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Theatre Basics
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1. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Beaumarchais
Maxim Gorky
Naturalistic Plays
Poetic Realism
2. Records of this type of theatre are fragmentary - but we do know that it grew out of regional religious rituals related to Confucianism - Taoism - and Buddhism - and ritual dances performed during the Shang dynasty
Chinese Theatre
Realism
Fourth Room
Domestic Tragedies
3. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Eugene Ionesco
Restoration
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Noh drama
4. Thought that inner truths could be hinted at only through symbols; sought to replace the specific and concrete with the suggestive and metaphorical; usually had little plot or action and tended to baffle the audience
Symbolism
Communists took control
Louis Daguerre
Islamic Culture
5. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
box set
Minstrel Show Structure
Broadway Shows
Music
6. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
rock musical
Broadway Shows
Romantic Playwrights
The Living Theatre
7. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Aphra Behn
women could legally appear on stages in England
Existential Absurdism
Goethe
8. 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
Expressionism
Revue (Musical Review)
Dadaism
Highly Stylized Gestures
9. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Nickelodeons
Goethe
Broadway Shows
Avant-Garde
10. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Das Kapital
Burlesque
Jean-Paul Sartre
Beaumarchais
11. The men who play female roles are called:
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
The Student Prince
Restoration
onnagata
12. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Aphra Behn
Jukebox musicals
Sentimental Comedies
First Public Opera House
13. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Bertolt Brecht
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Opera
non-Western Theatre
14. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
The Koran
Africa
Henrik Ibsen
Fourth Room
15. 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
Dance of the Forest
The Interpretation of Dreams
John Millington Synge
Realism
16. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ha
onnagata
Daguerreotype
Dance of the Forest
17. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
The Jazz Singer
Ta'ziyeh
Natyasastra
18. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Librettist
Andre Antoine
Off Broadway
The Jazz Singer
19. Proclaimed 'God is dead...and we have killed him.'; felt taht absence of God was a tragedy - but believed human beings needed to accept the tragedy and move forward in a world that was unjust and meaningless
Domestic Tragedies
Friedrich Nietzsche
musical
The Jazz Singer
20. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Shavian Comedies
Bunraku movements
Comedy of Manners
Bread and Puppet Theatre
21. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Lyricist
3 components of Musical Scripts
Comic opera
Jukebox musicals
22. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Kordian (1962)
Shakuntala
Operatic Musicals
23. Writes the lyrics
Kordian (1962)
Lyricist
Vaudeville
Noh drama
24. 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
Goethe
Precolonial African Theatre
Nell Gwynn
Showstopper
25. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Peking Opera
Total Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
Sanskrit Drama
26. 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'
women could legally appear on stages in England
Problem plays
3 components of Musical Scripts
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
27. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Gotthold Lessing
Composer
Emile Zola
Ballad Operas
28. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Ritual Theatre
box set
Maxim Gorky
Jo
29. 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
Natyasastra
book musicals
Kabuki
Natyasastra
30. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Lorraine Handsberry
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Eugene Ionesco
Ki
31. 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
Dadaism
Faust
Natyasastra
Noh drama and Kabuki
32. 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
Wole Soyinka
Comedy of Manners
Naturalism
Problem plays
33. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
The Enlightenment
rock musical
Samuel Beckett
34. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Highly Stylized Gestures
Off Broadway
non-Western Theatre
Book
35. 1. theatre has an actor who plays a character - theatre is artificial - and 2. theatre usually has a story with a conflict - conflict is key to all drama
Comic opera
Noh drama
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Bertolt Brecht
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)
Samuel Beckett
Broadway Shows
The Interpretation of Dreams
Ta'ziyeh
37. 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
Goethe
non-Western Theatre
Regional Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
38. 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
Africa
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Noh drama and Kabuki
39. 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
Restoration
Opera
Broadway Shows
Aristotelian
40. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
Beaumarchais
Natyasastra
Music
41. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Noh drama and Kabuki
dance musicals
Kathakali
42. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Burlesque
Happenings
Man and Superman (1903)
43. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Avant-Garde
Shakespeare's King John
Kathakali
Shavian Comedies
44. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Naturalistic Plays
Happenings
Domestic Tragedies
Wole Soyinka
45. 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)
Operetta
women could legally appear on stages in England
The Enlightenment
Verfremdung
46. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
musical comedy
Ballad Operas
Eugene O'Neill
Noh drama
47. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Nell Gwynn
Das Kapital
Jukebox musicals
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
48. Thought that inner truths could be hinted at only through symbols; sought to replace the specific and concrete with the suggestive and metaphorical; usually had little plot or action and tended to baffle the audience
Symbolism
Mie pose
Sanskrit Drama
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
49. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Nickelodeons
rock musical
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
50. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Harold Pinter
Reprise
book musicals
Peking Opera