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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
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Shakuntala
Bertolt Brecht
Surrealism
2. 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
Goethe
Burlesque
Friedrich Nietzsche
Absurdism
3. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Straight Plays
Highly Stylized Gestures
Ritual Theatre
4. 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
Expressionism
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Burlesque
onnagata
5. 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
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
The Living Theatre
Friedrich Nietzsche
6. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Absurdism
Henrik Ibsen
Kabuki
Ki
7. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Absurdism
Romantic Playwrights
The Communist Manifesto
The Black Crook
8. 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
Happenings
Straight Plays
Gotthold Lessing
Mie pose
9. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Shakespeare's King John
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Jean-Paul Sartre
10. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
William Fox Talbot
Vaudeville
musical
11. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Kyu
Mie pose
Peking Opera
Anton Chekhov
12. 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
Existential Absurdism
Noh drama and Kabuki
Wole Soyinka
Regional Theatre
13. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Romantics
Total Theatre
Expressionism
Kabuki
14. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Sentimental Comedies
Shakespeare's King John
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Aristotelian
15. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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16. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Opera
Anton Chekhov
Shavian Comedies
Highly Stylized Gestures
17. Only cost a nickel
Oscar Wilde
John Millington Synge
Nickelodeons
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
18. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Shimpa
William Fox Talbot
The Jazz Singer
The Koran
19. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Precolonial African Theatre
Painted-face roles
Jukebox musicals
20. The sung words
Theatre of Cruelty
The Enlightenment
Lyrics
Alienation Effect
21. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Dance of the Forest
Naturalistic Plays
Beaumarchais
box set
22. 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
Verfremdung
The Living Theatre
Symbolism
Non-Western Drama
23. 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
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24. 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
overture
Sentimental Comedies
Nell Gwynn
Surrealism
25. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Sentimental Comedies
Fourth Room
Poetic Realism
Happenings
26. 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
First Public Opera House
Sanskrit Drama
Verfremdung
Characters in the Peking Opera
27. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Little Theatre Movement
Fourth Room
Burlesque
Revue (Musical Review)
28. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Noh drama
Intermezzi
The Black Crook
onnagata
29. Plays without music
Straight Plays
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Jo
Romantic Playwrights
30. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Andre Antoine
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Jukebox musicals
Avant-Garde
31. 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
Voltaire
Noh drama
Shavian Comedies
women could legally appear on stages in England
32. 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
Faust
Opera
Intermezzi
Dadaism
33. 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
The Student Prince
The Jazz Singer
Romantic Playwrights
34. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Variety Show
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Ha
dance musicals
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
Absurdism
Kafkaesque
Louis Daguerre
Jean-Paul Sartre
36. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
women could legally appear on stages in England
Librettist
Das Kapital
Sentimental Comedies
37. Built in Venice in 1637
Mie pose
First Public Opera House
Theatre of Cruelty
Andre Antoine
38. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Comedy of Manners
Operetta
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Naturalistic Plays
39. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Maxim Gorky
Shavian Comedies
Kafkaesque
Showstopper
40. 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
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Existential Absurdism
Minstrel Show Structure
41. 'The Father of Realism'; was initially a Romantic writer and his early plays were verse dramas largely based on Norwegian history and folk literature; plays presented complex - sometimes distrubing - views of human society; A Doll's House (1879) - Gh
Chinese Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Characters in the Peking Opera
First Public Opera House
42. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Chinese Theatre
Bread and Puppet Theatre
The Adding Machine (1923)
Maxim Gorky
43. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Gotthold Lessing
Opera
Mie pose
Bunraku movements
44. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Shimpa
Ta'ziyeh
Poetic Realism
Louis Daguerre
45. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Eugene Ionesco
Melodrama
Lyrics
The Koran
46. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Precolonial African Theatre
Goethe
Kyu
Off-Off-Broadway
47. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Early European travelers and missionaries
Chinese Theatre
The Jazz Singer
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
48. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Gotthold Lessing
Showstopper
Emile Zola
Absurdism
49. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Henrik Ibsen
Sentimental Comedies
Shavian Comedies
Little Theatre Movement
50. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Voltaire
Emile Zola
Melodrama
Bunraku movements
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