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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
A Dream Play (1902)
Ritual Theatre
Kathakali
Problem plays
2. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Poetic Realism
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Dadaism
rock musical
3. Only cost a nickel
Gotthold Lessing
A Trip to Coontown
Noh drama and Kabuki
Nickelodeons
4. Writes the lyrics
Absurdism
Lyricist
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Off-Off-Broadway
5. 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
Ki
Composer
The Origin of the Cakewalk
6. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Poetic Realism
Fatalist Absurdism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Wole Soyinka
7. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
overture
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Black Crook
William Fox Talbot
8. One of the most important French philosophers of the Age of Reason - wrote and edited the first encyclopedia; was also a dramatist who penned books on the techniques of acting; authored The Paradox of Acting - a book that attached the pompous declama
Romantic Playwrights
Denis Diderot
onnagata
Happenings
9. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Romantics
Fourth Room
Peking Opera
Off Broadway
10. 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
Blaise Pascal
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Communists took control
Performance Art
11. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Mie pose
Maxim Gorky
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
musical comedy
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
overture
Shimpa
Fourth Room
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
13. The sung words
Kabuki
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lyrics
Eugene O'Neill
14. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Fourth Room
Operetta
The Koran
Western Drama
15. What western theatre is often called:
Aristotelian
Henrik Ibsen
box set
musical comedy
16. 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
Lyricist
Expressionism
Friedrich Nietzsche
Comedy of Manners
17. Studied the history of class conflict
Total Theatre
Comic opera
The Communist Manifesto
Operetta
18. 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 Koran
Kordian (1962)
Music
Precolonial African Theatre
19. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Off-Off-Broadway
Little Theatre Movement
Harold Pinter
Realism
20. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Poetic Realism
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Henrik Ibsen
21. 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
Book
Romantics
Mie pose
Opera
22. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Opera
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Minstrel Show
box set
23. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Goethe
Revue (Musical Review)
Lorraine Handsberry
Existentialism
24. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Straight Plays
Romantic Playwrights
Revue (Musical Review)
The Koran
25. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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26. 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
Goethe
Ziegfield Follies
Operatic Musicals
27. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Reprise
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Antonin Artaud
Characters in the Peking Opera
28. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Shakespeare's King John
Expressionism
Noh drama
well-made plays
29. 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
Music
Natyasastra
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
30. 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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31. 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
rock musical
book musicals
Chinese Theatre
32. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Off Broadway
Eugene O'Neill
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
33. 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
Kordian (1962)
Theatre of Cruelty
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
The Student Prince
34. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Total Theatre
Jo
Kafkaesque
Broadway Shows
35. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Absurdism
Shimpa
Lorraine Handsberry
Bread and Puppet Theatre
36. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Voltaire
Western Drama
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Expressionism
37. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Dadaism
Regional Theatre
Melodrama
Western Drama
38. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
A Dream Play (1902)
Minstrel Show Structure
Anton Chekhov
39. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Melodrama
Nell Gwynn
overture
Louis Daguerre
40. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Andre Antoine
Book
musical
Ha
41. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
3 components of Musical Scripts
Composer
Islamic Culture
Kathakali
42. 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
Nell Gwynn
Vaudeville
Fatalist Absurdism
The Living Theatre
43. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Ritual Theatre
The Koran
Minstrel Show
Mie pose
44. 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
Kyu
overture
Louis Daguerre
Ken Saro-Wiwa
45. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Happenings
Goethe
Eugene Ionesco
Book
46. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
The Communist Manifesto
Andre Antoine
Faust
Sentimental Comedies
47. 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
overture
Avant-Garde
Voltaire
Shadow Theatre
48. 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
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Reprise
Lyricist
49. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
A Trip to Coontown
Existential Absurdism
Sean O'Casey
Ki
50. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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