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Theatre Basics
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1. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Kathakali
The Jazz Singer
Lorraine Handsberry
Eugene Ionesco
2. Records of this type of theatre are fragmentary - but we do know that it grew out of regional religious rituals related to Confucianism - Taoism - and Buddhism - and ritual dances performed during the Shang dynasty
Chinese Theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Minstrel Show Structure
The Origin of the Cakewalk
3. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Ha
book musicals
Verfremdung
Alienation Effect
4. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Peking Opera
musical
Shadow Theatre
Nell Gwynn
5. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Noh drama
Naturalistic Plays
Andre Antoine
Peking Opera
6. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
onnagata
Naturalism
Avant-Garde
Little Theatre Movement
7. What western theatre is often called:
Mie pose
Aristotelian
Japanese Theatre
Sanskrit Drama
8. Writes the book
Performance Art
Avant-Garde
Librettist
Melodrama
9. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Off-Off-Broadway
Blaise Pascal
The Jazz Singer
Straight Plays
10. 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
Eugene O'Neill
Surrealism
Happenings
Existential Absurdism
11. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Ritual Theatre
Kyu
Sentimental Comedies
Harold Pinter
12. Writes the music
Composer
Denis Diderot
Emile Zola
Naturalistic Plays
13. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
Aristotelian
Shakespeare's King John
Communists took control
14. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Communists took control
Noh drama
Minstrel Show
Happenings
15. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
box set
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
The Enlightenment
well-made plays
16. Earliest form for photography
Friedrich Nietzsche
Daguerreotype
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Little Theatre Movement
17. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Vaudeville
rock musical
Minstrel Show
Characters in the Peking Opera
18. 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)
Denis Diderot
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Peking Opera
Operetta
19. 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
Denis Diderot
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Shadow Theatre
Naturalism
20. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Denis Diderot
Ta'ziyeh
Variety Show
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
21. First part had musical numbers with little comic dialogue; second part was full of songs - dance and standup routines; third part featured a one-act play
musical comedy
Harold Pinter
Burlesque
Minstrel Show Structure
22. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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23. 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
Shavian Comedies
Operatic Musicals
Ballad Operas
Denis Diderot
24. 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)
Alienation Effect
well-made plays
George Bernard Shaw
Oscar Wilde
25. Writes the lyrics
Aphra Behn
John Millington Synge
Harold Pinter
Lyricist
26. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Dance of the Forest
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Kyu
A Trip to Coontown
27. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Friedrich Nietzsche
Straight Plays
Romantics
Burlesque
28. Writes the music
Composer
Romantic Playwrights
Nickelodeons
A Dream Play (1902)
29. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Nell Gwynn
Faust
Happenings
Communists took control
30. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Broadway Shows
Book
Anton Chekhov
Burlesque
31. 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
Bertolt Brecht
A Trip to Coontown
Variety Show
Harold Pinter
32. 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
Emile Zola
Mie pose
Ballad Operas
Eugene O'Neill
33. Known for life-like sets that used hand-painted screens and gas-powered lighting effects to stage realistic sunrises and storm clouds; invented the DAGUERREO-TYPE - which was an early form of photography
Comic opera
Louis Daguerre
Avant-Garde
Blaise Pascal
34. 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
Total Theatre
Maxim Gorky
Ziegfield Follies
Showstopper
35. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Japanese Theatre
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Daguerreotype
rock musical
36. 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
Ha
Aristotelian
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oscar Wilde
37. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Emile Zola
Peking Opera
Beaumarchais
Harold Pinter
38. Plays without music
Maxim Gorky
Straight Plays
Ziegfield Follies
Romantics
39. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
First Public Opera House
book musicals
Fourth Room
40. 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
box set
A Trip to Coontown
Louis Daguerre
Opera
41. 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
The Black Crook
Kafkaesque
Kordian (1962)
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
42. Studied the history of class conflict
Highly Stylized Gestures
The Communist Manifesto
Sentimental Comedies
Islamic Culture
43. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Naturalistic Plays
Goethe
Librettist
44. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Little Theatre Movement
Vaudeville
Denis Diderot
Nickelodeons
45. 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
George Bernard Shaw
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Kafkaesque
Lyrics
46. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Showstopper
Absurdism
Sentimental Comedies
George Bernard Shaw
47. 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
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Regional Theatre
Faust
48. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Lyricist
Painted-face roles
rock musical
Avant-Garde
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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Western Drama
The Jazz Singer
Gotthold Lessing
50. 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)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Peking Opera
Regional Theatre
Shimpa