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Theatre Basics
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1. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Shakuntala
Kordian (1962)
Fatalist Absurdism
non-Western Theatre
2. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Jo
Man and Superman (1903)
Comedy of Manners
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
Minstrel Show Structure
Anton Chekhov
Kyu
Problem plays
4. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
overture
Little Theatre Movement
Wole Soyinka
5. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Emile Zola
Naturalism
Bunraku movements
Maxim Gorky
6. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
Burlesque
William Fox Talbot
Comedy of Manners
Japanese Theatre
7. The first modern musical; a melodrama about black magic staged in NYC in 1866
The Black Crook
Bertolt Brecht
Performance Art
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
8. Writes the music
Composer
Early European travelers and missionaries
Romantic Playwrights
Chinese Theatre
9. 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)
Henrik Ibsen
Minstrel Show
Samuel Beckett
Ritual Theatre
10. 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
Islamic Culture
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Romantic Playwrights
Hilarious Absurdism
11. 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
Kafkaesque
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Minstrel Show Structure
Islamic Culture
12. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
Blaise Pascal
The Jazz Singer
onnagata
Chinese Theatre
13. 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
Shadow Theatre
dance musicals
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Andre Antoine
14. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Ta'ziyeh
Ziegfield Follies
Mie pose
The Origin of the Cakewalk
15. 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
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Nell Gwynn
Antonin Artaud
16. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Burlesque
George Bernard Shaw
The Communist Manifesto
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
17. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Daguerreotype
Music
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Straight Plays
18. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
The Black Crook
Problem plays
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Minstrel Show
19. Records of this type of theatre are fragmentary - but we do know that it grew out of regional religious rituals related to Confucianism - Taoism - and Buddhism - and ritual dances performed during the Shang dynasty
Sanskrit Drama
Chinese Theatre
Noh drama
Louis Daguerre
20. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Emile Zola
Reprise
overture
Happenings
21. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Domestic Tragedies
Chinese Theatre
The Student Prince
Lorraine Handsberry
22. 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
Symbolism
Opera
Romantic Playwrights
Ta'ziyeh
23. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Domestic Tragedies
Shakuntala
Naturalism
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
24. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
musical
non-Western Theatre
Noh drama and Kabuki
The Interpretation of Dreams
25. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Ta'ziyeh
Romantic Playwrights
Sentimental Comedies
Shimpa
26. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Wole Soyinka
A Dream Play (1902)
Performance Art
Book
27. Term used to describe performances that mix theatre - visual arts - music - dance - gesture and rituals; often use multimedia effects - sounds and lighting effects to make a point and allow the audience to understand its deeper implications; often re
Reprise
Performance Art
Kafkaesque
Dance of the Forest
28. A true-to-life interior containing a room or rooms with the fourth wall removed so that the audience has the feeling of looking in on the characters' private lives
Straight Plays
box set
Domestic Tragedies
well-made plays
29. 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
Existential Absurdism
Comic opera
Theatre of Cruelty
Existentialism
30. 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
Wole Soyinka
Burlesque
Straight Plays
Hilarious Absurdism
31. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Naturalistic Plays
Western Drama
Problem plays
Sentimental Comedies
32. 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
Wole Soyinka
Book
book musicals
Man and Superman (1903)
33. The sung words
Shakespeare's King John
Lyrics
Kabuki
Fourth Room
34. 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
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Shakespeare's King John
Natyasastra
Straight Plays
35. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Lyrics
Ta'ziyeh
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Early European travelers and missionaries
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
Louis Daguerre
The Koran
Das Kapital
Operatic Musicals
37. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Japanese Theatre
Kathakali
Opera
Oscar Wilde
38. Only cost a nickel
Oscar Wilde
Symbolism
Nickelodeons
Realism
39. 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
The Living Theatre
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Opera
Shavian Comedies
40. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Existential Absurdism
overture
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
41. 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
book musicals
Aphra Behn
Gotthold Lessing
Comedy of Manners
42. The men who play female roles are called:
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Nell Gwynn
onnagata
musical comedy
43. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Naturalistic Plays
Surrealism
Operatic Musicals
Off Broadway
44. 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
well-made plays
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Realism
Samuel Beckett
45. History plays about major political events of the past - domestic plays about the loves and lives of merchants and townspeople - and dance-dramas about the world of spirits and animals
Shavian Comedies
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Das Kapital
Ritual Theatre
46. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
3 components of Musical Scripts
Ziegfield Follies
Shakespeare's King John
Early European travelers and missionaries
47. Light opera - differs from 'grand opera' because it has a frivolous - comic theme - some spoken dialogue - a melodramatic story - and usually a little dancing; The Mikado (1885)
Operetta
Characters in the Peking Opera
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shimpa
48. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Realism
Peking Opera
Characters in the Peking Opera
Operatic Musicals
49. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Minstrel Show
The Student Prince
Kordian (1962)
rock musical
50. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Little Theatre Movement
Islamic Culture
Performance Art
The Adding Machine (1923)