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Theatre Basics
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1. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Restoration
The Communist Manifesto
Natyasastra
The Enlightenment
2. 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
Blaise Pascal
Regional Theatre
Ki
Naturalism
3. A popular form of stage entertainment from the 1880s to the 1940s; included a dozen or so slapstick comedy routines - song-and-dance numbers - magic acts and juggling or acrobatic performances
Vaudeville
Peking Opera
Broadway Shows
Existential Absurdism
4. Writes the lyrics
Bunraku movements
Denis Diderot
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Lyricist
5. 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
well-made plays
Operetta
The Communist Manifesto
Denis Diderot
6. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Melodrama
Romantic Playwrights
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Peking Opera
7. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Alienation Effect
Absurdism
Operatic Musicals
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
8. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Little Theatre Movement
women could legally appear on stages in England
musical
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
9. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Peking Opera
Jo
Off Broadway
Fatalist Absurdism
10. Writes the music
Restoration
Composer
Jukebox musicals
Revue (Musical Review)
11. Writes the book
Librettist
Off Broadway
Comedy of Manners
Oscar Wilde
12. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
A Dream Play (1902)
The Koran
Ritual Theatre
Western Drama
13. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Romantic Playwrights
Andre Antoine
Japanese Theatre
Western Drama
14. 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
Anton Chekhov
Kafkaesque
Painted-face roles
15. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Burlesque
Fatalist Absurdism
Opera
A Trip to Coontown
16. The orchestrated melodies
Music
Das Kapital
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Naturalistic Plays
17. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Mie pose
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ki
18. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
book musicals
Shakuntala
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Ballad Operas
19. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Lyrics
Communists took control
Shavian Comedies
Goethe
20. 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)
Samuel Beckett
well-made plays
Eugene O'Neill
Lyrics
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
The Adding Machine (1923)
Henrik Ibsen
Beaumarchais
Opera
22. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Performance Art
Noh drama and Kabuki
Communists took control
Off Broadway
23. 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
Melodrama
Maxim Gorky
Natyasastra
Oscar Wilde
24. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Alienation Effect
Non-Western Drama
Gotthold Lessing
25. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
Fourth Room
Poetic Realism
Natyasastra
26. 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
Ziegfield Follies
Harold Pinter
Jo
The Living Theatre
27. The sung words
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
William Fox Talbot
Lyrics
The Living Theatre
28. 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)
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Operetta
Music
Naturalism
29. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Lyricist
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
William Fox Talbot
Ki
30. 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
box set
Ha
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Composer
31. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Gotthold Lessing
Blaise Pascal
Happenings
Expressionism
32. 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
Off Broadway
Surrealism
Oscar Wilde
Noh drama and Kabuki
33. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Little Theatre Movement
Kafkaesque
musical comedy
Eugene O'Neill
34. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Bertolt Brecht
Faust
The Adding Machine (1923)
Precolonial African Theatre
35. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Andre Antoine
Absurdism
Henrik Ibsen
Total Theatre
36. 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
Noh drama
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
A Trip to Coontown
Domestic Tragedies
37. 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
Faust
Beaumarchais
Nickelodeons
Bread and Puppet Theatre
38. Type of Islamic theatre which is created by lighting two-dimensional figures and casting their shadows on a screen; the audience watches the silhouettes while a narrator tells a story
Showstopper
Shadow Theatre
Existentialism
Wole Soyinka
39. 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
Realism
Burlesque
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Existentialism
40. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
Comic opera
Highly Stylized Gestures
Kafkaesque
Non-Western Drama
41. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Existentialism
Burlesque
Eugene Ionesco
Emile Zola
42. A repetition of the song - sometimes with new lyrics - sometimes with the same lyrics but with new meaning or subtext in order to make a dramatic point
Samuel Beckett
Reprise
Eugene O'Neill
Wole Soyinka
43. 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
Little Theatre Movement
Shavian Comedies
Regional Theatre
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
44. 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
Opera
Showstopper
Ballad Operas
The Koran
45. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Precolonial African Theatre
Chinese Theatre
Man and Superman (1903)
Western Drama
46. 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
Little Theatre Movement
Emile Zola
Denis Diderot
Africa
47. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Black Crook
Burlesque
Librettist
Nickelodeons
48. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
musical
book musicals
dance musicals
Reprise
49. A repetition of the song - sometimes with new lyrics - sometimes with the same lyrics but with new meaning or subtext in order to make a dramatic point
First Public Opera House
onnagata
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Reprise
50. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Fatalist Absurdism
Vaudeville
Bunraku movements
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