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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Minstrel Show Structure
Broadway Shows
Nickelodeons
Naturalism
2. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Fatalist Absurdism
Jo
Eugene Ionesco
Shadow Theatre
3. 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)
The Koran
Communists took control
George Bernard Shaw
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
4. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Ziegfield Follies
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
The Enlightenment
Maxim Gorky
5. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
women could legally appear on stages in England
Peking Opera
Islamic Culture
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
6. Writes the lyrics
Minstrel Show Structure
Bertolt Brecht
Lyricist
William Fox Talbot
7. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Sean O'Casey
Happenings
Regional Theatre
Ritual Theatre
8. Only cost a nickel
Domestic Tragedies
Western Drama
Nickelodeons
Early European travelers and missionaries
9. 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
Opera
Burlesque
A Trip to Coontown
Opera
10. 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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11. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Avant-Garde
John Millington Synge
Noh drama and Kabuki
12. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Expressionism
Bunraku movements
Realism
Non-Western Drama
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
The Student Prince
Das Kapital
Problem plays
14. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
Problem plays
Melodrama
Fourth Room
15. 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
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Composer
Shadow Theatre
Antonin Artaud
16. Three parts of a Noh play
Henrik Ibsen
Denis Diderot
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Man and Superman (1903)
17. 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
Symbolism
Eugene O'Neill
Ki
Jean-Paul Sartre
18. 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
rock musical
Surrealism
The Student Prince
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
19. 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
Romantics
overture
Sanskrit Drama
Little Theatre Movement
20. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Showstopper
Realism
Comic opera
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
21. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Nickelodeons
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Domestic Tragedies
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
22. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Andre Antoine
Sanskrit Drama
Noh drama
23. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Alienation Effect
Goethe
Showstopper
Early European travelers and missionaries
24. 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
Verfremdung
Broadway Shows
Louis Daguerre
Bertolt Brecht
25. What western theatre is often called:
Anton Chekhov
Ki
Aristotelian
Performance Art
26. 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
Comic opera
Off-Off-Broadway
Eugene Ionesco
Denis Diderot
27. 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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28. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Little Theatre Movement
Minstrel Show Structure
Avant-Garde
Absurdism
29. Earliest form for photography
Broadway Shows
The Jazz Singer
Daguerreotype
Opera
30. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Precolonial African Theatre
Fourth Room
Blaise Pascal
Little Theatre Movement
31. 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
Alienation Effect
The Koran
Denis Diderot
Shadow Theatre
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
Sentimental Comedies
Henrik Ibsen
Mie pose
Noh drama
33. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
Lorraine Handsberry
Composer
Noh drama
34. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Problem plays
Operatic Musicals
Maxim Gorky
Characters in the Peking Opera
35. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
The Black Crook
Nell Gwynn
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
rock musical
36. 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
Romantics
Beaumarchais
Africa
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
37. 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
box set
Poetic Realism
well-made plays
Chinese Theatre
38. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Africa
Lorraine Handsberry
Revue (Musical Review)
Absurdism
39. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Comic opera
Melodrama
Off Broadway
A Trip to Coontown
40. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Hilarious Absurdism
Non-Western Drama
Minstrel Show
41. 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
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
The Communist Manifesto
Surrealism
42. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Poetic Realism
Painted-face roles
Expressionism
John Millington Synge
43. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
Symbolism
Nickelodeons
Blaise Pascal
44. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Aristotelian
Jean-Paul Sartre
Opera
Alienation Effect
45. 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
Existential Absurdism
Surrealism
Oscar Wilde
Precolonial African Theatre
46. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Kabuki
Kafkaesque
Nell Gwynn
Shakuntala
47. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Operetta
Eugene Ionesco
Early European travelers and missionaries
non-Western Theatre
48. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Emile Zola
Existentialism
Restoration
The Jazz Singer
49. 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
Reprise
Antonin Artaud
Emile Zola
Blaise Pascal
50. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Kordian (1962)
Revue (Musical Review)
Restoration
Alienation Effect