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Theatre Basics
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1. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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2. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
The Student Prince
Henrik Ibsen
Emile Zola
Melodrama
3. 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
Lorraine Handsberry
Kabuki
Theatre of Cruelty
Precolonial African Theatre
4. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
musical
Fatalist Absurdism
Off-Off-Broadway
onnagata
5. No protagonist; deals with a family of characters who tell many stories at once; the fact that characters on stage take no action may inspire audience members to be motivated for the opposite in real life
Louis Daguerre
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Off Broadway
Sean O'Casey
6. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Aristotelian
Japanese Theatre
Verfremdung
musical
7. 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
Performance Art
Friedrich Nietzsche
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Jukebox musicals
8. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Western Drama
Alienation Effect
Verfremdung
Fourth Room
9. One of the most important French philosophers of the Age of Reason - wrote and edited the first encyclopedia; was also a dramatist who penned books on the techniques of acting; authored The Paradox of Acting - a book that attached the pompous declama
Denis Diderot
Harold Pinter
non-Western Theatre
Ritual Theatre
10. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Expressionism
Islamic Culture
The Student Prince
book musicals
11. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
Beaumarchais
The Black Crook
dance musicals
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
12. 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
The Koran
Problem plays
Burlesque
women could legally appear on stages in England
13. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Naturalistic Plays
Kathakali
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Ken Saro-Wiwa
14. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
The Adding Machine (1923)
Hilarious Absurdism
Aphra Behn
Lorraine Handsberry
15. 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
non-Western Theatre
Realism
Man and Superman (1903)
16. The men who play female roles are called:
Shakespeare's King John
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
onnagata
women could legally appear on stages in England
17. 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'
Problem plays
rock musical
Eugene O'Neill
Characters in the Peking Opera
18. A popular form of stage entertainment from the 1880s to the 1940s; included a dozen or so slapstick comedy routines - song-and-dance numbers - magic acts and juggling or acrobatic performances
Chinese Theatre
Vaudeville
Hilarious Absurdism
Book
19. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Expressionism
Minstrel Show
Happenings
Melodrama
20. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Oscar Wilde
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Blaise Pascal
Ritual Theatre
21. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
First Public Opera House
Das Kapital
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Ha
22. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
Oscar Wilde
Lyrics
Aristotelian
23. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Burlesque
Sanskrit Drama
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Islamic Culture
24. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Comedy of Manners
The Interpretation of Dreams
Japanese Theatre
The Enlightenment
25. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Non-Western Drama
box set
Avant-Garde
26. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
Surrealism
Jukebox musicals
Eugene Ionesco
27. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Lorraine Handsberry
Intermezzi
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Voltaire
28. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
A Trip to Coontown
Ballad Operas
Denis Diderot
A Trip to Coontown
29. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Shavian Comedies
Expressionism
Avant-Garde
Kabuki
30. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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31. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Performance Art
Realism
Daguerreotype
Blaise Pascal
32. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
William Fox Talbot
Composer
33. 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
Domestic Tragedies
Shakespeare's King John
Oscar Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche
34. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Realism
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Blaise Pascal
Restoration
35. 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
Straight Plays
Problem plays
Chinese Theatre
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
36. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Student Prince
Operetta
Shakespeare's King John
The Black Crook
37. 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)
Shimpa
Lyrics
Showstopper
Oscar Wilde
38. Plays without music
Surrealism
Nell Gwynn
Straight Plays
Melodrama
39. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Kathakali
The Adding Machine (1923)
Ki
women could legally appear on stages in England
40. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Book
Natyasastra
Operatic Musicals
Minstrel Show Structure
41. 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
Henrik Ibsen
The Student Prince
Noh drama and Kabuki
Operatic Musicals
42. 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
Jo
Shadow Theatre
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shimpa
43. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
Eugene O'Neill
Denis Diderot
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
44. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Characters in the Peking Opera
Ballad Operas
Maxim Gorky
Burlesque
45. 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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46. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Realism
musical comedy
Beaumarchais
47. 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
Jo
Verfremdung
Denis Diderot
Precolonial African Theatre
48. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
3 components of Musical Scripts
Broadway Shows
Ziegfield Follies
Noh drama
49. Writes the music
Kathakali
Composer
Restoration
Nickelodeons
50. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Goethe
Oscar Wilde
William Fox Talbot
Islamic Culture
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