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Theatre Basics
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1. 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)
Ha
Gotthold Lessing
Mie pose
2. The sung words
The Enlightenment
A Dream Play (1902)
Lyrics
Western Drama
3. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
box set
Bunraku movements
Verfremdung
Daguerreotype
4. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Poetic Realism
Hilarious Absurdism
Noh drama and Kabuki
Avant-Garde
5. 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
rock musical
Shakespeare's King John
Happenings
6. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
well-made plays
The Black Crook
Ritual Theatre
Domestic Tragedies
7. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Fourth Room
Jukebox musicals
The Black Crook
Nell Gwynn
8. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
The Black Crook
The Black Crook
Peking Opera
Beaumarchais
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. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Symbolism
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Off Broadway
Emile Zola
11. 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
Theatre of Cruelty
Comic opera
Western Drama
George Bernard Shaw
12. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Broadway Shows
Gotthold Lessing
Dance of the Forest
Composer
13. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Nickelodeons
Emile Zola
Burlesque
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
14. 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
A Dream Play (1902)
Shimpa
women could legally appear on stages in England
Theatre of Cruelty
15. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Naturalistic Plays
The Koran
Natyasastra
16. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Wole Soyinka
Aristotelian
Henrik Ibsen
Kyu
17. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Minstrel Show Structure
Ha
Eugene Ionesco
Jean-Paul Sartre
18. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Harold Pinter
Opera
Domestic Tragedies
Dadaism
19. 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
Librettist
Sean O'Casey
Characters in the Peking Opera
Natyasastra
20. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Happenings
Bertolt Brecht
Noh drama
Romantic Playwrights
21. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Nell Gwynn
Anton Chekhov
Romantics
Ritual Theatre
22. '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
The Student Prince
Problem plays
Bread and Puppet Theatre
23. 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
Jo
Reprise
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
The Black Crook
24. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Avant-Garde
Islamic Culture
musical comedy
Ta'ziyeh
25. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Operatic Musicals
Comic opera
Eugene O'Neill
Blaise Pascal
26. 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
non-Western Theatre
Faust
Kabuki
27. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Eugene Ionesco
Romantics
Bertolt Brecht
Restoration
28. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
The Adding Machine (1923)
Comic opera
Shavian Comedies
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
29. Earliest form for photography
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Africa
Minstrel Show Structure
Daguerreotype
30. Plays without music
Straight Plays
Eugene Ionesco
Jo
Maxim Gorky
31. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Book
Jo
Ha
rock musical
32. The German equivalent to Diderot; was a playwright - critic - and Enlightenment philosopher Who wrote tragedies and comedies about the middle-class; his greatest play was Nathan the Wise
Gotthold Lessing
Antonin Artaud
Wole Soyinka
Maxim Gorky
33. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Early European travelers and missionaries
Performance Art
Avant-Garde
A Trip to Coontown
34. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Nickelodeons
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Burlesque
Intermezzi
35. 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
Shimpa
The Interpretation of Dreams
John Millington Synge
Sanskrit Drama
36. Book - music - and lyrics
The Adding Machine (1923)
3 components of Musical Scripts
Expressionism
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
37. 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
onnagata
Andre Antoine
overture
Ken Saro-Wiwa
38. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Henrik Ibsen
Showstopper
box set
Romantics
39. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
Natyasastra
The Living Theatre
Vaudeville
40. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Straight Plays
Henrik Ibsen
Anton Chekhov
Jean-Paul Sartre
41. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Opera
Lyrics
musical
Harold Pinter
42. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
3 components of Musical Scripts
Ha
Precolonial African Theatre
Communists took control
43. 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
Harold Pinter
Bertolt Brecht
rock musical
Friedrich Nietzsche
44. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
The Living Theatre
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
book musicals
45. Elaborate geometrical designs were used for these roles which included supernatural beings - warriors - and bandits; the color of the make-up indicated the character's personality
Das Kapital
Happenings
Painted-face roles
Gotthold Lessing
46. Built in Venice in 1637
The Koran
Western Drama
Gotthold Lessing
First Public Opera House
47. 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)
Painted-face roles
Naturalism
Off Broadway
George Bernard Shaw
48. 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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49. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
box set
Henrik Ibsen
Absurdism
Ziegfield Follies
50. The orchestrated melodies
Music
Kathakali
3 components of Musical Scripts
Kordian (1962)