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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
musical
Regional Theatre
Naturalism
The Adding Machine (1923)
2. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Shakuntala
Symbolism
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Enlightenment
3. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Off-Off-Broadway
Dance of the Forest
Western Drama
A Dream Play (1902)
4. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Man and Superman (1903)
Opera
book musicals
Hilarious Absurdism
5. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Burlesque
Naturalism
Variety Show
overture
6. Book - music - and lyrics
Librettist
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
3 components of Musical Scripts
Domestic Tragedies
7. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Existentialism
Bunraku movements
Shavian Comedies
Existential Absurdism
8. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Kathakali
Intermezzi
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
The Interpretation of Dreams
9. 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
Dadaism
book musicals
George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman (1903)
10. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Dadaism
Showstopper
Existential Absurdism
The Origin of the Cakewalk
11. 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
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Symbolism
The Koran
A Trip to Coontown
12. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Das Kapital
Intermezzi
Blaise Pascal
Romantics
13. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Friedrich Nietzsche
Existential Absurdism
Voltaire
Operatic Musicals
14. 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
Harold Pinter
Blaise Pascal
Symbolism
Bertolt Brecht
15. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Minstrel Show
John Millington Synge
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Maxim Gorky
16. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
A Trip to Coontown
The Living Theatre
Minstrel Show
17. 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
First Public Opera House
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Burlesque
Precolonial African Theatre
18. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Romantics
Islamic Culture
Music
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
19. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Kathakali
Oscar Wilde
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
20. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Operetta
Lorraine Handsberry
Naturalism
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
21. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Eugene Ionesco
Off Broadway
Nickelodeons
Eugene O'Neill
22. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)
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23. Studied the history of class conflict
John Millington Synge
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
The Communist Manifesto
Burlesque
24. 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
First Public Opera House
Dance of the Forest
Highly Stylized Gestures
Gotthold Lessing
25. 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
Characters in the Peking Opera
Kabuki
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Off-Off-Broadway
26. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
rock musical
Islamic Culture
Jukebox musicals
Goethe
27. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Opera
Precolonial African Theatre
Librettist
Noh drama and Kabuki
28. 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
Voltaire
Regional Theatre
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
29. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Oscar Wilde
Communists took control
Shakuntala
Henrik Ibsen
30. 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
Hilarious Absurdism
Romantics
box set
Bertolt Brecht
31. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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32. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Characters in the Peking Opera
Africa
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Voltaire
33. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)
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34. 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
Book
Shadow Theatre
Painted-face roles
Beaumarchais
35. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
box set
musical
Characters in the Peking Opera
36. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Absurdism
overture
Librettist
37. The men who play female roles are called:
Highly Stylized Gestures
Denis Diderot
Ziegfield Follies
onnagata
38. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Bunraku movements
Goethe
Book
The Origin of the Cakewalk
39. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Naturalistic Plays
The Interpretation of Dreams
Islamic Culture
Hilarious Absurdism
40. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Melodrama
Maxim Gorky
Jo
Aphra Behn
41. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Mie pose
A Dream Play (1902)
Chinese Theatre
Ha
42. 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
dance musicals
Japanese Theatre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Performance Art
43. 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
Poetic Realism
Comedy of Manners
overture
Ziegfield Follies
44. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
John Millington Synge
The Jazz Singer
Revue (Musical Review)
Louis Daguerre
45. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Broadway Shows
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Non-Western Drama
46. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Variety Show
Das Kapital
Nickelodeons
The Origin of the Cakewalk
47. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
Non-Western Drama
Broadway Shows
Off-Off-Broadway
48. Most famous surrealist and was a French writer and director; studied Asian religions - mysticism - and ancient cultures; declared theatre should should wake the nerves and heart; argued that proscenium arch theatres create a barrier between the audie
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Melodrama
Antonin Artaud
onnagata
49. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Painted-face roles
Japanese Theatre
dance musicals
50. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Japanese Theatre
Operatic Musicals
Total Theatre
Happenings