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Theatre Basics
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1. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Straight Plays
Alienation Effect
Ballad Operas
A Trip to Coontown
2. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Faust
overture
Book
Nell Gwynn
3. 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)
Romantic Playwrights
Fatalist Absurdism
Shimpa
Melodrama
4. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Romantics
Man and Superman (1903)
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Total Theatre
5. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Book
The Jazz Singer
Shakuntala
Beaumarchais
6. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Lyricist
Bunraku movements
Eugene O'Neill
Fourth Room
7. 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
The Student Prince
Shadow Theatre
Total Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
8. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Showstopper
Daguerreotype
Reprise
Off Broadway
9. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Minstrel Show
Friedrich Nietzsche
Kyu
10. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Black Crook
A Trip to Coontown
Africa
Broadway Shows
11. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Composer
John Millington Synge
Bunraku movements
Chinese Theatre
12. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
box set
Music
The Jazz Singer
William Fox Talbot
13. 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
Total Theatre
Fatalist Absurdism
Happenings
14. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Fourth Room
Avant-Garde
Naturalistic Plays
Sanskrit Drama
15. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Peking Opera
Domestic Tragedies
Romantics
Communists took control
16. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
The Interpretation of Dreams
Domestic Tragedies
Lyrics
Showstopper
17. 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
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Intermezzi
Natyasastra
Surrealism
18. 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
onnagata
Bunraku movements
Aphra Behn
Mie pose
19. Comedies forced Victorian society to reexamine its hypocrisies; Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) - A WOman of No Importance (1893) - An Ideal Husband (1894); advocated 'art for art's sake'; The Importance of Being Ernest
Oscar Wilde
Operetta
The Black Crook
Comic opera
20. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Variety Show
Communists took control
Total Theatre
Ki
21. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
The Koran
Ha
Goethe
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
22. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Highly Stylized Gestures
Das Kapital
23. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Romantic Playwrights
Emile Zola
Comic opera
Broadway Shows
24. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Oscar Wilde
Fatalist Absurdism
Nell Gwynn
Western Drama
25. 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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
dance musicals
Broadway Shows
Wole Soyinka
26. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Noh drama and Kabuki
Problem plays
book musicals
Kabuki
27. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Romantics
Antonin Artaud
Fatalist Absurdism
Comedy of Manners
28. 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
Precolonial African Theatre
Regional Theatre
Operetta
onnagata
29. 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
Avant-Garde
Opera
Bertolt Brecht
overture
30. Plays without music
Bread and Puppet Theatre
non-Western Theatre
Straight Plays
Aphra Behn
31. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Shavian Comedies
Ha
Expressionism
Absurdism
32. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Restoration
A Dream Play (1902)
Anton Chekhov
Faust
33. What western theatre is often called:
Minstrel Show Structure
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Man and Superman (1903)
Aristotelian
34. 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
Melodrama
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Ritual Theatre
The Student Prince
35. 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
Man and Superman (1903)
Fatalist Absurdism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Expressionism
36. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Bunraku movements
Absurdism
Painted-face roles
Dance of the Forest
37. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Alienation Effect
Opera
Shadow Theatre
Happenings
38. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Man and Superman (1903)
non-Western Theatre
Total Theatre
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
Lorraine Handsberry
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Peking Opera
Jo
40. Only cost a nickel
Nickelodeons
Comedy of Manners
Expressionism
box set
41. Writes the music
Burlesque
Bunraku movements
Composer
Theatre of Cruelty
42. Comedies forced Victorian society to reexamine its hypocrisies; Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) - A WOman of No Importance (1893) - An Ideal Husband (1894); advocated 'art for art's sake'; The Importance of Being Ernest
Highly Stylized Gestures
Romantic Playwrights
Oscar Wilde
Natyasastra
43. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Symbolism
The Jazz Singer
Kabuki
Harold Pinter
44. Studied the history of class conflict
Ta'ziyeh
The Communist Manifesto
Sanskrit Drama
Maxim Gorky
45. 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
Alienation Effect
Romantic Playwrights
A Trip to Coontown
Performance Art
46. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
William Fox Talbot
Maxim Gorky
Ziegfield Follies
47. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Islamic Culture
Off-Off-Broadway
book musicals
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
48. 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
Mie pose
John Millington Synge
Dadaism
The Koran
49. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Composer
Africa
Blaise Pascal
women could legally appear on stages in England
50. Built in Venice in 1637
Romantic Playwrights
First Public Opera House
musical
A Dream Play (1902)