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Theatre Basics
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1. Most famous surrealist and was a French writer and director; studied Asian religions - mysticism - and ancient cultures; declared theatre should should wake the nerves and heart; argued that proscenium arch theatres create a barrier between the audie
Characters in the Peking Opera
Antonin Artaud
Oscar Wilde
Off-Off-Broadway
2. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Existentialism
Revue (Musical Review)
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Emile Zola
3. Based off the idea that before a problem can be solved - society must first understand that the problem exists; 'attack the message - not the messenger'
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Aphra Behn
Kabuki
Problem plays
4. No protagonist; deals with a family of characters who tell many stories at once; the fact that characters on stage take no action may inspire audience members to be motivated for the opposite in real life
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Noh drama and Kabuki
Lyrics
Man and Superman (1903)
5. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Voltaire
musical
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
6. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Problem plays
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Alienation Effect
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
7. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Daguerreotype
Avant-Garde
Off-Off-Broadway
non-Western Theatre
8. Book - music - and lyrics
3 components of Musical Scripts
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Kathakali
The Origin of the Cakewalk
9. 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
Shakuntala
Kabuki
The Origin of the Cakewalk
10. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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11. 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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12. 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 and Kabuki
Ballad Operas
Noh drama
Opera
13. 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
women could legally appear on stages in England
Alienation Effect
The Interpretation of Dreams
Shavian Comedies
14. 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
Straight Plays
overture
Verfremdung
Shakuntala
15. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
John Millington Synge
Operetta
Little Theatre Movement
musical
16. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
non-Western Theatre
Kyu
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Jean-Paul Sartre
17. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Librettist
Sanskrit Drama
Shakespeare's King John
Characters in the Peking Opera
18. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Opera
musical comedy
Operatic Musicals
Africa
19. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Romantics
Off Broadway
Maxim Gorky
Islamic Culture
20. Book - music - and lyrics
Goethe
Theatre of Cruelty
Happenings
3 components of Musical Scripts
21. One of the most well-known Muslim Playwrights - who uses her plays not only to express herself but also to prompt discussions about such topics as violence against women - religious fanaticism - and female sexual desire
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
First Public Opera House
Fourth Room
Daguerreotype
22. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Little Theatre Movement
Ziegfield Follies
Dadaism
Bunraku movements
23. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Romantics
Beaumarchais
Africa
Operatic Musicals
24. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Maxim Gorky
Emile Zola
John Millington Synge
Das Kapital
25. 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
Anton Chekhov
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Poetic Realism
Kathakali
26. 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
Shavian Comedies
Early European travelers and missionaries
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
27. Result of western influence - a toned down version of Kabuki - told stories of everyday life - particularly those of women - women played women's parts (whereas Kabuki was all male)
Shimpa
Non-Western Drama
The Black Crook
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
28. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Restoration
Ziegfield Follies
Little Theatre Movement
Realism
29. What western theatre is often called:
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Aristotelian
Voltaire
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
30. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Black Crook
Theatre of Cruelty
Opera
The Enlightenment
31. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Jukebox musicals
Fatalist Absurdism
Reprise
Straight Plays
32. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Showstopper
Voltaire
Domestic Tragedies
33. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Shavian Comedies
Operetta
Henrik Ibsen
Sentimental Comedies
34. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Opera
Domestic Tragedies
Shimpa
Islamic Culture
35. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Characters in the Peking Opera
Man and Superman (1903)
Dadaism
36. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Naturalistic Plays
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Fourth Room
Ballad Operas
37. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
The Black Crook
Samuel Beckett
Jukebox musicals
Friedrich Nietzsche
38. Only cost a nickel
Aphra Behn
Nickelodeons
Opera
3 components of Musical Scripts
39. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
The Interpretation of Dreams
Characters in the Peking Opera
Shimpa
Romantics
40. 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)
Avant-Garde
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Samuel Beckett
Non-Western Drama
41. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Hilarious Absurdism
Naturalism
onnagata
Opera
42. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Hilarious Absurdism
Book
Noh drama
Nickelodeons
43. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Romantic Playwrights
Early European travelers and missionaries
Intermezzi
Broadway Shows
44. Result of western influence - a toned down version of Kabuki - told stories of everyday life - particularly those of women - women played women's parts (whereas Kabuki was all male)
Emile Zola
Bertolt Brecht
Shimpa
Sean O'Casey
45. 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
Shakuntala
Hilarious Absurdism
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Theatre of Cruelty
46. 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
Oscar Wilde
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Maxim Gorky
Total Theatre
47. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Daguerreotype
Kabuki
Vaudeville
48. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Goethe
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Ritual Theatre
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
49. French philosopher often called the Father of the Romantic movement; argued that people could find happiness in a 'state of nature' and that they should learn from nature rather than the artificial and corrupted teachings of society
Jukebox musicals
Lyricist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Noh drama
50. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
overture
Verfremdung
dance musicals
Gotthold Lessing