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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Built in Venice in 1637
Kordian (1962)
First Public Opera House
George Bernard Shaw
Mie pose
2. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Sanskrit Drama
Peking Opera
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Early European travelers and missionaries
3. 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
rock musical
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Regional Theatre
box set
4. 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
Surrealism
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Western Drama
Showstopper
5. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Alienation Effect
Minstrel Show Structure
Beaumarchais
Chinese Theatre
6. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Showstopper
Blaise Pascal
Denis Diderot
The Black Crook
7. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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8. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Composer
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Ki
Broadway Shows
9. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Shakuntala
Shavian Comedies
Melodrama
Nell Gwynn
10. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Anton Chekhov
Shakuntala
Jean-Paul Sartre
Regional Theatre
11. 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
Avant-Garde
Wole Soyinka
Kathakali
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
12. 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
The Black Crook
Shavian Comedies
Music
Opera
13. 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
Wole Soyinka
Jean-Paul Sartre
Communists took control
Mie pose
14. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Jukebox musicals
Ritual Theatre
Harold Pinter
Maxim Gorky
15. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Variety Show
Aphra Behn
non-Western Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
16. The orchestrated melodies
Music
Jukebox musicals
Straight Plays
Bread and Puppet Theatre
17. 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
Ha
Shavian Comedies
Lorraine Handsberry
The Origin of the Cakewalk
18. 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
Noh drama
Nickelodeons
Existentialism
Romantic Playwrights
19. The sung words
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
dance musicals
Andre Antoine
Lyrics
20. 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'
The Koran
Precolonial African Theatre
Louis Daguerre
Problem plays
21. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Revue (Musical Review)
Poetic Realism
Off-Off-Broadway
Aphra Behn
22. 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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23. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
book musicals
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Poetic Realism
Happenings
24. A medley of the show's songs played as a preview; usually the beginning of a traditional musical; lets the audience know that it's time to stop talking because the performance is about to begin
overture
Total Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
Aphra Behn
25. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Ritual Theatre
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Wole Soyinka
The Interpretation of Dreams
26. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Naturalism
Romantic Playwrights
Bunraku movements
27. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Comic opera
Man and Superman (1903)
Harold Pinter
28. Elaborate geometrical designs were used for these roles which included supernatural beings - warriors - and bandits; the color of the make-up indicated the character's personality
Fourth Room
Ballad Operas
Broadway Shows
Painted-face roles
29. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Vaudeville
Noh drama
Ziegfield Follies
Straight Plays
30. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Eugene O'Neill
Natyasastra
Opera
Blaise Pascal
31. Only cost a nickel
Melodrama
Sentimental Comedies
Nickelodeons
non-Western Theatre
32. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
A Dream Play (1902)
Intermezzi
musical
Off Broadway
33. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Surrealism
Ki
Vaudeville
Book
34. 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
Voltaire
Absurdism
Happenings
Noh drama and Kabuki
35. 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
Samuel Beckett
Voltaire
Islamic Culture
Eugene O'Neill
36. 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
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Realism
Dadaism
Lyricist
37. Result of western influence - a toned down version of Kabuki - told stories of everyday life - particularly those of women - women played women's parts (whereas Kabuki was all male)
Vaudeville
Restoration
The Enlightenment
Shimpa
38. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
box set
Noh drama and Kabuki
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
39. Studied the history of class conflict
Sentimental Comedies
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Variety Show
The Communist Manifesto
40. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
box set
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Kyu
Straight Plays
41. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
women could legally appear on stages in England
Peking Opera
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Anton Chekhov
42. 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
onnagata
Off-Off-Broadway
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Avant-Garde
43. 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
Intermezzi
Voltaire
Intermezzi
44. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Shakespeare's King John
The Jazz Singer
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Reprise
45. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Expressionism
Shimpa
Burlesque
Africa
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
Fourth Room
Western Drama
Henrik Ibsen
Non-Western Drama
47. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Expressionism
Non-Western Drama
Dance of the Forest
Performance Art
48. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Absurdism
Total Theatre
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Music
49. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Africa
Natyasastra
Shakuntala
Restoration
50. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dance of the Forest
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Theatre of Cruelty