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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
Gotthold Lessing
Eugene O'Neill
The Enlightenment
2. 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
Existential Absurdism
William Fox Talbot
Man and Superman (1903)
Regional Theatre
3. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Dance of the Forest
Fourth Room
Oscar Wilde
Performance Art
4. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Revue (Musical Review)
Chinese Theatre
A Trip to Coontown
Comedy of Manners
5. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Aristotelian
Existentialism
Absurdism
Dance of the Forest
6. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Early European travelers and missionaries
The Student Prince
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Ha
7. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Dadaism
Minstrel Show
Emile Zola
onnagata
8. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Painted-face roles
Ta'ziyeh
Painted-face roles
9. What western theatre is often called:
Revue (Musical Review)
Aristotelian
Lyrics
Noh drama
10. A German poet - director and playwright who challenged traditional ideas about theatre; became a communist after watching policement shoot 4 unarmed civilians; The Life of Galileo (1938) - Mother Courage and her Children (1939) & The Caucasian Chalk
Painted-face roles
Ha
Bertolt Brecht
Revue (Musical Review)
11. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Dadaism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Restoration
Fourth Room
12. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Faust
Shakuntala
Comedy of Manners
Andre Antoine
13. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Eugene O'Neill
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Kyu
Islamic Culture
14. 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
rock musical
Sanskrit Drama
Fourth Room
Voltaire
15. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Sean O'Casey
Sentimental Comedies
Islamic Culture
Das Kapital
16. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
A Dream Play (1902)
women could legally appear on stages in England
First Public Opera House
Alienation Effect
17. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Off-Off-Broadway
Realism
Shakespeare's King John
18. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
Shakespeare's King John
William Fox Talbot
Henrik Ibsen
19. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Painted-face roles
Theatre of Cruelty
Opera
Off Broadway
20. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Alienation Effect
Naturalistic Plays
Early European travelers and missionaries
women could legally appear on stages in England
21. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Jukebox musicals
Poetic Realism
Existential Absurdism
Librettist
22. Earliest form for photography
Aristotelian
Denis Diderot
Non-Western Drama
Daguerreotype
23. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Lorraine Handsberry
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
John Millington Synge
Intermezzi
24. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Blaise Pascal
Natyasastra
The Enlightenment
Existentialism
25. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Problem plays
Comedy of Manners
Existential Absurdism
Ta'ziyeh
26. 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
Louis Daguerre
Highly Stylized Gestures
Denis Diderot
A Trip to Coontown
27. 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
Jukebox musicals
Surrealism
Denis Diderot
Early European travelers and missionaries
28. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Voltaire
Highly Stylized Gestures
Kyu
Minstrel Show
29. 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
Ballad Operas
Romantics
Dadaism
Africa
30. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Sanskrit Drama
Fourth Room
Chinese Theatre
31. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Nickelodeons
Broadway Shows
Man and Superman (1903)
Dadaism
32. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Little Theatre Movement
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Operatic Musicals
Nickelodeons
33. A popular form of stage entertainment from the 1880s to the 1940s; included a dozen or so slapstick comedy routines - song-and-dance numbers - magic acts and juggling or acrobatic performances
Composer
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Vaudeville
Aristotelian
34. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Noh drama and Kabuki
women could legally appear on stages in England
Kordian (1962)
35. 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
Characters in the Peking Opera
Louis Daguerre
Existentialism
The Adding Machine (1923)
36. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Mie pose
Off-Off-Broadway
Verfremdung
Japanese Theatre
37. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Hilarious Absurdism
Ballad Operas
Happenings
Eugene Ionesco
38. 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
Alienation Effect
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Africa
Mie pose
39. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Shadow Theatre
Anton Chekhov
Ha
Friedrich Nietzsche
40. 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
Daguerreotype
Anton Chekhov
Showstopper
Opera
41. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Africa
Lorraine Handsberry
Henrik Ibsen
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
42. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Nell Gwynn
women could legally appear on stages in England
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
dance musicals
43. The sung words
Romantic Playwrights
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Burlesque
Lyrics
44. 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'
Sanskrit Drama
Problem plays
Shakespeare's King John
Comedy of Manners
45. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Domestic Tragedies
musical
Noh drama and Kabuki
The Origin of the Cakewalk
46. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
Goethe
Kathakali
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
47. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Domestic Tragedies
Sean O'Casey
Precolonial African Theatre
Opera
48. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Restoration
Non-Western Drama
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
onnagata
49. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Librettist
Comic opera
book musicals
Realism
50. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
Operatic Musicals
musical
The Communist Manifesto