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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Western Drama
Intermezzi
Opera
The Student Prince
2. 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
Kabuki
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Verfremdung
Revue (Musical Review)
3. 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
Islamic Culture
The Living Theatre
Opera
4. 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
Eugene O'Neill
Nickelodeons
Minstrel Show
Anton Chekhov
5. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Off-Off-Broadway
Poetic Realism
Beaumarchais
rock musical
6. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
Ziegfield Follies
Sentimental Comedies
Kabuki
7. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ha
Ki
Surrealism
book musicals
8. 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
Bunraku movements
Happenings
Shavian Comedies
Natyasastra
9. 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
Off Broadway
Kafkaesque
Comedy of Manners
Problem plays
10. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Das Kapital
Burlesque
Islamic Culture
Off-Off-Broadway
11. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Showstopper
Absurdism
Natyasastra
12. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Domestic Tragedies
A Trip to Coontown
Opera
Faust
13. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Bunraku movements
Romantic Playwrights
Kabuki
book musicals
14. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Non-Western Drama
The Enlightenment
Man and Superman (1903)
Andre Antoine
15. 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
Eugene O'Neill
Denis Diderot
Happenings
George Bernard Shaw
16. '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
Total Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Poetic Realism
Highly Stylized Gestures
17. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Friedrich Nietzsche
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Shavian Comedies
Hilarious Absurdism
18. 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
Domestic Tragedies
Romantics
Sanskrit Drama
Mie pose
19. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
John Millington Synge
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Jukebox musicals
The Black Crook
20. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Romantics
Eugene O'Neill
Communists took control
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
21. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
dance musicals
Precolonial African Theatre
3 components of Musical Scripts
Broadway Shows
22. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
onnagata
Aphra Behn
Operatic Musicals
23. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Louis Daguerre
Ballad Operas
Alienation Effect
Faust
24. 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
Noh drama and Kabuki
Reprise
Noh drama
Music
25. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ha
William Fox Talbot
Performance Art
Chinese Theatre
26. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Denis Diderot
Naturalism
Problem plays
27. Writes the book
Man and Superman (1903)
Eugene Ionesco
Librettist
book musicals
28. 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
Das Kapital
Shadow Theatre
Opera
Absurdism
29. Writes the lyrics
Non-Western Drama
Kathakali
Hilarious Absurdism
Lyricist
30. 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
Louis Daguerre
Das Kapital
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Goethe
31. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
The Living Theatre
Comic opera
Operatic Musicals
Bertolt Brecht
32. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Existential Absurdism
Maxim Gorky
William Fox Talbot
Little Theatre Movement
33. 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
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Voltaire
Nickelodeons
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
34. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Africa
Fourth Room
Ken Saro-Wiwa
book musicals
35. 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
Precolonial African Theatre
The Student Prince
A Dream Play (1902)
Performance Art
36. 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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37. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Opera
The Student Prince
The Enlightenment
Total Theatre
38. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Revue (Musical Review)
Das Kapital
onnagata
Shavian Comedies
39. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Theatre of Cruelty
Louis Daguerre
The Student Prince
Aphra Behn
40. 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
Romantic Playwrights
Noh drama and Kabuki
Comedy of Manners
Regional Theatre
41. 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
well-made plays
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Noh drama and Kabuki
Communists took control
42. 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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43. French Enlightenment playwright; was an inventor and thinker who spent countless hours at the leading intellectual salons of France; most famous plays are The Barber of Seville - and The Marriage of Figaro - his plays reflect the attitudes of the Enl
Beaumarchais
The Communist Manifesto
Hilarious Absurdism
Opera
44. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Opera
Maxim Gorky
Ziegfield Follies
The Interpretation of Dreams
45. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Islamic Culture
Shimpa
Minstrel Show
Friedrich Nietzsche
46. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Denis Diderot
Romantic Playwrights
rock musical
The Interpretation of Dreams
47. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Das Kapital
Poetic Realism
Lyricist
48. 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
Japanese Theatre
Composer
Librettist
A Trip to Coontown
49. 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
Melodrama
overture
The Student Prince
Ta'ziyeh
50. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Dadaism
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
book musicals
Kathakali