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Theatre Basics
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1. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Naturalism
The Adding Machine (1923)
Highly Stylized Gestures
Oscar Wilde
2. 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)
Shimpa
Surrealism
Ki
Operetta
3. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Operatic Musicals
Eugene Ionesco
Communists took control
Blaise Pascal
4. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Broadway Shows
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Living Theatre
5. 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
Ha
Sanskrit Drama
Performance Art
Dadaism
6. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Theatre of Cruelty
Bunraku movements
Kordian (1962)
Existentialism
7. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Happenings
Total Theatre
Lorraine Handsberry
Andre Antoine
8. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Communists took control
Melodrama
Expressionism
Fatalist Absurdism
9. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
A Trip to Coontown
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Samuel Beckett
10. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Symbolism
Naturalism
The Enlightenment
Broadway Shows
11. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Theatre of Cruelty
Aphra Behn
The Communist Manifesto
Composer
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)
Japanese Theatre
John Millington Synge
Problem plays
Romantics
13. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Blaise Pascal
The Jazz Singer
Ta'ziyeh
Noh drama
14. 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
Jo
Comic opera
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Adding Machine (1923)
15. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
onnagata
Avant-Garde
Realism
Denis Diderot
16. 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
The Enlightenment
Little Theatre Movement
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Surrealism
17. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Melodrama
Nell Gwynn
Opera
Performance Art
18. 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
onnagata
Precolonial African Theatre
Expressionism
Natyasastra
19. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Precolonial African Theatre
Lorraine Handsberry
Kafkaesque
20. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Burlesque
Gotthold Lessing
Expressionism
Little Theatre Movement
21. 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)
George Bernard Shaw
musical
Lorraine Handsberry
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
22. 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
Painted-face roles
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Shadow Theatre
George Bernard Shaw
23. Form of theatre that mixed traditional African ritual theatre and Western-style drama; encouraged African nationalism - glorified Africa's past - and advanced African customs - rituals - and culture; also dealt with serious political themes and appla
Early European travelers and missionaries
Intermezzi
Total Theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
24. Elaborate geometrical designs were used for these roles which included supernatural beings - warriors - and bandits; the color of the make-up indicated the character's personality
Naturalism
Verfremdung
The Interpretation of Dreams
Painted-face roles
25. Records of this type of theatre are fragmentary - but we do know that it grew out of regional religious rituals related to Confucianism - Taoism - and Buddhism - and ritual dances performed during the Shang dynasty
Chinese Theatre
Denis Diderot
Vaudeville
Kordian (1962)
26. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Romantic Playwrights
Showstopper
Ki
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
27. 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)
Romantic Playwrights
Shimpa
Kafkaesque
Early European travelers and missionaries
28. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Kyu
Revue (Musical Review)
musical comedy
29. 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
Anton Chekhov
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Vaudeville
Reprise
30. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Eugene Ionesco
non-Western Theatre
Wole Soyinka
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
31. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Librettist
Aristotelian
Music
women could legally appear on stages in England
32. 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)
George Bernard Shaw
Faust
Restoration
The Living Theatre
33. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Kafkaesque
Avant-Garde
Oscar Wilde
Showstopper
34. Three parts of a Noh play
The Jazz Singer
Africa
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
The Living Theatre
35. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Louis Daguerre
Comedy of Manners
The Koran
36. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Burlesque
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Early European travelers and missionaries
Burlesque
37. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Islamic Culture
Comic opera
Friedrich Nietzsche
Kyu
38. 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
Gotthold Lessing
The Koran
Surrealism
Straight Plays
39. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Fourth Room
Poetic Realism
rock musical
Hilarious Absurdism
40. 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
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Off-Off-Broadway
women could legally appear on stages in England
A Trip to Coontown
41. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
Noh drama
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
William Fox Talbot
42. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Natyasastra
Das Kapital
Problem plays
women could legally appear on stages in England
43. 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
Burlesque
Shavian Comedies
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
onnagata
44. '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
Henrik Ibsen
Lorraine Handsberry
The Communist Manifesto
Shakespeare's King John
45. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Hilarious Absurdism
Denis Diderot
Straight Plays
Jukebox musicals
46. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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47. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Andre Antoine
Comedy of Manners
Highly Stylized Gestures
Fatalist Absurdism
48. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Goethe
Sentimental Comedies
Communists took control
Shakuntala
49. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Peking Opera
Verfremdung
Dance of the Forest
Burlesque
50. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
musical comedy
Samuel Beckett
Opera
non-Western Theatre