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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Shimpa
Restoration
Das Kapital
2. The sung words
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Kafkaesque
Lorraine Handsberry
Lyrics
3. 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
Precolonial African Theatre
Mie pose
A Trip to Coontown
Japanese Theatre
4. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Comedy of Manners
Romantics
Comic opera
First Public Opera House
5. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Avant-Garde
Ta'ziyeh
A Dream Play (1902)
6. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
Blaise Pascal
Goethe
Reprise
7. 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
Operatic Musicals
overture
Comedy of Manners
Maxim Gorky
8. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
women could legally appear on stages in England
Characters in the Peking Opera
Sean O'Casey
9. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Emile Zola
Fourth Room
Non-Western Drama
The Interpretation of Dreams
10. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Andre Antoine
Bunraku movements
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
11. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Nell Gwynn
Operatic Musicals
Noh drama and Kabuki
Western Drama
12. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Bunraku movements
The Enlightenment
Lorraine Handsberry
George Bernard Shaw
13. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Blaise Pascal
Highly Stylized Gestures
Samuel Beckett
Absurdism
14. 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
Sentimental Comedies
Shakespeare's King John
Expressionism
Peking Opera
15. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
First Public Opera House
Opera
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
16. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Africa
Off-Off-Broadway
Western Drama
Existentialism
17. 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
Intermezzi
Non-Western Drama
Man and Superman (1903)
Jo
18. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Fatalist Absurdism
Avant-Garde
musical comedy
Naturalistic Plays
19. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Shakespeare's King John
Off Broadway
Theatre of Cruelty
Operatic Musicals
20. Writes the music
Ballad Operas
Jo
Denis Diderot
Composer
21. Result of western influence - a toned down version of Kabuki - told stories of everyday life - particularly those of women - women played women's parts (whereas Kabuki was all male)
Nickelodeons
Shimpa
George Bernard Shaw
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
22. 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
Beaumarchais
Voltaire
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Japanese Theatre
23. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
dance musicals
Beaumarchais
Oscar Wilde
women could legally appear on stages in England
24. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Ha
Opera
Jean-Paul Sartre
Early European travelers and missionaries
25. Attacked the evils and restrictions of society; tried to reveal the higher reality of the unconscious mind with fantastic imagery and contradictory images; performances were often violent and cruel as they tried to shock the audience into the realiza
Dadaism
Surrealism
Precolonial African Theatre
Mie pose
26. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Samuel Beckett
Book
Librettist
Romantic Playwrights
27. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Dance of the Forest
The Student Prince
Noh drama
Naturalistic Plays
28. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Eugene O'Neill
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Shavian Comedies
29. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
overture
Sean O'Casey
Ki
Dance of the Forest
30. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Ta'ziyeh
Sean O'Casey
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
31. 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
Expressionism
Peking Opera
Restoration
Operatic Musicals
32. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Peking Opera
The Student Prince
Nell Gwynn
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
33. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Africa
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Vaudeville
Performance Art
34. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Romantics
Variety Show
Maxim Gorky
Eugene Ionesco
35. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Communists took control
Harold Pinter
A Trip to Coontown
Domestic Tragedies
36. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
George Bernard Shaw
Noh drama and Kabuki
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
37. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Broadway Shows
dance musicals
Aphra Behn
Sanskrit Drama
38. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Man and Superman (1903)
Problem plays
Kyu
39. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shakespeare's King John
Showstopper
40. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Peking Opera
Communists took control
Oscar Wilde
Characters in the Peking Opera
41. 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
Jo
Restoration
Painted-face roles
3 components of Musical Scripts
42. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Dance of the Forest
Non-Western Drama
Showstopper
Highly Stylized Gestures
43. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Nell Gwynn
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Alienation Effect
Jukebox musicals
44. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Operetta
The Living Theatre
Ha
Early European travelers and missionaries
45. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Aphra Behn
Reprise
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Restoration
46. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
Jo
box set
Nell Gwynn
47. 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
Shakuntala
Symbolism
Bertolt Brecht
Kafkaesque
48. 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)
Straight Plays
Samuel Beckett
Communists took control
Vaudeville
49. A robust and spectacular version of Noh; named after the characters for 'song' - 'dance' - and 'skill'; created by a woman named Okuni - owner of a brothel
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Poetic Realism
Kabuki
Non-Western Drama
50. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Existential Absurdism
women could legally appear on stages in England
Communists took control
Three kinds of Kabuki plays