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Theatre Basics
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1. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Jazz Singer
Peking Opera
Denis Diderot
Fatalist Absurdism
2. 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
Librettist
rock musical
Reprise
Minstrel Show Structure
3. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Voltaire
Happenings
Faust
well-made plays
4. 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
Sean O'Casey
Music
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
5. The artist imposes his own internal state onto the outside world itself; expressionism is a subjective account of an objective perception; expressionist plays use deliberate set distortion
Daguerreotype
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Gotthold Lessing
Expressionism
6. Type of theatre that grew out of ritual - incorporated acting - music - storytelling - poetry - dance - costumes - and lots of masks to create a theatre that combined ritual and ceremony with drama
Intermezzi
Precolonial African Theatre
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Book
7. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Broadway Shows
Shakuntala
Kathakali
Shavian Comedies
8. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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9. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
Book
Daguerreotype
overture
10. The orchestrated melodies
Realism
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Music
The Origin of the Cakewalk
11. 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
Das Kapital
The Koran
Aphra Behn
Alienation Effect
12. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Regional Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
Harold Pinter
Emile Zola
13. 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
The Koran
Jukebox musicals
rock musical
The Student Prince
14. 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
Beaumarchais
Problem plays
box set
Shakuntala
15. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Showstopper
Jukebox musicals
Eugene Ionesco
Music
16. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Aphra Behn
Fatalist Absurdism
John Millington Synge
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
17. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Sentimental Comedies
Lorraine Handsberry
The Student Prince
well-made plays
18. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
3 components of Musical Scripts
Showstopper
Straight Plays
A Dream Play (1902)
19. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Aristotelian
Aphra Behn
Ta'ziyeh
Performance Art
20. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
The Black Crook
Africa
Kathakali
Avant-Garde
21. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Reprise
Friedrich Nietzsche
Harold Pinter
Das Kapital
22. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Variety Show
Minstrel Show
Performance Art
Dadaism
23. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Jo
Noh drama and Kabuki
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Domestic Tragedies
24. Known for life-like sets that used hand-painted screens and gas-powered lighting effects to stage realistic sunrises and storm clouds; invented the DAGUERREO-TYPE - which was an early form of photography
Anton Chekhov
Louis Daguerre
The Student Prince
Emile Zola
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
Noh drama
Kafkaesque
Denis Diderot
Eugene O'Neill
26. The men who play female roles are called:
Anton Chekhov
Noh drama
Existentialism
onnagata
27. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Performance Art
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Ziegfield Follies
Shakuntala
28. 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
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Symbolism
29. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Shadow Theatre
Lyricist
Librettist
30. 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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31. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Naturalistic Plays
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Vaudeville
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
32. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Gotthold Lessing
Hilarious Absurdism
Dance of the Forest
Wole Soyinka
33. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Andre Antoine
Naturalistic Plays
Ki
Happenings
34. Based off the idea that before a problem can be solved - society must first understand that the problem exists; 'attack the message - not the messenger'
Problem plays
Expressionism
The Jazz Singer
Henrik Ibsen
35. Writes the book
Operatic Musicals
The Koran
Librettist
Andre Antoine
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)
Vaudeville
Melodrama
Shakuntala
Samuel Beckett
37. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Das Kapital
Early European travelers and missionaries
Ritual Theatre
Jo
38. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
Goethe
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
39. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Jukebox musicals
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Comic opera
Aristotelian
40. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Emile Zola
rock musical
Kordian (1962)
Das Kapital
41. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Eugene Ionesco
Shakuntala
A Trip to Coontown
Eugene O'Neill
42. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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43. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Japanese Theatre
rock musical
well-made plays
Daguerreotype
44. The men who play female roles are called:
Characters in the Peking Opera
Kabuki
onnagata
Noh drama
45. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Bunraku movements
Africa
Verfremdung
Composer
46. '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
William Fox Talbot
Ha
Kafkaesque
47. 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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
well-made plays
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Existentialism
48. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Gotthold Lessing
Comic opera
Early European travelers and missionaries
49. 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
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Gotthold Lessing
Blaise Pascal
Kabuki
50. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Shadow Theatre
Dadaism
Dadaism
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
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