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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Jo
Louis Daguerre
Librettist
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
2. 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
onnagata
Existentialism
Antonin Artaud
Sentimental Comedies
3. First part of a Noh Play - usually a chance meeting between two characters - introductions are made and the characters engage in a question-and-answer sequence that reveals the protagonist's concern
Beaumarchais
Jo
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Burlesque
4. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Romantic Playwrights
Romantics
women could legally appear on stages in England
Communists took control
5. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Gotthold Lessing
Avant-Garde
Composer
6. 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
Goethe
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Characters in the Peking Opera
7. French Enlightenment playwright; was an inventor and thinker who spent countless hours at the leading intellectual salons of France; most famous plays are The Barber of Seville - and The Marriage of Figaro - his plays reflect the attitudes of the Enl
onnagata
musical comedy
The Interpretation of Dreams
Beaumarchais
8. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
A Dream Play (1902)
Melodrama
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Operetta
9. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Naturalism
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Communists took control
Ballad Operas
10. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Aphra Behn
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Off Broadway
Shimpa
11. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Burlesque
Gotthold Lessing
Nell Gwynn
musical
12. 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
Symbolism
women could legally appear on stages in England
Hilarious Absurdism
13. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Voltaire
A Dream Play (1902)
Henrik Ibsen
Communists took control
14. 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
women could legally appear on stages in England
Harold Pinter
well-made plays
Comic opera
15. Writes the music
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Precolonial African Theatre
musical
Composer
16. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Romantics
The Jazz Singer
well-made plays
Emile Zola
17. 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
Nickelodeons
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Opera
Ken Saro-Wiwa
18. 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
Melodrama
Emile Zola
Shavian Comedies
19. 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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20. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Harold Pinter
dance musicals
musical comedy
21. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Dance of the Forest
The Enlightenment
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Natyasastra
22. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
musical
George Bernard Shaw
Faust
Lorraine Handsberry
23. 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
The Student Prince
book musicals
John Millington Synge
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
24. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
rock musical
Existential Absurdism
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Ki
25. One of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment - French poet - essayist - and playwright whose writing often got him in trouble with the church; built a theatre on his own estate so he could freely present his plays
Blaise Pascal
Voltaire
musical
Little Theatre Movement
26. French Enlightenment playwright; was an inventor and thinker who spent countless hours at the leading intellectual salons of France; most famous plays are The Barber of Seville - and The Marriage of Figaro - his plays reflect the attitudes of the Enl
Beaumarchais
Noh drama
Hilarious Absurdism
Early European travelers and missionaries
27. Writes the lyrics
dance musicals
Lyricist
Happenings
The Koran
28. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Revue (Musical Review)
musical
Realism
Western Drama
29. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Poetic Realism
Highly Stylized Gestures
The Black Crook
overture
30. 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
Romantic Playwrights
Reprise
Precolonial African Theatre
Mie pose
31. 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
Vaudeville
Samuel Beckett
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Verfremdung
32. A permanent - professional theatre outside NYC; founded in 1947 by Margo Jones; stage new plays alongside commercial hits and historical plays; appeal to the intellectual audiences that Hollywood seldom serves
Nickelodeons
Regional Theatre
Avant-Garde
Goethe
33. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Domestic Tragedies
women could legally appear on stages in England
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Alienation Effect
34. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Das Kapital
Alienation Effect
Verfremdung
35. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Avant-Garde
Broadway Shows
The Enlightenment
The Interpretation of Dreams
36. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Kathakali
Nell Gwynn
Lyricist
Symbolism
37. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Eugene Ionesco
Librettist
Characters in the Peking Opera
Ballad Operas
38. 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)
Anton Chekhov
Little Theatre Movement
Revue (Musical Review)
Operetta
39. Only cost a nickel
The Origin of the Cakewalk
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Ki
Nickelodeons
40. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
dance musicals
Sentimental Comedies
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Kyu
41. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Book
The Student Prince
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Minstrel Show
42. A production of British actor Charles Kean; had realistic costumes - set and props that he had researched to make sure they were historically correct
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43. The orchestrated melodies
The Adding Machine (1923)
The Student Prince
Poetic Realism
Music
44. 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
Sentimental Comedies
Natyasastra
Shakespeare's King John
Performance Art
45. 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'
Voltaire
Fatalist Absurdism
Ziegfield Follies
Problem plays
46. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Realism
Shavian Comedies
Avant-Garde
Hilarious Absurdism
47. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Romantics
Africa
Emile Zola
48. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
The Adding Machine (1923)
Dadaism
Little Theatre Movement
49. 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
3 components of Musical Scripts
The Living Theatre
Painted-face roles
Louis Daguerre
50. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Romantics
Variety Show
Ziegfield Follies
The Adding Machine (1923)