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Theatre Basics
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1. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Book
Comic opera
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Harold Pinter
2. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Reprise
Symbolism
Operatic Musicals
3. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Precolonial African Theatre
Minstrel Show Structure
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Highly Stylized Gestures
4. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
The Living Theatre
Opera
William Fox Talbot
Mie pose
5. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Operatic Musicals
Avant-Garde
Revue (Musical Review)
The Communist Manifesto
6. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
Music
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Oscar Wilde
7. 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
The Adding Machine (1923)
The Black Crook
Symbolism
Performance Art
8. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Bunraku movements
onnagata
Africa
Revue (Musical Review)
9. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Jukebox musicals
Denis Diderot
Islamic Culture
Melodrama
10. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
Romantic Playwrights
Performance Art
Dadaism
Wole Soyinka
11. 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
Louis Daguerre
Maxim Gorky
Kathakali
Mie pose
12. 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
Shimpa
Existentialism
Theatre of Cruelty
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
13. Grew up in poverty and put himself through medical school and set up free clinics in Russia to help the poor; The Seagull (1896) - Uncle Vanya (1899) Three Sisters (1901) & The Cherry Orchard (1904); placed on stage the lazy chaos of lives crushed by
Existentialism
Anton Chekhov
Gotthold Lessing
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
14. 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
Islamic Culture
Vaudeville
Naturalistic Plays
Early European travelers and missionaries
15. Form of drama that dominated theatre in India for a thousand years; named for the ancient Indian language in which its plays are performed; combine the natural and the supernatural - the believable and unbelievable
Andre Antoine
Composer
Sanskrit Drama
musical comedy
16. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
Louis Daguerre
Absurdism
Bertolt Brecht
17. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Existential Absurdism
Kordian (1962)
overture
Straight Plays
18. 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
Emile Zola
Western Drama
Domestic Tragedies
box set
19. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Fatalist Absurdism
Shakuntala
Kabuki
Ballad Operas
20. Type of Islamic theatre - religious drama of Iran which allowed for actors - both professional and amateur - and has been performed in open-air playing spaces and on some occasions in specially constructed indoor stages for hundreds of years
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21. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Western Drama
First Public Opera House
Straight Plays
Variety Show
22. 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
overture
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Characters in the Peking Opera
Gotthold Lessing
23. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Louis Daguerre
A Dream Play (1902)
Verfremdung
A Trip to Coontown
24. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
The Adding Machine (1923)
Sanskrit Drama
non-Western Theatre
25. 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
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Existential Absurdism
Precolonial African Theatre
Minstrel Show
26. A repetition of the song - sometimes with new lyrics - sometimes with the same lyrics but with new meaning or subtext in order to make a dramatic point
Little Theatre Movement
Variety Show
Reprise
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
27. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
3 components of Musical Scripts
Faust
Chinese Theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
28. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
George Bernard Shaw
Total Theatre
Blaise Pascal
Highly Stylized Gestures
29. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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30. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Verfremdung
Off-Off-Broadway
Happenings
31. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Kyu
Faust
Sean O'Casey
Kathakali
32. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Maxim Gorky
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Problem plays
Variety Show
33. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Burlesque
Noh drama
overture
Book
34. Built in Venice in 1637
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Opera
Kafkaesque
First Public Opera House
35. French Enlightenment playwright; was an inventor and thinker who spent countless hours at the leading intellectual salons of France; most famous plays are The Barber of Seville - and The Marriage of Figaro - his plays reflect the attitudes of the Enl
Beaumarchais
Shavian Comedies
Peking Opera
Romantic Playwrights
36. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Surrealism
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
A Dream Play (1902)
37. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
William Fox Talbot
Romantics
The Communist Manifesto
musical
38. Africa's greatest living playwright; born in Nigeria; plays combine symbolism - mysticism - beautiful dialogue - and they make strong political points; plays are deeply rooted in African myths - dance - and rituals but also influenced by Western dram
Minstrel Show
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Koran
Wole Soyinka
39. 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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40. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Aphra Behn
A Trip to Coontown
Peking Opera
Shimpa
41. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Showstopper
Kyu
Japanese Theatre
Comic opera
42. 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
Shakespeare's King John
Denis Diderot
overture
A Trip to Coontown
43. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Emile Zola
Sanskrit Drama
Africa
Hilarious Absurdism
44. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Operatic Musicals
William Fox Talbot
Sentimental Comedies
dance musicals
45. Writes the music
Wole Soyinka
Ballad Operas
Composer
Verfremdung
46. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Mie pose
Verfremdung
Aristotelian
Jean-Paul Sartre
47. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Anton Chekhov
Showstopper
Jo
Kabuki
48. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dadaism
Goethe
49. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Existential Absurdism
Mie pose
Dance of the Forest
Melodrama
50. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dadaism
Peking Opera
Aphra Behn