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Theatre Basics
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1. 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)
Noh drama
George Bernard Shaw
box set
Reprise
2. What western theatre is often called:
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Blaise Pascal
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Aristotelian
3. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Enlightenment
The Jazz Singer
Problem plays
Ballad Operas
4. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Goethe
Verfremdung
Henrik Ibsen
Intermezzi
5. 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
Shakuntala
Western Drama
Operatic Musicals
6. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Kathakali
Sentimental Comedies
Maxim Gorky
Opera
7. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Non-Western Drama
Kabuki
Faust
8. 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
Lorraine Handsberry
Mie pose
Louis Daguerre
Total Theatre
9. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Comic opera
Characters in the Peking Opera
Noh drama and Kabuki
10. '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
Henrik Ibsen
Mie pose
First Public Opera House
Faust
11. Only cost a nickel
Sanskrit Drama
rock musical
Nickelodeons
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
12. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Black Crook
Comedy of Manners
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Variety Show
13. Three parts of a Noh play
non-Western Theatre
Antonin Artaud
Avant-Garde
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
14. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Alienation Effect
Highly Stylized Gestures
Comic opera
Friedrich Nietzsche
15. 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
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Nickelodeons
Harold Pinter
16. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Peking Opera
Lorraine Handsberry
Noh drama and Kabuki
Gotthold Lessing
17. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Chinese Theatre
Showstopper
Shimpa
Minstrel Show
18. 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
Opera
Minstrel Show Structure
Poetic Realism
Fourth Room
19. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Man and Superman (1903)
Ha
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
20. 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
Islamic Culture
Straight Plays
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Wole Soyinka
21. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Harold Pinter
Shakespeare's King John
Jean-Paul Sartre
Absurdism
22. Plays without music
Straight Plays
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Showstopper
book musicals
23. 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
Kabuki
Japanese Theatre
A Trip to Coontown
Operatic Musicals
24. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Revue (Musical Review)
Lyrics
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
25. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
dance musicals
Peking Opera
Shakespeare's King John
Noh drama
26. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Expressionism
Gotthold Lessing
Fourth Room
Minstrel Show
27. 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
Off Broadway
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Symbolism
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
28. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Avant-Garde
Goethe
Book
Japanese Theatre
29. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Sentimental Comedies
Happenings
The Origin of the Cakewalk
30. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Regional Theatre
Lyrics
Shimpa
non-Western Theatre
31. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
A Dream Play (1902)
Maxim Gorky
Librettist
32. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Book
Dadaism
Jean-Paul Sartre
musical comedy
33. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Broadway Shows
Bread and Puppet Theatre
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Naturalistic Plays
34. Comedies forced Victorian society to reexamine its hypocrisies; Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) - A WOman of No Importance (1893) - An Ideal Husband (1894); advocated 'art for art's sake'; The Importance of Being Ernest
Shimpa
Africa
Variety Show
Oscar Wilde
35. 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
Antonin Artaud
Existential Absurdism
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Reprise
36. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Opera
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Enlightenment
Das Kapital
37. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Alienation Effect
Operatic Musicals
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
John Millington Synge
38. 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
Opera
Kyu
Nickelodeons
well-made plays
39. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Shakuntala
Kafkaesque
Operatic Musicals
40. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Jean-Paul Sartre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Wole Soyinka
Voltaire
41. 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
Shavian Comedies
Melodrama
Librettist
Precolonial African Theatre
42. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Off-Off-Broadway
Intermezzi
Early European travelers and missionaries
Western Drama
43. The men who play female roles are called:
Bertolt Brecht
Comedy of Manners
Ritual Theatre
onnagata
44. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Theatre of Cruelty
well-made plays
Fourth Room
Lorraine Handsberry
45. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Expressionism
rock musical
Performance Art
book musicals
46. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Realism
Africa
Book
The Interpretation of Dreams
47. 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
Ha
Variety Show
Regional Theatre
48. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Denis Diderot
Nell Gwynn
Islamic Culture
Henrik Ibsen
49. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Aristotelian
Sentimental Comedies
Louis Daguerre
50. The orchestrated melodies
Jukebox musicals
Absurdism
Music
First Public Opera House
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