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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Existentialism
Restoration
Theatre of Cruelty
The Living Theatre
2. 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
Natyasastra
Alienation Effect
Wole Soyinka
Domestic Tragedies
3. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
Opera
Shadow Theatre
box set
4. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Off Broadway
Revue (Musical Review)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Restoration
5. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
well-made plays
Naturalistic Plays
musical
Little Theatre Movement
6. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
well-made plays
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nickelodeons
7. 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
Total Theatre
Straight Plays
Ballad Operas
Minstrel Show
8. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Man and Superman (1903)
women could legally appear on stages in England
Natyasastra
Existentialism
9. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Intermezzi
Natyasastra
Kabuki
Characters in the Peking Opera
10. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Lyricist
Variety Show
Lorraine Handsberry
Faust
11. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Variety Show
Alienation Effect
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
12. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Sean O'Casey
Comedy of Manners
box set
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
13. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Comic opera
A Dream Play (1902)
Precolonial African Theatre
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
14. Writes the book
Librettist
The Koran
Realism
Nickelodeons
15. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Romantics
Expressionism
Eugene Ionesco
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
overture
Lyricist
Shavian Comedies
Precolonial African Theatre
17. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Maxim Gorky
musical comedy
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Broadway Shows
18. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Nell Gwynn
Vaudeville
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Ziegfield Follies
19. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Jukebox musicals
Fatalist Absurdism
Nickelodeons
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
20. '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
The Living Theatre
Lyricist
Henrik Ibsen
Realism
21. 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
Oscar Wilde
Domestic Tragedies
Existentialism
dance musicals
22. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Non-Western Drama
Comic opera
Dadaism
Samuel Beckett
23. 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
Kordian (1962)
The Enlightenment
Sanskrit Drama
Kordian (1962)
24. '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
The Koran
Early European travelers and missionaries
Henrik Ibsen
Reprise
25. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
Natyasastra
Broadway Shows
Realism
Voltaire
26. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Shakespeare's King John
A Dream Play (1902)
Faust
Aphra Behn
27. 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)
Music
George Bernard Shaw
Romantic Playwrights
Friedrich Nietzsche
28. 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
Aristotelian
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Off-Off-Broadway
The Student Prince
29. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Sanskrit Drama
The Enlightenment
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Operatic Musicals
30. The men who play female roles are called:
Ballad Operas
musical
onnagata
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
31. The orchestrated melodies
Music
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Henrik Ibsen
musical comedy
32. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Symbolism
Ritual Theatre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Faust
33. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
Non-Western Drama
Friedrich Nietzsche
Daguerreotype
34. 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
overture
Total Theatre
The Student Prince
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
35. 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
Kordian (1962)
The Student Prince
Avant-Garde
Painted-face roles
36. The men who play female roles are called:
Book
Japanese Theatre
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
onnagata
37. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Peking Opera
Characters in the Peking Opera
Natyasastra
Minstrel Show
38. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Opera
musical comedy
Non-Western Drama
Andre Antoine
39. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God; not a negative - for without God humans can create their own existences - purpose and meaning
Shadow Theatre
Jukebox musicals
Existentialism
Kathakali
40. The sung words
Ki
Lyrics
rock musical
overture
41. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Performance Art
Minstrel Show
Bunraku movements
3 components of Musical Scripts
42. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
Eugene Ionesco
well-made plays
Reprise
43. One of the most important French philosophers of the Age of Reason - wrote and edited the first encyclopedia; was also a dramatist who penned books on the techniques of acting; authored The Paradox of Acting - a book that attached the pompous declama
Romantic Playwrights
Denis Diderot
Expressionism
Expressionism
44. 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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45. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Louis Daguerre
The Black Crook
Fourth Room
Naturalistic Plays
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
Man and Superman (1903)
Operetta
Voltaire
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
47. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Non-Western Drama
Kafkaesque
musical
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
48. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Existentialism
non-Western Theatre
Africa
book musicals
49. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Regional Theatre
Aphra Behn
Fourth Room
The Enlightenment
50. 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
Maxim Gorky
The Student Prince
Mie pose
Non-Western Drama