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Theatre Basics
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1. Plays about the issues of the day that were in Manhattan neighborhoods
Off-Off-Broadway
Shadow Theatre
First Public Opera House
Off Broadway
2. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Comic opera
A Dream Play (1902)
Aphra Behn
First Public Opera House
3. 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
Restoration
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Student Prince
Existential Absurdism
4. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Shakespeare's King John
The Enlightenment
Lyricist
John Millington Synge
5. Studied the history of class conflict
Japanese Theatre
The Communist Manifesto
Theatre of Cruelty
The Living Theatre
6. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Noh drama and Kabuki
Sentimental Comedies
Total Theatre
Ritual Theatre
7. 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
Minstrel Show Structure
Africa
Vaudeville
Aristotelian
8. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Absurdism
Lyricist
William Fox Talbot
9. 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
Poetic Realism
William Fox Talbot
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
10. Comic interludes performed during the intermissions of opera
Dance of the Forest
rock musical
Music
Intermezzi
11. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Hilarious Absurdism
Existential Absurdism
Peking Opera
Lyrics
12. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
The Jazz Singer
Alienation Effect
Off-Off-Broadway
Existentialism
13. 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
Ta'ziyeh
3 components of Musical Scripts
Sanskrit Drama
14. Three parts of a Noh play
Samuel Beckett
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Realism
The Koran
15. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Henrik Ibsen
Opera
Noh drama
The Koran
16. 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
Showstopper
Kathakali
Noh drama
Natyasastra
17. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Lyricist
Ki
Shavian Comedies
18. 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
Symbolism
3 components of Musical Scripts
Jukebox musicals
women could legally appear on stages in England
19. 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
Natyasastra
Off-Off-Broadway
Regional Theatre
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
20. Wrote 'high comedies' which were cerebral socially relevant plays that had an intellectual scope so vast they forced audiences to reassess their values; Man and Superman (1903) & The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Naturalistic Plays
Samuel Beckett
George Bernard Shaw
Chinese Theatre
21. 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
Music
Samuel Beckett
Wole Soyinka
22. 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
Jean-Paul Sartre
Sentimental Comedies
Realism
23. 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
Eugene Ionesco
Aphra Behn
Jean-Paul Sartre
24. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
The Enlightenment
Man and Superman (1903)
Opera
Fatalist Absurdism
25. Proclaimed 'God is dead...and we have killed him.'; felt taht absence of God was a tragedy - but believed human beings needed to accept the tragedy and move forward in a world that was unjust and meaningless
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bertolt Brecht
Shakespeare's King John
Painted-face roles
26. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Harold Pinter
Jean-Paul Sartre
Hilarious Absurdism
Operatic Musicals
27. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Intermezzi
Blaise Pascal
Naturalistic Plays
Problem plays
28. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Comic opera
Happenings
Sentimental Comedies
Samuel Beckett
29. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Highly Stylized Gestures
Beaumarchais
3 components of Musical Scripts
Eugene O'Neill
30. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
Denis Diderot
Ha
Naturalism
31. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Straight Plays
Bertolt Brecht
The Adding Machine (1923)
The Jazz Singer
32. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Daguerreotype
Performance Art
Japanese Theatre
Noh drama
33. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Fatalist Absurdism
box set
Blaise Pascal
Opera
34. First female theatre manager in London; was also an actor and singer; managed first theatre to have a box set; Olympic Theatre in London
Jo
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Blaise Pascal
Operatic Musicals
35. 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
Non-Western Drama
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Jukebox musicals
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
36. 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
Ziegfield Follies
Kordian (1962)
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Shadow Theatre
37. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Faust
Natyasastra
Ki
The Koran
38. 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
well-made plays
Existential Absurdism
The Koran
Melodrama
39. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Comedy of Manners
onnagata
Anton Chekhov
40. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Burlesque
Andre Antoine
The Living Theatre
41. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Faust
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Antonin Artaud
42. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Naturalism
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Noh drama and Kabuki
Emile Zola
43. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Poetic Realism
Reprise
Eugene O'Neill
Broadway Shows
44. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Aphra Behn
A Trip to Coontown
Ken Saro-Wiwa
45. 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
overture
Painted-face roles
Faust
The Origin of the Cakewalk
46. 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
Louis Daguerre
A Trip to Coontown
Chinese Theatre
Precolonial African Theatre
47. A form of musical entertainment featuring bawdy songs - dancing women - and sometimes striptease
The Living Theatre
Kafkaesque
Music
Burlesque
48. 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
Domestic Tragedies
Melodrama
Variety Show
49. 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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50. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Domestic Tragedies
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Harold Pinter
Gotthold Lessing
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