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Theatre Basics
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1. 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
onnagata
Mie pose
Voltaire
Operetta
2. Three parts of a Noh play
Romantic Playwrights
Off Broadway
First Public Opera House
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
3. A program of unrelated singing - dancing and comedy numbers
Harold Pinter
Romantic Playwrights
Lyrics
Variety Show
4. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Total Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
Blaise Pascal
Maxim Gorky
5. Improved the daguerreotype and created modern photography; was also an English physicist
William Fox Talbot
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Problem plays
Lyricist
6. A repetition of the song - sometimes with new lyrics - sometimes with the same lyrics but with new meaning or subtext in order to make a dramatic point
Reprise
Jo
Characters in the Peking Opera
Nickelodeons
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)
Blaise Pascal
rock musical
Romantic Playwrights
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
8. 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
Anton Chekhov
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
The Living Theatre
Harold Pinter
9. The orchestrated melodies
Samuel Beckett
Romantics
Eugene O'Neill
Music
10. 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
Goethe
Off-Off-Broadway
Precolonial African Theatre
Total Theatre
11. 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
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Verfremdung
12. Exposed the squalid living conditions of the urban poor and explores scandalous topics like poverty - venereal disease and prostitution; 'Sordid Realism'
Naturalistic Plays
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Highly Stylized Gestures
Operatic Musicals
13. An extreme form of realism; an acurate 'documentary' of everyday life - including its seamy side
The Koran
Beaumarchais
Naturalism
Poetic Realism
14. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Comic opera
A Trip to Coontown
Avant-Garde
Western Drama
15. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
book musicals
Man and Superman (1903)
Kafkaesque
Communists took control
16. 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
Book
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Faust
Dadaism
17. Developed from the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests; has five possible subjects: the deities - the deeds of heroic samurai - women - insanity - and famous legends
Regional Theatre
Noh drama
Shadow Theatre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
18. Earliest form for photography
Kordian (1962)
The Student Prince
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Daguerreotype
19. Russian playwright whose play The Lower Depths (1902) took look at people living in cellar of Moscow flophouse
Maxim Gorky
Aristotelian
Romantic Playwrights
well-made plays
20. By Swedish Playwright August Strindberg; fourteen-act play that follows the disconnected logic of a dream
box set
The Koran
A Dream Play (1902)
Ballad Operas
21. The men who play female roles are called:
The Interpretation of Dreams
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
Revue (Musical Review)
onnagata
22. One of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment - French poet - essayist - and playwright whose writing often got him in trouble with the church; built a theatre on his own estate so he could freely present his plays
Voltaire
Beaumarchais
box set
Daguerreotype
23. French physicist - mathematician - and philosopher - expressed the essence of Romanticism
Blaise Pascal
Reprise
Hilarious Absurdism
musical
24. Six characters take on life of their own when the playwright fails to complete the play in which they were supposed to appear
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Sean O'Casey
Librettist
25. Contemporary form of Sanskrit Theatre - dramatized version of the Hindu epic poems Ramayana and Mahabharata
Kathakali
Eugene Ionesco
Absurdism
Romantic Playwrights
26. Writes the book
Lorraine Handsberry
Librettist
overture
Operatic Musicals
27. The want for more 'genuine' sets - more 'honest' acting - and dialogue to be modeled after everyday speech - influenced by ideas of CHarles Darwin - Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx
Kyu
Realism
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Peking Opera
28. 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)
Broadway Shows
George Bernard Shaw
The Koran
onnagata
29. 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
Ziegfield Follies
Realism
Minstrel Show Structure
Kabuki
30. 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
Jukebox musicals
Ken Saro-Wiwa
musical comedy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
31. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Faust
Denis Diderot
Natyasastra
Fatalist Absurdism
32. Most famous English actress - born into poverty - started out singing in taverns and selling oranges in theatres - became the King's mistress
Surrealism
Nell Gwynn
musical comedy
Ken Saro-Wiwa
33. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Off-Off-Broadway
Sean O'Casey
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
34. 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
The Jazz Singer
Anton Chekhov
Ritual Theatre
Romantic Playwrights
35. 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
box set
Operatic Musicals
Fourth Room
36. Smaller - less expensive alternative experimental theatres; flourished in lofts - basements - coffeehouses and any found space usable
Off-Off-Broadway
William Fox Talbot
Highly Stylized Gestures
Gotthold Lessing
37. 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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38. A true-to-life interior containing a room or rooms with the fourth wall removed so that the audience has the feeling of looking in on the characters' private lives
Revue (Musical Review)
Surrealism
Chinese Theatre
box set
39. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Restoration
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Eugene Ionesco
Japanese Theatre
40. 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
Opera
Showstopper
Existentialism
Islamic Culture
41. 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)
Communists took control
Operatic Musicals
Shimpa
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
42. The first 'talkie' movie; featured white actor Al Jolson in blackface performing in a minstrel show
The Jazz Singer
Theatre of Cruelty
Noh drama
Aphra Behn
43. Spoken lines of dialogue as well as the plot
Blaise Pascal
musical
Book
First Public Opera House
44. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Shakuntala
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Eugene O'Neill
book musicals
45. Sigmund Freud's book which analyzes the character of Oedipus and Hamlet
The Student Prince
Natyasastra
Surrealism
The Interpretation of Dreams
46. The time period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze - a period of great philosophical - scientific - technological - political - and religious revolutions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Kathakali
The Enlightenment
Kafkaesque
47. Recorded conversations of slum dwellers in Dublin and used their words verbatim in his plays
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48. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Ki
John Millington Synge
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Bunraku movements
49. 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
Jo
A Trip to Coontown
Existentialism
dance musicals
50. 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
Peking Opera
Kafkaesque
Oscar Wilde
dance musicals