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Theatre Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Goethe
Variety Show
Sentimental Comedies
A Dream Play (1902)
2. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Lyrics
Kabuki
3. 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
Antonin Artaud
Operatic Musicals
Friedrich Nietzsche
Blaise Pascal
4. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
rock musical
5. 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)
onnagata
George Bernard Shaw
The Student Prince
rock musical
6. Studied the history of class conflict
Noh drama and Kabuki
The Communist Manifesto
Jo
Man and Superman (1903)
7. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Japanese Theatre
Andre Antoine
The Living Theatre
Beaumarchais
8. 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
Dadaism
William Fox Talbot
Lorraine Handsberry
Ziegfield Follies
9. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Romantic Playwrights
The Living Theatre
Revue (Musical Review)
The Student Prince
10. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Variety Show
Sanskrit Drama
Man and Superman (1903)
Henrik Ibsen
11. Romanian-born French playwright best categorized as a hilarious absurdist; The Bald Soprano (1949) & Rhinoceros (1959)
Surrealism
Eugene Ionesco
The Koran
Highly Stylized Gestures
12. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Jukebox musicals
Ziegfield Follies
13. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Comic opera
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Alienation Effect
Surrealism
14. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
Samuel Beckett
Avant-Garde
Opera
Intermezzi
15. 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
William Fox Talbot
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Gotthold Lessing
3 components of Musical Scripts
16. 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
A Trip to Coontown
Off Broadway
Goethe
Variety Show
17. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Hilarious Absurdism
Characters in the Peking Opera
The Communist Manifesto
The Koran
18. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Verfremdung
Andre Antoine
Ziegfield Follies
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
19. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Domestic Tragedies
Symbolism
Ballad Operas
20. 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
Ta'ziyeh
well-made plays
Anton Chekhov
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
21. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Total Theatre
Lyrics
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
22. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Shavian Comedies
Noh drama
Blaise Pascal
John Millington Synge
23. 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
musical comedy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Realism
Happenings
24. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Denis Diderot
Ki
Kafkaesque
Dance of the Forest
25. The orchestrated melodies
Islamic Culture
Gotthold Lessing
Music
Nickelodeons
26. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Western Drama
Nell Gwynn
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Lyricist
27. 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)
John Millington Synge
Operetta
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Performance Art
28. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Nickelodeons
The Interpretation of Dreams
Fourth Room
The Living Theatre
29. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Symbolism
Ha
Shadow Theatre
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
30. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Expressionism
Operatic Musicals
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Hilarious Absurdism
31. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
The Communist Manifesto
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Showstopper
32. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
The Black Crook
Islamic Culture
Emile Zola
Kyu
33. 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
Denis Diderot
Oscar Wilde
Natyasastra
Henrik Ibsen
34. 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'
Little Theatre Movement
Problem plays
Comic opera
Peking Opera
35. 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
Intermezzi
John Millington Synge
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
36. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Jean-Paul Sartre
Aphra Behn
Broadway Shows
Non-Western Drama
37. Any artist or work of art that is experimental - innovative or unconventional; some styles would be symbolism - expressionism - futurism - Dadaism - surrealism - and absurdism
Avant-Garde
Harold Pinter
Showstopper
Operetta
38. 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
Oscar Wilde
Jo
Revue (Musical Review)
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
39. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
The Black Crook
Antonin Artaud
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Noh drama and Kabuki
40. 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)
Samuel Beckett
Avant-Garde
Shimpa
The Adding Machine (1923)
41. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Blaise Pascal
Sean O'Casey
Lyricist
Fatalist Absurdism
42. 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
Reprise
George Bernard Shaw
Domestic Tragedies
Minstrel Show Structure
43. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Ziegfield Follies
Existential Absurdism
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Daguerreotype
44. What western theatre is often called:
Composer
Jukebox musicals
Aristotelian
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
45. 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
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Samuel Beckett
Shakespeare's King John
46. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
women could legally appear on stages in England
Romantic Playwrights
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Chinese Theatre
47. 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
Verfremdung
Performance Art
The Student Prince
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
48. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God
Restoration
Existential Absurdism
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
The Interpretation of Dreams
49. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
The Koran
Lorraine Handsberry
Wole Soyinka
Minstrel Show
50. 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
Intermezzi
George Bernard Shaw
Jukebox musicals
Shavian Comedies