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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Goethe
Absurdism
Minstrel Show Structure
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
2. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Naturalistic Plays
Hilarious Absurdism
musical
Shimpa
3. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Ziegfield Follies
Oscar Wilde
Dance of the Forest
John Millington Synge
4. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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5. 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
Maxim Gorky
Music
Ha
6. 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
Romantic Playwrights
Painted-face roles
Andre Antoine
Kathakali
7. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Burlesque
Eugene Ionesco
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Sean O'Casey
8. One of the most valuable historical records of Indian theatre; an encyclopedic book of dramatic theory and practice; has 37 chapters and covers every aspect of classical Indian drama - also a treatise on dramatic theory and philosophy - states that t
Natyasastra
Revue (Musical Review)
Realism
Jukebox musicals
9. 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
Nickelodeons
Kyu
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
10. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Performance Art
George Bernard Shaw
Andre Antoine
Broadway Shows
11. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
Kathakali
The Koran
Eugene Ionesco
12. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Shavian Comedies
rock musical
Jean-Paul Sartre
13. 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
box set
Ballad Operas
Vaudeville
Kafkaesque
14. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Ziegfield Follies
Man and Superman (1903)
Minstrel Show Structure
Verfremdung
15. 1. theatre has an actor who plays a character - theatre is artificial - and 2. theatre usually has a story with a conflict - conflict is key to all drama
Sentimental Comedies
Chinese Theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Beaumarchais
16. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Straight Plays
Das Kapital
Realism
Poetic Realism
17. 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
Shadow Theatre
Minstrel Show Structure
Naturalism
Dance of the Forest
18. French philosopher often called the Father of the Romantic movement; argued that people could find happiness in a 'state of nature' and that they should learn from nature rather than the artificial and corrupted teachings of society
Communists took control
Man and Superman (1903)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Off-Off-Broadway
19. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
onnagata
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
well-made plays
20. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
The Black Crook
women could legally appear on stages in England
Existentialism
John Millington Synge
21. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
The Student Prince
box set
Kathakali
22. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Theatre of Cruelty
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Bunraku movements
Romantic Playwrights
23. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Islamic Culture
Operatic Musicals
Naturalistic Plays
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
24. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Bertolt Brecht
Non-Western Drama
Shavian Comedies
Harold Pinter
25. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Lorraine Handsberry
well-made plays
Man and Superman (1903)
Dance of the Forest
26. Three parts of a Noh play
Off-Off-Broadway
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Music
Oscar Wilde
27. 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)
George Bernard Shaw
Sanskrit Drama
Romantics
Maxim Gorky
28. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
The Communist Manifesto
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Chinese Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
29. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Nell Gwynn
Avant-Garde
dance musicals
Islamic Culture
30. Proclaimed 'God is dead...and we have killed him.'; felt taht absence of God was a tragedy - but believed human beings needed to accept the tragedy and move forward in a world that was unjust and meaningless
Friedrich Nietzsche
Faust
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Jukebox musicals
31. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Librettist
Naturalism
Early European travelers and missionaries
Sentimental Comedies
32. Only cost a nickel
Symbolism
onnagata
rock musical
Nickelodeons
33. 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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34. Plays without music
Wole Soyinka
Shavian Comedies
Happenings
Straight Plays
35. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
The Black Crook
Poetic Realism
Natyasastra
Bread and Puppet Theatre
36. French Enlightenment playwright; was an inventor and thinker who spent countless hours at the leading intellectual salons of France; most famous plays are The Barber of Seville - and The Marriage of Figaro - his plays reflect the attitudes of the Enl
Surrealism
Beaumarchais
Opera
Poetic Realism
37. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Absurdism
The Jazz Singer
A Trip to Coontown
Kathakali
38. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
Minstrel Show Structure
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Beaumarchais
39. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Ziegfield Follies
Emile Zola
Bunraku movements
Ta'ziyeh
40. What western theatre is often called:
Shakespeare's King John
Aristotelian
Operatic Musicals
Restoration
41. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
Domestic Tragedies
Realism
The Interpretation of Dreams
Lyricist
42. 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
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Chinese Theatre
Opera
Das Kapital
43. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Natyasastra
Bunraku movements
musical
Nell Gwynn
44. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Peking Opera
Bunraku movements
Non-Western Drama
The Jazz Singer
45. 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
Vaudeville
Kabuki
Early European travelers and missionaries
Comedy of Manners
46. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Denis Diderot
Straight Plays
The Adding Machine (1923)
The Student Prince
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'
Romantic Playwrights
Problem plays
Broadway Shows
Hilarious Absurdism
48. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Variety Show
Ha
non-Western Theatre
Eugene O'Neill
49. 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
Daguerreotype
Mie pose
Regional Theatre
A Trip to Coontown
50. 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
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Total Theatre
Reprise
Goethe