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Theatre Basics
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1. The German equivalent to Diderot; was a playwright - critic - and Enlightenment philosopher Who wrote tragedies and comedies about the middle-class; his greatest play was Nathan the Wise
Gotthold Lessing
onnagata
well-made plays
Opera
2. 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
Oscar Wilde
Shakuntala
Beaumarchais
A Dream Play (1902)
3. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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4. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Bertolt Brecht
3 components of Musical Scripts
Ziegfield Follies
Restoration
5. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Music
Fourth Room
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Nickelodeons
6. Islam's holy book - contains a warning about 'graven images' similar to the one in the Bible - prohibition applies to dolls - statues - portraits - and people playing a character
Lyricist
The Koran
Revue (Musical Review)
Romantics
7. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
The Communist Manifesto
Shakespeare's King John
John Millington Synge
Communists took control
8. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Voltaire
Off-Off-Broadway
well-made plays
Peking Opera
9. Writes the lyrics
Vaudeville
Peking Opera
Little Theatre Movement
Lyricist
10. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Man and Superman (1903)
Poetic Realism
Regional Theatre
Opera
11. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Straight Plays
Happenings
Lorraine Handsberry
Samuel Beckett
12. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Poetic Realism
Lyrics
Existential Absurdism
Daguerreotype
13. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Poetic Realism
Existentialism
Islamic Culture
The Black Crook
14. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Performance Art
Africa
Opera
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
15. '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
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Louis Daguerre
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
16. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Natyasastra
rock musical
Revue (Musical Review)
Symbolism
17. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Kathakali
Alienation Effect
Highly Stylized Gestures
18. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
Daguerreotype
Africa
Problem plays
19. 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)
William Fox Talbot
Surrealism
Shimpa
Communists took control
20. 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
Librettist
Goethe
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Lyricist
21. 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
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Adding Machine (1923)
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Expressionism
22. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Revue (Musical Review)
Operatic Musicals
musical comedy
Realism
23. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Early European travelers and missionaries
Revue (Musical Review)
Japanese Theatre
24. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Existentialism
Early European travelers and missionaries
Expressionism
25. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Operetta
The Adding Machine (1923)
Operatic Musicals
Man and Superman (1903)
26. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Happenings
Nell Gwynn
Lyricist
Bertolt Brecht
27. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Composer
The Living Theatre
Alienation Effect
Andre Antoine
28. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Ta'ziyeh
Antonin Artaud
Friedrich Nietzsche
Islamic Culture
29. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Chinese Theatre
Das Kapital
Little Theatre Movement
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
30. 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
Dadaism
box set
Gotthold Lessing
Henrik Ibsen
31. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Highly Stylized Gestures
The Black Crook
Ritual Theatre
Kathakali
32. The orchestrated melodies
Music
Total Theatre
The Enlightenment
Avant-Garde
33. 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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34. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Islamic Culture
Denis Diderot
Expressionism
Kyu
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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
A Dream Play (1902)
Eugene O'Neill
Regional Theatre
36. 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)
George Bernard Shaw
Shadow Theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Kyu
37. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Existential Absurdism
Regional Theatre
Western Drama
Kabuki
38. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Oscar Wilde
Alienation Effect
musical comedy
Andre Antoine
39. 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
Revue (Musical Review)
Regional Theatre
Chinese Theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
40. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
musical
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
41. 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
Sentimental Comedies
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Friedrich Nietzsche
Blaise Pascal
42. Writes the music
Highly Stylized Gestures
Music
Composer
Existentialism
43. 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
Nell Gwynn
Librettist
Man and Superman (1903)
well-made plays
44. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Romantic Playwrights
Melodrama
musical comedy
The Interpretation of Dreams
45. 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
Kordian (1962)
Japanese Theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
46. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Eugene Ionesco
Chinese Theatre
Islamic Culture
47. 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'
Fourth Room
Reprise
Intermezzi
Problem plays
48. 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
Surrealism
The Origin of the Cakewalk
musical comedy
Showstopper
49. 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
Ballad Operas
Comic opera
Showstopper
50. Only cost a nickel
Intermezzi
The Jazz Singer
Jukebox musicals
Nickelodeons
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