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Theatre Basics
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1. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Comic opera
Reprise
Maxim Gorky
non-Western Theatre
2. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Aristotelian
Absurdism
Noh drama and Kabuki
Aristotelian
3. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Total Theatre
Ritual Theatre
Restoration
John Millington Synge
4. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Shakuntala
Showstopper
Bunraku movements
Operatic Musicals
5. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Western Drama
Peking Opera
The Jazz Singer
Eugene Ionesco
6. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Japanese Theatre
dance musicals
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Shakespeare's King John
7. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
Alienation Effect
Anton Chekhov
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Aristotelian
8. Book - music - and lyrics
Minstrel Show
George Bernard Shaw
3 components of Musical Scripts
The Koran
9. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Kyu
Expressionism
Happenings
Performance Art
10. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
A Dream Play (1902)
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Straight Plays
Variety Show
11. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Nickelodeons
Early European travelers and missionaries
Opera
Intermezzi
12. 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
Bunraku movements
Das Kapital
Opera
Kyu
13. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Ziegfield Follies
Kathakali
Off-Off-Broadway
Aphra Behn
14. 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
Beaumarchais
Shadow Theatre
Off Broadway
Aphra Behn
15. 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
Wole Soyinka
Maxim Gorky
Anton Chekhov
Shakespeare's King John
16. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Comic opera
Poetic Realism
Shakuntala
Ha
17. 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
The Student Prince
Romantics
Faust
John Millington Synge
18. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Romantics
Shakuntala
Burlesque
Das Kapital
19. Studied the history of class conflict
women could legally appear on stages in England
Reprise
Theatre of Cruelty
The Communist Manifesto
20. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Sean O'Casey
Operatic Musicals
Voltaire
women could legally appear on stages in England
21. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Ziegfield Follies
non-Western Theatre
Bunraku movements
Operetta
22. Writes the music
Composer
Wole Soyinka
women could legally appear on stages in England
Music
23. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Origin of the Cakewalk
George Bernard Shaw
Performance Art
Melodrama
24. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Absurdism
Fatalist Absurdism
Sean O'Casey
Poetic Realism
25. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
musical
Vaudeville
Louis Daguerre
Ritual Theatre
26. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Andre Antoine
Revue (Musical Review)
Blaise Pascal
Dadaism
27. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
28. Argued that the prime function of playwrights is to expose the social and moral evils of their time
overture
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Japanese Theatre
Realism
29. The orchestrated melodies
Music
Natyasastra
Mie pose
Minstrel Show
30. Built in Venice in 1637
Non-Western Drama
First Public Opera House
The Living Theatre
Chinese Theatre
31. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Romantics
rock musical
John Millington Synge
Shadow Theatre
32. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Ziegfield Follies
Kyu
Revue (Musical Review)
Straight Plays
33. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Jukebox musicals
Absurdism
Regional Theatre
Total Theatre
34. 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)
Broadway Shows
Samuel Beckett
3 components of Musical Scripts
Existentialism
35. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Peking Opera
Sanskrit Drama
Melodrama
Highly Stylized Gestures
36. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Burlesque
Jean-Paul Sartre
Communists took control
37. 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)
Chinese Theatre
Comic opera
Shakespeare's King John
Shimpa
38. The orchestrated melodies
onnagata
Composer
Music
Burlesque
39. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Verfremdung
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
40. 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
Denis Diderot
Africa
Ballad Operas
Goethe
41. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Existential Absurdism
Peking Opera
Beaumarchais
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
42. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Jazz Singer
Verfremdung
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Highly Stylized Gestures
43. 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
Kabuki
Romantics
Surrealism
The Adding Machine (1923)
44. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Eugene Ionesco
Jukebox musicals
Chinese Theatre
45. Comedies forced Victorian society to reexamine its hypocrisies; Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) - A WOman of No Importance (1893) - An Ideal Husband (1894); advocated 'art for art's sake'; The Importance of Being Ernest
Kathakali
Oscar Wilde
Gotthold Lessing
Ritual Theatre
46. 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
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
well-made plays
Melodrama
Book
47. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Nickelodeons
Opera
Chinese Theatre
John Millington Synge
48. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Koran
The Interpretation of Dreams
William Fox Talbot
A Trip to Coontown
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)
rock musical
Beaumarchais
Communists took control
Communists took control
50. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
box set
Romantics
Ki
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries