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Theatre Basics
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1. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Melodrama
First Public Opera House
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Jean-Paul Sartre
2. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Early European travelers and missionaries
Kafkaesque
Librettist
Restoration
3. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
Romantics
Kordian (1962)
Opera
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
4. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
dance musicals
book musicals
Jukebox musicals
women could legally appear on stages in England
5. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
Precolonial African Theatre
Ziegfield Follies
Jean-Paul Sartre
box set
6. Most famous Restoration-era woman to make her living by writing plays
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Western Drama
Shakuntala
Aphra Behn
7. 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
Realism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Chinese Theatre
Sanskrit Drama
8. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Louis Daguerre
book musicals
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Aphra Behn
9. 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
Happenings
Restoration
Intermezzi
A Trip to Coontown
10. 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
Symbolism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
11. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
The Jazz Singer
Eugene Ionesco
Melodrama
Fourth Room
12. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
Das Kapital
Characters in the Peking Opera
Librettist
Opera
13. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Regional Theatre
Kafkaesque
Kafkaesque
Ritual Theatre
14. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
Characters in the Peking Opera
William Fox Talbot
The Adding Machine (1923)
A Dream Play (1902)
15. 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)
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Gotthold Lessing
Shimpa
Lyricist
16. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Characters in the Peking Opera
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Sean O'Casey
Variety Show
17. 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
Sean O'Casey
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Precolonial African Theatre
Shakespeare's King John
18. A German poet - director and playwright who challenged traditional ideas about theatre; became a communist after watching policement shoot 4 unarmed civilians; The Life of Galileo (1938) - Mother Courage and her Children (1939) & The Caucasian Chalk
Bertolt Brecht
Bread and Puppet Theatre
A Dream Play (1902)
Sanskrit Drama
19. The orchestrated melodies
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Music
Lorraine Handsberry
Alienation Effect
20. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Man and Superman (1903)
Oscar Wilde
Natyasastra
Kyu
21. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Surrealism
Andre Antoine
box set
22. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Kafkaesque
onnagata
Regional Theatre
Book
23. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Off Broadway
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Alienation Effect
24. 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
Librettist
The Jazz Singer
Symbolism
Chinese Theatre
25. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Chinese Theatre
Operatic Musicals
The Adding Machine (1923)
Intermezzi
26. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
women could legally appear on stages in England
Happenings
Ki
Oscar Wilde
27. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Theatre of Cruelty
Kafkaesque
The Living Theatre
Ha
28. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
overture
Broadway Shows
Poetic Realism
Bertolt Brecht
29. 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
Music
Shadow Theatre
Vaudeville
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
30. 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
Sean O'Casey
Japanese Theatre
Minstrel Show Structure
dance musicals
31. Built in Venice in 1637
Shadow Theatre
3 components of Musical Scripts
Variety Show
First Public Opera House
32. 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
Louis Daguerre
Painted-face roles
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
The Jazz Singer
33. 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
Fatalist Absurdism
Anton Chekhov
Andre Antoine
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
34. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Aphra Behn
Antonin Artaud
The Communist Manifesto
Andre Antoine
35. 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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36. Only cost a nickel
Romantics
Sean O'Casey
Jo
Nickelodeons
37. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Eugene O'Neill
Lorraine Handsberry
Jean-Paul Sartre
Faust
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
Painted-face roles
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
The Koran
39. 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
Comic opera
Domestic Tragedies
Opera
Performance Art
40. 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
Blaise Pascal
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Opera
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
41. 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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42. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Nell Gwynn
Regional Theatre
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Symbolism
43. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Poetic Realism
Bertolt Brecht
Broadway Shows
The Living Theatre
44. The men who play female roles are called:
Eugene O'Neill
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Gotthold Lessing
onnagata
45. Book - music - and lyrics
Sanskrit Drama
3 components of Musical Scripts
Naturalism
Absurdism
46. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Shakuntala
Emile Zola
Man and Superman (1903)
Andre Antoine
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
Jean-Paul Sartre
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Koran
Beaumarchais
48. 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
Aphra Behn
Surrealism
book musicals
Absurdism
49. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Denis Diderot
Revue (Musical Review)
musical comedy
Comic opera
50. First black woman playwright to be producted on Broadway; Raisin in the Sun based of her actual childhood
Nell Gwynn
The Living Theatre
Lorraine Handsberry
Expressionism
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