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Theatre Basics
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1. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Verfremdung
Happenings
Vaudeville
Theatre of Cruelty
2. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Eugene Ionesco
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shadow Theatre
George Bernard Shaw
3. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Natyasastra
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Hilarious Absurdism
Ziegfield Follies
4. 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
Lyricist
musical
Kabuki
Vaudeville
5. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
The Enlightenment
Minstrel Show
Shadow Theatre
Bunraku movements
6. '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
Alienation Effect
Eugene Ionesco
The Communist Manifesto
7. 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
Existentialism
Minstrel Show Structure
Theatre of Cruelty
Denis Diderot
8. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Early European travelers and missionaries
Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Living Theatre
Communists took control
9. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
onnagata
Maxim Gorky
Book
Minstrel Show
10. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Ken Saro-Wiwa
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Lorraine Handsberry
Emile Zola
11. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Jazz Singer
Fatalist Absurdism
Shakuntala
Non-Western Drama
12. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
3 components of Musical Scripts
The Jazz Singer
Romantics
Characters in the Peking Opera
13. Book - music - and lyrics
Africa
3 components of Musical Scripts
Shakuntala
Das Kapital
14. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Surrealism
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Sanskrit Drama
15. Most famous surrealist and was a French writer and director; studied Asian religions - mysticism - and ancient cultures; declared theatre should should wake the nerves and heart; argued that proscenium arch theatres create a barrier between the audie
Antonin Artaud
Jean-Paul Sartre
Comedy of Manners
Eugene O'Neill
16. 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
Africa
Western Drama
Vaudeville
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
17. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Daguerreotype
Total Theatre
Ziegfield Follies
18. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
non-Western Theatre
women could legally appear on stages in England
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
19. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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20. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Dance of the Forest
3 components of Musical Scripts
Surrealism
dance musicals
21. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Avant-Garde
Opera
The Jazz Singer
Domestic Tragedies
22. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Eugene Ionesco
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Kathakali
Straight Plays
23. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Hilarious Absurdism
Absurdism
onnagata
Avant-Garde
24. 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
John Millington Synge
Surrealism
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Precolonial African Theatre
Aphra Behn
Das Kapital
26. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Trip to Coontown
Music
A Dream Play (1902)
Goethe
27. 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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28. 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
Samuel Beckett
Oscar Wilde
Hilarious Absurdism
Ziegfield Follies
29. 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
women could legally appear on stages in England
Opera
Lyrics
Antonin Artaud
30. Writes the lyrics
Communists took control
Lyricist
Broadway Shows
First Public Opera House
31. 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)
Anton Chekhov
George Bernard Shaw
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Operetta
32. Earliest form for photography
Off-Off-Broadway
George Bernard Shaw
Islamic Culture
Daguerreotype
33. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Antonin Artaud
Total Theatre
William Fox Talbot
34. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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35. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Kordian (1962)
Kordian (1962)
Man and Superman (1903)
dance musicals
36. 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)
George Bernard Shaw
Louis Daguerre
Hilarious Absurdism
Samuel Beckett
37. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
rock musical
Sanskrit Drama
Off Broadway
Shadow Theatre
38. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Jukebox musicals
Alienation Effect
Lyricist
Kathakali
39. 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)
musical comedy
Domestic Tragedies
Shimpa
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
40. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Samuel Beckett
Aristotelian
Shakuntala
Man and Superman (1903)
41. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Andre Antoine
Islamic Culture
Faust
Theatre of Cruelty
42. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
musical comedy
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Romantic Playwrights
Early European travelers and missionaries
43. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Kyu
Eugene O'Neill
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Antonin Artaud
44. Writes the music
Opera
Louis Daguerre
Off-Off-Broadway
Composer
45. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
musical comedy
Kordian (1962)
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Faust
46. Writes the book
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Surrealism
Librettist
Sanskrit Drama
47. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Faust
Expressionism
Lyrics
Wole Soyinka
48. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Islamic Culture
George Bernard Shaw
Verfremdung
Bertolt Brecht
49. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Sanskrit Drama
Operatic Musicals
Lorraine Handsberry
Western Drama
50. 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
Total Theatre
Lyrics
Emile Zola
Voltaire