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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
Maxim Gorky
Romantic Playwrights
Highly Stylized Gestures
Performance Art
2. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Surrealism
Ta'ziyeh
Beaumarchais
Revue (Musical Review)
3. 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
John Millington Synge
Vaudeville
Happenings
Precolonial African Theatre
4. Holds that human beings are naturally alone - without purpose or mission - in a universe that has no God; not a negative - for without God humans can create their own existences - purpose and meaning
Voltaire
Existentialism
Lyricist
Shimpa
5. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Comedy of Manners
Peking Opera
Andre Antoine
Daguerreotype
6. 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
Revue (Musical Review)
Minstrel Show Structure
musical comedy
Bertolt Brecht
7. 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
Shimpa
Existential Absurdism
Sanskrit Drama
Kabuki
8. 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
Kathakali
Wole Soyinka
Book
Opera
9. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
musical comedy
The Living Theatre
Das Kapital
dance musicals
10. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Alienation Effect
Surrealism
Characters in the Peking Opera
Opera
11. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
William Fox Talbot
Ta'ziyeh
well-made plays
Nickelodeons
12. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Opera
Aristotelian
The Enlightenment
The Origin of the Cakewalk
13. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
Regional Theatre
Africa
Friedrich Nietzsche
14. Characters were not individuals but types; standard roles included scholar - lover - hero - maiden - old woman - coquette - virtuous wife - and acrobatic warrior-maiden
Kordian (1962)
Aristotelian
Characters in the Peking Opera
Western Drama
15. French Enlightenment playwright; was an inventor and thinker who spent countless hours at the leading intellectual salons of France; most famous plays are The Barber of Seville - and The Marriage of Figaro - his plays reflect the attitudes of the Enl
Beaumarchais
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Friedrich Nietzsche
Opera
16. A medley of the show's songs played as a preview; usually the beginning of a traditional musical; lets the audience know that it's time to stop talking because the performance is about to begin
non-Western Theatre
The Adding Machine (1923)
overture
Aphra Behn
17. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
musical
Bunraku movements
Lorraine Handsberry
Fatalist Absurdism
18. The men who play female roles are called:
Lorraine Handsberry
Absurdism
onnagata
box set
19. 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
Das Kapital
Man and Superman (1903)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sean O'Casey
20. During the Enlightenment there were revolutions in: ... which had a profound effect on theatre
Surrealism
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
Aphra Behn
Non-Western Drama
21. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Aphra Behn
Straight Plays
Romantic Playwrights
Shakuntala
22. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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23. Includes all other forms of drama - from the ancient ritual theatre of Africa to the traditional theatre of Asia to the shadow and puppet theatre of Muslim lands
Denis Diderot
non-Western Theatre
Non-Western Drama
Aphra Behn
24. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Henrik Ibsen
Sanskrit Drama
Operetta
Harold Pinter
25. Writers who felt science was not adequate to describe the full range of human experience - and their writings stressed instinct - intuition - and feeling
Harold Pinter
Lorraine Handsberry
Romantics
Gotthold Lessing
26. 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
Burlesque
Minstrel Show Structure
Off Broadway
Andre Antoine
27. Three parts of a Noh play
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Emile Zola
Chinese Theatre
Poetic Realism
28. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Surrealism
Ta'ziyeh
Das Kapital
Operatic Musicals
29. A sudden - striking pose (often with their eyes crossed - chin sharply turned - and big toe pointed towards the sky) in Kabuki accompanied by several powerful beats of wooden clappers
Faust
Verfremdung
Mie pose
Naturalism
30. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Faust
Ritual Theatre
Naturalism
Africa
31. Said that the free enterprise system is seriously flawed and is a cause of great human misery because it exploits the poor
The Jazz Singer
Chinese Theatre
Das Kapital
Regional Theatre
32. 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)
Denis Diderot
Noh drama and Kabuki
Operetta
Vaudeville
33. Where more experts agree that human beings came into existence
Communists took control
Africa
Daguerreotype
Restoration
34. 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
Dance of the Forest
Minstrel Show
Dadaism
Oscar Wilde
35. 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
Early European travelers and missionaries
A Trip to Coontown
Restoration
Beaumarchais
36. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
The Enlightenment
Fatalist Absurdism
Little Theatre Movement
Henrik Ibsen
37. Uses rock music - the rock and roll of the 1950s (Grease) - the psychedelic rock of the 1960s (Hair) or contemporary pop and rock (Rent)
Shakuntala
rock musical
Wole Soyinka
overture
38. Most famous American expressionist playwright who won Nobel Prize for Literature (1936); A touch of the Poet (1935) - The Iceman Cometh (1939) - A Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) & A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952); The Hairy Ape (1952)
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39. 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
Ta'ziyeh
Beaumarchais
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Romantic Playwrights
40. 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
William Fox Talbot
Nickelodeons
Comedy of Manners
Vaudeville
41. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Regional Theatre
Emile Zola
Jukebox musicals
Librettist
42. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
The Interpretation of Dreams
Fourth Room
Goethe
Existential Absurdism
43. French philosopher and playwright; The Flies (1943) & No Exit (1944)
Early European travelers and missionaries
Lyrics
Daguerreotype
Jean-Paul Sartre
44. Characterized by a light-hearted - fast-moving comic story - whose dialogue is interspersed with popular music; Guys and Dolls (1950)
First Public Opera House
Music
The Living Theatre
musical comedy
45. All lines are sung - usually to grand classical music; Madama Butterfly (1904)
musical
Opera
Shadow Theatre
Kordian (1962)
46. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Nell Gwynn
Western Drama
Kabuki
Aphra Behn
47. An early form of theatre; it used theatrical techniques such as song - dance - and characterization - but it was still firmly rooted in religion
Ritual Theatre
Non-Western Drama
Antonin Artaud
Ken Saro-Wiwa
48. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Antonin Artaud
Absurdism
Opera
Bertolt Brecht
49. 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'
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Dance of the Forest
Problem plays
Western Drama
50. This happened for the first time during the Restoration
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
women could legally appear on stages in England
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Minstrel Show