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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Japanese Theatre
Realism
Sentimental Comedies
Book
2. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Samuel Beckett
Highly Stylized Gestures
Fatalist Absurdism
The Living Theatre
3. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Communists took control
Shadow Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
4. French philosopher often called the Father of the Romantic movement; argued that people could find happiness in a 'state of nature' and that they should learn from nature rather than the artificial and corrupted teachings of society
Bertolt Brecht
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Peking Opera
Kafkaesque
5. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Western Drama
Bunraku movements
Composer
Andre Antoine
6. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
dance musicals
Henrik Ibsen
Theatre of Cruelty
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
7. Form of theatre that mixed traditional African ritual theatre and Western-style drama; encouraged African nationalism - glorified Africa's past - and advanced African customs - rituals - and culture; also dealt with serious political themes and appla
Surrealism
Total Theatre
Shakuntala
George Bernard Shaw
8. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Maxim Gorky
Little Theatre Movement
Avant-Garde
Fatalist Absurdism
9. First part of a Noh Play - usually a chance meeting between two characters - introductions are made and the characters engage in a question-and-answer sequence that reveals the protagonist's concern
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Jo
Precolonial African Theatre
Symbolism
10. 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
Africa
Comedy of Manners
Reprise
Bread and Puppet Theatre
11. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Problem plays
Dadaism
Minstrel Show
The Interpretation of Dreams
12. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Aphra Behn
Harold Pinter
The Interpretation of Dreams
Straight Plays
13. 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
Samuel Beckett
The Interpretation of Dreams
Operatic Musicals
Symbolism
14. 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
Kafkaesque
Kafkaesque
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
15. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
First Public Opera House
Melodrama
non-Western Theatre
Verfremdung
16. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Kordian (1962)
Domestic Tragedies
Ritual Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
17. 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
Painted-face roles
Henrik Ibsen
Naturalism
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
18. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Daguerreotype
Straight Plays
William Fox Talbot
19. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Off-Off-Broadway
Kordian (1962)
Ziegfield Follies
Reprise
20. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Andre Antoine
Existential Absurdism
Harold Pinter
Oscar Wilde
21. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Das Kapital
Existential Absurdism
Comic opera
Anton Chekhov
22. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
The Origin of the Cakewalk
William Fox Talbot
Dance of the Forest
The Koran
23. A dialogue that captures the incoherence - broken language - and pauses of modern speech; usually marked by surreal distortion and impending danger; from writing of Franz Kafka
Chinese Theatre
Anton Chekhov
Ziegfield Follies
Kafkaesque
24. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
Denis Diderot
Showstopper
The Living Theatre
25. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Music
Book
Alienation Effect
Ki
26. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
musical
Poetic Realism
Music
Shakespeare's King John
27. 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
box set
Symbolism
Reprise
Painted-face roles
28. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
The Student Prince
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
John Millington Synge
The Living Theatre
29. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Existential Absurdism
The Jazz Singer
Happenings
Wole Soyinka
30. 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
Faust
The Koran
Naturalism
31. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Dadaism
Antonin Artaud
Nell Gwynn
Ha
32. 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
First Public Opera House
Shakespeare's King John
Jean-Paul Sartre
33. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Hilarious Absurdism
musical comedy
A Dream Play (1902)
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
34. 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
Comedy of Manners
Fourth Room
Ki
Lyrics
35. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Chinese Theatre
non-Western Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
Maxim Gorky
36. Sarcastic label of Scribe's plays; the sympathetic protagonist suffers at the hands of an evil antagonist in the course of intense action - suspense - and contrived play devices; ending is always happy and the loose ends are neatly tied up
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
well-made plays
Romantic Playwrights
Mie pose
37. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Total Theatre
onnagata
Maxim Gorky
Jukebox musicals
38. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Highly Stylized Gestures
book musicals
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Japanese Theatre
39. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Operetta
Burlesque
Music
musical comedy
40. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Existential Absurdism
Denis Diderot
Operatic Musicals
41. 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
Minstrel Show
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Surrealism
42. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Opera
Minstrel Show
Noh drama
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
43. 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
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Surrealism
Africa
Wole Soyinka
44. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Noh drama and Kabuki
Goethe
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
William Fox Talbot
45. 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
Highly Stylized Gestures
Operatic Musicals
Mie pose
The Student Prince
46. 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
Chinese Theatre
Off Broadway
Sean O'Casey
Expressionism
47. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Surrealism
Faust
Showstopper
Henrik Ibsen
48. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
The Adding Machine (1923)
Opera
Existential Absurdism
49. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
A Dream Play (1902)
Lorraine Handsberry
Existential Absurdism
50. 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
Chinese Theatre
Maxim Gorky
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Blaise Pascal