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Theatre Basics
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1. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Showstopper
Gotthold Lessing
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Emile Zola
2. 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
The Koran
Harold Pinter
Romantic Playwrights
3. 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
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Shakespeare's King John
Bunraku movements
4. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Performance Art
Western Drama
Chinese Theatre
Kordian (1962)
5. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Andre Antoine
Naturalism
Shavian Comedies
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
6. 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
Happenings
Mie pose
Reprise
Sean O'Casey
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
Straight Plays
Noh drama
Beaumarchais
Wole Soyinka
8. 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
Ki
Peking Opera
Bertolt Brecht
Naturalism
9. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Happenings
Das Kapital
The Origin of the Cakewalk
10. Built in Venice in 1637
William Fox Talbot
First Public Opera House
overture
Non-Western Drama
11. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Ki
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
12. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
The Jazz Singer
A Dream Play (1902)
The Jazz Singer
Aphra Behn
13. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
well-made plays
Happenings
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Nell Gwynn
14. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Alienation Effect
Mie pose
Nell Gwynn
Louis Daguerre
15. 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
Burlesque
Existentialism
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
16. Plays without music
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Straight Plays
A Dream Play (1902)
Emile Zola
17. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Comedy of Manners
Ki
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Louis Daguerre
18. Built in Venice in 1637
First Public Opera House
Ritual Theatre
Kyu
Vaudeville
19. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Operetta
Book
Lorraine Handsberry
book musicals
20. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Emile Zola
onnagata
Kathakali
21. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Showstopper
Off Broadway
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Kafkaesque
22. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Composer
The Student Prince
Lorraine Handsberry
Book
23. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Das Kapital
Noh drama
Opera
24. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Painted-face roles
Mie pose
The Adding Machine (1923)
Samuel Beckett
25. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Opera
Romantics
Emile Zola
Characters in the Peking Opera
26. 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
Das Kapital
The Adding Machine (1923)
Kabuki
Shavian Comedies
27. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Sean O'Casey
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Samuel Beckett
Africa
28. The sung words
Eugene O'Neill
Sanskrit Drama
Mie pose
Lyrics
29. 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
Shadow Theatre
Comedy of Manners
Off-Off-Broadway
Regional Theatre
30. Writes the book
Music
Fourth Room
Librettist
Faust
31. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Samuel Beckett
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Bunraku movements
Variety Show
32. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Domestic Tragedies
A Dream Play (1902)
The Koran
Composer
33. 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
Reprise
Kabuki
Noh drama and Kabuki
Minstrel Show Structure
34. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Burlesque
Natyasastra
Islamic Culture
Regional Theatre
35. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Opera
First Public Opera House
Dadaism
The Jazz Singer
36. Islam's holy book - contains a warning about 'graven images' similar to the one in the Bible - prohibition applies to dolls - statues - portraits - and people playing a character
Goethe
Ki
The Koran
non-Western Theatre
37. 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
Goethe
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Theatre of Cruelty
Noh drama and Kabuki
38. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Operetta
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Little Theatre Movement
39. 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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40. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Maxim Gorky
Goethe
Off-Off-Broadway
41. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
First Public Opera House
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
42. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Restoration
musical
Realism
Denis Diderot
43. Islam's holy book - contains a warning about 'graven images' similar to the one in the Bible - prohibition applies to dolls - statues - portraits - and people playing a character
The Koran
Anton Chekhov
Kabuki
Samuel Beckett
44. 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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Ha
45. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
The Interpretation of Dreams
Islamic Culture
dance musicals
women could legally appear on stages in England
46. 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
Comic opera
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Eugene O'Neill
Shavian Comedies
47. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
The Black Crook
Africa
Maxim Gorky
Ritual Theatre
48. 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
Total Theatre
Operetta
Communists took control
Happenings
49. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Realism
Highly Stylized Gestures
Ballad Operas
50. 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
Ha
Friedrich Nietzsche
Music
book musicals