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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Ziegfield Follies
George Bernard Shaw
Poetic Realism
Surrealism
2. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
musical
Beaumarchais
rock musical
3. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Little Theatre Movement
Minstrel Show
Jukebox musicals
The Adding Machine (1923)
4. A production of British actor Charles Kean; had realistic costumes - set and props that he had researched to make sure they were historically correct
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5. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
Communists took control
John Millington Synge
Operetta
6. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Minstrel Show
Aristotelian
Bunraku movements
Revue (Musical Review)
7. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
musical comedy
Ki
Librettist
Characters in the Peking Opera
8. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Revue (Musical Review)
Hilarious Absurdism
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Henrik Ibsen
9. 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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10. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
The Student Prince
Shadow Theatre
11. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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12. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Expressionism
Ki
Broadway Shows
13. 1. theatre has an actor who plays a character - theatre is artificial - and 2. theatre usually has a story with a conflict - conflict is key to all drama
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Total Theatre
Ki
Kyu
14. 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
Communists took control
Harold Pinter
Symbolism
Jean-Paul Sartre
15. A sudden - striking pose (often with their eyes crossed - chin sharply turned - and big toe pointed towards the sky) in Kabuki accompanied by several powerful beats of wooden clappers
Natyasastra
Total Theatre
Mie pose
Ziegfield Follies
16. 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
Wole Soyinka
overture
Oscar Wilde
Naturalistic Plays
17. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Maxim Gorky
musical comedy
Samuel Beckett
The Interpretation of Dreams
18. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
William Fox Talbot
Eugene O'Neill
Dance of the Forest
Shavian Comedies
19. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
Eugene Ionesco
Off Broadway
Precolonial African Theatre
20. 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
John Millington Synge
Minstrel Show
The Koran
George Bernard Shaw
21. No spoken dialogue - entirely sung; comes from the Latin word 'work' and may have originally meant 'works in music' or 'musical works for the stage'; first operas were in Italy in late 1500s
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Opera
Comic opera
Goethe
22. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Existentialism
Restoration
Oscar Wilde
Precolonial African Theatre
23. A true-to-life interior containing a room or rooms with the fourth wall removed so that the audience has the feeling of looking in on the characters' private lives
Ha
box set
Naturalistic Plays
Das Kapital
24. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
Nickelodeons
Regional Theatre
Kathakali
25. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Aristotelian
Wole Soyinka
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Ha
26. 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
Sanskrit Drama
Existential Absurdism
Existential Absurdism
Regional Theatre
27. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Jo
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shavian Comedies
Ritual Theatre
28. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
The Koran
Verfremdung
Operatic Musicals
Mie pose
29. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Intermezzi
Jukebox musicals
Sanskrit Drama
30. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Bertolt Brecht
Romantic Playwrights
Chinese Theatre
Intermezzi
31. A true-to-life interior containing a room or rooms with the fourth wall removed so that the audience has the feeling of looking in on the characters' private lives
Alienation Effect
Sentimental Comedies
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
box set
32. 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
Kordian (1962)
Ha
The Adding Machine (1923)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
33. Studied the history of class conflict
Man and Superman (1903)
Harold Pinter
Dance of the Forest
The Communist Manifesto
34. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Beaumarchais
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Variety Show
35. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Jukebox musicals
Symbolism
Anton Chekhov
musical
36. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Man and Superman (1903)
Shakespeare's King John
Variety Show
37. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Kathakali
Avant-Garde
women could legally appear on stages in England
Ziegfield Follies
38. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Fourth Room
Burlesque
Characters in the Peking Opera
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
39. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
dance musicals
Librettist
Ha
40. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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41. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Kathakali
Comedy of Manners
3 components of Musical Scripts
musical comedy
42. The orchestrated melodies
Music
Noh drama and Kabuki
Intermezzi
Burlesque
43. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Ki
Africa
Japanese Theatre
The Living Theatre
44. Writes the lyrics
John Millington Synge
Lyricist
Highly Stylized Gestures
Kyu
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
Fatalist Absurdism
women could legally appear on stages in England
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Expressionism
46. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Off Broadway
Oscar Wilde
Africa
The Enlightenment
47. 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
Vaudeville
Minstrel Show Structure
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Bertolt Brecht
48. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Friedrich Nietzsche
Poetic Realism
Kyu
Oscar Wilde
49. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Eugene Ionesco
Lorraine Handsberry
The Living Theatre
50. 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
Aphra Behn
Kordian (1962)
Oscar Wilde
Ken Saro-Wiwa