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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






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






3. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life






4. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South






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)






6. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals






7. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side






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)






9. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language






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






11. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans






12. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream






13. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)






14. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'






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)






16. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:






17. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language






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






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






20. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)






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






22. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources






23. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling






24. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time






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






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






28. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities






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






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)






31. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)






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






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






34. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court






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






36. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866






37. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa






38. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts






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






40. Writes the music






41. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights






42. Three parts of a Noh play






43. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it






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






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






46. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:






47. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs






48. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism






49. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)






50. Earliest form for photography