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Theatre Basics
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1. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
A Trip to Coontown
Domestic Tragedies
Symbolism
Denis Diderot
2. Writes the music
Das Kapital
A Dream Play (1902)
Composer
Straight Plays
3. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Music
Maxim Gorky
The Student Prince
Painted-face roles
4. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Enlightenment
The Black Crook
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Jukebox musicals
5. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Regional Theatre
Book
William Fox Talbot
Voltaire
6. Only cost a nickel
Nickelodeons
Operetta
A Dream Play (1902)
Japanese Theatre
7. 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
musical comedy
Andre Antoine
Beaumarchais
Denis Diderot
8. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Highly Stylized Gestures
Early European travelers and missionaries
George Bernard Shaw
Aphra Behn
9. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Opera
The Student Prince
Restoration
Kabuki
10. Built in Venice in 1637
Performance Art
Broadway Shows
First Public Opera House
George Bernard Shaw
11. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Librettist
box set
Lyricist
Ziegfield Follies
12. 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)
Avant-Garde
A Trip to Coontown
George Bernard Shaw
Das Kapital
13. Based off the idea that before a problem can be solved - society must first understand that the problem exists; 'attack the message - not the messenger'
Vaudeville
Goethe
Problem plays
Sanskrit Drama
14. 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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15. 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
Composer
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Variety Show
A Trip to Coontown
16. Earliest form for photography
Variety Show
William Fox Talbot
Reprise
Daguerreotype
17. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
women could legally appear on stages in England
Dadaism
Burlesque
Eugene Ionesco
18. Most famous surrealist and was a French writer and director; studied Asian religions - mysticism - and ancient cultures; declared theatre should should wake the nerves and heart; argued that proscenium arch theatres create a barrier between the audie
Henrik Ibsen
Antonin Artaud
The Jazz Singer
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
19. What western theatre is often called:
Shimpa
Comic opera
The Adding Machine (1923)
Aristotelian
20. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Ballad Operas
Sentimental Comedies
Librettist
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
21. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Noh drama
Communists took control
Kyu
Alienation Effect
22. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Regional Theatre
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Off Broadway
23. 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
Surrealism
Vaudeville
Fatalist Absurdism
Off Broadway
24. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
Islamic Culture
Blaise Pascal
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
First Public Opera House
25. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Harold Pinter
Comedy of Manners
Opera
Avant-Garde
26. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Music
Ballad Operas
Ta'ziyeh
Kathakali
27. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Reprise
Opera
Bertolt Brecht
Bread and Puppet Theatre
28. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Fourth Room
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Das Kapital
Opera
29. Elaborate geometrical designs were used for these roles which included supernatural beings - warriors - and bandits; the color of the make-up indicated the character's personality
Andre Antoine
Painted-face roles
Opera
Symbolism
30. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Domestic Tragedies
Avant-Garde
Africa
Comedy of Manners
31. Earliest form for photography
Sentimental Comedies
Theatre of Cruelty
Daguerreotype
Librettist
32. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
3 components of Musical Scripts
Eugene O'Neill
Romantic Playwrights
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
33. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
A Trip to Coontown
Lorraine Handsberry
Opera
Harold Pinter
34. Sarcastic label of Scribe's plays; the sympathetic protagonist suffers at the hands of an evil antagonist in the course of intense action - suspense - and contrived play devices; ending is always happy and the loose ends are neatly tied up
Lyricist
Librettist
well-made plays
Bunraku movements
35. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Oscar Wilde
The Adding Machine (1923)
John Millington Synge
Ken Saro-Wiwa
36. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Chinese Theatre
Communists took control
The Black Crook
37. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
A Dream Play (1902)
Dadaism
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
38. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Eugene Ionesco
Dadaism
A Dream Play (1902)
Ziegfield Follies
39. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Natyasastra
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
musical comedy
Jukebox musicals
40. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
The Living Theatre
Ki
Dance of the Forest
Dadaism
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
Composer
Operetta
Blaise Pascal
42. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Beaumarchais
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
women could legally appear on stages in England
Ritual Theatre
43. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Western Drama
Ta'ziyeh
box set
Reprise
44. 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
Regional Theatre
A Trip to Coontown
Denis Diderot
Jean-Paul Sartre
45. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Book
Eugene Ionesco
Ritual Theatre
Jukebox musicals
46. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Chinese Theatre
The Black Crook
Happenings
Realism
47. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Reprise
Happenings
Kyu
Dance of the Forest
48. 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
Samuel Beckett
Friedrich Nietzsche
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Minstrel Show Structure
49. 'The Father of Realism'; was initially a Romantic writer and his early plays were verse dramas largely based on Norwegian history and folk literature; plays presented complex - sometimes distrubing - views of human society; A Doll's House (1879) - Gh
Henrik Ibsen
Realism
Absurdism
Painted-face roles
50. 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
The Student Prince
Shakespeare's King John
onnagata
Daguerreotype