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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Melodrama
Minstrel Show
Existential Absurdism
2. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Burlesque
Poetic Realism
Kordian (1962)
dance musicals
3. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Goethe
Operatic Musicals
Jukebox musicals
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
4. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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5. Only cost a nickel
Nickelodeons
First Public Opera House
Fourth Room
Romantics
6. Studied the history of class conflict
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lyricist
Nell Gwynn
The Communist Manifesto
7. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Happenings
Precolonial African Theatre
box set
Showstopper
8. The men who play female roles are called:
onnagata
Noh drama
Daguerreotype
Poetic Realism
9. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Shadow Theatre
Japanese Theatre
Symbolism
The Koran
10. 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
Denis Diderot
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Andre Antoine
Jean-Paul Sartre
11. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Aristotelian
Kathakali
The Origin of the Cakewalk
12. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Melodrama
Comic opera
onnagata
The Origin of the Cakewalk
13. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Peking Opera
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Opera
Eugene Ionesco
14. Book - music - and lyrics
Highly Stylized Gestures
3 components of Musical Scripts
Wole Soyinka
Fourth Room
15. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Operatic Musicals
William Fox Talbot
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Samuel Beckett
16. 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
Lyrics
Fourth Room
Poetic Realism
Bertolt Brecht
17. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Sentimental Comedies
non-Western Theatre
Total Theatre
Das Kapital
18. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
The Koran
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Eugene Ionesco
William Fox Talbot
19. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Western Drama
Jukebox musicals
Fourth Room
Nell Gwynn
20. 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
The Student Prince
Reprise
Anton Chekhov
Aphra Behn
21. 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
Bunraku movements
Wole Soyinka
Minstrel Show Structure
Symbolism
22. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Burlesque
Romantics
The Living Theatre
Natyasastra
23. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Dadaism
Man and Superman (1903)
Eugene Ionesco
Highly Stylized Gestures
24. 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
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Shavian Comedies
The Koran
Variety Show
25. 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)
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Samuel Beckett
Painted-face roles
26. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Problem plays
Little Theatre Movement
Noh drama
Naturalism
27. 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
book musicals
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Total Theatre
Minstrel Show Structure
28. 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
Ha
3 components of Musical Scripts
Comedy of Manners
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
29. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Avant-Garde
Jukebox musicals
30. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Restoration
The Communist Manifesto
Lorraine Handsberry
Restoration
31. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Denis Diderot
onnagata
Avant-Garde
Andre Antoine
32. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Ha
Shakespeare's King John
Precolonial African Theatre
33. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Lyricist
Off Broadway
Antonin Artaud
Romantics
34. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Fatalist Absurdism
Das Kapital
35. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
overture
Restoration
overture
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
36. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Maxim Gorky
Jean-Paul Sartre
Romantics
37. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Das Kapital
Dance of the Forest
The Living Theatre
Shakespeare's King John
38. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Louis Daguerre
Nickelodeons
Sentimental Comedies
Early European travelers and missionaries
39. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Western Drama
Communists took control
Fatalist Absurdism
Melodrama
40. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
Total Theatre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
The Black Crook
41. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Dance of the Forest
Burlesque
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Opera
42. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Nell Gwynn
Naturalism
Mie pose
Man and Superman (1903)
43. 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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44. 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)
Operetta
Theatre of Cruelty
book musicals
Kathakali
45. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Mie pose
Non-Western Drama
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Problem plays
46. 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
musical
Surrealism
Voltaire
First Public Opera House
47. 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
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Composer
Revue (Musical Review)
Faust
48. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Kafkaesque
Existential Absurdism
Kathakali
overture
49. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Book
Minstrel Show Structure
women could legally appear on stages in England
Oscar Wilde
50. Elaborate geometrical designs were used for these roles which included supernatural beings - warriors - and bandits; the color of the make-up indicated the character's personality
Opera
Painted-face roles
Chinese Theatre
Wole Soyinka