)
George Bernard Shaw
Composer
Africa
46. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Realism
Showstopper
book musicals
Bread and Puppet Theatre
47. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Minstrel Show Structure
The Enlightenment
Poetic Realism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
48. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Andre Antoine
Denis Diderot
book musicals
49. 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
Kyu
John Millington Synge
Wole Soyinka
Opera
50. 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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