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Theatre Basics
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1. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Kafkaesque
Harold Pinter
Fatalist Absurdism
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
2. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Denis Diderot
Composer
Nell Gwynn
Shakuntala
3. 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
Daguerreotype
Existential Absurdism
Shadow Theatre
Minstrel Show Structure
4. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Anton Chekhov
Librettist
Domestic Tragedies
Performance Art
5. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Peking Opera
Sentimental Comedies
Highly Stylized Gestures
The Adding Machine (1923)
6. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
onnagata
Faust
book musicals
musical
7. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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8. Three parts of a Noh play
Goethe
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Absurdism
Chinese Theatre
9. Studied the history of class conflict
Wole Soyinka
The Communist Manifesto
Antonin Artaud
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
10. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Bertolt Brecht
Shimpa
Bread and Puppet Theatre
11. 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
Antonin Artaud
Shimpa
well-made plays
Opera
12. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Kathakali
Japanese Theatre
Minstrel Show
Denis Diderot
13. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Minstrel Show Structure
Das Kapital
The Interpretation of Dreams
Jean-Paul Sartre
14. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
A Dream Play (1902)
Composer
Existential Absurdism
15. 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)
Samuel Beckett
Problem plays
Japanese Theatre
Avant-Garde
16. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Das Kapital
Harold Pinter
Blaise Pascal
Dance of the Forest
17. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Early European travelers and missionaries
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Peking Opera
rock musical
18. French philosopher often called the Father of the Romantic movement; argued that people could find happiness in a 'state of nature' and that they should learn from nature rather than the artificial and corrupted teachings of society
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Avant-Garde
Africa
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
19. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Mie pose
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Verfremdung
Existentialism
20. 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
William Fox Talbot
Painted-face roles
Revue (Musical Review)
Communists took control
21. 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
Africa
Non-Western Drama
Shavian Comedies
Minstrel Show
22. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Blaise Pascal
Peking Opera
Henrik Ibsen
23. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
George Bernard Shaw
women could legally appear on stages in England
Symbolism
Existentialism
24. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Verfremdung
Non-Western Drama
Hilarious Absurdism
25. The orchestrated melodies
Music
Sean O'Casey
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Expressionism
26. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show Structure
Minstrel Show
Andre Antoine
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
27. 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
Shadow Theatre
Expressionism
Existentialism
Lyricist
28. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Harold Pinter
Fatalist Absurdism
Problem plays
Off Broadway
29. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Early European travelers and missionaries
Henrik Ibsen
Western Drama
Ha
30. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Characters in the Peking Opera
Kathakali
Kathakali
Lorraine Handsberry
31. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
Painted-face roles
Kafkaesque
Hilarious Absurdism
32. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Nickelodeons
Emile Zola
Goethe
Little Theatre Movement
33. Type of Islamic theatre - religious drama of Iran which allowed for actors - both professional and amateur - and has been performed in open-air playing spaces and on some occasions in specially constructed indoor stages for hundreds of years
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34. 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
Poetic Realism
Communists took control
Symbolism
Emile Zola
35. 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
Reprise
Japanese Theatre
Reprise
Goethe
36. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Ziegfield Follies
The Student Prince
Poetic Realism
37. 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
Broadway Shows
Revue (Musical Review)
Happenings
well-made plays
38. 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
Kafkaesque
3 components of Musical Scripts
Existentialism
women could legally appear on stages in England
39. Book - music - and lyrics
musical comedy
3 components of Musical Scripts
Blaise Pascal
Kordian (1962)
40. Plays without music
Daguerreotype
Jean-Paul Sartre
Straight Plays
Peking Opera
41. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
The Black Crook
musical comedy
Louis Daguerre
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
42. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Hilarious Absurdism
onnagata
overture
43. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Fourth Room
book musicals
Shimpa
The Student Prince
44. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Hilarious Absurdism
Natyasastra
The Jazz Singer
Denis Diderot
45. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Communist Manifesto
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Japanese Theatre
The Koran
46. Type of Islamic theatre - religious drama of Iran which allowed for actors - both professional and amateur - and has been performed in open-air playing spaces and on some occasions in specially constructed indoor stages for hundreds of years
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47. Only cost a nickel
Fatalist Absurdism
Nickelodeons
The Student Prince
Western Drama
48. Type of theatre that grew out of ritual - incorporated acting - music - storytelling - poetry - dance - costumes - and lots of masks to create a theatre that combined ritual and ceremony with drama
Natyasastra
Precolonial African Theatre
musical
Shakespeare's King John
49. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Off Broadway
Operatic Musicals
Antonin Artaud
Ziegfield Follies
50. Writes the lyrics
Louis Daguerre
Total Theatre
Lorraine Handsberry
Lyricist