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Theatre Basics
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1. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Islamic Culture
Absurdism
First Public Opera House
overture
2. Book - music - and lyrics
Japanese Theatre
3 components of Musical Scripts
William Fox Talbot
Islamic Culture
3. 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)
Ta'ziyeh
Lorraine Handsberry
Operetta
Variety Show
4. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Mie pose
musical
Absurdism
5. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Andre Antoine
Sentimental Comedies
Theatre of Cruelty
Communists took control
6. Built in Venice in 1637
well-made plays
Theatre of Cruelty
First Public Opera House
Eugene Ionesco
7. Plays without music
Denis Diderot
Broadway Shows
Straight Plays
Natyasastra
8. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Daguerreotype
Goethe
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Ki
9. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)
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10. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
musical
Emile Zola
Harold Pinter
Ziegfield Follies
11. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Variety Show
Maxim Gorky
The Student Prince
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
12. 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
Intermezzi
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Eugene Ionesco
The Student Prince
13. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Black Crook
musical
Opera
14. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
musical
A Trip to Coontown
musical comedy
Man and Superman (1903)
15. 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
Mie pose
Comedy of Manners
Oscar Wilde
Africa
16. One of the most popular Kabuki and Bunraku playwrights - who - like Shakespeare - wrote crowd-pleasing plays that combined poetry and prose in dramatic tales of comedy - tragedy - love - and war
Minstrel Show
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Dadaism
Painted-face roles
17. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Mie pose
Alienation Effect
Minstrel Show Structure
Burlesque
18. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Poetic Realism
Operetta
Performance Art
19. The artist imposes his own internal state onto the outside world itself; expressionism is a subjective account of an objective perception; expressionist plays use deliberate set distortion
Bertolt Brecht
Expressionism
Romantics
Jukebox musicals
20. 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
Eugene O'Neill
Kabuki
Oscar Wilde
3 components of Musical Scripts
21. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Operatic Musicals
Little Theatre Movement
Eugene Ionesco
musical comedy
22. Elaborate geometrical designs were used for these roles which included supernatural beings - warriors - and bandits; the color of the make-up indicated the character's personality
Composer
Composer
Painted-face roles
Maxim Gorky
23. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Intermezzi
Hilarious Absurdism
Aristotelian
Domestic Tragedies
24. Would agitate the masses - attack the spectators' sensibilities and purge people of their destructive tendencies; wanted stylized - ritualized performances - not realism - which they felt restricted the theatre to the study of psychological problems
Shakuntala
Ziegfield Follies
onnagata
Theatre of Cruelty
25. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Realism
The Enlightenment
book musicals
Anton Chekhov
26. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Little Theatre Movement
Domestic Tragedies
Comic opera
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
27. Elaborate geometrical designs were used for these roles which included supernatural beings - warriors - and bandits; the color of the make-up indicated the character's personality
John Millington Synge
Friedrich Nietzsche
Painted-face roles
Wole Soyinka
28. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ha
Ta'ziyeh
Alienation Effect
George Bernard Shaw
29. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Mie pose
Verfremdung
30. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
3 components of Musical Scripts
rock musical
Melodrama
Characters in the Peking Opera
31. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Kafkaesque
The Enlightenment
Characters in the Peking Opera
Daguerreotype
32. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Aristotelian
musical
The Student Prince
Chinese Theatre
33. Most popular type of theatre during the Restoration; often featured great wit and wordplay and told stories about sexual gratification - bedroom escapades - and humankind's unrefined nature when it comes to sex
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Book
Comedy of Manners
Kafkaesque
34. What western theatre is often called:
Beaumarchais
Avant-Garde
Jukebox musicals
Aristotelian
35. 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
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Romantics
Poetic Realism
A Trip to Coontown
36. A German poet - director and playwright who challenged traditional ideas about theatre; became a communist after watching policement shoot 4 unarmed civilians; The Life of Galileo (1938) - Mother Courage and her Children (1939) & The Caucasian Chalk
Happenings
Opera
Maxim Gorky
Bertolt Brecht
37. 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
Ta'ziyeh
First Public Opera House
Sanskrit Drama
Shadow Theatre
38. Studied the history of class conflict
Comic opera
Avant-Garde
The Communist Manifesto
Bunraku movements
39. A repetition of the song - sometimes with new lyrics - sometimes with the same lyrics but with new meaning or subtext in order to make a dramatic point
Painted-face roles
Reprise
The Interpretation of Dreams
Hilarious Absurdism
40. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
The Living Theatre
Blaise Pascal
Restoration
41. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Fourth Room
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Naturalistic Plays
42. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)
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43. 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
Naturalism
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Opera
Wole Soyinka
44. The men who play female roles are called:
Islamic Culture
Existential Absurdism
onnagata
Antonin Artaud
45. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Eugene Ionesco
musical comedy
Total Theatre
Mie pose
46. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Ritual Theatre
Anton Chekhov
Operetta
Theatre of Cruelty
47. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Revue (Musical Review)
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
non-Western Theatre
Realism
48. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
John Millington Synge
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Non-Western Drama
49. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
The Communist Manifesto
Voltaire
Melodrama
50. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Composer
Shavian Comedies
A Dream Play (1902)