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Theatre Basics
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1. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Ballad Operas
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Friedrich Nietzsche
Eugene Ionesco
2. 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
Comedy of Manners
Librettist
Happenings
Kafkaesque
3. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
well-made plays
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Showstopper
Theatre of Cruelty
4. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Antonin Artaud
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
musical
5. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Burlesque
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Maxim Gorky
Kathakali
6. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Maxim Gorky
Composer
overture
Regional Theatre
7. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Intermezzi
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Reprise
Precolonial African Theatre
8. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Precolonial African Theatre
Kyu
well-made plays
The Adding Machine (1923)
9. A permanent - professional theatre outside NYC; founded in 1947 by Margo Jones; stage new plays alongside commercial hits and historical plays; appeal to the intellectual audiences that Hollywood seldom serves
Regional Theatre
Goethe
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Precolonial African Theatre
10. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Symbolism
Eugene Ionesco
book musicals
Naturalistic Plays
11. 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
Dance of the Forest
A Trip to Coontown
Problem plays
book musicals
12. 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
Surrealism
overture
Samuel Beckett
13. 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
Fourth Room
The Enlightenment
Natyasastra
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
14. Built in Venice in 1637
Fatalist Absurdism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
First Public Opera House
Avant-Garde
15. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Avant-Garde
well-made plays
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Surrealism
16. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Emile Zola
Dance of the Forest
Dadaism
Alienation Effect
17. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
The Koran
dance musicals
Existentialism
Shakuntala
18. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Faust
Eugene O'Neill
Problem plays
19. 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
Restoration
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Ritual Theatre
Comedy of Manners
20. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Sean O'Casey
The Koran
Kyu
21. 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
Denis Diderot
Avant-Garde
Denis Diderot
22. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Fatalist Absurdism
Broadway Shows
Africa
Theatre of Cruelty
23. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Lyricist
Precolonial African Theatre
Poetic Realism
Ballad Operas
24. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
The Living Theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Little Theatre Movement
Beaumarchais
25. Writes the book
Romantic Playwrights
Librettist
Sean O'Casey
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
26. What western theatre is often called:
Aristotelian
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Regional Theatre
The Living Theatre
27. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
musical comedy
Islamic Culture
Verfremdung
Denis Diderot
28. 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
Emile Zola
Voltaire
Bread and Puppet Theatre
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
29. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Anton Chekhov
Librettist
non-Western Theatre
Alienation Effect
30. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Fatalist Absurdism
Realism
Romantics
Samuel Beckett
31. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Naturalistic Plays
Comedy of Manners
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Hilarious Absurdism
32. Known for life-like sets that used hand-painted screens and gas-powered lighting effects to stage realistic sunrises and storm clouds; invented the DAGUERREO-TYPE - which was an early form of photography
Shavian Comedies
The Adding Machine (1923)
Denis Diderot
Louis Daguerre
33. 'The Father of Realism'; was initially a Romantic writer and his early plays were verse dramas largely based on Norwegian history and folk literature; plays presented complex - sometimes distrubing - views of human society; A Doll's House (1879) - Gh
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Henrik Ibsen
women could legally appear on stages in England
34. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Mie pose
Kordian (1962)
Straight Plays
35. 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
Romantics
A Dream Play (1902)
Beaumarchais
Avant-Garde
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)
rock musical
William Fox Talbot
Daguerreotype
Emile Zola
37. Three parts of a Noh play
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Man and Superman (1903)
Faust
38. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
Non-Western Drama
Surrealism
Fourth Room
Mie pose
39. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Revue (Musical Review)
Expressionism
Early European travelers and missionaries
Off-Off-Broadway
40. 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
William Fox Talbot
Goethe
Anton Chekhov
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
41. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Domestic Tragedies
Reprise
Anton Chekhov
42. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Composer
Romantics
Highly Stylized Gestures
Composer
43. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
onnagata
Wole Soyinka
Emile Zola
Happenings
44. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Mie pose
Jean-Paul Sartre
Off-Off-Broadway
Naturalism
45. 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
Nell Gwynn
Operatic Musicals
Expressionism
Ritual Theatre
46. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Aristotelian
3 components of Musical Scripts
47. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Shavian Comedies
Operatic Musicals
A Trip to Coontown
Expressionism
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)
Kyu
Shadow Theatre
Aristotelian
John Millington Synge
49. 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
Shavian Comedies
Ritual Theatre
Problem plays
The Student Prince
50. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Kordian (1962)
Ziegfield Follies
Jean-Paul Sartre
Dadaism