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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:
Naturalistic Plays
rock musical
The Black Crook
Highly Stylized Gestures
2. 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
Ha
The Black Crook
Denis Diderot
Andre Antoine
3. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
women could legally appear on stages in England
Composer
4. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Antonin Artaud
Operatic Musicals
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
5. Writes the book
Naturalistic Plays
Librettist
John Millington Synge
Das Kapital
6. 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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7. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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8. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Book
Domestic Tragedies
Alienation Effect
Opera
9. 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)
Islamic Culture
Operetta
Early European travelers and missionaries
Intermezzi
10. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Domestic Tragedies
Avant-Garde
Dadaism
Comedy of Manners
11. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Early European travelers and missionaries
Sean O'Casey
Sanskrit Drama
A Dream Play (1902)
12. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Sanskrit Drama
musical
Natyasastra
Early European travelers and missionaries
13. 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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14. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Broadway Shows
Burlesque
Islamic Culture
15. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
dance musicals
Alienation Effect
Poetic Realism
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
16. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Beaumarchais
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Jean-Paul Sartre
Book
17. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Blaise Pascal
The Enlightenment
Romantics
18. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
Antonin Artaud
Non-Western Drama
box set
19. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Emile Zola
The Adding Machine (1923)
Existential Absurdism
Broadway Shows
20. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Daguerreotype
Peking Opera
Western Drama
Dadaism
21. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Africa
Existentialism
Das Kapital
22. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Happenings
Melodrama
Composer
Louis Daguerre
23. One of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment - French poet - essayist - and playwright whose writing often got him in trouble with the church; built a theatre on his own estate so he could freely present his plays
John Millington Synge
Total Theatre
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Voltaire
24. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Lorraine Handsberry
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fourth Room
25. Book - music - and lyrics
Vaudeville
Verfremdung
Emile Zola
3 components of Musical Scripts
26. 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
Eugene O'Neill
John Millington Synge
Melodrama
Vaudeville
27. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Daguerreotype
Minstrel Show Structure
The Enlightenment
Nickelodeons
28. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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29. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Painted-face roles
Noh drama and Kabuki
Early European travelers and missionaries
30. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Shavian Comedies
Characters in the Peking Opera
Comic opera
Man and Superman (1903)
31. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ha
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Jean-Paul Sartre
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
32. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Ha
Off-Off-Broadway
Jukebox musicals
Operatic Musicals
33. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Fourth Room
Straight Plays
The Interpretation of Dreams
Dance of the Forest
34. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reprise
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
The Origin of the Cakewalk
35. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Shavian Comedies
Comedy of Manners
The Adding Machine (1923)
Bunraku movements
36. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Lorraine Handsberry
Emile Zola
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Oscar Wilde
37. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Das Kapital
Nickelodeons
Ritual Theatre
38. 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
The Koran
Shavian Comedies
Oscar Wilde
Romantics
39. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Nell Gwynn
First Public Opera House
Nickelodeons
Noh drama and Kabuki
40. 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
Natyasastra
Total Theatre
Dadaism
Painted-face roles
41. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Restoration
Characters in the Peking Opera
non-Western Theatre
Realism
42. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Absurdism
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Kathakali
Painted-face roles
43. Built in Venice in 1637
Western Drama
Precolonial African Theatre
First Public Opera House
Nickelodeons
44. 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
Music
Poetic Realism
Man and Superman (1903)
Performance Art
45. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Dance of the Forest
Sentimental Comedies
46. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Lyrics
Ziegfield Follies
The Student Prince
Painted-face roles
47. What western theatre is often called:
Aristotelian
Fourth Room
Antonin Artaud
Alienation Effect
48. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Maxim Gorky
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Painted-face roles
Ki
49. 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
Lyricist
Surrealism
Realism
Jukebox musicals
50. 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
Beaumarchais
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Africa
Ziegfield Follies