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Theatre Basics
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1. Writes the book
Sanskrit Drama
Wole Soyinka
Librettist
Comic opera
2. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Noh drama
Shimpa
Poetic Realism
Alienation Effect
3. Form of drama that dominated theatre in India for a thousand years; named for the ancient Indian language in which its plays are performed; combine the natural and the supernatural - the believable and unbelievable
A Trip to Coontown
Sanskrit Drama
Blaise Pascal
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
4. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Broadway Shows
Beaumarchais
Kyu
Existential Absurdism
5. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Eugene O'Neill
Book
Japanese Theatre
Ken Saro-Wiwa
6. 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
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Expressionism
Faust
The Koran
7. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Early European travelers and missionaries
Broadway Shows
Performance Art
Kyu
8. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
book musicals
Ballad Operas
Antonin Artaud
3 components of Musical Scripts
9. 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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
well-made plays
Harold Pinter
Emile Zola
10. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Blaise Pascal
Shimpa
Existential Absurdism
non-Western Theatre
11. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Romantics
Comic opera
The Black Crook
The Interpretation of Dreams
12. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
women could legally appear on stages in England
rock musical
Shakuntala
Andre Antoine
13. 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'
Problem plays
Music
Theatre of Cruelty
Sentimental Comedies
14. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
musical
Faust
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
First Public Opera House
15. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Emile Zola
Kordian (1962)
William Fox Talbot
Domestic Tragedies
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
The Adding Machine (1923)
Realism
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Opera
17. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Antonin Artaud
rock musical
The Interpretation of Dreams
Ritual Theatre
18. 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
musical
Eugene Ionesco
Vaudeville
19. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Fourth Room
Andre Antoine
Naturalism
Mie pose
20. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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21. '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
Burlesque
Problem plays
Henrik Ibsen
A Trip to Coontown
22. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
Sanskrit Drama
Wole Soyinka
Goethe
23. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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24. Thought that inner truths could be hinted at only through symbols; sought to replace the specific and concrete with the suggestive and metaphorical; usually had little plot or action and tended to baffle the audience
The Black Crook
Peking Opera
The Adding Machine (1923)
Symbolism
25. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Intermezzi
Alienation Effect
musical
Minstrel Show
26. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
George Bernard Shaw
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Goethe
Ki
27. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Lorraine Handsberry
Romantics
Restoration
Communists took control
28. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Kathakali
Eugene O'Neill
Africa
book musicals
29. 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)
The Jazz Singer
Ziegfield Follies
Precolonial African Theatre
Operetta
30. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
George Bernard Shaw
Domestic Tragedies
Samuel Beckett
Fourth Room
31. Earliest form for photography
Kafkaesque
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Daguerreotype
32. Writes the lyrics
Lyricist
Composer
Theatre of Cruelty
Reprise
33. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Beaumarchais
Fourth Room
Nickelodeons
John Millington Synge
34. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Expressionism
Straight Plays
Samuel Beckett
35. 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
Communists took control
Antonin Artaud
Oscar Wilde
Music
36. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Shadow Theatre
Man and Superman (1903)
Showstopper
Operatic Musicals
37. Form of theatre that mixed traditional African ritual theatre and Western-style drama; encouraged African nationalism - glorified Africa's past - and advanced African customs - rituals - and culture; also dealt with serious political themes and appla
George Bernard Shaw
Total Theatre
Kafkaesque
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
38. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
onnagata
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Book
Dance of the Forest
39. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bertolt Brecht
Straight Plays
Highly Stylized Gestures
40. 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
Operatic Musicals
Beaumarchais
Romantic Playwrights
Intermezzi
41. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Avant-Garde
Kyu
Existentialism
Fatalist Absurdism
42. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Surrealism
Poetic Realism
Characters in the Peking Opera
Harold Pinter
43. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Surrealism
Bunraku movements
Jukebox musicals
Precolonial African Theatre
44. Plays without music
The Living Theatre
Shimpa
First Public Opera House
Straight Plays
45. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Shakespeare's King John
Ki
Shimpa
46. Sarcastic label of Scribe's plays; the sympathetic protagonist suffers at the hands of an evil antagonist in the course of intense action - suspense - and contrived play devices; ending is always happy and the loose ends are neatly tied up
Happenings
The Student Prince
well-made plays
The Enlightenment
47. 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
Comedy of Manners
Kafkaesque
Naturalism
Shimpa
48. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Little Theatre Movement
Fatalist Absurdism
Broadway Shows
Poetic Realism
49. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Anton Chekhov
Painted-face roles
Man and Superman (1903)
50. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Ki
Poetic Realism
The Black Crook
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris