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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Writes the book
Sanskrit Drama
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Characters in the Peking Opera
Librettist
2. 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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3. Most popular type of theatre during the Restoration; often featured great wit and wordplay and told stories about sexual gratification - bedroom escapades - and humankind's unrefined nature when it comes to sex
Comedy of Manners
Eugene O'Neill
The Jazz Singer
musical comedy
4. What western theatre is often called:
Aristotelian
onnagata
Islamic Culture
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
5. 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)
Showstopper
Shimpa
Lorraine Handsberry
Fatalist Absurdism
6. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Bunraku movements
A Dream Play (1902)
3 components of Musical Scripts
Noh drama
7. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Jukebox musicals
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
women could legally appear on stages in England
Hilarious Absurdism
8. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Intermezzi
Japanese Theatre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dadaism
9. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Kafkaesque
Communists took control
Ballad Operas
Lyricist
10. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Performance Art
Dance of the Forest
Louis Daguerre
Domestic Tragedies
11. 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
Precolonial African Theatre
Operetta
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
12. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Ballad Operas
Alienation Effect
Poetic Realism
Jukebox musicals
13. 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
Peking Opera
Louis Daguerre
Dadaism
onnagata
14. The orchestrated melodies
Kathakali
Nickelodeons
Music
The Living Theatre
15. 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
Painted-face roles
Louis Daguerre
The Communist Manifesto
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
16. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
The Jazz Singer
Bunraku movements
A Dream Play (1902)
17. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
John Millington Synge
Verfremdung
Denis Diderot
Kabuki
18. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Little Theatre Movement
Comic opera
Anton Chekhov
Avant-Garde
19. 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
Little Theatre Movement
Romantics
Natyasastra
Shavian Comedies
20. Writes the lyrics
Kordian (1962)
Lyricist
Harold Pinter
Highly Stylized Gestures
21. 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)
Communists took control
Harold Pinter
Reprise
George Bernard Shaw
22. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Andre Antoine
Gotthold Lessing
The Student Prince
Eugene Ionesco
23. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
rock musical
Little Theatre Movement
Intermezzi
24. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Operetta
Music
25. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Ta'ziyeh
Variety Show
Intermezzi
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
26. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Das Kapital
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Painted-face roles
Opera
27. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Das Kapital
Straight Plays
Ritual Theatre
Avant-Garde
28. 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
Antonin Artaud
Early European travelers and missionaries
Characters in the Peking Opera
Beaumarchais
29. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Shakuntala
Revue (Musical Review)
Kafkaesque
Hilarious Absurdism
30. Plays without music
Straight Plays
Theatre of Cruelty
Islamic Culture
Kabuki
31. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Avant-Garde
The Living Theatre
Noh drama
Absurdism
32. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Domestic Tragedies
Emile Zola
A Dream Play (1902)
Characters in the Peking Opera
33. The artist imposes his own internal state onto the outside world itself; expressionism is a subjective account of an objective perception; expressionist plays use deliberate set distortion
Absurdism
Problem plays
Expressionism
Shavian Comedies
34. 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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35. Writes the book
musical
Librettist
Bertolt Brecht
Wole Soyinka
36. The men who play female roles are called:
Man and Superman (1903)
Islamic Culture
onnagata
Sentimental Comedies
37. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
rock musical
Ki
Beaumarchais
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
38. 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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39. 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
Domestic Tragedies
Ritual Theatre
Reprise
Comic opera
40. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Bertolt Brecht
Fourth Room
Sanskrit Drama
Man and Superman (1903)
41. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Existentialism
The Living Theatre
The Koran
Noh drama and Kabuki
42. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Existential Absurdism
Happenings
Shakuntala
43. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Samuel Beckett
3 components of Musical Scripts
The Koran
Aphra Behn
44. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Domestic Tragedies
Verfremdung
overture
Total Theatre
45. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
well-made plays
Maxim Gorky
Ki
46. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Ken Saro-Wiwa
musical
A Dream Play (1902)
overture
47. Writes the music
Faust
Opera
The Living Theatre
Composer
48. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
William Fox Talbot
Jo
Avant-Garde
Ziegfield Follies
49. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
well-made plays
Book
Ritual Theatre
Total Theatre
50. Three parts of a Noh play
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Hilarious Absurdism
Jo