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Theatre Basics
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1. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
onnagata
Daguerreotype
non-Western Theatre
Non-Western Drama
2. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Comic opera
Lyrics
Shadow Theatre
Fatalist Absurdism
3. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
box set
Ken Saro-Wiwa
4. 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
Lyricist
Goethe
Broadway Shows
Characters in the Peking Opera
5. Light opera - differs from 'grand opera' because it has a frivolous - comic theme - some spoken dialogue - a melodramatic story - and usually a little dancing; The Mikado (1885)
Jo
Precolonial African Theatre
Operetta
Alienation Effect
6. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Operatic Musicals
Highly Stylized Gestures
Hilarious Absurdism
Natyasastra
7. 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
Performance Art
musical
Daguerreotype
8. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
Daguerreotype
Jo
Dadaism
9. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Characters in the Peking Opera
Jean-Paul Sartre
Restoration
A Trip to Coontown
10. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Wole Soyinka
The Enlightenment
Comedy of Manners
11. Type of Islamic theatre which is created by lighting two-dimensional figures and casting their shadows on a screen; the audience watches the silhouettes while a narrator tells a story
Kathakali
Andre Antoine
Shadow Theatre
Broadway Shows
12. No spoken dialogue - entirely sung; comes from the Latin word 'work' and may have originally meant 'works in music' or 'musical works for the stage'; first operas were in Italy in late 1500s
Ta'ziyeh
Opera
Operatic Musicals
Natyasastra
13. 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
Naturalistic Plays
Absurdism
dance musicals
14. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Intermezzi
Lyrics
Kathakali
women could legally appear on stages in England
15. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Das Kapital
Shakuntala
Ziegfield Follies
Ritual Theatre
16. 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
Natyasastra
Japanese Theatre
Kafkaesque
The Adding Machine (1923)
17. 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
Nell Gwynn
Shimpa
Anton Chekhov
Absurdism
18. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Harold Pinter
Africa
Regional Theatre
Performance Art
19. Studied the history of class conflict
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Mie pose
The Communist Manifesto
Variety Show
20. 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'
Louis Daguerre
Ritual Theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Problem plays
21. 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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22. 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
Japanese Theatre
Chinese Theatre
Sean O'Casey
Noh drama
23. The orchestrated melodies
The Koran
Straight Plays
Goethe
Music
24. Would agitate the masses - attack the spectators' sensibilities and purge people of their destructive tendencies; wanted stylized - ritualized performances - not realism - which they felt restricted the theatre to the study of psychological problems
Theatre of Cruelty
Problem plays
Noh drama and Kabuki
Louis Daguerre
25. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Ballad Operas
The Communist Manifesto
onnagata
well-made plays
26. 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
The Enlightenment
Minstrel Show Structure
Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism
27. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Samuel Beckett
Mie pose
Characters in the Peking Opera
28. The sung words
Nell Gwynn
Lyrics
Naturalistic Plays
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
29. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Eugene Ionesco
William Fox Talbot
Man and Superman (1903)
Verfremdung
30. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Librettist
The Living Theatre
Gotthold Lessing
Emile Zola
31. 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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Goethe
32. 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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Aphra Behn
Chinese Theatre
33. Writes the music
Operetta
Reprise
Dadaism
Composer
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
Blaise Pascal
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Precolonial African Theatre
book musicals
35. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Intermezzi
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Shimpa
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
36. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Beaumarchais
Daguerreotype
Aphra Behn
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
37. 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
overture
Off-Off-Broadway
Hilarious Absurdism
Alienation Effect
38. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Ziegfield Follies
Antonin Artaud
39. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
musical comedy
rock musical
Composer
Shimpa
40. 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
Realism
Total Theatre
Highly Stylized Gestures
box set
41. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Minstrel Show Structure
Eugene O'Neill
A Dream Play (1902)
Intermezzi
42. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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43. 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
Problem plays
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Showstopper
Surrealism
44. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Daguerreotype
Highly Stylized Gestures
Comic opera
Daguerreotype
45. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Broadway Shows
Minstrel Show
Anton Chekhov
46. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
3 components of Musical Scripts
Andre Antoine
Fourth Room
Non-Western Drama
47. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Kabuki
Surrealism
Opera
48. No spoken dialogue - entirely sung; comes from the Latin word 'work' and may have originally meant 'works in music' or 'musical works for the stage'; first operas were in Italy in late 1500s
Oscar Wilde
Denis Diderot
Opera
Blaise Pascal
49. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Denis Diderot
Dance of the Forest
Naturalism
Highly Stylized Gestures
50. 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)
George Bernard Shaw
box set
Harold Pinter
Poetic Realism
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