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Theatre Basics
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1. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Noh drama and Kabuki
Man and Superman (1903)
The Black Crook
Opera
2. One of the most valuable historical records of Indian theatre; an encyclopedic book of dramatic theory and practice; has 37 chapters and covers every aspect of classical Indian drama - also a treatise on dramatic theory and philosophy - states that t
Music
Sean O'Casey
Natyasastra
William Fox Talbot
3. Type of theatre greatly influenced by Buddhism and Shinto; originates in ritual
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Ziegfield Follies
William Fox Talbot
Japanese Theatre
4. 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
Early European travelers and missionaries
overture
Existentialism
Kabuki
5. 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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6. 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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7. 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
Fourth Room
Henrik Ibsen
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Ballad Operas
8. A big production number that usually receives a torrent of applause that literally stops the show
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Surrealism
Showstopper
Music
9. Feature the work of a director-choreographer
musical comedy
dance musicals
Shakespeare's King John
Louis Daguerre
10. 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
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Shadow Theatre
Opera
dance musicals
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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Realism
Fourth Room
12. 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
Gotthold Lessing
Problem plays
Expressionism
Naturalistic Plays
13. The men who play female roles are called:
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
non-Western Theatre
onnagata
John Millington Synge
14. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Ritual Theatre
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
The Origin of the Cakewalk
15. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
The Communist Manifesto
Ha
musical
Kyu
16. Estrangement; essentially the alienation effect
Operetta
3 components of Musical Scripts
Verfremdung
Fatalist Absurdism
17. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Non-Western Drama
Total Theatre
Faust
Problem plays
18. Staged inexpensive - noncommercial productions of artistically significant plays in small - out-of-the-way theatres
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Ritual Theatre
Little Theatre Movement
women could legally appear on stages in England
19. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Dadaism
Kathakali
Man and Superman (1903)
Problem plays
20. Grew out of the theatre of Thespis in Ancient Greece; passed from the Athenians to the Romans to the medieval Europeans
Book
Bertolt Brecht
Western Drama
Jo
21. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Wole Soyinka
Minstrel Show Structure
The Student Prince
Shakuntala
22. 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
Off Broadway
Precolonial African Theatre
Aristotelian
Problem plays
23. 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
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kafkaesque
The Interpretation of Dreams
Bread and Puppet Theatre
24. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Minstrel Show Structure
Aristotelian
Sentimental Comedies
Minstrel Show
25. The audience remains alienated from the performance so they could critically consider the play's themes
Shadow Theatre
Restoration
Theatre of Cruelty
Alienation Effect
26. A permanent - professional theatre outside NYC; founded in 1947 by Margo Jones; stage new plays alongside commercial hits and historical plays; appeal to the intellectual audiences that Hollywood seldom serves
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Lorraine Handsberry
Regional Theatre
Realism
27. Play that takes place in a mental institution - the audience sits on the stage with the actor-patients
The Koran
Kordian (1962)
Ha
Hilarious Absurdism
28. Three parts of a Noh play
The Adding Machine (1923)
Lyricist
Realism
Jo - Ha - and Kyu
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
Oscar Wilde
Vaudeville
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
John Millington Synge
30. Goethe's most famous Romantic play
Ballad Operas
Faust
The Origin of the Cakewalk
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
31. Two types of traditional Japanese theatre
Naturalism
Daguerreotype
Expressionism
Noh drama and Kabuki
32. Divided into fatalist - hilarious and existentialist
Das Kapital
Jukebox musicals
Absurdism
overture
33. A period of licentious gaudiness inspired by the elaborate styles that Charles II brought with him from the French Court
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Burlesque
Romantics
Restoration
34. Musicals that feature a particular band's songs
Jukebox musicals
Intermezzi
dance musicals
Verfremdung
35. People who dismissed Traditional African Theatre because it was so unlike anything they knew
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Aristotelian
Early European travelers and missionaries
Jean-Paul Sartre
36. 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)
Surrealism
Shakespeare's King John
Shimpa
Ha
37. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Lyrics
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
Ritual Theatre
Peking Opera
38. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Burlesque
well-made plays
Happenings
39. 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
Das Kapital
Mie pose
Communists took control
Bunraku movements
40. A program of sketches - singing - dancing and songs pulled from previous sources
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Broadway Shows
Blaise Pascal
Revue (Musical Review)
41. One of the most valuable historical records of Indian theatre; an encyclopedic book of dramatic theory and practice; has 37 chapters and covers every aspect of classical Indian drama - also a treatise on dramatic theory and philosophy - states that t
Natyasastra
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Problem plays
George Bernard Shaw
42. Would be removed in the box set to give audience a real life look into the scene
Aristotelian
Jo
Fourth Room
Faust
43. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Bertolt Brecht
Anton Chekhov
Friedrich Nietzsche
44. 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
Revue (Musical Review)
Lyrics
George Bernard Shaw
Vaudeville
45. Sarcastic label of Scribe's plays; the sympathetic protagonist suffers at the hands of an evil antagonist in the course of intense action - suspense - and contrived play devices; ending is always happy and the loose ends are neatly tied up
well-made plays
Off-Off-Broadway
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Fourth Room
46. 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
Broadway Shows
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Ritual Theatre
Sean O'Casey
47. Kabuki borrowed many of these movements to make Kabuki acting highly stylized and almost puppet-like
Emile Zola
Existential Absurdism
Bunraku movements
Minstrel Show Structure
48. 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
Realism
Fatalist Absurdism
Shavian Comedies
Ken Saro-Wiwa
49. In Sigmund Romberg's play the king young heir to the throne sacrifices his personal happiness for the good of the kingdom when he sorrowfully pulls himself away from his true love in order to marry a princess whom he does not love
Naturalism
Existentialism
The Student Prince
Reprise
50. Studied the history of class conflict
Showstopper
rock musical
The Origin of the Cakewalk
The Communist Manifesto