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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Eugene O'Neill
non-Western Theatre
Expressionism
Verfremdung
2. 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
Opera
Maxim Gorky
First Public Opera House
dance musicals
3. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Burlesque
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Das Kapital
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
4. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
Shadow Theatre
women could legally appear on stages in England
Early European travelers and missionaries
5. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Happenings
Showstopper
Composer
6. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Ballad Operas
The Adding Machine (1923)
Islamic Culture
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
7. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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8. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Emile Zola
Romantics
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Operatic Musicals
9. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Problem plays
Highly Stylized Gestures
Voltaire
John Millington Synge
10. 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
Shadow Theatre
Gotthold Lessing
Hilarious Absurdism
Fatalist Absurdism
11. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
John Millington Synge
Poetic Realism
Aristotelian
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
12. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Aphra Behn
Beaumarchais
Regional Theatre
Sentimental Comedies
13. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
George Bernard Shaw
Shakespeare's King John
well-made plays
Non-Western Drama
14. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Minstrel Show
Kordian (1962)
rock musical
15. Attacked the evils and restrictions of society; tried to reveal the higher reality of the unconscious mind with fantastic imagery and contradictory images; performances were often violent and cruel as they tried to shock the audience into the realiza
Surrealism
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Precolonial African Theatre
Vaudeville
16. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Comic opera
Early European travelers and missionaries
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Shakuntala
17. 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
musical
Antonin Artaud
Voltaire
Existentialism
18. 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)
The Black Crook
Showstopper
Bertolt Brecht
19. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Goethe
Jukebox musicals
Lorraine Handsberry
Emile Zola
20. 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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21. 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)
George Bernard Shaw
Ballad Operas
Voltaire
Nell Gwynn
22. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Naturalism
A Trip to Coontown
The Enlightenment
box set
23. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Characters in the Peking Opera
Kordian (1962)
Peking Opera
Variety Show
24. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
The Enlightenment
Characters in the Peking Opera
Eugene Ionesco
Book
25. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
onnagata
box set
non-Western Theatre
26. 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
Shavian Comedies
The Student Prince
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Jukebox musicals
27. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Vaudeville
Restoration
Anton Chekhov
George Bernard Shaw
28. 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
Denis Diderot
Naturalistic Plays
The Communist Manifesto
musical
29. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Intermezzi
George Bernard Shaw
dance musicals
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
30. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Opera
The Living Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
Lorraine Handsberry
31. 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
Sean O'Casey
Revue (Musical Review)
Regional Theatre
Aristotelian
32. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Broadway Shows
Eugene Ionesco
The Living Theatre
Japanese Theatre
33. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Existentialism
Minstrel Show
Alienation Effect
Poetic Realism
34. 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
Jean-Paul Sartre
Operetta
onnagata
Natyasastra
35. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
overture
Lorraine Handsberry
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Kyu
36. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Realism
William Fox Talbot
Kordian (1962)
Revue (Musical Review)
37. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Jo
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
non-Western Theatre
38. 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
Dance of the Forest
musical comedy
Kabuki
Librettist
39. '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
Shakuntala
Henrik Ibsen
Eugene O'Neill
Music
40. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Harold Pinter
Andre Antoine
Alienation Effect
book musicals
41. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Melodrama
The Living Theatre
Kathakali
Islamic Culture
42. 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
Regional Theatre
Noh drama
Book
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
43. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Comic opera
Aristotelian
The Communist Manifesto
Composer
44. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Realism
musical comedy
Harold Pinter
Characters in the Peking Opera
45. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Painted-face roles
Verfremdung
Alienation Effect
Realism
46. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Revue (Musical Review)
Das Kapital
Existentialism
Kordian (1962)
47. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Dance of the Forest
Domestic Tragedies
Opera
48. One of the most popular Kabuki and Bunraku playwrights - who - like Shakespeare - wrote crowd-pleasing plays that combined poetry and prose in dramatic tales of comedy - tragedy - love - and war
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Performance Art
Ziegfield Follies
Librettist
49. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Noh drama
rock musical
Nell Gwynn
Composer
50. The orchestrated melodies
Variety Show
Lorraine Handsberry
Music
Andre Antoine
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