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Theatre Basics
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1. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Africa
Poetic Realism
Ki
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
2. Most famous surrealist and was a French writer and director; studied Asian religions - mysticism - and ancient cultures; declared theatre should should wake the nerves and heart; argued that proscenium arch theatres create a barrier between the audie
Antonin Artaud
Highly Stylized Gestures
Hilarious Absurdism
Characters in the Peking Opera
3. Including operetta - developed out of intermezzi
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Comic opera
Domestic Tragedies
Voltaire
4. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Composer
Kabuki
musical
Operetta
5. Theatre was not seen as being of value to society - so plays were not an important part of:
Islamic Culture
Ritual Theatre
Restoration
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
6. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Ritual Theatre
Reprise
Henrik Ibsen
Noh drama
7. 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
box set
Daguerreotype
rock musical
8. 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
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
rock musical
9. The realism of the play is expressed through lyrical language
Wole Soyinka
Poetic Realism
Andre Antoine
Ki
10. 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
Andre Antoine
Nickelodeons
Chinese Theatre
Avant-Garde
11. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Shadow Theatre
Little Theatre Movement
Kordian (1962)
Ritual Theatre
12. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
Goethe
Natyasastra
Friedrich Nietzsche
13. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
A Dream Play (1902)
Romantics
Andre Antoine
Beaumarchais
14. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Operatic Musicals
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
3 components of Musical Scripts
William Fox Talbot
15. More serious plot and theme; West Side Story (1957)
Ziegfield Follies
Gotthold Lessing
musical
Off Broadway
16. 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
Avant-Garde
Japanese Theatre
Naturalism
17. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
Naturalism
Mie pose
The Enlightenment
dance musicals
18. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Comedy of Manners
Operatic Musicals
Problem plays
Little Theatre Movement
19. 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
Librettist
Wole Soyinka
Dadaism
Goethe
20. 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
Highly Stylized Gestures
Problem plays
Jean-Paul Sartre
Precolonial African Theatre
21. 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
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Living Theatre
Fatalist Absurdism
22. Play by Wole Soyinka; celebrates Nigerian independence but also warns against returning to Nigeria's violent past
Ha
Dance of the Forest
Minstrel Show Structure
Gotthold Lessing
23. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Shakuntala
Jean-Paul Sartre
Symbolism
Showstopper
24. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Eugene O'Neill
Verfremdung
Fatalist Absurdism
The Jazz Singer
25. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Shadow Theatre
Bunraku movements
Symbolism
Bread and Puppet Theatre
26. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Gotthold Lessing
Theatre of Cruelty
Restoration
Shavian Comedies
27. 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
Anton Chekhov
Jo
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Black Crook
28. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Naturalism
Noh drama and Kabuki
Book
Chinese Theatre
29. The sung words
Friedrich Nietzsche
Samuel Beckett
Daguerreotype
Lyrics
30. The German equivalent to Diderot; was a playwright - critic - and Enlightenment philosopher Who wrote tragedies and comedies about the middle-class; his greatest play was Nathan the Wise
George Bernard Shaw
Showstopper
Symbolism
Gotthold Lessing
31. Writes the music
Dance of the Forest
Fourth Room
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Composer
32. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Africa
Bunraku movements
Minstrel Show Structure
The Interpretation of Dreams
33. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
The Koran
Sentimental Comedies
Noh drama and Kabuki
34. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
Kathakali
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Showstopper
Symbolism
35. Plays without music
Domestic Tragedies
The Student Prince
Louis Daguerre
Straight Plays
36. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Precolonial African Theatre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sentimental Comedies
Kabuki
37. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Symbolism
Harold Pinter
non-Western Theatre
Total Theatre
38. Musicals with a particularly well-developed story and characters
Jukebox musicals
Bunraku movements
book musicals
Dance of the Forest
39. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
Ritual Theatre
Alienation Effect
The Adding Machine (1923)
well-made plays
40. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Ritual Theatre
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Fourth Room
Off Broadway
41. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
William Fox Talbot
Kabuki
Ziegfield Follies
Regional Theatre
42. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
musical
Fatalist Absurdism
Nickelodeons
Chinese Theatre
43. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Domestic Tragedies
Naturalism
Japanese Theatre
Little Theatre Movement
44. 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
Surrealism
Harold Pinter
Sentimental Comedies
A Dream Play (1902)
45. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Characters in the Peking Opera
Little Theatre Movement
John Millington Synge
Andre Antoine
46. Highlights the insanity of life in a comical way
Domestic Tragedies
Hilarious Absurdism
Verfremdung
Absurdism
47. Told stories about common people who felt grand emotions and suffered devastating consequences (Enlightenment)
Domestic Tragedies
Broadway Shows
Oscar Wilde
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
48. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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49. Writes the lyrics
Lyricist
Andre Antoine
Alienation Effect
Noh drama
50. Book - music - and lyrics
women could legally appear on stages in England
Andre Antoine
3 components of Musical Scripts
Symbolism