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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Jazz Singer
Lyricist
John Millington Synge
2. Writes the lyrics
Western Drama
Book
Lyricist
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
3. 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
John Millington Synge
Comedy of Manners
Non-Western Drama
Melodrama
4. 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
Broadway Shows
Aphra Behn
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Highly Stylized Gestures
5. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Communists took control
Ziegfield Follies
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
musical
6. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
musical comedy
Shakespeare's King John
Romantic Playwrights
7. The sung words
George Bernard Shaw
Theatre of Cruelty
Lyrics
Existential Absurdism
8. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Beaumarchais
Ritual Theatre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Antonin Artaud
9. 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
Oscar Wilde
Showstopper
Natyasastra
Samuel Beckett
10. 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
Japanese Theatre
Book
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Vaudeville
11. 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
Precolonial African Theatre
Nell Gwynn
Sentimental Comedies
12. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Non-Western Drama
The Living Theatre
Melodrama
13. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
book musicals
Aphra Behn
Samuel Beckett
Off-Off-Broadway
14. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Early European travelers and missionaries
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Broadway Shows
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
15. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
Harold Pinter
Kordian (1962)
Nell Gwynn
16. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Off-Off-Broadway
Opera
Faust
Minstrel Show Structure
17. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Regional Theatre
Harold Pinter
Fatalist Absurdism
Nell Gwynn
18. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
The Communist Manifesto
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
women could legally appear on stages in England
dance musicals
19. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Existential Absurdism
Music
A Trip to Coontown
Islamic Culture
20. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Non-Western Drama
Off-Off-Broadway
Symbolism
21. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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22. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Noh drama
The Enlightenment
Aphra Behn
Realism
23. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Koran
Dadaism
Alienation Effect
24. 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
Islamic Culture
A Trip to Coontown
First Public Opera House
Ha
25. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Operatic Musicals
Bunraku movements
Blaise Pascal
Nell Gwynn
26. 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
Painted-face roles
box set
Islamic Culture
Vaudeville
27. 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
Variety Show
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Ziegfield Follies
overture
28. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Maxim Gorky
book musicals
Kathakali
Aphra Behn
29. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
dance musicals
Minstrel Show Structure
Librettist
Romantics
30. 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
The Student Prince
Antonin Artaud
Lorraine Handsberry
Theatre of Cruelty
31. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Revue (Musical Review)
Off-Off-Broadway
Opera
Highly Stylized Gestures
32. 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)
Domestic Tragedies
Samuel Beckett
Vaudeville
Dadaism
33. History plays about major political events of the past - domestic plays about the loves and lives of merchants and townspeople - and dance-dramas about the world of spirits and animals
Voltaire
The Student Prince
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Shadow Theatre
34. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Faust
Characters in the Peking Opera
Harold Pinter
Wole Soyinka
35. 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
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Natyasastra
Louis Daguerre
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
36. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Hilarious Absurdism
John Millington Synge
Sean O'Casey
Western Drama
37. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
Communists took control
Romantic Playwrights
38. Only cost a nickel
Jean-Paul Sartre
Harold Pinter
First Public Opera House
Nickelodeons
39. 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
Poetic Realism
Kafkaesque
Naturalism
Characters in the Peking Opera
40. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
John Millington Synge
Happenings
Mie pose
Dance of the Forest
41. Writes the music
Performance Art
Composer
Denis Diderot
overture
42. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Harold Pinter
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Avant-Garde
non-Western Theatre
43. Type of Islamic theatre - religious drama of Iran which allowed for actors - both professional and amateur - and has been performed in open-air playing spaces and on some occasions in specially constructed indoor stages for hundreds of years
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44. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Anton Chekhov
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Naturalistic Plays
Domestic Tragedies
45. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Islamic Culture
Beaumarchais
Ballad Operas
Beaumarchais
46. 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
Emile Zola
Voltaire
Sanskrit Drama
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
47. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Opera
The Adding Machine (1923)
Islamic Culture
Dadaism
48. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Shadow Theatre
Minstrel Show Structure
First Public Opera House
William Fox Talbot
49. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
The Enlightenment
Emile Zola
Opera
Dance of the Forest
50. Africa's greatest living playwright; born in Nigeria; plays combine symbolism - mysticism - beautiful dialogue - and they make strong political points; plays are deeply rooted in African myths - dance - and rituals but also influenced by Western dram
Wole Soyinka
Ken Saro-Wiwa
overture
Non-Western Drama