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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Existential Absurdism
Dadaism
Chinese Theatre
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
2. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Restoration
John Millington Synge
Fatalist Absurdism
Western Drama
3. The orchestrated melodies
musical comedy
Music
Absurdism
Comic opera
4. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
rock musical
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Mie pose
The Communist Manifesto
5. 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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6. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Sean O'Casey
Man and Superman (1903)
Aphra Behn
Intermezzi
7. 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
The Origin of the Cakewalk
The Jazz Singer
Surrealism
Non-Western Drama
8. 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
Jo
Shavian Comedies
Man and Superman (1903)
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
9. A robust and spectacular version of Noh; named after the characters for 'song' - 'dance' - and 'skill'; created by a woman named Okuni - owner of a brothel
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Africa
Total Theatre
Kabuki
10. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
Lyricist
Realism
Revue (Musical Review)
11. Term used to describe performances that mix theatre - visual arts - music - dance - gesture and rituals; often use multimedia effects - sounds and lighting effects to make a point and allow the audience to understand its deeper implications; often re
Kathakali
Off Broadway
Samuel Beckett
Performance Art
12. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Beaumarchais
Little Theatre Movement
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Ki
13. 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
Shadow Theatre
A Trip to Coontown
non-Western Theatre
Realism
14. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Shavian Comedies
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Ziegfield Follies
The Adding Machine (1923)
15. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Maxim Gorky
Man and Superman (1903)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Africa
16. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Alienation Effect
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Ballad Operas
musical comedy
17. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Showstopper
Faust
Symbolism
Henrik Ibsen
18. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Lyrics
Nickelodeons
19. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Peking Opera
The Adding Machine (1923)
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
20. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Alienation Effect
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Henrik Ibsen
Happenings
21. Writes the music
Oscar Wilde
Anton Chekhov
Bertolt Brecht
Composer
22. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Shakespeare's King John
Symbolism
Minstrel Show
Kabuki
23. 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
Broadway Shows
Ta'ziyeh
Oscar Wilde
Jukebox musicals
24. Earliest form for photography
Nickelodeons
Anton Chekhov
Kyu
Daguerreotype
25. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Japanese Theatre
Eugene Ionesco
Precolonial African Theatre
Absurdism
26. Writes the lyrics
Operetta
Lyricist
The Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Nietzsche
27. 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
Existential Absurdism
overture
Africa
Maxim Gorky
28. First part of a Noh Play - usually a chance meeting between two characters - introductions are made and the characters engage in a question-and-answer sequence that reveals the protagonist's concern
Chinese Theatre
Nell Gwynn
Jo
Eugene O'Neill
29. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Bunraku movements
Operatic Musicals
Natyasastra
Nell Gwynn
30. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Louis Daguerre
John Millington Synge
Das Kapital
Romantics
31. Writes the music
Jean-Paul Sartre
Composer
Melodrama
Off Broadway
32. Writes the lyrics
Showstopper
Kordian (1962)
musical comedy
Lyricist
33. 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
Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
Louis Daguerre
Little Theatre Movement
34. One of the most popular Kabuki and Bunraku playwrights - who - like Shakespeare - wrote crowd-pleasing plays that combined poetry and prose in dramatic tales of comedy - tragedy - love - and war
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Living Theatre
Absurdism
Kabuki
35. 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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36. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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37. Term used to describe performances that mix theatre - visual arts - music - dance - gesture and rituals; often use multimedia effects - sounds and lighting effects to make a point and allow the audience to understand its deeper implications; often re
Vaudeville
Performance Art
Precolonial African Theatre
The Adding Machine (1923)
38. 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
Naturalistic Plays
Gotthold Lessing
women could legally appear on stages in England
Lorraine Handsberry
39. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
The Black Crook
Lorraine Handsberry
dance musicals
Jean-Paul Sartre
40. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Ritual Theatre
Kafkaesque
Poetic Realism
Western Drama
41. 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
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Little Theatre Movement
Aphra Behn
42. 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
The Black Crook
Variety Show
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Off-Off-Broadway
43. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Comic opera
Verfremdung
George Bernard Shaw
The Black Crook
44. 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
Problem plays
Oscar Wilde
Aphra Behn
Mie pose
45. Writes the book
Fourth Room
Intermezzi
The Enlightenment
Librettist
46. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
The Communist Manifesto
Aphra Behn
Kordian (1962)
Islamic Culture
47. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Beaumarchais
Existentialism
Kafkaesque
48. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Avant-Garde
Precolonial African Theatre
Anton Chekhov
49. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Domestic Tragedies
Precolonial African Theatre
Ki
Voltaire
50. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Kathakali
Opera
Emile Zola
Friedrich Nietzsche