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Theatre Basics
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1. Instead of learning how to conjure real emotions - actors of Sanskrit drama studied for many years to learn representations of emotions through:
Alienation Effect
Highly Stylized Gestures
Lorraine Handsberry
Broadway Shows
2. 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
Daguerreotype
The Koran
Sentimental Comedies
Jo
3. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Friedrich Nietzsche
Antonin Artaud
Kathakali
Romantic Playwrights
4. 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
Broadway Shows
Little Theatre Movement
musical
Beaumarchais
5. Unstructured theatrical events on street corners - bus stops and anywhere else people gathered
Symbolism
Happenings
Maxim Gorky
The Black Crook
6. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
non-Western Theatre
Fatalist Absurdism
Aristotelian
Antonin Artaud
7. 1. theatre has an actor who plays a character - theatre is artificial - and 2. theatre usually has a story with a conflict - conflict is key to all drama
Aristotelian
Harold Pinter
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
8. A synthesis of music - dance - acting - and acrobatics; it was first performed by strolling players in markets - temples - courtyards - and the streets
Shadow Theatre
Peking Opera
Kabuki
Beaumarchais
9. 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
Daguerreotype
non-Western Theatre
Kordian (1962)
10. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Highly Stylized Gestures
Melodrama
Jo
overture
11. 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
Japanese Theatre
Daguerreotype
Verfremdung
Kabuki
12. A blend of melody and drama and refers to the background music often played during these performances
Revue (Musical Review)
Ha
Melodrama
Ballad Operas
13. The men who play female roles are called:
Lorraine Handsberry
Emile Zola
onnagata
Naturalism
14. Nigerian playwright that was executed for trying to protect the Ogoni people against encroachments of Shell oil company
Opera
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Opera
Fourth Room
15. Set out to break all the neoclassical rules - attacked the three unities
Expressionism
Romantic Playwrights
The Origin of the Cakewalk
Broadway Shows
16. Big-time vaudeville who performed a series of lavish musical reviews on Broadway
The Interpretation of Dreams
Ziegfield Follies
Jean-Paul Sartre
Alienation Effect
17. Wrote plays about the rugged lives of Irish peasants using their dialect; Riders to the Sea (1904) & The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
John Millington Synge
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
Opera
The Koran
18. Named new 'photographic' realism NATURALISM and his phrase 'slice of life' is quoted description of it
Problem plays
William Fox Talbot
Emile Zola
Nell Gwynn
19. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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20. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Melodrama
Ki
Three kinds of Kabuki plays
Eugene O'Neill
21. 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
Kafkaesque
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ha
Performance Art
22. Brought Western-style theatre to Africa to dramatize Bible stories in order to win converts
Absurdism
Japanese Theatre
Noh drama and Kabuki
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
23. Showed middle-class characters finding happiness and true love (Enlightenment)
Music
3 components of Musical Scripts
Goethe
Sentimental Comedies
24. Studied the history of class conflict
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
The Communist Manifesto
Happenings
Bread and Puppet Theatre
25. Wooden clappers used in Kabuki
Problem plays
Peking Opera
Non-Western Drama
Ki
26. Closely tied to ritual - and it uses color - dance - song - and movements to exaggerate - stylize - and symbolically represent life
Lyricist
Oscar Wilde
Daguerreotype
non-Western Theatre
27. Included comic scenes - dance interludes and sentimental ballads all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South
Minstrel Show
Ha
Blaise Pascal
Off-Off-Broadway
28. Have become living traditions that are handed down from father to son
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29. Bandits discuss rival systems of goverment while waiting for an attack
Noh drama
Lorraine Handsberry
Man and Superman (1903)
Lucy Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
30. Most famous of the absurdist playwrights; best considered a fatalist - although work is sometimes hilarious and can ask existential questions; Endgame (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Happy Days (1961); Waiting for Godot (1953)
Samuel Beckett
dance musicals
Dance of the Forest
Fatalist Absurdism
31. The first theatre in the world to be lit with electric lights
New Lyceum on Fourth Avenue (NYC)
The Enlightenment
Melodrama
The Communist Manifesto
32. Earliest form for photography
Friedrich Nietzsche
Daguerreotype
Fourth Room
Two traits that distinguish theatre from ritual
33. Peking Opera was dramatically altered when:
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Avant-Garde
Emile Zola
Communists took control
34. One of the most famous Sanskrit dramas - a love story in seven acts written by the playwright Kalidasa
Operatic Musicals
Peking Opera
Reprise
Shakuntala
35. 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
Shakespeare's King John
Painted-face roles
Ta'ziyeh
Noh drama and Kabuki
36. 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
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922(
Opera
Ziegfield Follies
Verfremdung
37. Life has no purpose and they confused and antagonized audiences by refusing to adhere to a coherent set of principles - mirroring the madness of the world
Dadaism
Louis Daguerre
Shadow Theatre
Anton Chekhov
38. Elmer Rice; about a man named Mr. Zero Who is fired from his job and replaced by an adding machine
The Adding Machine (1923)
Hilarious Absurdism
Expressionism
Reprise
39. Musicals that are mostly singing and have less spoken dialogue; similar to operattas - but thier tone is often much darker and more dramatic
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
Nell Gwynn
Operatic Musicals
Harold Pinter
40. Second part of a Noh play - protagonist performs a dance that expresses his or her concern
Jean-Paul Sartre
Naturalism
Minstrel Show Structure
Ha
41. Founded in 1946 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina; dedicated itself to contemporary social issues and highly political - easthetically radical plays
Restoration
Naturalistic Plays
The Living Theatre
Noh actors' stylized performance techniques
42. The first all-black show to pay at a top Broadway theatre
Blaise Pascal
Romantic Playwrights
The Origin of the Cakewalk
William Fox Talbot
43. Used giant puppets and actors to enact parables denouncing the Vietnam War and materialism
Total Theatre
Louis Daguerre
Bread and Puppet Theatre
Anton Chekhov
44. 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
Natyasastra
Highly Stylized Gestures
Minstrel Show
Performance Art
45. Suggests we are trapped in an irrational universe where even basic communication is impossible
Happenings
Fatalist Absurdism
Poetic Realism
Japanese Theatre
46. 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
Fatima Gallaire-Bourega
Problem plays
Gotthold Lessing
Ha
47. French director who stage play The Butchers (1888) with real sides of beef infested with maggots
Japanese Theatre
Performance Art
Expressionism
Andre Antoine
48. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005); The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Poetic Realism
Harold Pinter
Noh drama and Kabuki
Comic opera
49. Studied the history of class conflict
The Communist Manifesto
Harold Pinter
Jo
philosophy - astronomy - science - and religion
50. 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
Beaumarchais
Beaumarchais
Avant-Garde
Anton Chekhov