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Theatre Basics
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1. Writes the lyrics
Noh drama
Problem plays
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Lyricist
2. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Sentimental Comedies
Minstrel Show Structure
Absurdism
3. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Fatalist Absurdism
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Faust
4. Greatest of the Sturm und Drang playwrights; was also a critic - journalist - painter - biologist - statesman - poet - novelist - philosopher - scientist - and the manager of the Duke of Weimar's playhouse
Goethe
George Bernard Shaw
dance musicals
Man and Superman (1903)
5. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
The Communist Manifesto
Highly Stylized Gestures
Off-Off-Broadway
Variety Show
6. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Highly Stylized Gestures
Dance of the Forest
onnagata
Operetta
7. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
musical comedy
Surrealism
Noh drama and Kabuki
Opera
8. Grew up in poverty and put himself through medical school and set up free clinics in Russia to help the poor; The Seagull (1896) - Uncle Vanya (1899) Three Sisters (1901) & The Cherry Orchard (1904); placed on stage the lazy chaos of lives crushed by
Opera
Anton Chekhov
Kabuki
John Millington Synge
9. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Sentimental Comedies
Kathakali
Antonin Artaud
Happenings
10. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Communists took control
Romantics
Little Theatre Movement
The Interpretation of Dreams
11. 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
Book
Early European travelers and missionaries
Oscar Wilde
The Student Prince
12. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Opera
Man and Superman (1903)
Daguerreotype
Aphra Behn
13. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Louis Daguerre
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Lyricist
Nell Gwynn
14. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Communists took control
Librettist
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Jukebox musicals
15. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Ritual Theatre
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Shakuntala
16. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)
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17. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Romantics
Comic opera
Eugene Ionesco
18. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
musical
The Adding Machine (1923)
Oscar Wilde
The Jazz Singer
19. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Ziegfield Follies
Romantic Playwrights
George Bernard Shaw
Africa
20. 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
Voltaire
Goethe
Symbolism
Absurdism
21. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Ballad Operas
Kafkaesque
Shadow Theatre
Peking Opera
22. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Ziegfield Follies
Anton Chekhov
23. The men who play female roles are called:
Intermezzi
Vaudeville
onnagata
Harold Pinter
24. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
well-made plays
Dadaism
Operatic Musicals
Reprise
25. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Vaudeville
Reprise
book musicals
Beaumarchais
26. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Characters in the Peking Opera
William Fox Talbot
Louis Daguerre
27. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Problem plays
William Fox Talbot
Symbolism
Das Kapital
28. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
Lyrics
Sanskrit Drama
Lyrics
29. Proclaimed 'God is dead...and we have killed him.'; felt taht absence of God was a tragedy - but believed human beings needed to accept the tragedy and move forward in a world that was unjust and meaningless
Friedrich Nietzsche
Regional Theatre
Lyrics
A Dream Play (1902)
30. '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
Regional Theatre
Shakuntala
overture
Henrik Ibsen
31. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Dadaism
non-Western Theatre
Melodrama
Kafkaesque
32. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Absurdism
Melodrama
Opera
33. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Vaudeville
Shakuntala
Kabuki
34. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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35. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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36. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Kordian (1962)
Das Kapital
Symbolism
Naturalistic Plays
37. 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
First Public Opera House
Revue (Musical Review)
Total Theatre
38. 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
Kabuki
Little Theatre Movement
Total Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
39. 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
Vaudeville
William Fox Talbot
Intermezzi
Denis Diderot
40. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Sentimental Comedies
Bunraku movements
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Existential Absurdism
41. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Naturalism
Ritual Theatre
Alienation Effect
Domestic Tragedies
42. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Alienation Effect
Kathakali
Lyrics
Precolonial African Theatre
43. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
The Adding Machine (1923)
Aphra Behn
musical
Comic opera
44. 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
Ballad Operas
Africa
John Millington Synge
Sanskrit Drama
45. 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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46. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Eugene Ionesco
Faust
Harold Pinter
Ritual Theatre
47. Three parts of a Noh play
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Jean-Paul Sartre
Shadow Theatre
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
48. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Anton Chekhov
Ritual Theatre
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kyu
49. Filled with characters who cannot resist an argument about social issues; no character is exempt from talking politics and theorizing about moral - artistic or religious reform
Kyu
Sanskrit Drama
Shavian Comedies
Naturalism
50. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Revue (Musical Review)
Realism
Blaise Pascal
Fourth Room