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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Opera
Lorraine Handsberry
Harold Pinter
2. 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'
Revue (Musical Review)
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Problem plays
Nickelodeons
3. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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4. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Japanese Theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Voltaire
Ken Saro-Wiwa
5. 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
Nickelodeons
Dadaism
Naturalism
Blaise Pascal
6. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Dance of the Forest
Early European travelers and missionaries
Precolonial African Theatre
Emile Zola
7. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Revue (Musical Review)
Regional Theatre
Verfremdung
8. 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
Hilarious Absurdism
Friedrich Nietzsche
Aristotelian
Little Theatre Movement
9. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Naturalistic Plays
Operetta
A Trip to Coontown
Eugene Ionesco
10. 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
musical
box set
Opera
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
11. 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
Broadway Shows
Oscar Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Communist Manifesto
12. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
non-Western Theatre
Oscar Wilde
Fourth Room
Kyu
13. Writes the book
Librettist
musical comedy
Sean O'Casey
Sanskrit Drama
14. The sung words
Lyrics
Man and Superman (1903)
Emile Zola
Peking Opera
15. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Book
Blaise Pascal
Opera
Eugene O'Neill
16. Result of western influence - a toned down version of Kabuki - told stories of everyday life - particularly those of women - women played women's parts (whereas Kabuki was all male)
Goethe
Gotthold Lessing
Daguerreotype
Shimpa
17. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Painted-face roles
Lorraine Handsberry
Man and Superman (1903)
Ritual Theatre
18. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Melodrama
Oscar Wilde
Ki
dance musicals
19. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Music
Goethe
musical
Friedrich Nietzsche
20. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Avant-Garde
Domestic Tragedies
Realism
Restoration
21. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Antonin Artaud
Eugene Ionesco
The Enlightenment
22. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Man and Superman (1903)
Ritual Theatre
Sean O'Casey
23. The orchestrated melodies
Showstopper
Straight Plays
Music
The Interpretation of Dreams
24. Result of western influence - a toned down version of Kabuki - told stories of everyday life - particularly those of women - women played women's parts (whereas Kabuki was all male)
Ha
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Shimpa
Realism
25. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
book musicals
Peking Opera
Nell Gwynn
26. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Realism
Africa
Shavian Comedies
Dadaism
27. Writes the music
Variety Show
Nickelodeons
A Dream Play (1902)
Composer
28. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Fatalist Absurdism
musical
Revue (Musical Review)
Nell Gwynn
29. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Melodrama
Expressionism
Naturalism
Dadaism
30. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Aphra Behn
Japanese Theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Nickelodeons
31. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Noh drama
Aristotelian
women could legally appear on stages in England
A Trip to Coontown
32. 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
Denis Diderot
Chinese Theatre
Oscar Wilde
Goethe
33. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
Naturalism
Book
Lorraine Handsberry
34. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Surrealism
The Black Crook
Verfremdung
Melodrama
35. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Das Kapital
Showstopper
Wole Soyinka
Variety Show
36. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Kafkaesque
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Early European travelers and missionaries
37. Writes the book
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Librettist
Western Drama
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
38. 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
Kafkaesque
Composer
Japanese Theatre
Faust
39. Wrote 'high comedies' which were cerebral socially relevant plays that had an intellectual scope so vast they forced audiences to reassess their values; Man and Superman (1903) & The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
John Millington Synge
George Bernard Shaw
Lyrics
The Communist Manifesto
40. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Noh drama and Kabuki
Faust
Fatalist Absurdism
Librettist
41. 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
Africa
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Operetta
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
42. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Henrik Ibsen
A Trip to Coontown
non-Western Theatre
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
43. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Kabuki
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Fourth Room
44. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Avant-Garde
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Hilarious Absurdism
45. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Daguerreotype
Western Drama
Fatalist Absurdism
Beaumarchais
46. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Opera
The Koran
Samuel Beckett
Ha
47. 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
Daguerreotype
Symbolism
Noh drama
Sean O'Casey
48. 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
Kyu
Japanese Theatre
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Man and Superman (1903)
49. 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
Natyasastra
Shakespeare's King John
box set
Wole Soyinka
50. 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
Blaise Pascal
Beaumarchais
well-made plays
Nell Gwynn