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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Reprise
3 components of Musical Scripts
Melodrama
Performance Art
2. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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3. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
women could legally appear on stages in England
Communists took control
Nickelodeons
Operetta
4. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Restoration
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Poetic Realism
Lyrics
5. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
musical
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
The Black Crook
Showstopper
6. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Verfremdung
box set
Opera
Off Broadway
7. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Composer
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Lorraine Handsberry
A Dream Play (1902)
8. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
dance musicals
Ki
Alienation Effect
Lyrics
9. 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'
Existential Absurdism
Gotthold Lessing
Problem plays
Ritual Theatre
10. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Kyu
Kathakali
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Aristotelian
11. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
The Jazz Singer
Variety Show
John Millington Synge
Reprise
12. 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
overture
Little Theatre Movement
Bertolt Brecht
3 components of Musical Scripts
13. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Ballad Operas
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
women could legally appear on stages in England
14. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
Harold Pinter
Fourth Room
Performance Art
15. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Bunraku movements
Nell Gwynn
Showstopper
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
16. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Surrealism
Absurdism
Ziegfield Follies
rock musical
17. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Kordian (1962)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Anton Chekhov
Nickelodeons
18. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Comedy of Manners
Eugene O'Neill
Surrealism
19. 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
Ta'ziyeh
A Trip to Coontown
Das Kapital
Alienation Effect
20. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Minstrel Show Structure
Off Broadway
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
21. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shavian Comedies
Jukebox musicals
non-Western Theatre
22. 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
Burlesque
Kabuki
Louis Daguerre
John Millington Synge
23. 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
Opera
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
William Fox Talbot
Performance Art
24. 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
well-made plays
Mie pose
Goethe
Shakuntala
25. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Nell Gwynn
Harold Pinter
Book
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
26. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Problem plays
Librettist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Naturalistic Plays
27. 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
Harold Pinter
Symbolism
Showstopper
Revue (Musical Review)
28. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Natyasastra
Restoration
Faust
Little Theatre Movement
29. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
Domestic Tragedies
Bertolt Brecht
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Dadaism
30. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God; not a negative - for without God humans can create their own existences - purpose and meaning
Existentialism
rock musical
Wole Soyinka
Ballad Operas
31. 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
Burlesque
Existentialism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
dance musicals
32. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Intermezzi
Chinese Theatre
Opera
Theatre of Cruelty
33. Proclaimed 'God is dead...and we have killed him.'; felt taht absence of God was a tragedy - but believed human beings needed to accept the tragedy and move forward in a world that was unjust and meaningless
Minstrel Show Structure
Friedrich Nietzsche
Kordian (1962)
Kyu
34. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Jukebox musicals
Comic opera
Eugene O'Neill
35. '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
Ki
Henrik Ibsen
Oscar Wilde
The Adding Machine (1923)
36. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Voltaire
The Koran
Romantic Playwrights
Ken Saro-Wiwa
37. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
A Trip to Coontown
Mie pose
Off Broadway
dance musicals
38. 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
Avant-Garde
Happenings
Kabuki
39. Book - music - and lyrics
Composer
3 components of Musical Scripts
Straight Plays
Sean O'Casey
40. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Variety Show
Ha
Africa
41. 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
Das Kapital
Goethe
Kathakali
Beaumarchais
42. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Ta'ziyeh
Jean-Paul Sartre
Composer
43. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
The Living Theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Maxim Gorky
Voltaire
44. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Lyricist
Shavian Comedies
Regional Theatre
45. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Beaumarchais
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Nell Gwynn
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
46. 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
box set
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Gotthold Lessing
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
Reprise
Aphra Behn
Ha
Henrik Ibsen
48. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Non-Western Drama
Romantic Playwrights
Aphra Behn
The Black Crook
49. What western theatre is often called:
Aristotelian
Kabuki
Surrealism
Andre Antoine
50. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Sean O'Casey
Maxim Gorky
Domestic Tragedies
Fatalist Absurdism
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