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Theatre Basics
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1. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Minstrel Show
Eugene O'Neill
Ha
Book
2. The artist imposes his own internal state onto the outside world itself; expressionism is a subjective account of an objective perception; expressionist plays use deliberate set distortion
Chinese Theatre
onnagata
Gotthold Lessing
Expressionism
3. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Revue (Musical Review)
Lorraine Handsberry
Louis Daguerre
Little Theatre Movement
4. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Communists took control
rock musical
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Fourth Room
5. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Japanese Theatre
Intermezzi
Jean-Paul Sartre
Communists took control
6. The artist imposes his own internal state onto the outside world itself; expressionism is a subjective account of an objective perception; expressionist plays use deliberate set distortion
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Expressionism
Lyrics
Domestic Tragedies
7. Built in Venice in 1637
Kordian (1962)
First Public Opera House
Das Kapital
Variety Show
8. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Ballad Operas
A Trip to Coontown
The Enlightenment
Noh drama and Kabuki
9. 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
Nickelodeons
Ha
Anton Chekhov
Western Drama
10. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Nell Gwynn
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Wole Soyinka
Composer
11. 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
Kyu
box set
The Adding Machine (1923)
12. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Natyasastra
Oscar Wilde
John Millington Synge
women could legally appear on stages in England
13. Plays without music
Minstrel Show
Fourth Room
Realism
Straight Plays
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
Nickelodeons
Precolonial African Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
Existential Absurdism
15. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Performance Art
Sentimental Comedies
Non-Western Drama
16. 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
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Non-Western Drama
Mie pose
Shakespeare's King John
17. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Noh drama
Naturalism
Absurdism
musical comedy
18. French philosopher often called the Father of the Romantic movement; argued that people could find happiness in a 'state of nature' and that they should learn from nature rather than the artificial and corrupted teachings of society
Highly Stylized Gestures
onnagata
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Avant-Garde
19. 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
Maxim Gorky
The Student Prince
William Fox Talbot
20. No protagonist; deals with a family of characters who tell many stories at once; the fact that characters on stage take no action may inspire audience members to be motivated for the opposite in real life
Beaumarchais
Surrealism
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
The Communist Manifesto
21. 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)
Symbolism
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Operetta
Communists took control
22. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Domestic Tragedies
Ritual Theatre
Total Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
23. 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
Jo
The Koran
Performance Art
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
24. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Beaumarchais
The Living Theatre
Mie pose
25. 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
Kabuki
Man and Superman (1903)
Ziegfield Follies
Shadow Theatre
26. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
The Jazz Singer
Eugene Ionesco
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
27. The sung words
Nickelodeons
Ziegfield Follies
Lyrics
Ha
28. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Expressionism
Revue (Musical Review)
Anton Chekhov
29. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Music
Denis Diderot
Africa
Blaise Pascal
30. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Ritual Theatre
Happenings
31. Type of Islamic theatre - religious drama of Iran which allowed for actors - both professional and amateur - and has been performed in open-air playing spaces and on some occasions in specially constructed indoor stages for hundreds of years
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32. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
A Trip to Coontown
Peking Opera
Burlesque
women could legally appear on stages in England
33. 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
Off Broadway
Shavian Comedies
Eugene O'Neill
Opera
34. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Comic opera
dance musicals
Das Kapital
Aristotelian
35. Earliest form for photography
Shadow Theatre
Characters in the Peking Opera
Daguerreotype
First Public Opera House
36. 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
Naturalistic Plays
Peking Opera
Louis Daguerre
Man and Superman (1903)
37. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Voltaire
Romantic Playwrights
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
38. The men who play female roles are called:
Kafkaesque
Music
onnagata
Mie pose
39. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Romantics
Showstopper
Absurdism
Verfremdung
40. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Performance Art
Alienation Effect
Revue (Musical Review)
Librettist
41. 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
Beaumarchais
Islamic Culture
Straight Plays
Regional Theatre
42. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Ziegfield Follies
Fatalist Absurdism
Kafkaesque
Performance Art
43. Writes the music
Chinese Theatre
Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Composer
44. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Off Broadway
Composer
Kafkaesque
non-Western Theatre
45. A popular form of stage entertainment from the 1880s to the 1940s; included a dozen or so slapstick comedy routines - song-and-dance numbers - magic acts and juggling or acrobatic performances
Vaudeville
Communists took control
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Shakespeare's King John
46. 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
Precolonial African Theatre
Bread and Puppet Theatre
well-made plays
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
47. '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
Revue (Musical Review)
Bertolt Brecht
Henrik Ibsen
Aristotelian
48. 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
Characters in the Peking Opera
Broadway Shows
Comedy of Manners
Shavian Comedies
49. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Faust
Romantics
Africa
Anton Chekhov
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)
Absurdism
Noh drama and Kabuki
Shimpa
A Dream Play (1902)
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