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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Built in Venice in 1637
Domestic Tragedies
First Public Opera House
Revue (Musical Review)
Intermezzi
2. 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
Off Broadway
rock musical
Shadow Theatre
Total Theatre
3. 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
Shimpa
The Interpretation of Dreams
Goethe
Gotthold Lessing
4. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Little Theatre Movement
musical comedy
Aristotelian
Shavian Comedies
5. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Ziegfield Follies
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Blaise Pascal
John Millington Synge
6. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
Eugene Ionesco
Surrealism
Nickelodeons
7. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
A Dream Play (1902)
Burlesque
Shavian Comedies
Problem plays
8. 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
overture
Kyu
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Fatalist Absurdism
9. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
John Millington Synge
Comic opera
Straight Plays
Highly Stylized Gestures
10. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Verfremdung
Showstopper
Beaumarchais
Shavian Comedies
11. First part had musical numbers with little comic dialogue; second part was full of songs - dance and standup routines; third part featured a one-act play
Minstrel Show Structure
Denis Diderot
Nickelodeons
Shakespeare's King John
12. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Broadway Shows
Straight Plays
non-Western Theatre
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
13. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Off-Off-Broadway
Kyu
onnagata
Characters in the Peking Opera
14. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Total Theatre
Andre Antoine
Composer
Bunraku movements
15. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
well-made plays
The Student Prince
Sentimental Comedies
Existential Absurdism
16. 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
Jukebox musicals
Nickelodeons
Lyricist
well-made plays
17. 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
Intermezzi
Opera
Henrik Ibsen
Denis Diderot
18. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Realism
Minstrel Show Structure
Eugene O'Neill
19. 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
Ha
Blaise Pascal
Natyasastra
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
20. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
William Fox Talbot
Comic opera
Blaise Pascal
Ritual Theatre
21. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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22. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
The Living Theatre
Operatic Musicals
Das Kapital
3 components of Musical Scripts
23. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Emile Zola
Friedrich Nietzsche
Domestic Tragedies
Poetic Realism
24. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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25. 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
Louis Daguerre
Performance Art
Denis Diderot
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
26. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Early European travelers and missionaries
Dadaism
Performance Art
Ta'ziyeh
27. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Ritual Theatre
Nell Gwynn
Non-Western Drama
Naturalism
28. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Faust
Alienation Effect
Minstrel Show Structure
Eugene O'Neill
29. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Harold Pinter
Islamic Culture
Jo
Shakuntala
30. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Noh drama and Kabuki
John Millington Synge
Lyricist
Performance Art
31. The sung words
Lyrics
Characters in the Peking Opera
Operatic Musicals
Antonin Artaud
32. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Verfremdung
Peking Opera
Poetic Realism
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
33. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
First Public Opera House
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
34. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Daguerreotype
Theatre of Cruelty
Shadow Theatre
35. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Existentialism
Kabuki
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Jukebox musicals
36. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Domestic Tragedies
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Goethe
A Dream Play (1902)
37. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Man and Superman (1903)
Kathakali
Symbolism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
38. 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)
Surrealism
Off-Off-Broadway
George Bernard Shaw
Henrik Ibsen
39. Islam's holy book - contains a warning about 'graven images' similar to the one in the Bible - prohibition applies to dolls - statues - portraits - and people playing a character
Opera
Book
Minstrel Show Structure
The Koran
40. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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41. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Beaumarchais
The Koran
The Enlightenment
Operatic Musicals
42. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Eugene Ionesco
dance musicals
Emile Zola
A Dream Play (1902)
43. Only cost a nickel
Jukebox musicals
Sanskrit Drama
Nickelodeons
A Dream Play (1902)
44. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Kordian (1962)
Nell Gwynn
Sanskrit Drama
Dance of the Forest
45. '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
Ta'ziyeh
Reprise
Henrik Ibsen
46. 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
Japanese Theatre
William Fox Talbot
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Straight Plays
47. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
dance musicals
rock musical
Eugene Ionesco
Vaudeville
48. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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49. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Minstrel Show
Total Theatre
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Kordian (1962)
50. 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)
Faust
Operetta
A Dream Play (1902)
Comic opera