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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Ziegfield Follies
Bertolt Brecht
Straight Plays
well-made plays
2. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Andre Antoine
Communists took control
Ballad Operas
Kafkaesque
3. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Kordian (1962)
Domestic Tragedies
Mie pose
dance musicals
4. Proclaimed 'God is dead...and we have killed him.'; felt taht absence of God was a tragedy - but believed human beings needed to accept the tragedy and move forward in a world that was unjust and meaningless
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Friedrich Nietzsche
Kyu
Blaise Pascal
5. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
dance musicals
Japanese Theatre
Jukebox musicals
Eugene Ionesco
6. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Romantics
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Performance Art
book musicals
7. 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
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Broadway Shows
Louis Daguerre
Dadaism
8. 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
Dance of the Forest
Denis Diderot
Noh drama and Kabuki
Performance Art
9. 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
Romantics
A Trip to Coontown
Sanskrit Drama
Kabuki
10. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Ballad Operas
Characters in the Peking Opera
The Student Prince
Peking Opera
11. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Hilarious Absurdism
Dance of the Forest
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Naturalism
12. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Beaumarchais
Nell Gwynn
dance musicals
Noh drama and Kabuki
13. Sell over $1billion worth of tickets annually - majority of those are for musicals
Das Kapital
Samuel Beckett
Broadway Shows
Kabuki
14. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Emile Zola
Painted-face roles
Fourth Room
Ziegfield Follies
15. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
musical comedy
A Dream Play (1902)
Sanskrit Drama
Characters in the Peking Opera
16. Greatest of the Sturm und Drang playwrights; was also a critic - journalist - painter - biologist - statesman - poet - novelist - philosopher - scientist - and the manager of the Duke of Weimar's playhouse
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Off-Off-Broadway
Lyricist
Goethe
17. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Peking Opera
The Enlightenment
Highly Stylized Gestures
Intermezzi
18. Comic operas that mixed popular songs of the day with spoken dialogue
Oscar Wilde
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Poetic Realism
Ballad Operas
19. Third part of a Noh play - the protagonist appears as a new self - and the cause of torment is resolved
First Public Opera House
Kyu
John Millington Synge
Communists took control
20. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Communists took control
Jo
Regional Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
21. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Poetic Realism
box set
Louis Daguerre
The Interpretation of Dreams
22. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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23. 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
Blaise Pascal
Antonin Artaud
Ta'ziyeh
Bunraku movements
24. 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
Broadway Shows
Sentimental Comedies
Ziegfield Follies
Anton Chekhov
25. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Variety Show
George Bernard Shaw
Faust
women could legally appear on stages in England
26. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Voltaire
Revue (Musical Review)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Aphra Behn
27. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Dance of the Forest
Islamic Culture
non-Western Theatre
Fatalist Absurdism
28. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Highly Stylized Gestures
Ritual Theatre
Denis Diderot
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
29. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
Friedrich Nietzsche
Communists took control
Ritual Theatre
30. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
box set
A Trip to Coontown
William Fox Talbot
Off Broadway
31. Earliest form for photography
Noh drama
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Kordian (1962)
Daguerreotype
32. 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
well-made plays
Existentialism
Oscar Wilde
Kafkaesque
33. 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
well-made plays
Maxim Gorky
Vaudeville
Lorraine Handsberry
34. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Goethe
Kordian (1962)
Off Broadway
Avant-Garde
35. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Harold Pinter
Naturalism
Absurdism
Shadow Theatre
36. A robust and spectacular version of Noh; named after the characters for 'song' - 'dance' - and 'skill'; created by a woman named Okuni - owner of a brothel
Ballad Operas
Sean O'Casey
Straight Plays
Kabuki
37. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Surrealism
Jo
Das Kapital
38. 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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39. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Bunraku movements
Aphra Behn
Intermezzi
Kordian (1962)
40. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
William Fox Talbot
rock musical
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Naturalistic Plays
41. First part had musical numbers with little comic dialogue; second part was full of songs - dance and standup routines; third part featured a one-act play
Minstrel Show Structure
Painted-face roles
Goethe
Ki
42. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Communists took control
Jukebox musicals
Nell Gwynn
Sanskrit Drama
43. What western theatre is often called:
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Louis Daguerre
The Enlightenment
Aristotelian
44. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
William Fox Talbot
Intermezzi
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Highly Stylized Gestures
45. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Africa
Shakuntala
rock musical
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
46. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
rock musical
Oscar Wilde
Fatalist Absurdism
Naturalistic Plays
47. 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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48. 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
Daguerreotype
musical comedy
Existentialism
The Communist Manifesto
49. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Ha
Fatalist Absurdism
50. 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
Anton Chekhov
Gotthold Lessing
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Non-Western Drama