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Theatre Basics
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1. Writes the lyrics
Kyu
Daguerreotype
Lyricist
Communists took control
2. 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
Nell Gwynn
Existentialism
Domestic Tragedies
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
3. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Faust
Aphra Behn
Antonin Artaud
Africa
4. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Non-Western Drama
Faust
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
5. 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
Vaudeville
rock musical
Shadow Theatre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6. 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
Problem plays
Ha
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Intermezzi
7. Africa's greatest living playwright; born in Nigeria; plays combine symbolism - mysticism - beautiful dialogue - and they make strong political points; plays are deeply rooted in African myths - dance - and rituals but also influenced by Western dram
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Wole Soyinka
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Kyu
8. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Shavian Comedies
Alienation Effect
Dance of the Forest
Kathakali
9. 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
Beaumarchais
dance musicals
Precolonial African Theatre
10. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Operatic Musicals
Kathakali
Jo
book musicals
11. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Romantics
Intermezzi
Alienation Effect
Music
12. 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
The Interpretation of Dreams
overture
Early European travelers and missionaries
Happenings
13. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God; not a negative - for without God humans can create their own existences - purpose and meaning
Existentialism
Daguerreotype
Goethe
The Communist Manifesto
14. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
Variety Show
rock musical
musical comedy
Fatalist Absurdism
15. 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
Shavian Comedies
Islamic Culture
Painted-face roles
Theatre of Cruelty
16. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Revue (Musical Review)
Naturalism
Gotthold Lessing
Shakespeare's King John
17. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Faust
Louis Daguerre
Early European travelers and missionaries
18. Studied the history of class conflict
The Black Crook
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
The Communist Manifesto
Louis Daguerre
19. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
The Enlightenment
Jean-Paul Sartre
Communists took control
Ziegfield Follies
20. 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
Sanskrit Drama
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Kafkaesque
21. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Daguerreotype
Broadway Shows
Realism
Kordian (1962)
22. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
John Millington Synge
overture
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Restoration
23. One of the most popular Kabuki and Bunraku playwrights - who - like Shakespeare - wrote crowd-pleasing plays that combined poetry and prose in dramatic tales of comedy - tragedy - love - and war
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Absurdism
overture
Jukebox musicals
24. 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
Expressionism
The Jazz Singer
overture
A Trip to Coontown
25. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Ritual Theatre
Jukebox musicals
Denis Diderot
Lyricist
26. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Jukebox musicals
Showstopper
Western Drama
Lyrics
27. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Realism
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Broadway Shows
musical comedy
28. Studied the history of class conflict
Voltaire
rock musical
Expressionism
The Communist Manifesto
29. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Theatre of Cruelty
Opera
Highly Stylized Gestures
30. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Comedy of Manners
Friedrich Nietzsche
women could legally appear on stages in England
Eugene O'Neill
31. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Harold Pinter
Noh drama
Dadaism
32. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
Wole Soyinka
Kafkaesque
A Dream Play (1902)
33. Thought that inner truths could be hinted at only through symbols; sought to replace the specific and concrete with the suggestive and metaphorical; usually had little plot or action and tended to baffle the audience
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
overture
Symbolism
A Dream Play (1902)
34. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Jazz Singer
Louis Daguerre
Nickelodeons
Nell Gwynn
35. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Melodrama
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
The Interpretation of Dreams
36. Earliest form for photography
dance musicals
Shakuntala
George Bernard Shaw
Daguerreotype
37. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Das Kapital
Eugene Ionesco
3 components of Musical Scripts
Comic opera
38. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
A Dream Play (1902)
Painted-face roles
Avant-Garde
39. 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
First Public Opera House
Jo
Verfremdung
Composer
40. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Fatalist Absurdism
Nickelodeons
Hilarious Absurdism
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
41. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Dance of the Forest
Bertolt Brecht
dance musicals
Islamic Culture
42. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Naturalism
Naturalism
George Bernard Shaw
43. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
Kafkaesque
Aristotelian
Kyu
Africa
44. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Beaumarchais
Burlesque
The Living Theatre
Aristotelian
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
Man and Superman (1903)
Aphra Behn
Kafkaesque
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
46. 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
Kafkaesque
Regional Theatre
Romantics
Jo
47. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Henrik Ibsen
Opera
onnagata
Das Kapital
48. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Composer
Ki
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Friedrich Nietzsche
49. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
The Communist Manifesto
Poetic Realism
Peking Opera
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
50. Type of theatre that grew out of ritual - incorporated acting - music - storytelling - poetry - dance - costumes - and lots of masks to create a theatre that combined ritual and ceremony with drama
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Precolonial African Theatre
Aphra Behn
Verfremdung