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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Studied the history of class conflict
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
The Communist Manifesto
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
2. 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
Nell Gwynn
Painted-face roles
well-made plays
Fourth Room
3. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Naturalistic Plays
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Composer
Andre Antoine
4. 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
Reprise
Harold Pinter
Sean O'Casey
Domestic Tragedies
5. 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
Alienation Effect
Theatre of Cruelty
Louis Daguerre
6. The orchestrated melodies
Music
George Bernard Shaw
The Koran
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
7. Built in Venice in 1637
Anton Chekhov
Chinese Theatre
First Public Opera House
rock musical
8. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
well-made plays
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
The Adding Machine (1923)
Vaudeville
9. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Denis Diderot
Alienation Effect
Characters in the Peking Opera
10. Three parts of a Noh play
Henrik Ibsen
Comic opera
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Ki
11. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Book
musical comedy
Ritual Theatre
Straight Plays
12. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Off-Off-Broadway
The Jazz Singer
Harold Pinter
Oscar Wilde
13. 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
Straight Plays
Kafkaesque
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
14. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
musical comedy
Blaise Pascal
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Antonin Artaud
15. 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
Harold Pinter
Natyasastra
Operetta
The Adding Machine (1923)
16. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Natyasastra
women could legally appear on stages in England
Poetic Realism
Early European travelers and missionaries
17. Writes the music
Composer
Maxim Gorky
Kyu
Sanskrit Drama
18. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Ritual Theatre
Eugene O'Neill
Henrik Ibsen
Absurdism
19. 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
Nickelodeons
book musicals
Reprise
Existentialism
20. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Denis Diderot
Existential Absurdism
Aristotelian
Mie pose
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
Henrik Ibsen
Fourth Room
Expressionism
Ballad Operas
22. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Friedrich Nietzsche
Showstopper
Ha
women could legally appear on stages in England
23. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Shakespeare's King John
Kordian (1962)
Kabuki
Existential Absurdism
24. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Maxim Gorky
Henrik Ibsen
Eugene O'Neill
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
25. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Ha
Poetic Realism
Ziegfield Follies
Wole Soyinka
26. 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
Surrealism
Communists took control
Harold Pinter
Vaudeville
27. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Faust
Comedy of Manners
Harold Pinter
Beaumarchais
28. 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
Absurdism
The Interpretation of Dreams
Jukebox musicals
29. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Das Kapital
overture
Peking Opera
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
30. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Existential Absurdism
Romantics
Straight Plays
non-Western Theatre
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
Das Kapital
Regional Theatre
Expressionism
Avant-Garde
32. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
onnagata
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Total Theatre
Opera
33. 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
Emile Zola
Lyricist
Oscar Wilde
Expressionism
34. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Problem plays
Off Broadway
Oscar Wilde
First Public Opera House
35. 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
Precolonial African Theatre
overture
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Non-Western Drama
36. 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
First Public Opera House
Theatre of Cruelty
Shadow Theatre
Lorraine Handsberry
37. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
A Dream Play (1902)
Comedy of Manners
Romantic Playwrights
Theatre of Cruelty
38. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Noh drama
Composer
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Ken Saro-Wiwa
39. 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
Avant-Garde
Kabuki
Broadway Shows
Oscar Wilde
40. What western theatre is often called:
Shakuntala
Ziegfield Follies
Samuel Beckett
Aristotelian
41. 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
onnagata
Jo
Bertolt Brecht
Jean-Paul Sartre
42. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Fatalist Absurdism
dance musicals
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
43. 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
Showstopper
Restoration
Shavian Comedies
box set
44. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Minstrel Show
Noh drama
Mie pose
Dadaism
45. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Friedrich Nietzsche
Broadway Shows
Ritual Theatre
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
46. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Intermezzi
dance musicals
47. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
The Enlightenment
Antonin Artaud
Ballad Operas
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
48. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Faust
Sean O'Casey
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Peking Opera
49. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
Sean O'Casey
Eugene O'Neill
Expressionism
50. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Painted-face roles
The Adding Machine (1923)
Revue (Musical Review)
Natyasastra