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Theatre Basics
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1. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Comedy of Manners
Romantics
Ballad Operas
Sanskrit Drama
2. 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
Ritual Theatre
The Interpretation of Dreams
Beaumarchais
Minstrel Show Structure
3. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Bread and Puppet Theatre
The Living Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
Denis Diderot
4. 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
Kordian (1962)
Naturalistic Plays
Poetic Realism
well-made plays
5. 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)
Total Theatre
Lyrics
Shimpa
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
6. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Shavian Comedies
John Millington Synge
Opera
women could legally appear on stages in England
7. Attacked the evils and restrictions of society; tried to reveal the higher reality of the unconscious mind with fantastic imagery and contradictory images; performances were often violent and cruel as they tried to shock the audience into the realiza
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Surrealism
Composer
musical comedy
8. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
Islamic Culture
Mie pose
Little Theatre Movement
9. 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
William Fox Talbot
The Koran
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Book
10. Type of Islamic theatre which is created by lighting two-dimensional figures and casting their shadows on a screen; the audience watches the silhouettes while a narrator tells a story
The Jazz Singer
Shadow Theatre
Eugene Ionesco
Naturalism
11. 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
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Goethe
Poetic Realism
Ritual Theatre
12. 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
Painted-face roles
Henrik Ibsen
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Beaumarchais
13. The orchestrated melodies
Absurdism
The Living Theatre
Realism
Music
14. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Communists took control
Natyasastra
musical comedy
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
15. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Faust
Wole Soyinka
Existential Absurdism
Ta'ziyeh
16. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Islamic Culture
Lorraine Handsberry
Expressionism
17. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Western Drama
William Fox Talbot
Lyricist
Lorraine Handsberry
18. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Japanese Theatre
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
dance musicals
Africa
19. Writes the music
Composer
Librettist
Characters in the Peking Opera
Friedrich Nietzsche
20. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Poetic Realism
Harold Pinter
Aphra Behn
Henrik Ibsen
21. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Opera
Existentialism
Vaudeville
22. 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
The Interpretation of Dreams
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Student Prince
Minstrel Show
23. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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24. 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
Voltaire
Performance Art
Librettist
Kabuki
25. Elaborate geometrical designs were used for these roles which included supernatural beings - warriors - and bandits; the color of the make-up indicated the character's personality
dance musicals
Dadaism
Painted-face roles
Domestic Tragedies
26. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Alienation Effect
Comedy of Manners
Reprise
Composer
27. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
non-Western Theatre
Dadaism
The Black Crook
Aristotelian
28. 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)
Librettist
Characters in the Peking Opera
George Bernard Shaw
Composer
29. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Mie pose
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Shakuntala
Problem plays
30. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Romantic Playwrights
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
31. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Hilarious Absurdism
Emile Zola
Happenings
Ken Saro-Wiwa
32. 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
Islamic Culture
Gotthold Lessing
Domestic Tragedies
musical
33. 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
Jo
Antonin Artaud
Operetta
Off-Off-Broadway
34. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Natyasastra
Broadway Shows
Ta'ziyeh
Book
35. Type of theatre that grew out of ritual - incorporated acting - music - storytelling - poetry - dance - costumes - and lots of masks to create a theatre that combined ritual and ceremony with drama
Jean-Paul Sartre
Painted-face roles
Precolonial African Theatre
Restoration
36. The orchestrated melodies
Absurdism
Music
Avant-Garde
Symbolism
37. 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
Anton Chekhov
Eugene O'Neill
Oscar Wilde
Goethe
38. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Romantic Playwrights
The Living Theatre
non-Western Theatre
Kordian (1962)
39. 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
Verfremdung
Verfremdung
Ta'ziyeh
40. 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
Reprise
Ta'ziyeh
A Dream Play (1902)
The Student Prince
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
The Living Theatre
Faust
Performance Art
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
42. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Ritual Theatre
George Bernard Shaw
Comic opera
Painted-face roles
43. 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
Kyu
The Interpretation of Dreams
Vaudeville
Beaumarchais
44. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Off-Off-Broadway
Performance Art
Blaise Pascal
45. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Ha
Shakespeare's King John
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Blaise Pascal
46. The sung words
A Trip to Coontown
Western Drama
Lyrics
Naturalism
47. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Africa
Shimpa
Avant-Garde
48. 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
Harold Pinter
Natyasastra
Sean O'Casey
49. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Communists took control
Problem plays
The Koran
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
50. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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