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Theatre Basics
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1. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Ballad Operas
A Trip to Coontown
Japanese Theatre
Beaumarchais
2. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Hilarious Absurdism
Ritual Theatre
Oscar Wilde
Japanese Theatre
3. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Poetic Realism
Minstrel Show
Little Theatre Movement
Operetta
4. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Japanese Theatre
Absurdism
Lorraine Handsberry
Beaumarchais
5. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Islamic Culture
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Antonin Artaud
6. In Sigmund Romberg's play the king young heir to the throne sacrifices his personal happiness for the good of the kingdom when he sorrowfully pulls himself away from his true love in order to marry a princess whom he does not love
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Restoration
The Student Prince
Chinese Theatre
7. 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
Surrealism
Precolonial African Theatre
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
women could legally appear on stages in England
8. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Romantic Playwrights
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Variety Show
9. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
musical comedy
Bunraku movements
Chinese Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
10. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Sean O'Casey
Romantics
Faust
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
11. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Total Theatre
Dance of the Forest
Fatalist Absurdism
Ta'ziyeh
12. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Denis Diderot
Ta'ziyeh
Comic opera
13. Writes the book
The Black Crook
Librettist
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
box set
14. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Noh drama
Composer
Romantics
Voltaire
15. Light opera - differs from 'grand opera' because it has a frivolous - comic theme - some spoken dialogue - a melodramatic story - and usually a little dancing; The Mikado (1885)
Lyrics
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Operetta
16. 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
Ki
Goethe
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Restoration
17. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Henrik Ibsen
Peking Opera
overture
Kathakali
18. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Intermezzi
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Off Broadway
Characters in the Peking Opera
19. 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
non-Western Theatre
box set
Ta'ziyeh
Louis Daguerre
20. 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
Burlesque
Wole Soyinka
overture
Nell Gwynn
21. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Wole Soyinka
Andre Antoine
Operetta
Oscar Wilde
22. Only cost a nickel
Precolonial African Theatre
Non-Western Drama
Nickelodeons
Communists took control
23. 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
Operatic Musicals
Shavian Comedies
Aphra Behn
24. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Shakuntala
Jo
Intermezzi
Africa
25. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Restoration
Off Broadway
Gotthold Lessing
Precolonial African Theatre
26. Book - music - and lyrics
Hilarious Absurdism
Problem plays
Sean O'Casey
3 components of Musical Scripts
27. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Noh drama
George Bernard Shaw
Ballad Operas
Ha
28. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Avant-Garde
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Domestic Tragedies
Friedrich Nietzsche
29. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Beaumarchais
Absurdism
A Dream Play (1902)
Early European travelers and missionaries
30. 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)
First Public Opera House
Burlesque
Shimpa
Problem plays
31. 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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32. 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
Operetta
onnagata
Kabuki
33. 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
Naturalism
well-made plays
Faust
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
34. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Jean-Paul Sartre
Lyricist
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Man and Superman (1903)
35. Grew up in poverty and put himself through medical school and set up free clinics in Russia to help the poor; The Seagull (1896) - Uncle Vanya (1899) Three Sisters (1901) & The Cherry Orchard (1904); placed on stage the lazy chaos of lives crushed by
Kabuki
Sanskrit Drama
Samuel Beckett
Anton Chekhov
36. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Absurdism
rock musical
Existentialism
The Student Prince
37. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Kordian (1962)
Poetic Realism
Highly Stylized Gestures
rock musical
38. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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39. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Little Theatre Movement
Happenings
Chinese Theatre
Ritual Theatre
40. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Ki
Islamic Culture
Shavian Comedies
41. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
Henrik Ibsen
Operatic Musicals
Kabuki
42. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
dance musicals
Opera
Book
43. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
Melodrama
Daguerreotype
Naturalism
44. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Romantic Playwrights
John Millington Synge
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Aphra Behn
45. Term used to describe performances that mix theatre - visual arts - music - dance - gesture and rituals; often use multimedia effects - sounds and lighting effects to make a point and allow the audience to understand its deeper implications; often re
3 components of Musical Scripts
Performance Art
Melodrama
Vaudeville
46. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Noh drama and Kabuki
Domestic Tragedies
Straight Plays
Ki
47. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Andre Antoine
The Interpretation of Dreams
onnagata
Showstopper
48. Form of drama that dominated theatre in India for a thousand years; named for the ancient Indian language in which its plays are performed; combine the natural and the supernatural - the believable and unbelievable
Sanskrit Drama
Early European travelers and missionaries
Highly Stylized Gestures
Characters in the Peking Opera
49. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
3 components of Musical Scripts
Ta'ziyeh
A Dream Play (1902)
overture
50. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Absurdism
Beaumarchais
Goethe
Goethe