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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Regional Theatre
Domestic Tragedies
Chinese Theatre
Operetta
2. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Eugene Ionesco
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Hilarious Absurdism
3. The sung words
Ballad Operas
Lyrics
Goethe
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
4. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Nickelodeons
5. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Romantics
Melodrama
Oscar Wilde
Surrealism
6. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Emile Zola
Romantic Playwrights
Lorraine Handsberry
Gotthold Lessing
7. 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
well-made plays
Communists took control
Fourth Room
Kathakali
8. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
rock musical
Off-Off-Broadway
overture
9. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Denis Diderot
Vaudeville
Variety Show
Comedy of Manners
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
Opera
Dadaism
Shavian Comedies
Comic opera
11. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
Lorraine Handsberry
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Henrik Ibsen
12. 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
Little Theatre Movement
The Student Prince
Goethe
overture
13. Built in Venice in 1637
Dance of the Forest
Revue (Musical Review)
First Public Opera House
Shavian Comedies
14. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Sanskrit Drama
Hilarious Absurdism
Little Theatre Movement
book musicals
15. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Louis Daguerre
Noh drama and Kabuki
Highly Stylized Gestures
Shavian Comedies
16. 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
Kordian (1962)
Eugene O'Neill
Minstrel Show
Oscar Wilde
17. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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18. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Shadow Theatre
Hilarious Absurdism
Africa
Natyasastra
19. 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
Maxim Gorky
non-Western Theatre
Melodrama
20. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Comic opera
Dance of the Forest
Off Broadway
Theatre of Cruelty
21. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Louis Daguerre
overture
Kyu
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
22. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Shavian Comedies
Theatre of Cruelty
Bread and Puppet Theatre
William Fox Talbot
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
Shadow Theatre
Kabuki
Wole Soyinka
John Millington Synge
24. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
Kyu
Das Kapital
The Student Prince
25. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Nell Gwynn
Domestic Tragedies
Existentialism
Operatic Musicals
26. 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
Maxim Gorky
Opera
Mie pose
Total Theatre
27. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
John Millington Synge
Characters in the Peking Opera
Blaise Pascal
Fourth Room
28. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Happenings
Opera
Natyasastra
Africa
29. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
Shavian Comedies
Andre Antoine
Denis Diderot
30. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Eugene O'Neill
Jo
Existentialism
31. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Ki
Fatalist Absurdism
Romantic Playwrights
The Interpretation of Dreams
32. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Eugene Ionesco
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Kordian (1962)
Vaudeville
33. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
onnagata
Off Broadway
Domestic Tragedies
Performance Art
34. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Adding Machine (1923)
Restoration
Bertolt Brecht
35. Three parts of a Noh play
Ta'ziyeh
Western Drama
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Faust
36. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Off-Off-Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Blaise Pascal
37. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Precolonial African Theatre
Sentimental Comedies
Highly Stylized Gestures
38. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Lyrics
Off-Off-Broadway
Shakuntala
39. 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
Africa
Shimpa
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
40. 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
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
The Koran
Voltaire
Islamic Culture
41. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Interpretation of Dreams
Early European travelers and missionaries
Bunraku movements
Verfremdung
42. Plays without music
The Black Crook
Surrealism
Straight Plays
Fourth Room
43. 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
Burlesque
Noh drama
box set
Daguerreotype
44. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Louis Daguerre
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Maxim Gorky
Faust
45. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Regional Theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Broadway Shows
Ki
46. 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
Communists took control
Peking Opera
A Dream Play (1902)
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'
Total Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
The Enlightenment
Problem plays
48. 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
Eugene O'Neill
Jean-Paul Sartre
A Trip to Coontown
Operetta
49. Writes the book
Librettist
Romantics
Operetta
Romantics
50. 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
Naturalistic Plays
Ha
Kafkaesque
Eugene Ionesco
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