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Theatre Basics
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1. Type of Islamic theatre which is created by lighting two-dimensional figures and casting their shadows on a screen; the audience watches the silhouettes while a narrator tells a story
Librettist
A Dream Play (1902)
book musicals
Shadow Theatre
2. No spoken dialogue - entirely sung; comes from the Latin word 'work' and may have originally meant 'works in music' or 'musical works for the stage'; first operas were in Italy in late 1500s
Louis Daguerre
Straight Plays
Bertolt Brecht
Opera
3. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Kyu
Characters in the Peking Opera
4. The sung words
Lyrics
Sanskrit Drama
A Dream Play (1902)
Intermezzi
5. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Burlesque
rock musical
Anton Chekhov
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
6. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Early European travelers and missionaries
Jukebox musicals
Book
The Origin of the Cakewalk
7. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Showstopper
Broadway Shows
Gotthold Lessing
Comic opera
8. In Sigmund Romberg's play the king young heir to the throne sacrifices his personal happiness for the good of the kingdom when he sorrowfully pulls himself away from his true love in order to marry a princess whom he does not love
women could legally appear on stages in England
Painted-face roles
The Student Prince
Harold Pinter
9. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Problem plays
The Living Theatre
Absurdism
Vaudeville
10. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Domestic Tragedies
Kafkaesque
Little Theatre Movement
11. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Das Kapital
A Dream Play (1902)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
12. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
Symbolism
Romantic Playwrights
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
dance musicals
13. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Librettist
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Sanskrit Drama
George Bernard Shaw
14. 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
Naturalistic Plays
The Enlightenment
Expressionism
Daguerreotype
15. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Ballad Operas
Hilarious Absurdism
Sanskrit Drama
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
16. Writes the music
Africa
Music
Composer
box set
17. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Domestic Tragedies
The Interpretation of Dreams
Intermezzi
Western Drama
18. 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
overture
Fatalist Absurdism
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Poetic Realism
19. 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
Expressionism
Samuel Beckett
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Blaise Pascal
20. 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
Kafkaesque
Noh drama and Kabuki
Jo
Non-Western Drama
21. 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(
Fatalist Absurdism
Burlesque
Oscar Wilde
22. 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)
Lorraine Handsberry
Shimpa
musical comedy
A Trip to Coontown
23. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Shadow Theatre
Symbolism
Theatre of Cruelty
Jukebox musicals
24. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
onnagata
Eugene Ionesco
Jo
Faust
25. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Ritual Theatre
Antonin Artaud
Shakespeare's King John
26. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
Dadaism
Precolonial African Theatre
onnagata
Absurdism
27. 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
Ballad Operas
Jo
Bertolt Brecht
Opera
28. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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29. 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
Beaumarchais
Regional Theatre
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Painted-face roles
30. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
Music
The Interpretation of Dreams
Voltaire
Kathakali
31. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Problem plays
Nell Gwynn
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Goethe
32. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Man and Superman (1903)
The Jazz Singer
Jean-Paul Sartre
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
33. French Enlightenment playwright; was an inventor and thinker who spent countless hours at the leading intellectual salons of France; most famous plays are The Barber of Seville - and The Marriage of Figaro - his plays reflect the attitudes of the Enl
Beaumarchais
Sanskrit Drama
Comedy of Manners
Faust
34. 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
Non-Western Drama
First Public Opera House
Dance of the Forest
Existentialism
35. 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
Avant-Garde
Gotthold Lessing
Operetta
Hilarious Absurdism
36. 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
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Precolonial African Theatre
onnagata
Goethe
37. 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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Jean-Paul Sartre
Kafkaesque
38. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Minstrel Show Structure
Japanese Theatre
Shavian Comedies
The Adding Machine (1923)
39. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Sentimental Comedies
Avant-Garde
Comedy of Manners
Early European travelers and missionaries
40. 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
dance musicals
Minstrel Show Structure
Off-Off-Broadway
onnagata
41. 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
Symbolism
Fatalist Absurdism
Denis Diderot
Noh drama
42. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Off Broadway
non-Western Theatre
Kafkaesque
43. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Andre Antoine
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Opera
The Jazz Singer
44. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Black Crook
A Dream Play (1902)
Antonin Artaud
Dadaism
45. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
Intermezzi
Sentimental Comedies
Denis Diderot
46. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Faust
Aphra Behn
Nickelodeons
Minstrel Show
47. 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
Romantics
Communists took control
Naturalism
48. 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
Jean-Paul Sartre
Kafkaesque
Symbolism
Dance of the Forest
49. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Kathakali
Straight Plays
Kyu
Blaise Pascal
50. Form of drama that dominated theatre in India for a thousand years; named for the ancient Indian language in which its plays are performed; combine the natural and the supernatural - the believable and unbelievable
Shakespeare's King John
Aphra Behn
Sanskrit Drama
Lyricist