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Theatre Basics
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1. Attacked the evils and restrictions of society; tried to reveal the higher reality of the unconscious mind with fantastic imagery and contradictory images; performances were often violent and cruel as they tried to shock the audience into the realiza
Intermezzi
Surrealism
box set
Denis Diderot
2. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Shakespeare's King John
Shakuntala
Das Kapital
A Dream Play (1902)
3. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Naturalistic Plays
Maxim Gorky
Book
Western Drama
4. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Verfremdung
Shakespeare's King John
Characters in the Peking Opera
Naturalism
5. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Painted-face roles
Ki
Restoration
Bunraku movements
6. Writes the music
Islamic Culture
Composer
Gotthold Lessing
Friedrich Nietzsche
7. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
Jo
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Louis Daguerre
Daguerreotype
8. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Das Kapital
non-Western Theatre
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
9. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Noh drama and Kabuki
Non-Western Drama
Romantics
Broadway Shows
10. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Daguerreotype
Opera
Early European travelers and missionaries
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
11. Earliest form for photography
Daguerreotype
Faust
Sanskrit Drama
Noh drama
12. 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
Jukebox musicals
Hilarious Absurdism
Shadow Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
13. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Maxim Gorky
The Black Crook
Symbolism
Existentialism
14. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Natyasastra
Burlesque
Goethe
Verfremdung
15. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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16. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Existential Absurdism
Expressionism
The Living Theatre
17. Only cost a nickel
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Dadaism
Nickelodeons
Revue (Musical Review)
18. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Jo
Showstopper
19. Earliest form for photography
Noh drama and Kabuki
Daguerreotype
Comedy of Manners
Peking Opera
20. 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
Comedy of Manners
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Existentialism
Kordian (1962)
21. A sudden - striking pose (often with their eyes crossed - chin sharply turned - and big toe pointed towards the sky) in Kabuki accompanied by several powerful beats of wooden clappers
Mie pose
Kyu
Jo
George Bernard Shaw
22. 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
Music
Little Theatre Movement
Anton Chekhov
Broadway Shows
23. What western theatre is often called:
Straight Plays
Revue (Musical Review)
Surrealism
Aristotelian
24. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Africa
Off Broadway
women could legally appear on stages in England
William Fox Talbot
25. 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
Kafkaesque
dance musicals
Western Drama
musical
26. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Book
Variety Show
Communists took control
Happenings
27. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Comedy of Manners
Noh drama and Kabuki
Andre Antoine
28. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Interpretation of Dreams
Gotthold Lessing
Jean-Paul Sartre
box set
29. 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
Comic opera
Dadaism
Lyricist
Minstrel Show Structure
30. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
John Millington Synge
Precolonial African Theatre
musical comedy
Minstrel Show Structure
31. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Sean O'Casey
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Beaumarchais
Hilarious Absurdism
32. Based off the idea that before a problem can be solved - society must first understand that the problem exists; 'attack the message - not the messenger'
Problem plays
Intermezzi
Shavian Comedies
3 components of Musical Scripts
33. 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
Operetta
Verfremdung
Poetic Realism
overture
34. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Verfremdung
Intermezzi
Wole Soyinka
Harold Pinter
35. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Existentialism
Little Theatre Movement
Theatre of Cruelty
36. Three parts of a Noh play
Operatic Musicals
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Sean O'Casey
The Interpretation of Dreams
37. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
book musicals
The Enlightenment
musical comedy
Shadow Theatre
38. 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
Western Drama
The Student Prince
Ballad Operas
well-made plays
39. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Peking Opera
Jo
Das Kapital
Noh drama and Kabuki
40. 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
Intermezzi
well-made plays
Goethe
Fatalist Absurdism
41. The orchestrated melodies
Variety Show
Intermezzi
Music
George Bernard Shaw
42. 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
Vaudeville
Maxim Gorky
Daguerreotype
well-made plays
43. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Africa
Naturalism
Kabuki
Little Theatre Movement
44. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
book musicals
Showstopper
Gotthold Lessing
Islamic Culture
45. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Noh drama and Kabuki
onnagata
Lyricist
rock musical
46. 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
Surrealism
Daguerreotype
Operatic Musicals
A Trip to Coontown
47. 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
Antonin Artaud
Realism
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Naturalistic Plays
48. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Eugene Ionesco
Verfremdung
Burlesque
The Adding Machine (1923)
49. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Aphra Behn
Sanskrit Drama
George Bernard Shaw
50. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
well-made plays
Burlesque
Romantic Playwrights
Comic opera