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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Domestic Tragedies
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Lyricist
2. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
John Millington Synge
Blaise Pascal
Kordian (1962)
The Adding Machine (1923)
3. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
Friedrich Nietzsche
Happenings
box set
4. 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
Aristotelian
Problem plays
Jo
Islamic Culture
5. 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
Natyasastra
Ta'ziyeh
Opera
Poetic Realism
6. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
The Student Prince
William Fox Talbot
Aphra Behn
Maxim Gorky
7. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Samuel Beckett
Bertolt Brecht
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Naturalism
8. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Poetic Realism
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Blaise Pascal
9. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
Vaudeville
Louis Daguerre
Book
10. The orchestrated melodies
dance musicals
Samuel Beckett
Highly Stylized Gestures
Music
11. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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12. 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
Highly Stylized Gestures
Intermezzi
Romantics
13. 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
Mie pose
Symbolism
Hilarious Absurdism
Vaudeville
14. 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
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Realism
Restoration
Operatic Musicals
15. 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
Opera
Expressionism
Natyasastra
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
16. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Kafkaesque
Comedy of Manners
Revue (Musical Review)
women could legally appear on stages in England
17. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Kyu
Mie pose
A Trip to Coontown
Noh drama and Kabuki
18. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
The Living Theatre
Harold Pinter
Bunraku movements
Man and Superman (1903)
19. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
The Jazz Singer
John Millington Synge
Maxim Gorky
Japanese Theatre
20. 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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21. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
box set
Western Drama
Andre Antoine
dance musicals
22. 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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23. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Opera
The Jazz Singer
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Blaise Pascal
24. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Samuel Beckett
William Fox Talbot
Mie pose
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
25. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Poetic Realism
The Student Prince
musical
Verfremdung
26. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Surrealism
Bunraku movements
Existential Absurdism
Precolonial African Theatre
27. 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
Goethe
dance musicals
Daguerreotype
Precolonial African Theatre
28. Form of drama that dominated theatre in India for a thousand years; named for the ancient Indian language in which its plays are performed; combine the natural and the supernatural - the believable and unbelievable
Non-Western Drama
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Maxim Gorky
Sanskrit Drama
29. 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
Kathakali
overture
musical comedy
The Student Prince
30. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Kafkaesque
Precolonial African Theatre
Natyasastra
The Living Theatre
31. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Goethe
Sentimental Comedies
Kordian (1962)
Ken Saro-Wiwa
32. A dialogue that captures the incoherence - broken language - and pauses of modern speech; usually marked by surreal distortion and impending danger; from writing of Franz Kafka
Kafkaesque
The Adding Machine (1923)
Aphra Behn
Comedy of Manners
33. 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
Non-Western Drama
Lyrics
Shadow Theatre
Friedrich Nietzsche
34. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
box set
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Avant-Garde
Bunraku movements
35. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Burlesque
Characters in the Peking Opera
overture
George Bernard Shaw
36. Earliest form for photography
Goethe
Naturalistic Plays
Daguerreotype
Happenings
37. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Eugene Ionesco
The Interpretation of Dreams
Eugene O'Neill
Symbolism
38. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Broadway Shows
Friedrich Nietzsche
Das Kapital
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
39. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Japanese Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
Noh drama
Western Drama
40. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Melodrama
Expressionism
musical comedy
41. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Andre Antoine
Composer
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Theatre of Cruelty
42. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Harold Pinter
Alienation Effect
Avant-Garde
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
43. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Ta'ziyeh
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Broadway Shows
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
44. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Noh drama and Kabuki
Chinese Theatre
Music
45. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
musical
Verfremdung
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
women could legally appear on stages in England
46. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Henrik Ibsen
Aristotelian
musical comedy
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
47. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Andre Antoine
Japanese Theatre
non-Western Theatre
48. 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
Off-Off-Broadway
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Existential Absurdism
Performance Art
49. 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'
Problem plays
Early European travelers and missionaries
Intermezzi
Operatic Musicals
50. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Burlesque
dance musicals
Shavian Comedies
musical