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Theatre Basics
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1. 1. theatre has an actor who plays a character - theatre is artificial - and 2. theatre usually has a story with a conflict - conflict is key to all drama
Bread and Puppet Theatre
onnagata
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
2. Plays without music
Revue (Musical Review)
Jo
Straight Plays
Alienation Effect
3. 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
Dance of the Forest
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Off-Off-Broadway
dance musicals
4. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Verfremdung
A Trip to Coontown
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
William Fox Talbot
5. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Interpretation of Dreams
Opera
box set
Africa
6. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Melodrama
Das Kapital
A Dream Play (1902)
7. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
John Millington Synge
Little Theatre Movement
The Interpretation of Dreams
Shakuntala
8. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Living Theatre
Existentialism
Burlesque
9. 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 Black Crook
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
The Koran
musical
10. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Faust
Henrik Ibsen
Fourth Room
rock musical
11. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Islamic Culture
Hilarious Absurdism
Ki
The Jazz Singer
12. 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
Oscar Wilde
Chinese Theatre
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lyricist
13. 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)
Peking Opera
Melodrama
Operetta
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
14. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Oscar Wilde
Surrealism
Characters in the Peking Opera
Problem plays
15. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Lyricist
Precolonial African Theatre
John Millington Synge
Existential Absurdism
16. 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
Non-Western Drama
Music
Realism
17. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Alienation Effect
dance musicals
Jukebox musicals
Symbolism
18. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
musical
Bunraku movements
William Fox Talbot
Gotthold Lessing
19. 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
Ta'ziyeh
Voltaire
Early European travelers and missionaries
20. 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
Jukebox musicals
Composer
Lyrics
The Koran
21. History plays about major political events of the past - domestic plays about the loves and lives of merchants and townspeople - and dance-dramas about the world of spirits and animals
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
George Bernard Shaw
Intermezzi
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
22. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Fourth Room
William Fox Talbot
Man and Superman (1903)
Total Theatre
23. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
dance musicals
The Living Theatre
Japanese Theatre
24. A production of British actor Charles Kean; had realistic costumes - set and props that he had researched to make sure they were historically correct
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25. 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
Naturalistic Plays
Sanskrit Drama
Gotthold Lessing
Ta'ziyeh
26. Earliest form for photography
Denis Diderot
Daguerreotype
The Enlightenment
Faust
27. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Nell Gwynn
non-Western Theatre
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Lyrics
28. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Noh drama
well-made plays
Denis Diderot
Emile Zola
29. 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
well-made plays
Showstopper
Expressionism
30. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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31. Records of this type of theatre are fragmentary - but we do know that it grew out of regional religious rituals related to Confucianism - Taoism - and Buddhism - and ritual dances performed during the Shang dynasty
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Chinese Theatre
The Living Theatre
Ki
32. A permanent - professional theatre outside NYC; founded in 1947 by Margo Jones; stage new plays alongside commercial hits and historical plays; appeal to the intellectual audiences that Hollywood seldom serves
Comic opera
Shakuntala
George Bernard Shaw
Regional Theatre
33. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Regional Theatre
Intermezzi
Burlesque
Symbolism
34. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Alienation Effect
The Student Prince
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
35. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Comic opera
Absurdism
Operatic Musicals
Oscar Wilde
36. 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
The Student Prince
Bunraku movements
Voltaire
First Public Opera House
37. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Off-Off-Broadway
Surrealism
38. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Avant-Garde
Romantic Playwrights
Sentimental Comedies
Burlesque
39. 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
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Communist Manifesto
Opera
Kafkaesque
40. 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
Das Kapital
The Jazz Singer
Vaudeville
Dance of the Forest
41. 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-Paul Sartre
Non-Western Drama
Bertolt Brecht
Ta'ziyeh
42. Most popular type of theatre during the Restoration; often featured great wit and wordplay and told stories about sexual gratification - bedroom escapades - and humankind's unrefined nature when it comes to sex
Nickelodeons
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Comedy of Manners
book musicals
43. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Operetta
Opera
Vaudeville
Operatic Musicals
44. The men who play female roles are called:
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Romantics
onnagata
Daguerreotype
45. 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)
The Jazz Singer
well-made plays
George Bernard Shaw
Sentimental Comedies
46. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Verfremdung
Nell Gwynn
rock musical
Avant-Garde
47. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Theatre of Cruelty
The Enlightenment
John Millington Synge
Existentialism
48. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Harold Pinter
Ki
John Millington Synge
George Bernard Shaw
49. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
George Bernard Shaw
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Aristotelian
well-made plays
50. Book - music - and lyrics
Composer
The Interpretation of Dreams
3 components of Musical Scripts
Henrik Ibsen