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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Writes the lyrics
Broadway Shows
Man and Superman (1903)
The Black Crook
Lyricist
2. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
The Living Theatre
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Kyu
3. 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)
Peking Opera
Broadway Shows
Operetta
Jukebox musicals
4. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Interpretation of Dreams
musical comedy
Existential Absurdism
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
5. 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
Realism
Shakespeare's King John
Dadaism
6. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
A Dream Play (1902)
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Broadway Shows
Absurdism
7. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Wole Soyinka
Eugene Ionesco
Shadow Theatre
Shakuntala
8. 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
The Jazz Singer
Theatre of Cruelty
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
The Adding Machine (1923)
Showstopper
Poetic Realism
The Jazz Singer
10. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
The Enlightenment
Peking Opera
The Living Theatre
Communists took control
11. 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
Faust
Kafkaesque
Chinese Theatre
Shadow Theatre
12. Only cost a nickel
Nickelodeons
Ballad Operas
Mie pose
well-made plays
13. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Louis Daguerre
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Broadway Shows
Total Theatre
14. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Painted-face roles
well-made plays
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
15. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Highly Stylized Gestures
William Fox Talbot
The Black Crook
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
16. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Interpretation of Dreams
box set
Symbolism
Operatic Musicals
17. The sung words
Lyrics
Kabuki
Shakespeare's King John
Theatre of Cruelty
18. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Blaise Pascal
Denis Diderot
Das Kapital
Avant-Garde
19. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Lorraine Handsberry
The Adding Machine (1923)
Das Kapital
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
20. Studied the history of class conflict
Music
Composer
Islamic Culture
The Communist Manifesto
21. Built in Venice in 1637
Goethe
First Public Opera House
Africa
Bread and Puppet Theatre
22. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Goethe
well-made plays
Fatalist Absurdism
Intermezzi
23. Would agitate the masses - attack the spectators' sensibilities and purge people of their destructive tendencies; wanted stylized - ritualized performances - not realism - which they felt restricted the theatre to the study of psychological problems
Aristotelian
Theatre of Cruelty
Jean-Paul Sartre
Ballad Operas
24. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Opera
Early European travelers and missionaries
Noh drama and Kabuki
John Millington Synge
25. Plays without music
Highly Stylized Gestures
Sean O'Casey
Straight Plays
Shadow Theatre
26. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Verfremdung
book musicals
onnagata
Ha
27. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Variety Show
Domestic Tragedies
The Black Crook
Composer
28. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Sentimental Comedies
Lyricist
Nell Gwynn
Aphra Behn
29. 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
Music
The Jazz Singer
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
A Trip to Coontown
30. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Noh drama and Kabuki
Existential Absurdism
Naturalistic Plays
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
31. Thought that inner truths could be hinted at only through symbols; sought to replace the specific and concrete with the suggestive and metaphorical; usually had little plot or action and tended to baffle the audience
Symbolism
Lyrics
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Ritual Theatre
32. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Islamic Culture
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Student Prince
Operetta
33. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ha
overture
Naturalism
Mie pose
34. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Variety Show
Realism
Problem plays
Japanese Theatre
35. A true-to-life interior containing a room or rooms with the fourth wall removed so that the audience has the feeling of looking in on the characters' private lives
Kordian (1962)
Goethe
Man and Superman (1903)
box set
36. Earliest form for photography
Characters in the Peking Opera
Daguerreotype
Fatalist Absurdism
women could legally appear on stages in England
37. Three parts of a Noh play
Andre Antoine
Romantic Playwrights
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Symbolism
38. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Existential Absurdism
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Man and Superman (1903)
39. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
First Public Opera House
Noh drama and Kabuki
Kafkaesque
Precolonial African Theatre
40. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Naturalistic Plays
Off-Off-Broadway
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Eugene O'Neill
41. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Problem plays
Romantics
Maxim Gorky
Nickelodeons
42. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Off Broadway
overture
dance musicals
Communists took control
43. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
John Millington Synge
The Communist Manifesto
Voltaire
Kathakali
44. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
Ballad Operas
Expressionism
Variety Show
45. The orchestrated melodies
Harold Pinter
Music
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Expressionism
46. 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
The Jazz Singer
Realism
Book
Opera
47. 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
Off-Off-Broadway
Voltaire
Minstrel Show Structure
Naturalistic Plays
48. Studied the history of class conflict
Symbolism
Theatre of Cruelty
The Communist Manifesto
Faust
49. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
well-made plays
Straight Plays
Ki
Jean-Paul Sartre
50. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
Performance Art
Samuel Beckett
Ki