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Theatre Basics
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1. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Ballad Operas
Voltaire
Dance of the Forest
Emile Zola
2. 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
Das Kapital
Samuel Beckett
Voltaire
Dadaism
3. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
John Millington Synge
Intermezzi
Natyasastra
Opera
4. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Wole Soyinka
musical comedy
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Peking Opera
5. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Revue (Musical Review)
Highly Stylized Gestures
Friedrich Nietzsche
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
6. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Ziegfield Follies
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Non-Western Drama
7. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
The Enlightenment
The Living Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
Highly Stylized Gestures
8. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
The Living Theatre
The Black Crook
Revue (Musical Review)
Communists took control
9. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Problem plays
Painted-face roles
Reprise
Off Broadway
10. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
3 components of Musical Scripts
Operatic Musicals
Kathakali
Ziegfield Follies
11. A German poet - director and playwright who challenged traditional ideas about theatre; became a communist after watching policement shoot 4 unarmed civilians; The Life of Galileo (1938) - Mother Courage and her Children (1939) & The Caucasian Chalk
Louis Daguerre
well-made plays
Bertolt Brecht
Minstrel Show Structure
12. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Poetic Realism
William Fox Talbot
Emile Zola
The Black Crook
13. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Gotthold Lessing
Chinese Theatre
Antonin Artaud
Japanese Theatre
14. Writes the music
The Black Crook
Faust
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Composer
15. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
The Communist Manifesto
Eugene Ionesco
3 components of Musical Scripts
Regional Theatre
16. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Lyricist
Kabuki
Avant-Garde
Man and Superman (1903)
17. Built in Venice in 1637
First Public Opera House
The Jazz Singer
Shadow Theatre
The Student Prince
18. Islam's holy book - contains a warning about 'graven images' similar to the one in the Bible - prohibition applies to dolls - statues - portraits - and people playing a character
Shakuntala
The Koran
Western Drama
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
19. 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
Ballad Operas
Existentialism
Gotthold Lessing
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
20. 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
The Black Crook
Dadaism
Nell Gwynn
Beaumarchais
21. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Minstrel Show
Revue (Musical Review)
22. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
3 components of Musical Scripts
Opera
Jukebox musicals
23. Most famous surrealist and was a French writer and director; studied Asian religions - mysticism - and ancient cultures; declared theatre should should wake the nerves and heart; argued that proscenium arch theatres create a barrier between the audie
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Faust
Antonin Artaud
Jo
24. 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)
Man and Superman (1903)
George Bernard Shaw
Samuel Beckett
Operatic Musicals
25. Islam's holy book - contains a warning about 'graven images' similar to the one in the Bible - prohibition applies to dolls - statues - portraits - and people playing a character
Jukebox musicals
Beaumarchais
Ballad Operas
The Koran
26. 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)
Regional Theatre
Melodrama
women could legally appear on stages in England
27. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Daguerreotype
Naturalistic Plays
box set
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
28. 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
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Hilarious Absurdism
women could legally appear on stages in England
Aristotelian
29. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Surrealism
The Black Crook
Ki
3 components of Musical Scripts
30. Earliest form for photography
Fatalist Absurdism
Chinese Theatre
Goethe
Daguerreotype
31. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Non-Western Drama
Naturalism
A Dream Play (1902)
Bread and Puppet Theatre
32. 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
Restoration
dance musicals
Ziegfield Follies
33. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Maxim Gorky
Naturalistic Plays
Symbolism
Noh drama and Kabuki
34. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Ballad Operas
Regional Theatre
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Bunraku movements
35. First part of a Noh Play - usually a chance meeting between two characters - introductions are made and the characters engage in a question-and-answer sequence that reveals the protagonist's concern
onnagata
Fatalist Absurdism
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Jo
36. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Ha
The Origin of the Cakewalk
The Student Prince
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
37. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Poetic Realism
Regional Theatre
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Characters in the Peking Opera
38. 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)
Happenings
Operetta
Dance of the Forest
Nell Gwynn
39. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
The Student Prince
non-Western Theatre
William Fox Talbot
40. 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)
Shakuntala
George Bernard Shaw
Characters in the Peking Opera
Faust
41. 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
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Ballad Operas
overture
Precolonial African Theatre
42. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Comedy of Manners
Japanese Theatre
Louis Daguerre
Absurdism
43. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Opera
Noh drama
Composer
44. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Reprise
Kabuki
Little Theatre Movement
Bertolt Brecht
45. 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)
Jo
Eugene Ionesco
Operetta
Librettist
46. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Jazz Singer
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Communists took control
Existentialism
47. 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
Wole Soyinka
Operetta
Total Theatre
Problem plays
48. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
musical
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Islamic Culture
A Trip to Coontown
49. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Maxim Gorky
musical comedy
Naturalistic Plays
Eugene O'Neill
50. 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
Anton Chekhov
Non-Western Drama
Theatre of Cruelty
Beaumarchais