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Theatre Basics
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1. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
3 components of Musical Scripts
Kyu
Jo
overture
2. 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
Performance Art
Surrealism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Communists took control
3. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Communists took control
Japanese Theatre
4. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
Andre Antoine
Henrik Ibsen
Dance of the Forest
5. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Dance of the Forest
Romantics
John Millington Synge
overture
6. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Gotthold Lessing
Broadway Shows
The Communist Manifesto
Bunraku movements
7. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
Alienation Effect
Kyu
overture
8. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Precolonial African Theatre
rock musical
Jean-Paul Sartre
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
9. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Comic opera
John Millington Synge
Happenings
Poetic Realism
10. 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
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Emile Zola
Chinese Theatre
Louis Daguerre
11. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Western Drama
Ta'ziyeh
Andre Antoine
12. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Man and Superman (1903)
Comedy of Manners
A Dream Play (1902)
Lyricist
13. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
well-made plays
Showstopper
musical comedy
The Origin of the Cakewalk
14. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Composer
Little Theatre Movement
Burlesque
Naturalistic Plays
15. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
rock musical
Das Kapital
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jo
16. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Highly Stylized Gestures
Nell Gwynn
Librettist
Operatic Musicals
17. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Faust
Poetic Realism
Showstopper
Lorraine Handsberry
18. 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
Lorraine Handsberry
Oscar Wilde
Realism
Theatre of Cruelty
19. 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
Fourth Room
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Gotthold Lessing
Melodrama
20. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Variety Show
Kyu
Minstrel Show
Harold Pinter
21. 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
Avant-Garde
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Fatalist Absurdism
Denis Diderot
22. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Das Kapital
Revue (Musical Review)
Fatalist Absurdism
Ritual Theatre
23. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
John Millington Synge
Aphra Behn
rock musical
Romantics
24. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Shadow Theatre
Kabuki
The Living Theatre
25. 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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26. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Alienation Effect
overture
Fourth Room
27. 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
Harold Pinter
Poetic Realism
The Black Crook
28. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Broadway Shows
Highly Stylized Gestures
Romantic Playwrights
Operetta
29. 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
Kordian (1962)
Aphra Behn
Expressionism
30. Most famous of the absurdist playwrights; best considered a fatalist - although work is sometimes hilarious and can ask existential questions; Endgame (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Happy Days (1961); Waiting for Godot (1953)
Samuel Beckett
Verfremdung
Librettist
Kordian (1962)
31. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Bread and Puppet Theatre
rock musical
Sentimental Comedies
Happenings
32. Composed and produced by Bob Cole - lyrics by Billy Johnson; story of a con man and used minstrel stereotypes and spoofed Chinatown; in one scene a young black man sings about he and his date were denied entry to a nightclub cuz He was black and this
Symbolism
Restoration
onnagata
A Trip to Coontown
33. 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
women could legally appear on stages in England
Western Drama
Sentimental Comedies
Natyasastra
34. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Dadaism
Samuel Beckett
Restoration
Reprise
35. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Beaumarchais
Eugene O'Neill
36. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Harold Pinter
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
The Student Prince
The Black Crook
37. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Poetic Realism
Domestic Tragedies
Romantics
Shakuntala
38. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Denis Diderot
Romantics
Beaumarchais
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
39. Thought that inner truths could be hinted at only through symbols; sought to replace the specific and concrete with the suggestive and metaphorical; usually had little plot or action and tended to baffle the audience
Shimpa
Sanskrit Drama
Comic opera
Symbolism
40. Writes the music
Minstrel Show
Gotthold Lessing
Bunraku movements
Composer
41. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Friedrich Nietzsche
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Oscar Wilde
42. Three parts of a Noh play
Harold Pinter
Peking Opera
book musicals
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
43. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Samuel Beckett
Performance Art
Emile Zola
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
44. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
Expressionism
Existential Absurdism
Man and Superman (1903)
45. 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
Louis Daguerre
Faust
John Millington Synge
The Koran
46. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Western Drama
Highly Stylized Gestures
Little Theatre Movement
Comic opera
47. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Voltaire
Africa
Noh drama and Kabuki
Jukebox musicals
48. 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
Intermezzi
Japanese Theatre
Alienation Effect
49. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Antonin Artaud
book musicals
Nell Gwynn
50. Earliest form for photography
Existentialism
Daguerreotype
Mie pose
A Dream Play (1902)