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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Aristotelian
Theatre of Cruelty
2. 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
Off Broadway
Operetta
Oscar Wilde
Mie pose
3. Writes the book
Shakespeare's King John
Denis Diderot
Wole Soyinka
Librettist
4. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
The Koran
Nickelodeons
Man and Superman (1903)
Burlesque
5. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Sean O'Casey
Mie pose
Shavian Comedies
Naturalistic Plays
6. 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
Communists took control
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ha
Blaise Pascal
7. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Ritual Theatre
3 components of Musical Scripts
Total Theatre
Off Broadway
8. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Restoration
The Jazz Singer
Kyu
The Origin of the Cakewalk
9. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Vaudeville
Ritual Theatre
The Black Crook
10. 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
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Wole Soyinka
Reprise
Nell Gwynn
11. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Operatic Musicals
Non-Western Drama
Peking Opera
Samuel Beckett
12. 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
Opera
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Oscar Wilde
Expressionism
13. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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14. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Samuel Beckett
Opera
Henrik Ibsen
Romantics
15. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Shavian Comedies
Revue (Musical Review)
Painted-face roles
Nickelodeons
16. 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
Bread and Puppet Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
Dadaism
First Public Opera House
17. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Reprise
Fatalist Absurdism
Goethe
Dadaism
18. 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
Operetta
Shadow Theatre
John Millington Synge
Gotthold Lessing
19. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
George Bernard Shaw
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Alienation Effect
Bread and Puppet Theatre
20. 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
Music
Regional Theatre
Performance Art
Voltaire
21. 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
Little Theatre Movement
Natyasastra
Expressionism
Ballad Operas
22. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Naturalism
The Communist Manifesto
Lorraine Handsberry
Off-Off-Broadway
23. Only cost a nickel
Nickelodeons
overture
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
24. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Realism
box set
Aphra Behn
Broadway Shows
25. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Absurdism
Happenings
Islamic Culture
Revue (Musical Review)
26. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Nickelodeons
Man and Superman (1903)
Antonin Artaud
27. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Fourth Room
The Enlightenment
Aphra Behn
Regional Theatre
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'
The Communist Manifesto
Henrik Ibsen
Problem plays
Non-Western Drama
29. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
The Communist Manifesto
Highly Stylized Gestures
The Living Theatre
Ballad Operas
30. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
Painted-face roles
Opera
Operatic Musicals
31. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Book
Painted-face roles
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
musical comedy
32. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God; not a negative - for without God humans can create their own existences - purpose and meaning
John Millington Synge
Existentialism
Beaumarchais
Intermezzi
33. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Chinese Theatre
Happenings
Mie pose
Emile Zola
34. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Non-Western Drama
The Living Theatre
Shadow Theatre
Melodrama
35. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Andre Antoine
Opera
Anton Chekhov
Naturalistic Plays
36. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Straight Plays
Ziegfield Follies
The Interpretation of Dreams
George Bernard Shaw
37. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Showstopper
Ballad Operas
Vaudeville
38. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Eugene Ionesco
Comic opera
Kordian (1962)
Minstrel Show Structure
39. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Western Drama
George Bernard Shaw
Beaumarchais
well-made plays
40. 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
Ki
Kordian (1962)
The Koran
Aristotelian
41. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Symbolism
Kordian (1962)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Happenings
42. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Restoration
Ritual Theatre
Sean O'Casey
Harold Pinter
43. 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
Precolonial African Theatre
Kyu
onnagata
Melodrama
44. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ki
Off-Off-Broadway
45. 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
Librettist
Fourth Room
Regional Theatre
46. 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
Beaumarchais
The Adding Machine (1923)
The Black Crook
Ziegfield Follies
47. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Enlightenment
Showstopper
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
48. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
rock musical
Straight Plays
Straight Plays
Opera
49. 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
Poetic Realism
Romantic Playwrights
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
50. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Shakuntala
A Dream Play (1902)
Harold Pinter
Intermezzi