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Theatre Basics
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1. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Shakuntala
Happenings
Bertolt Brecht
Librettist
2. Term used to describe performances that mix theatre - visual arts - music - dance - gesture and rituals; often use multimedia effects - sounds and lighting effects to make a point and allow the audience to understand its deeper implications; often re
Surrealism
Performance Art
Dadaism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
Theatre of Cruelty
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Sean O'Casey
4. The sung words
The Enlightenment
John Millington Synge
Lyrics
Africa
5. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Burlesque
Romantics
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Problem plays
6. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Revue (Musical Review)
Naturalistic Plays
Friedrich Nietzsche
Symbolism
7. 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)
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Ballad Operas
Sean O'Casey
Operetta
8. 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
Lyrics
Revue (Musical Review)
Avant-Garde
Surrealism
9. What western theatre is often called:
Revue (Musical Review)
Aristotelian
Andre Antoine
Librettist
10. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Harold Pinter
Regional Theatre
Domestic Tragedies
11. Only cost a nickel
dance musicals
Nickelodeons
The Living Theatre
Minstrel Show
12. 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
box set
Bunraku movements
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Straight Plays
13. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
well-made plays
Bertolt Brecht
Minstrel Show
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
14. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Bertolt Brecht
Non-Western Drama
Domestic Tragedies
musical comedy
15. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Blaise Pascal
Nell Gwynn
Little Theatre Movement
box set
16. 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
Louis Daguerre
Emile Zola
Faust
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
17. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Beaumarchais
Alienation Effect
Restoration
Goethe
18. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
3 components of Musical Scripts
Fourth Room
William Fox Talbot
Opera
19. 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)
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Shimpa
Ha
Africa
20. Built in Venice in 1637
First Public Opera House
Noh drama
Little Theatre Movement
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
21. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Aphra Behn
Broadway Shows
Composer
Operatic Musicals
22. 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
Reprise
Happenings
Bunraku movements
Total Theatre
23. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
women could legally appear on stages in England
Poetic Realism
Ritual Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
24. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Nell Gwynn
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Peking Opera
Comedy of Manners
25. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Realism
Vaudeville
women could legally appear on stages in England
26. 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
Ziegfield Follies
overture
Melodrama
Kordian (1962)
27. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Chinese Theatre
Absurdism
Painted-face roles
Regional Theatre
28. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Antonin Artaud
Comic opera
3 components of Musical Scripts
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
29. Only cost a nickel
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
The Black Crook
Nickelodeons
Friedrich Nietzsche
30. One of the most valuable historical records of Indian theatre; an encyclopedic book of dramatic theory and practice; has 37 chapters and covers every aspect of classical Indian drama - also a treatise on dramatic theory and philosophy - states that t
Natyasastra
Aristotelian
musical comedy
Hilarious Absurdism
31. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Variety Show
Anton Chekhov
Little Theatre Movement
Book
32. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
A Dream Play (1902)
Minstrel Show
Little Theatre Movement
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
33. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Dadaism
Shadow Theatre
Existential Absurdism
Fourth Room
34. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Kordian (1962)
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
35. 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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36. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Maxim Gorky
Denis Diderot
Alienation Effect
Shimpa
37. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Ki
A Trip to Coontown
Faust
Japanese Theatre
38. 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
Dadaism
Wole Soyinka
Painted-face roles
Kabuki
39. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
The Student Prince
The Koran
musical
Faust
40. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Aristotelian
The Living Theatre
41. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Fourth Room
Anton Chekhov
Existential Absurdism
42. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Operetta
Broadway Shows
Bunraku movements
onnagata
43. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Librettist
Realism
Voltaire
44. '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
Antonin Artaud
Comic opera
Henrik Ibsen
dance musicals
45. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
3 components of Musical Scripts
Jukebox musicals
Existential Absurdism
Ritual Theatre
46. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
John Millington Synge
Ken Saro-Wiwa
rock musical
Bread and Puppet Theatre
47. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Non-Western Drama
Little Theatre Movement
Opera
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
48. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Characters in the Peking Opera
Composer
Hilarious Absurdism
Symbolism
49. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Voltaire
Kafkaesque
Highly Stylized Gestures
50. 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
Shakuntala
Mie pose
Kordian (1962)
Showstopper