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Theatre Basics
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1. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Blaise Pascal
Happenings
Noh drama and Kabuki
Operatic Musicals
2. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Hilarious Absurdism
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Characters in the Peking Opera
Antonin Artaud
3. 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
Little Theatre Movement
overture
The Interpretation of Dreams
Kyu
4. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Shadow Theatre
First Public Opera House
5. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
Lorraine Handsberry
Antonin Artaud
Japanese Theatre
6. 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
Expressionism
Minstrel Show Structure
Bertolt Brecht
Beaumarchais
7. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Operatic Musicals
Showstopper
The Living Theatre
Shakespeare's King John
8. 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
Verfremdung
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Mie pose
9. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
George Bernard Shaw
John Millington Synge
Straight Plays
Burlesque
10. 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
Kafkaesque
Realism
Maxim Gorky
Dance of the Forest
11. 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
dance musicals
Noh drama
The Koran
The Jazz Singer
12. 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
Book
Voltaire
Wole Soyinka
Existentialism
13. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Naturalism
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Henrik Ibsen
Fourth Room
14. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Existentialism
Andre Antoine
Ha
15. 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
Kathakali
Poetic Realism
Total Theatre
Comic opera
16. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
book musicals
The Jazz Singer
Surrealism
Realism
17. Greatest of the Sturm und Drang playwrights; was also a critic - journalist - painter - biologist - statesman - poet - novelist - philosopher - scientist - and the manager of the Duke of Weimar's playhouse
Reprise
First Public Opera House
Opera
Goethe
18. Writes the music
Showstopper
Jo
Composer
Comedy of Manners
19. Plays without music
Straight Plays
Naturalistic Plays
Comedy of Manners
Lyricist
20. 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)
Alienation Effect
Samuel Beckett
Precolonial African Theatre
Minstrel Show
21. 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
Kyu
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Islamic Culture
Bertolt Brecht
22. Book - music - and lyrics
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
3 components of Musical Scripts
Ki
Fatalist Absurdism
23. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Communists took control
women could legally appear on stages in England
Early European travelers and missionaries
24. A repetition of the song - sometimes with new lyrics - sometimes with the same lyrics but with new meaning or subtext in order to make a dramatic point
Fatalist Absurdism
Characters in the Peking Opera
Shadow Theatre
Reprise
25. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Composer
Das Kapital
Dadaism
musical
26. A repetition of the song - sometimes with new lyrics - sometimes with the same lyrics but with new meaning or subtext in order to make a dramatic point
Ha
Aristotelian
Anton Chekhov
Reprise
27. 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
Nickelodeons
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
The Student Prince
The Enlightenment
28. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
book musicals
Eugene Ionesco
Fourth Room
Broadway Shows
29. 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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30. 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
Nell Gwynn
The Communist Manifesto
Surrealism
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
31. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Alienation Effect
The Communist Manifesto
Mie pose
Ki
32. Earliest form for photography
Samuel Beckett
Daguerreotype
Hilarious Absurdism
Lorraine Handsberry
33. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Faust
Librettist
Comic opera
Ritual Theatre
34. 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
Beaumarchais
Symbolism
Africa
musical comedy
35. 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
Lyrics
non-Western Theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Realism
36. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Communists took control
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Mie pose
Wole Soyinka
37. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
The Living Theatre
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Melodrama
38. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Lyricist
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Kabuki
Man and Superman (1903)
39. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Noh drama
Jukebox musicals
Bunraku movements
Ritual Theatre
40. 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
Mie pose
Nickelodeons
Music
41. 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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42. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
rock musical
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Little Theatre Movement
Communists took control
43. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Happenings
dance musicals
Wole Soyinka
Bread and Puppet Theatre
44. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Music
Jean-Paul Sartre
Fourth Room
musical comedy
45. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Noh drama and Kabuki
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lorraine Handsberry
Nell Gwynn
46. 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
Regional Theatre
well-made plays
Total Theatre
Lyricist
47. Plays without music
Straight Plays
Naturalism
Operetta
Opera
48. Studied the history of class conflict
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
The Communist Manifesto
Maxim Gorky
Faust
49. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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50. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Shakuntala
Book
Operetta
Ziegfield Follies
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