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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Jazz Singer
Melodrama
Faust
2. Three parts of a Noh play
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Jo
3. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
The Student Prince
Ha
overture
4. Africa's greatest living playwright; born in Nigeria; plays combine symbolism - mysticism - beautiful dialogue - and they make strong political points; plays are deeply rooted in African myths - dance - and rituals but also influenced by Western dram
Samuel Beckett
Wole Soyinka
Happenings
Composer
5. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
Realism
The Enlightenment
3 components of Musical Scripts
William Fox Talbot
6. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Existentialism
Dance of the Forest
7. 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
Total Theatre
non-Western Theatre
Shimpa
Opera
8. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Kyu
Lyrics
Kabuki
Alienation Effect
9. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Islamic Culture
Oscar Wilde
Early European travelers and missionaries
Fatalist Absurdism
10. 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
Voltaire
Absurdism
Beaumarchais
Natyasastra
11. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Louis Daguerre
The Living Theatre
Harold Pinter
Ziegfield Follies
12. Would agitate the masses - attack the spectators' sensibilities and purge people of their destructive tendencies; wanted stylized - ritualized performances - not realism - which they felt restricted the theatre to the study of psychological problems
Regional Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
Japanese Theatre
Mie pose
13. 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
The Student Prince
Surrealism
3 components of Musical Scripts
Jean-Paul Sartre
14. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Restoration
Highly Stylized Gestures
Jean-Paul Sartre
Louis Daguerre
15. History plays about major political events of the past - domestic plays about the loves and lives of merchants and townspeople - and dance-dramas about the world of spirits and animals
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
book musicals
Kabuki
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
16. Most famous of the absurdist playwrights; best considered a fatalist - although work is sometimes hilarious and can ask existential questions; Endgame (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Happy Days (1961); Waiting for Godot (1953)
Music
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Samuel Beckett
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
17. Writes the music
Friedrich Nietzsche
onnagata
Composer
Bertolt Brecht
18. 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
Eugene O'Neill
non-Western Theatre
Comedy of Manners
Jo
19. 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
box set
George Bernard Shaw
Kafkaesque
Total Theatre
20. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Das Kapital
Showstopper
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
William Fox Talbot
21. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Naturalistic Plays
3 components of Musical Scripts
The Adding Machine (1923)
Eugene Ionesco
22. 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
Anton Chekhov
Shadow Theatre
Verfremdung
Sentimental Comedies
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
Fourth Room
Ha
George Bernard Shaw
Opera
24. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Shakuntala
Verfremdung
Comedy of Manners
25. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
Surrealism
Alienation Effect
Lyricist
26. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Romantics
Dance of the Forest
Peking Opera
Domestic Tragedies
27. 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
Variety Show
Poetic Realism
Existentialism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
28. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
A Trip to Coontown
Little Theatre Movement
Aphra Behn
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
29. 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
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Performance Art
Ken Saro-Wiwa
30. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
Precolonial African Theatre
Nell Gwynn
Jukebox musicals
31. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
The Koran
Kathakali
Maxim Gorky
dance musicals
32. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Islamic Culture
The Living Theatre
Comic opera
Romantics
33. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
The Adding Machine (1923)
John Millington Synge
Highly Stylized Gestures
Opera
34. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
Voltaire
The Communist Manifesto
Revue (Musical Review)
35. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Henrik Ibsen
Eugene Ionesco
The Student Prince
Faust
36. Most famous of the absurdist playwrights; best considered a fatalist - although work is sometimes hilarious and can ask existential questions; Endgame (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Happy Days (1961); Waiting for Godot (1953)
Ta'ziyeh
Ziegfield Follies
Samuel Beckett
The Enlightenment
37. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Noh drama
Restoration
The Living Theatre
overture
38. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Burlesque
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
39. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Minstrel Show
Ballad Operas
Restoration
Verfremdung
40. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Noh drama and Kabuki
Bunraku movements
Minstrel Show Structure
The Adding Machine (1923)
41. 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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Goethe
The Jazz Singer
Off Broadway
42. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Performance Art
Jo
Romantics
43. 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
Hilarious Absurdism
A Trip to Coontown
Dance of the Forest
Ballad Operas
44. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
musical comedy
Avant-Garde
Oscar Wilde
rock musical
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
Sean O'Casey
Precolonial African Theatre
Lyricist
Henrik Ibsen
46. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Alienation Effect
Revue (Musical Review)
Off-Off-Broadway
Fatalist Absurdism
47. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Goethe
Das Kapital
Off-Off-Broadway
Nickelodeons
48. Built in Venice in 1637
Das Kapital
Romantic Playwrights
First Public Opera House
Lorraine Handsberry
49. A sudden - striking pose (often with their eyes crossed - chin sharply turned - and big toe pointed towards the sky) in Kabuki accompanied by several powerful beats of wooden clappers
The Adding Machine (1923)
Regional Theatre
Mie pose
Expressionism
50. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Romantic Playwrights
Happenings
Maxim Gorky
Harold Pinter