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Theatre Basics
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1. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
rock musical
John Millington Synge
Straight Plays
2. 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
Blaise Pascal
Beaumarchais
Shakespeare's King John
Happenings
3. Three parts of a Noh play
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
John Millington Synge
Off Broadway
4. Known for life-like sets that used hand-painted screens and gas-powered lighting effects to stage realistic sunrises and storm clouds; invented the DAGUERREO-TYPE - which was an early form of photography
Dadaism
Louis Daguerre
Early European travelers and missionaries
Off-Off-Broadway
5. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Existential Absurdism
Ziegfield Follies
Eugene Ionesco
Dance of the Forest
6. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Lyrics
Domestic Tragedies
Fatalist Absurdism
Ki
7. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Variety Show
Total Theatre
Avant-Garde
8. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Intermezzi
Vaudeville
Faust
Man and Superman (1903)
9. 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
Voltaire
Oscar Wilde
Verfremdung
Romantics
10. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Blaise Pascal
Regional Theatre
Bread and Puppet Theatre
11. Grew up in poverty and put himself through medical school and set up free clinics in Russia to help the poor; The Seagull (1896) - Uncle Vanya (1899) Three Sisters (1901) & The Cherry Orchard (1904); placed on stage the lazy chaos of lives crushed by
Shakespeare's King John
Naturalistic Plays
The Black Crook
Anton Chekhov
12. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
The Living Theatre
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Straight Plays
3 components of Musical Scripts
13. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Samuel Beckett
Alienation Effect
Jo
Blaise Pascal
14. Type of theatre that grew out of ritual - incorporated acting - music - storytelling - poetry - dance - costumes - and lots of masks to create a theatre that combined ritual and ceremony with drama
Daguerreotype
Andre Antoine
Melodrama
Precolonial African Theatre
15. Most popular type of theatre during the Restoration; often featured great wit and wordplay and told stories about sexual gratification - bedroom escapades - and humankind's unrefined nature when it comes to sex
The Communist Manifesto
Minstrel Show Structure
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Comedy of Manners
16. 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
Realism
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Restoration
Ki
17. 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
The Living Theatre
Ziegfield Follies
Harold Pinter
Antonin Artaud
18. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
William Fox Talbot
Lyricist
Shavian Comedies
19. Studied the history of class conflict
Off-Off-Broadway
Louis Daguerre
Henrik Ibsen
The Communist Manifesto
20. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Opera
Lyrics
Japanese Theatre
21. 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
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Comic opera
Ha
Regional Theatre
22. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Daguerreotype
Minstrel Show Structure
23. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
Noh drama
Operatic Musicals
Das Kapital
24. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Emile Zola
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
25. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Naturalism
Gotthold Lessing
Ha
Restoration
26. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
Andre Antoine
Gotthold Lessing
Naturalism
27. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Alienation Effect
Peking Opera
Painted-face roles
Japanese Theatre
28. Filled with characters who cannot resist an argument about social issues; no character is exempt from talking politics and theorizing about moral - artistic or religious reform
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Shavian Comedies
Restoration
The Adding Machine (1923)
29. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Africa
Characters in the Peking Opera
Intermezzi
Jo
30. A true-to-life interior containing a room or rooms with the fourth wall removed so that the audience has the feeling of looking in on the characters' private lives
Africa
Domestic Tragedies
Surrealism
box set
31. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Theatre of Cruelty
Variety Show
Goethe
Lorraine Handsberry
32. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Gotthold Lessing
Sentimental Comedies
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
33. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
The Jazz Singer
Comic opera
Restoration
34. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Operatic Musicals
Kathakali
Noh drama
Sean O'Casey
35. 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
Operatic Musicals
book musicals
overture
Harold Pinter
36. 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
Off-Off-Broadway
Voltaire
Regional Theatre
Minstrel Show Structure
37. 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
Ki
Mie pose
Reprise
Das Kapital
38. 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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39. 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
Wole Soyinka
Opera
Off Broadway
Natyasastra
40. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Oscar Wilde
Theatre of Cruelty
Jukebox musicals
Andre Antoine
41. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Fourth Room
Andre Antoine
Henrik Ibsen
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
42. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Book
Painted-face roles
Shavian Comedies
43. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Non-Western Drama
Burlesque
Kafkaesque
3 components of Musical Scripts
44. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
The Koran
Expressionism
Total Theatre
45. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
onnagata
Shakuntala
Man and Superman (1903)
46. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Domestic Tragedies
Ballad Operas
Alienation Effect
Broadway Shows
47. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Africa
Opera
Variety Show
dance musicals
48. 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
Maxim Gorky
Bertolt Brecht
Non-Western Drama
Straight Plays
49. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Gotthold Lessing
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Africa
50. 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)
Naturalism
Comic opera
Shimpa
Variety Show