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Theatre Basics
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1. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Natyasastra
Eugene Ionesco
Minstrel Show
Operatic Musicals
2. Built in Venice in 1637
Natyasastra
Denis Diderot
First Public Opera House
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
3. A medley of the show's songs played as a preview; usually the beginning of a traditional musical; lets the audience know that it's time to stop talking because the performance is about to begin
Broadway Shows
The Jazz Singer
overture
Absurdism
4. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Noh drama
The Black Crook
Noh drama and Kabuki
Jean-Paul Sartre
5. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Variety Show
Reprise
Poetic Realism
Intermezzi
6. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Ta'ziyeh
Maxim Gorky
Andre Antoine
Librettist
7. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Librettist
Book
Kafkaesque
musical
8. First part of a Noh Play - usually a chance meeting between two characters - introductions are made and the characters engage in a question-and-answer sequence that reveals the protagonist's concern
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Jo
The Jazz Singer
well-made plays
9. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Harold Pinter
The Interpretation of Dreams
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Operetta
10. 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
Existentialism
Africa
Shakespeare's King John
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
11. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Chinese Theatre
Broadway Shows
Off Broadway
Expressionism
12. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
Emile Zola
Highly Stylized Gestures
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
13. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Friedrich Nietzsche
Expressionism
Regional Theatre
14. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Realism
women could legally appear on stages in England
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
The Koran
15. Writes the lyrics
Lyricist
Das Kapital
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
16. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Happenings
Kabuki
Oscar Wilde
17. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Dadaism
Librettist
Ta'ziyeh
Early European travelers and missionaries
18. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Louis Daguerre
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Africa
Ballad Operas
19. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Domestic Tragedies
Burlesque
A Dream Play (1902)
Emile Zola
20. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
dance musicals
Shakespeare's King John
Nell Gwynn
Kathakali
21. Plays without music
Straight Plays
Kathakali
Anton Chekhov
Kafkaesque
22. The orchestrated melodies
Kafkaesque
Expressionism
The Black Crook
Music
23. 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
Oscar Wilde
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Voltaire
Sentimental Comedies
24. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Jazz Singer
Off-Off-Broadway
Operetta
Kyu
25. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Revue (Musical Review)
Absurdism
Comic opera
Regional Theatre
26. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
John Millington Synge
Islamic Culture
Happenings
Precolonial African Theatre
27. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Japanese Theatre
Beaumarchais
non-Western Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
28. 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
Wole Soyinka
A Dream Play (1902)
Expressionism
29. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
The Communist Manifesto
Dance of the Forest
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Music
30. Form of theatre that mixed traditional African ritual theatre and Western-style drama; encouraged African nationalism - glorified Africa's past - and advanced African customs - rituals - and culture; also dealt with serious political themes and appla
Communists took control
Total Theatre
rock musical
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
31. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
overture
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Absurdism
A Trip to Coontown
32. 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
Ziegfield Follies
well-made plays
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Aphra Behn
33. 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
Absurdism
Fatalist Absurdism
Broadway Shows
Gotthold Lessing
34. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Absurdism
Communists took control
Jukebox musicals
35. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ken Saro-Wiwa
A Trip to Coontown
Domestic Tragedies
Straight Plays
36. French philosopher often called the Father of the Romantic movement; argued that people could find happiness in a 'state of nature' and that they should learn from nature rather than the artificial and corrupted teachings of society
Oscar Wilde
Sanskrit Drama
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Total Theatre
37. Plays without music
Chinese Theatre
Straight Plays
The Communist Manifesto
Lyrics
38. 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
Africa
Comedy of Manners
The Koran
Realism
39. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Ha
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Reprise
The Enlightenment
40. Elaborate geometrical designs were used for these roles which included supernatural beings - warriors - and bandits; the color of the make-up indicated the character's personality
Painted-face roles
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Restoration
Kordian (1962)
41. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Sentimental Comedies
John Millington Synge
Chinese Theatre
dance musicals
42. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)
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43. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Hilarious Absurdism
Naturalistic Plays
Librettist
Avant-Garde
44. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
The Koran
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Ballad Operas
Minstrel Show Structure
45. 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
Naturalistic Plays
John Millington Synge
Comic opera
Gotthold Lessing
46. Writes the book
Comic opera
Total Theatre
Restoration
Librettist
47. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Aphra Behn
Avant-Garde
Opera
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
48. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Faust
Dance of the Forest
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Domestic Tragedies
49. 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
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Anton Chekhov
Kafkaesque
Book
50. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Nickelodeons
Problem plays
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
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