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Theatre Basics
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1. Africa's greatest living playwright; born in Nigeria; plays combine symbolism - mysticism - beautiful dialogue - and they make strong political points; plays are deeply rooted in African myths - dance - and rituals but also influenced by Western dram
The Communist Manifesto
Jo
Highly Stylized Gestures
Wole Soyinka
2. 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
Composer
Natyasastra
Alienation Effect
box set
3. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Romantics
Intermezzi
Non-Western Drama
Antonin Artaud
4. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Opera
Communists took control
Minstrel Show Structure
Beaumarchais
5. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
Anton Chekhov
Operatic Musicals
Variety Show
6. 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
Regional Theatre
Man and Superman (1903)
Ziegfield Follies
7. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Shadow Theatre
Characters in the Peking Opera
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Japanese Theatre
8. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Kyu
John Millington Synge
Dance of the Forest
The Origin of the Cakewalk
9. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Japanese Theatre
Kafkaesque
Nickelodeons
10. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Opera
Straight Plays
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Ta'ziyeh
11. 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
Voltaire
Straight Plays
The Black Crook
12. 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
musical comedy
Ballad Operas
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Communists took control
13. 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
The Adding Machine (1923)
Bertolt Brecht
Dadaism
Nickelodeons
14. Type of Islamic theatre - religious drama of Iran which allowed for actors - both professional and amateur - and has been performed in open-air playing spaces and on some occasions in specially constructed indoor stages for hundreds of years
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15. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
Early European travelers and missionaries
Anton Chekhov
Ziegfield Follies
16. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Kabuki
Andre Antoine
Domestic Tragedies
17. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Painted-face roles
Kabuki
Noh drama
non-Western Theatre
18. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Lyricist
Comic opera
Showstopper
Performance Art
19. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
First Public Opera House
Early European travelers and missionaries
Avant-Garde
Operatic Musicals
20. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
The Koran
Shakespeare's King John
Aphra Behn
Minstrel Show
21. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Eugene Ionesco
Poetic Realism
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
The Enlightenment
22. First part had musical numbers with little comic dialogue; second part was full of songs - dance and standup routines; third part featured a one-act play
Minstrel Show Structure
The Koran
Total Theatre
onnagata
23. Only cost a nickel
Characters in the Peking Opera
Minstrel Show
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Nickelodeons
24. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Kordian (1962)
Denis Diderot
Harold Pinter
rock musical
25. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Comic opera
Eugene Ionesco
Existentialism
George Bernard Shaw
26. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
overture
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Kafkaesque
Romantics
27. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Comic opera
Naturalism
Naturalistic Plays
28. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Faust
The Adding Machine (1923)
Jo
Lorraine Handsberry
29. First part had musical numbers with little comic dialogue; second part was full of songs - dance and standup routines; third part featured a one-act play
Minstrel Show Structure
Alienation Effect
The Student Prince
Little Theatre Movement
30. 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)
Eugene Ionesco
Revue (Musical Review)
overture
Shimpa
31. French Enlightenment playwright; was an inventor and thinker who spent countless hours at the leading intellectual salons of France; most famous plays are The Barber of Seville - and The Marriage of Figaro - his plays reflect the attitudes of the Enl
Oscar Wilde
Beaumarchais
Ritual Theatre
Naturalistic Plays
32. Type of Islamic theatre which is created by lighting two-dimensional figures and casting their shadows on a screen; the audience watches the silhouettes while a narrator tells a story
Shadow Theatre
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Chinese Theatre
Jean-Paul Sartre
33. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Harold Pinter
book musicals
Samuel Beckett
Ha
34. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Intermezzi
Jean-Paul Sartre
box set
Lyricist
35. Type of Islamic theatre - religious drama of Iran which allowed for actors - both professional and amateur - and has been performed in open-air playing spaces and on some occasions in specially constructed indoor stages for hundreds of years
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36. 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
book musicals
Antonin Artaud
Mie pose
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
37. 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
Regional Theatre
Characters in the Peking Opera
Maxim Gorky
Faust
38. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sanskrit Drama
Gotthold Lessing
Bread and Puppet Theatre
39. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Non-Western Drama
Ritual Theatre
40. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Comic opera
Denis Diderot
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Minstrel Show
41. 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
Avant-Garde
Mie pose
Voltaire
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
Man and Superman (1903)
Aphra Behn
Voltaire
Jo
43. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Intermezzi
rock musical
Naturalism
Happenings
44. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Intermezzi
Anton Chekhov
Revue (Musical Review)
Early European travelers and missionaries
45. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
Shavian Comedies
Sean O'Casey
Daguerreotype
46. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
William Fox Talbot
Mie pose
Little Theatre Movement
47. A robust and spectacular version of Noh; named after the characters for 'song' - 'dance' - and 'skill'; created by a woman named Okuni - owner of a brothel
The Living Theatre
Kabuki
Goethe
Kathakali
48. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Early European travelers and missionaries
Antonin Artaud
Hilarious Absurdism
The Student Prince
49. 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
A Dream Play (1902)
Henrik Ibsen
Expressionism
Music
50. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Comedy of Manners
The Black Crook
Early European travelers and missionaries
Ha