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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Western Drama
Surrealism
Naturalistic Plays
Symbolism
2. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Opera
Ta'ziyeh
Restoration
Ha
3. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Jukebox musicals
Avant-Garde
Blaise Pascal
Eugene Ionesco
4. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Minstrel Show
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Eugene Ionesco
Jukebox musicals
5. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Noh drama and Kabuki
Melodrama
Operetta
Shakuntala
6. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
The Living Theatre
Anton Chekhov
Reprise
Ken Saro-Wiwa
7. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Fatalist Absurdism
Little Theatre Movement
Harold Pinter
8. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Japanese Theatre
Anton Chekhov
Performance Art
Regional Theatre
9. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
Opera
Minstrel Show Structure
Wole Soyinka
10. 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
A Dream Play (1902)
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Non-Western Drama
Jo
11. 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
Realism
dance musicals
Symbolism
dance musicals
12. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Antonin Artaud
Ritual Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
Sanskrit Drama
13. 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
Domestic Tragedies
Ki
The Origin of the Cakewalk
14. Only cost a nickel
Chinese Theatre
Naturalism
Nickelodeons
Librettist
15. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
16. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Eugene Ionesco
George Bernard Shaw
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Eugene O'Neill
17. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Fourth Room
Ritual Theatre
Dance of the Forest
18. Filled with characters who cannot resist an argument about social issues; no character is exempt from talking politics and theorizing about moral - artistic or religious reform
Comic opera
John Millington Synge
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Shavian Comedies
19. 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
Painted-face roles
Ki
Shavian Comedies
Jo
20. A sudden - striking pose (often with their eyes crossed - chin sharply turned - and big toe pointed towards the sky) in Kabuki accompanied by several powerful beats of wooden clappers
Mie pose
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Poetic Realism
non-Western Theatre
21. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Sentimental Comedies
A Dream Play (1902)
Bunraku movements
Minstrel Show Structure
22. 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
Louis Daguerre
Anton Chekhov
Ta'ziyeh
Dadaism
23. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Melodrama
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Sentimental Comedies
Western Drama
24. 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
Voltaire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fatalist Absurdism
25. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ziegfield Follies
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
26. 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)
27. 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
Painted-face roles
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Avant-Garde
A Trip to Coontown
28. Based off the idea that before a problem can be solved - society must first understand that the problem exists; 'attack the message - not the messenger'
Shimpa
Gotthold Lessing
Problem plays
Realism
29. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Natyasastra
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Avant-Garde
Andre Antoine
30. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
The Enlightenment
Realism
Operatic Musicals
Straight Plays
31. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Kordian (1962)
Peking Opera
The Origin of the Cakewalk
32. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Romantic Playwrights
Antonin Artaud
well-made plays
33. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Comedy of Manners
Minstrel Show
Broadway Shows
34. Earliest form for photography
Precolonial African Theatre
Straight Plays
Daguerreotype
Fatalist Absurdism
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
Natyasastra
Shakuntala
Bunraku movements
Romantic Playwrights
36. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
Japanese Theatre
Straight Plays
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
37. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Noh drama
Showstopper
Little Theatre Movement
Comic opera
38. Book - music - and lyrics
Surrealism
Showstopper
3 components of Musical Scripts
Dance of the Forest
39. 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
Gotthold Lessing
George Bernard Shaw
40. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Samuel Beckett
Noh drama
Islamic Culture
Opera
41. 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
Goethe
Comic opera
Vaudeville
Problem plays
42. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Off-Off-Broadway
Dance of the Forest
Aphra Behn
Minstrel Show
43. 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
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
dance musicals
The Koran
A Dream Play (1902)
44. History plays about major political events of the past - domestic plays about the loves and lives of merchants and townspeople - and dance-dramas about the world of spirits and animals
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Burlesque
Revue (Musical Review)
Japanese Theatre
45. Type of Islamic theatre - religious drama of Iran which allowed for actors - both professional and amateur - and has been performed in open-air playing spaces and on some occasions in specially constructed indoor stages for hundreds of years
46. 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
Showstopper
Operetta
Aphra Behn
47. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Avant-Garde
Operatic Musicals
Noh drama
Fourth Room
48. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Western Drama
Ziegfield Follies
Expressionism
Lorraine Handsberry
49. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Western Drama
Bunraku movements
The Interpretation of Dreams
Operatic Musicals
50. 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
Bunraku movements
Oscar Wilde
Anton Chekhov
Book